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1Honoring Parentsא - כיבוד הורים
  1. 1.Honoring Parents and Honoring Heaven
  2. 2.Parents and Children: A Link in the Chain of Eternity
  3. 3.The Four Mitzvot Related to Honoring Parents
  4. 4.Honor and Reverence for Father and Mother
  5. 5.Sitting in Their Place and Rising Before Them
  6. 6.Not Calling Them by Name
  7. 7.The Prohibition of Waking Sleeping Parents
  8. 8.General Principles of the Mitzva of Honor
  9. 9.The Obligation of the Son and the Daughter
  10. 10.Can Children Be Compelled to Honor Their Parents?
  11. 11.The Mitzva to Live Near One’s Parents
  12. 12.A Respectful Attitude
  13. 13.How Far Does Honoring Parents Extend?
  14. 14.One Whose Parents Have Lost Their Minds
  15. 15.Parents’ Attitude Toward Children, and Not Striking
  16. 16.Wicked Parents
  17. 17.Judging Parents Favorably
  18. 18.Psychological Therapy That Undermines Honoring Parents
  19. 19.Abusive Parents
  20. 20.Honoring Parents and Observing the Mitzvot
  21. 21.In What Matters Must One Obey One’s Parents?
  22. 22.Parents Who Oppose a Marriage
  23. 23.Should One Contact a Divorced Father Against the Mother’s Wishes?
  24. 24.The Prohibition of Striking, and May a Son Give His Father an Injection?
  25. 25.Adopted Children Toward Their Adoptive Parents
  26. 26.Adopted Children Toward Their Biological Parents
  27. 27.A Convert’s Relationship to His Biological Parents
  28. 28.Grandfather and Grandmother
  29. 29.One’s Father’s Wife, Older Siblings, and Father- and Mother-in-Law
  30. 30.A Person Should Not Discriminate Between His Children in Inheritance
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2The Mitzva of Marriageב - מצוות הנישואין
  1. 1.The Value of Marriage
  2. 2.Love and Unity
  3. 3.The Virtue of the Mitzva of Peru U-revu
  4. 4.Ḥizkiyahu
  5. 5.The Parameters of the Mitzva of Peru U-revu
  6. 6.The Mitzva to Have Many Children
  7. 7.Couples Who Are Not Blessed With Children
  8. 8.Ten Years Without Children
  9. 9.The Age of Marriage for Men in the Past
  10. 10.The Age for the Mitzva for Men in Practice
  11. 11.The Age of Marriage for Women in the Past
  12. 12.The Age of Marriage for Women in Our Times
  13. 13.The Responsibility Resting on Young People
  14. 14.Parents Are Commanded to Marry Off Their Children
  15. 15.Parental Involvement in Choosing a Spouse
  16. 16.Financial Matters
  17. 17.The Mitzva of Hakhnasat Kalla and the Community’s Obligation
  18. 18.Leaving the Land of Israel for the Sake of Marriage
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3Matchmakingג - שידוכים
  1. 1.The Value of Married Life
  2. 2.The Process of Reunification
  3. 3.Emotion and Intellect in Choosing a Spouse
  4. 4.Those Who Find It Hard to Decide
  5. 5.Good Character and Connection to Torah
  6. 6.The Age Difference Between Spouses
  7. 7.Marriage Between Relatives and Within One’s Community
  8. 8.May the Younger Sister Marry Before the Elder?
  9. 9.Remarriage
  10. 10.Marrying a Divorcée or a Divorcé
  11. 11.Marrying a Widow
  12. 12.The Matchmaker
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4Kiddushin and Ketubaד - קידושין וכתובה
  1. 1.Betrothal and Marriage
  2. 2.Those Forbidden to Marry
  3. 3.The Acquisition of Kiddushin
  4. 4.Details of the Laws of Kiddushin
  5. 5.The Witnesses
  6. 6.The Ketuba
  7. 7.The Significance of the Ketuba Sum Today
  8. 8.The Laws of the Ketuba
  9. 9.The Status of Man and Woman in Marriage
  10. 10.The Rise in the Woman’s Standing Within Marriage
  11. 11.The Historical Process
  12. 12.The Decline in the Woman’s Standing Following the Sin of Adam HaRishon
  13. 13.Revealed and Hidden Leadership in This World
  14. 14.The Process of the Rise in the Woman’s Standing in Halakha
  15. 15.The Prohibition of Two Wives
  16. 16.The Obligations of Marriage and the Ketuba
  17. 17.The Obligations of Marriage Today
  18. 18.Divorce
  19. 19.The Aguna
  20. 20.The Laws in Which the Woman’s Status Is Weaker
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5The Wedding and Its Customsה - החתונה ומנהגיה
  1. 1.The Wedding Occasion
  2. 2.The Order of the Wedding – The Kiddushin
  3. 3.Ḥuppa – Nisu’in
  4. 4.Defining the Ḥuppa
  5. 5.The Practice in the Various Communities
  6. 6.The Rabbi Who Officiates at the Kiddushin
  7. 7.Must One Pay for Officiating at the Kiddushin?
