[Avodah] woman reading a ketuba

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From: "Eli Turkel" _eliturkel at gmail.com_ (mailto:eliturkel at gmail.com) 

any problem  with a woman reading a ketuba at a wedding?

-- 
Eli  Turkel
 


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Yes, there are several problems.  One is that it will make people  laugh, 
stare, whisper and poke each other in the ribs, taking away from the  solemnity 
of the wedding ceremony.  Another problem is that if the bride  herself was 
never given a speaking role in her own wedding -- presumably out of  concern for 
the modesty and bashfulness of a young maiden, having to speak up in  front of 
all those people -- it would be unseemly for some /other/ woman to have  a 
speaking part.  The only woman who is ever supposed to be the focus of  
attention at any public occasion is a kallah at her own wedding.  It would  not be 
right for some other woman to steal the limelight away from the  kallah.


--Toby  Katz
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