5 Lessons
Postponing Pregnancy
I will be getting married soon, God willing. I would like to know if I am permitted, according to Jewish law, to postpone pregnancy for two years in order to finish the majority of my university studies without the burden of pregnancy and parenting?
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Tammuz 5768
Marriage, Plain and Simple
How can we shout “Mazal Tov!” after breaking the glass in memory of the Temple’s destruction? Who aught to decide where the wedding will be held? Rabbi Eliezer Melamed addresses these and other interesting questions.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5764
The Role of Parents in Marriage
Today, parents can fulfill the commandment of marrying off their children by providing them with a good education at prestigious schools, supporting them so that they be able to learn a profession, and clothing them in attractive attire.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5764
"Be fruitful and multiply"
If, as the Sages of the Mishna teach, "A person who manages to preserve even one Jewish soul is treated by the Torah as if he had preserved the entire world," how much more so one who gives birth to and raises a Jewish child.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Kislev, 5763