  8. 8.Those Honored and Those Reciting Blessings at the Ḥuppa
  9. 9.Fasting on the Wedding Day
  10. 10.The Shoshvinin (Escorts)
  11. 11.Changing the Custom of the Shoshvinin
  12. 12.The Veil
  13. 13.The Custom of the Seven Circuits According to Ashkenazic Custom
  14. 14.Customs of the Ḥuppa
  15. 15.In Remembrance of the Destruction
  16. 16.The Joy of the Wedding
  17. 17.How One Dances Before the Bride
  18. 18.The Feast
  19. 19.May One Leave in the Middle of a Wedding?
  20. 20.Leaving Before Birkat Ha-Mazon and Sheva Berakhot
  21. 21.The Gifts
  22. 22.Shabbat Ḥatan
  23. 23.The Seven Days of Feasting
  24. 24.The Sheva Berakhot Meal
  25. 25.Some Laws of Sheva Berakhot
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6Forbidden Relations (Arayot)ו - איסורי עריות
  1. 1.Categories of Forbidden Relations
  2. 2.The Reason for the Prohibition of Arayot
  3. 3.A Married Woman
  4. 4.Torah Punishments
  5. 5.One's Wife's Relatives
  6. 6.An Aunt
  7. 7.Brother and Sister
  8. 8.Conception from Seed Not the Husband's
  9. 9.A Mamzer
  10. 10.A Mamzer with a Maidservant
  11. 11.A Convert Is Rabbinically Forbidden to His Relatives
  12. 12.Women Disqualified from Marrying a Kohen
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7Laws of Modestyז - מהלכות צניעות
  1. 1."Do Not Follow Their Statutes"
  2. 2.The General Prohibitions Involved in Immodesty
  3. 3.Local Custom
  4. 4.The Upper Arm
  5. 5.May Less Than a Tefaḥ Be Uncovered?
  6. 6.Dress Length, and Whether Stockings Are Required
  7. 7.Young Girls
  8. 8.Pants for Women
  9. 9.A Red Garment and the Rules of Modesty
  10. 10.Kol Isha: A Woman's Singing Voice
  11. 11.A Ceremony at Which Women Sing
  12. 12.May Men and Women Sing Together?
  13. 13.Listening to Female Singers Through Electronic Devices
  14. 14.A Reason for Modesty and Hair Covering
  15. 15.General Laws of Hair Covering
  16. 16.Must a Widow Cover Her Hair?
  17. 17.Reciting Words of Holiness
  18. 18.How Much Must Be Covered?
  19. 19.Must a Woman Cover Her Hair at Home?
  20. 20.A Wig
  21. 21.Studying at a Mixed University
  22. 22.Physiotherapy Studies
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8Brit Milaח - ברית מילה
  1. 1.The First Mitzva
  2. 2.The Most Important Mitzva
  3. 3.Removing the Foreskin
  4. 4.On the Eighth Day, Even on Shabbat
  5. 5.Setting the Time of the Brit
  6. 6.The Mitzva Is Incumbent on the Father
  7. 7.Choosing the Mohel
  8. 8.Payment to the Mohel
  9. 9.Customs of the Brit
  10. 10.The Brit Meal
  11. 11.Honors
  12. 12.The Children of Avraham
  13. 13.Circumcision for Gentiles
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9Pidyon Ha-ben (Redemption of the Firstborn)ט - פדיון בכורות
  1. 1.The Reason for the Mitzva
  2. 2.How Much Is Paid for the Redemption
  3. 3.The Order of the Redemption and Its Meaning
  4. 4.Peter Reḥem: Opening the Womb
  5. 5.A Firstborn After a Miscarriage
  6. 6.The Time of the Redemption
  7. 7.The Mitzva Meal, and Redemption at Night
  8. 8.Should the Kohen Return the Money?
  9. 9.The Meaning of the Priesthood; a Firstborn Born to the Daughter of a Kohen or Levi
  10. 10.Pidyon Bekhorot When There Is No Father
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10Mourningי - אבלות
  1. 1.“Blessed Is the True Judge”
  2. 2.The Seven Relatives Who Mourn
  3. 3.The State of Aninut
  4. 4.Keri’a (Tearing the Garment)
  5. 5.Burial and Honoring the Dead
  6. 6.The Funeral and Eulogies
  7. 7.Sitting Shiva (The Seven Days of Mourning)
  8. 8.Comforting the Mourners
  9. 9.Counting the Seven Days
  10. 10.Festivals
  11. 11.Mourning of Thirty Days and of a Year
  12. 12.Kaddish and the Elevation of the Soul
  13. 13.Erecting a Tombstone
  14. 14.The Anniversary of Death (Yahrzeit)
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