Wedding Wackiness

November 22, 2017 01:22:22
Wedding Wackiness
Bereishis/Genesis With Rabbi Mendel Kaplan
Wedding Wackiness

Nov 22 2017 | 01:22:22

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Show Notes

Parshat Vayeitzei: Jacob’s carefully planned marriage is the only wedding party ever documented in the Torah. It ended up becoming an epic matrimonial mix-up, which surprisingly continues to affect the way we do Jewish weddings today. According to the literal biblical narrative, the groom assumed he married his beloved bride, only to find out the very next morning that, in fact, he married her sister. What exactly transpired on that surreal evening, and how would it be possible for a groom not to know who he married? Discover fascinating details that shed a great deal of light on this otherwise enigmatic story.

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