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Chodesh Tov,

I don't have a question but rather a comment that I would like you to read as much of in full as possible and then comment on it.

In the past you said that Jacob "fell in love" with Rachel because there needed to be a new female figure after his mother died but I think you confused him with Isaac. Jacob's mother didn't die until Jacob was back in The Land of Israel on his return from Haran while he was in the vicinity of Bet El before he got back to his parents' home. It is alluded to by mentioning that Deborah, Rebekah's wet nurse died.

I believe the Talmudic quote about being allowed to marry a 3 year old may be correct. But Judaism is not Islam so getting married at that age doesn't mean having sex. I heard at synagogue that Isaac married Rebekah when he was 40 and she was 3 and that explains why it took them 20 years to have kids. Isaac was not Mohammad so he had to wait until Rebekah was a teenager until they had marital relations because marriage back then was based on a marriage agreement and not love. The love came later. Even in more modern times, Jews in Eastern Europe would get engaged as kids using match makers and later marry when they were late teenagers. So Jacob was born when Rebekah was 23. I also think Jacob worked to marry Rachel when she was a kid and they got married when she was a teenager. She only lived to be about 30 something so if you do the math of 21 years, for the years Jacob worked for Lavan, she was very young. Yet we read about how Jacob instantly "fell in love" (To borrow the inaccurate Western phrase.) with her when he met her so maybe years back then weren't the same as now considering Jacob also lived about 147 years and was about 60 when he met Rachel yet we picture him as a young man about Rachel's age.

Update: I heard in synagogue that in Biblical times, girls matured faster so they could get married as young as 3 years old but a boy had to be 12. Now girls don't mature until around 12 so they can't get married until they are 12.

Also, Akeidat Yitzhak had to happen because Isaac had Rebekah's soul in him so the akeidah had to happen to knock it out of him and then Rebekah was born so he was able to get married and have kids.

Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim,
Chief Administrator.

TorahZionist:
I'm posting this on behalf of Yacov Menashe Ben Rachamim.

Thank you for answering my question about Eilat.  What would be the Kahanist program for the development of Eilat and Sinai?

דוד בן זאב אריה:
Dear Chaim,

What do you think of Shas and their recent political moves within the Smolmert gov't?

JTFFan:
Dear Chaim,

Have you seen the movie Fiddler on the Roof? If so, what did you think of it?

G-d bless,

-JTFFan

Rubystars:
Greetings Chaim. Why do so many American Jews have German sounding surnames?

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