[Avodah] Love and Marriage

[Simon Montagu via Avodah]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 9:15 PM, via Avodah <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>
wrote:

> > Frank Sinatra used to sing a song about love and marriage. In part
> the lyrics are
> >> Love and marriage, love and marriage
> >> They go together like a horse and carriage
> ...
> > I am sure that RSRH would insist that the order is wrong and it should
> > be marriage and love. My reasoning is based upon Rav Hirsch's commentary
> > on Bereishis 24:67 which is below.
>
> Could one say the opposite, based on Bereshit 29,18?
>

Why not both?

We have been here before, and I believe it was RnTK who pointed out that
the Avot (who are of course a siman labanim) display different models of
courtship and marriage to teach us that each is equally legitimate.
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