Abstract
An ancient rabbinic parable relates the following concerning the subtle dynamics of love and marriage (as part of a commentary on how the Patriarch Jacob came to find his beloved wife Rachel):
A Roman noblewoman asked Rabbi Yose bar Chalafta, “How long did it take your God to create the world?”
“Six days,” he replied.
“And what has your God been doing ever since then?” she inquired.
“He pairs people off, bringing husband together with his future wife,” Rabbi Yose informed her.1
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Moshe Weissman, The Midrash Says (Brooklyn, NY: Benei Yaakov Publications, 1980), p. 218.
Isaac M. Fein, The Making of an American Jewish Community: The History of Baltimore Jewry (Philadelphia, PA: The Jewish Publication Society, 1971), p. 7.
The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia (New York: The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Inc.) 1941 Ed., s.v. “Goldwater,” pp. 41–42.
Max Vorspan and Lloyd P. Gartner, History of the Jews of Los Angeles (San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1970), p. 8.
Ibid., p. 24.
Ibid., pp. 95–96.
Ibid., p. 97.
Jacob Rader Marcus, American Jewry Documents Eighteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: The Hebrew Union College Press, 1959), p. 188.
Ibid., pp. 137–138.
Ibid., pp. 30–31.
Stephen Birminghan, Our Crowd: The Great German Jewish Families of New York (New York: Harper & Row, 1967).
Marvin and Bernard Kalb, Kissinger (New York: Little, Brown, and Co., 1974).
Kephart, The Family, pp. 323–329.
Erich Rosenthal, “Studies of Jewish Intermarriage in the United States,” American Jewish Year Book 64 (1963), pp. 41–43.
Rela Geffen Monson, Jewish Campus Life (New York: American Jewish Committee, 1984), p. 23.
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Mayer, E. (1985). Paths to Intermarriage. In: Love & Tradition. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6086-3_3
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