Marriage outside the rabbinate
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The rabbi supports marriage outside the rabbinate. What does the rabbi say about Rabbi Ben Zion Motzfi’s next argument that it is a severe prohibition because the woman is registered as single and is in fact the wife of a man?
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I don't understand the rabbi's argument. Since when is the fact that people don't want to get married through the rabbinate a reason not to get married through the rabbinate? If there is a religious reason to get married through the rabbinate, then the fact that it's not fun for us shouldn't change anything. And if I want to not eat matzah on Passover, does that allow me not to eat matzah on Passover? Or if I'm not happy with the government's behavior, am I allowed to not pay taxes? So what if they are a monopoly?
What a strange question. Besides the fact that I don't see what sentence in my words you were referring to (I didn't find that I linked it with that), there is no point in getting married through the rabbinate. There is definitely an interest in getting married as a human being. Because the institution is corrupt and harmful, there is an interest in getting married as a human being, but not through them.
Beyond that, the discussion is whether the state should enforce marriage as a human being, and not whether it is appropriate to marry as a human being. These are two completely different questions. Here, even if there is a halakhic interest in doing something, it doesn't mean that I want the state to enforce it.
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