Rosh Yeshiva Responds
Rabbi Linzer answers halakhic questions from rabbis and community members
I have a few questions regarding how to fill in the ketubah in an unusual situation.
1. The couple in question is already married with children. The bride is converting, so her name will be written in the ketubah as “Hadassah (her chosen name) bat Avraham V’Sara“. The groom is the son of a Jewish woman and non-Jewish man, in which case the RCA madrich
I’m performing a wedding in a rural area. The mailing address and Google Maps lists the nearest city in the address, but it is outside the city limits in an unincorporated part of the county. What should be written on the ketubah?
In such a case, the practice is to write סמוך לעיר פלונית, so here- fill in פלונית with the city name in Google. This would be true even if it were under the jurisdiction of one city, but closer to another one,
What are possibilities in the ketubah for מבי for a financially independent בתולתא?
מדנפשה. Or just write דהנעלת ליה without any term afterwards.
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