<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv2098141630"><div id="yiv576559519"><div id="yiv597450108"><div id="yiv1995934158"><div id="yiv972709400"><div id="yiv1729193682">zev sero wrote (re: ketubah validity if the parties don't understand it):<br><br>It doesn't matter what they understand. The terms of the kesuba are<br>binding even if there is no document at all.......<br><br>hb: the ketubah is binding (or not) on what grounds??contractual, legal, or other????<br><br>isn't a ketubah is a binding legal contract between 2 willing parties? if either or both of the parties don't understand it, why would it binding??? <br>or would you classify the ketubah, and resultant marriage, something other than a binding contract (try telling that that to an aggrieved party in a nasty divorce trial, or to a sotah on the way up to the har habayis, to possibly drink bitter
waters.....)
<br><br>possible side note:
isn't the torah is
considered (l'mashal) the ketubah between hashem and ourselves.....it promises things to be supplied from Hashem (rain, etc. ) and specifies damages to be incurred for [contractual?] non-compliance on our-part. <br>Whether or not it was forced upon us, is it also not a
legally binding contract?; subject to all provisions and obligations thereof???? or again, would you classify the torah as not a legally binding contract, but as some other sort of arrangement?.....<br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table>