Today’s Talmud page, Ketubot 7, teaches us the blessing we recite at Jewish weddings. Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin joins us to explain why this ancient text begins by mentioning all of the other people who are now forbidden to us, and why Judaism conceives of matrimony as a one-two punch. How is a Jewish wedding like studying Torah?Listen and find out.

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