SOR1 – Notes On Judaism (Jewish Marriage)

Resource Description

JEWISH MARRIAGE

Pre-liminal 🡪 Liminal 🡪 Post liminal 

• Marriage is one of the highest mitzvah that a Jew can carry out

Describe: Characteristics and features 🡪 Jewish Marriage 

Demonstrate: Show by example 🡪 Relationship between Core beliefs and marriage 

Analyse 🡪 significance of marriage 

• “Be fruitful and multiply” Genesis 1:28 – first mitzvah in the Torah
• “Soul has a God given desire to unite with its Bashert (soul mate)”
• Emotional and spiritual fulfilment can only come through marriage 🡪 marriage completes each person
• Reflective of covenants between Abraham, Moses and God 

EXPRESSION OF BELIEFS

• Reflection of the covenant
• God’s design
• Fulfils Mitzvot
• Reflects Genesis
• Reflects God’s blessing of Abraham
• Reflects Jewish history
• States the important of family and home