Ketubah Quotes

Jeff and I signed a Jewish marriage contract, a ketubah, promising to cherish each other in the "way that Jewish men and women had cherished each other through the ages." This probably doesn't refer to King Solomon, who reportedly had 700 hundred wives and 300 concubines but much of the document was written in Hebrew so we really have no idea what we agreed to.

the symbolism of the ketubah as it related to the bride of Christ—how the New Testament was a type of ketubah for believers. It described Yeshua’s love and commitment, as well as how he intended to provide for his bride in every contingency. The modern Jewish ketubah, in many ways, was a symbolic prenuptial agreement which served as a substitute for the traditional bride price.

The groom, instead of giving the father of the bride a sum of money, gave the bride a ketubah or contract which promised that sum at some future date as a means of provision for his bride in the case of his death or the dissolving of the marriage.

Indeed, one of the marital obligations outlined in the ketubah, marriage contract, alongside the requirement for a husband to provide food and clothing for his wife, is a contractual obligation for a man to pleasure his wife on a regular basis.161 Failing to do so even constitutes fair grounds for the wife to demand a divorce.162 Indeed, the Talmud characterizes men who put their wife’s pleasure before their own as meritorious and worthy of special blessing.