[Avodah] Marriage and Love

[Simon Montagu]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:39 PM, kennethgmiller at juno.com <
kennethgmiller at juno.com> wrote:

Someone one pointed out to me that from Yitzchak and Rivka, we see one
> extreme of the shidduch process. And from Yaakov and Rachel we see the other
> extreme of the dating process. And we know absolutely nothing about how
> Avraham and Sarah met and courted. The conclusion that might be drawn is
> that the Torah is emphatically NOT teaching a "one size fits all" approach
> to these matters.
>

We don't know how Avraham and Sarah courted, but since they were close
relations we can probably assume they knew each other from childhood -- so
this is a third valid model! It's less common today, but not unheard of: for
example Nehama Leibowitz z"l was married to her uncle.
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