[Avodah] Non-Jews Begin to Embrace Ketubah Wedding

[Zev Sero]

On 17/02/2011 7:12 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:31:16PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
>> On Areivim, RSBA wrote:
>>> The blog has a new post from a Sydney rabbi showing that RMF indeed
>>> assered the choson receiving a ring under the Chuppah
>>> They have reproduced the teshuva there, ayen sham:
>>> http://tinyurl.com/4bbbzfz
>>
>> This "Sydney rabbi" seriously misrepresents the teshuvah. Normally we
>> say "harotze leshaker yarchik eduto", but nowadays it seems that one
>> can hand out a teshuvah and misstate what it says, and be confident that
>> most or all of the audience won't bother checking.
>
> So I went to IM EH 3:18 to check, and I can reassure you that they
> reproduced the first paragraph of that teshuvah accurately. At least,
> any differences were more subtle than my ability to notice.

I didn't deny that they reproduced the text accurately.  But the
commenter, and the blog owner, seriously misrepresented what it says.
The proverb says harotze leshaker yarchik eduso, but apparently this
doesn't always apply.  One can present the Hebrew text that will
rebut ones claims, and rely on people not to check.



> The next words are "Ube'etzem nir'eh LAD [sic] shehu issur gadol
> sheharei al yedei zeh..."

And what is this "shehu"?   *Not* what they claim it is.


> Rav Moshe prohibites.

Prohibits *what*?  He's very clear about this.

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