[Avodah] malachim & mistakes

[Liron Kopinsky]

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 7:10 AM, kennethgmiller at juno.com <
kennethgmiller at juno.com> wrote:

> R' Harvey Benton asked:
>
> > malachim making mistakes???
> >
> > people think that maybe their marriages don't work out because
> > the malach" who either named them, or set up their zivug (didn't
> > hear correctly)
> >
> > how is this possible?
>
> I've always believed that it is possible for a person to NOT marry the
> zivug named by the malach.


In parshat Ki Teitzei, it says that if a man is engaged but not yet married
to a women, he doesn't have to go to war, lest someone else come and take
her. If all zivuggim are decreed at birth, why do we care about this? This
issue is discussed by one of the peirushim there, but I can't remember who.
A few answers were given, one of which was that the man who was decreed to
the woman would have to wait for the other man to die/divorce her.
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