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Batsheva Sherman

Batsheva Sherman is director of the Yad L'isha Legal Aid Center and Hotline for Women in the Rabbinical Courts at the Ohr Torah Stone institutions. She is an attorney, a graduate of Bar-Ilan University (LL.B.) and of the Advocates in the Rabbinical Courts Program.

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Marriage in Halakhic Judaism

The stages of a Jewish marriage have various halakhic and legal implications. The beginning stage is shiddukhin, in which the man and women promise to marry. Then, kiddushin and nissu’in create the legal bond of marriage.