{"id":49188,"date":"2019-02-11T11:57:15","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T09:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=49188"},"modified":"2022-09-06T08:37:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T05:37:50","slug":"marriage-festivities-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/marriage-festivities-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Festivities \u2013 Then And Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[483,516,381],"acf":{"old_id":"49188","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"153","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Celebrating the triumph of the daughters of Zelophehad","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our chapter, we return to the story of the Daughters of Zelophehad. The heads of their father\u2019s family petition Moses to solve a problem that has arisen. If these, and any other women, who have inherited their father\u2019s property, marry men not from their own tribe, their inherited property will become part of their husbands\u2019 tribal inheritance rather than remaining part of the tribal inheritance of their father\u2019s family. Moses confirms the rightness of this claim and, speaking with divine authority, instructs that the daughters of Zelophehad may marry whomever they wish, so long as they choose husbands only from their father\u2019s tribe. This ruling is then applied to any women in a similar situation. Finally, we are told that \u201c\u2026Mahlah, Tirzah and Hoglah and Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father&#8217;s brothers&#8217; sons. They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father\u201d (Numbers 36:11-12). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Midrash (Lamentations Rabbah, Proem 33) uses this brief biblical narrative as a basis for a discussion of times when the unmarried women of Israel presented themselves as available for marriage: \u00a0Rabbi Simeon ben Gamaliel said: Israel had no greater holidays than the fifteenth of Av and the Day of Atonement, when the maidens of Israel used to go out in white garments \u2026 to dance in the vineyards. Any man who had no wife would go there, for the maidens would sing: Young man! Lift up your eyes and see whom you will choose. Look not upon beauty but upon family! \u2026 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why on the Fifteenth of Av? Because that was the day on which the problem of women who, like the Daughters of Zelophehad, had inherited property, was resolved, by allowing them to marry whomever they wish, so long as they choose husbands only from the family of their father. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since Rabbinic times, Jewish women, with or without property of their own, have for the most part been permitted to marry men of their own choosing. And the Fifteenth of Av has become in modern Israel a kind of Festival of Love (Hag Ha-Ahavah), a veritable Jewish Valentine\u2019s day, often chosen, in our time, for an appropriate day on which to perform weddings.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Image: Tu B\u2019av in Hadera, Hadera Khan Museum and Archives; \u00a0https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=6068399<\/span><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":49189,"id":49189,"title":"Num36-PikiWiki_Israel_1112_hadera","filename":"Num36-PikiWiki_Israel_1112_hadera-e1549879021482.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Num36-PikiWiki_Israel_1112_hadera-e1549879021482.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/marriage-festivities-then-and-now\/num36-pikiwiki_israel_1112_hadera\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"num36-pikiwiki_israel_1112_hadera","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":49188,"date":"2019-02-11 09:56:23","modified":"2019-02-11 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