LOVE AND MARRIAGE

and_(Hebrew name) daughter/son of and_, how enter:

1. and declare that they have chosen each other as companions as our rabbis teach:

Get yourself a companion. This teaches that a person should get a companion to eat with, to drink with, to study Bible with, to study Mishnah with, to sleep with, to confide all one’s secrets, secrets of Torah and secrets of worldly things(Avot d’Rabbi Natan 8).

2. and declare that they are setting themselves apart for each other and will take no other lover.

3 and hereby assume all the rights and obligations that

apply to family members to attend, care, and provide for one another

[and for any children with which they may be blessed and for child/children of J

4. and commit themselves to a life of kindness and righteousness as a Jewish family and to work together toward the communal task of mending the world.

5.= and pledge that one will help the other at the time of dying by carrying out the last rational requests of the dying partner, protecting him/her from indignity or abandonment, and by tender, faithful presence with the beloved until the end, fulfilling what has been written:

Set me as a seal upon your arm, for love is stronger than death(Song of Songs 8:6).

To this covenant we affix our signatures:

The Partners:

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