Volume 44: Number 32
Tue, 09 Jun 2026
Subjects Discussed In This Issue:
Message: 1
From: Jay F. Shachter
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2026 14:35:22 -0500 (EDT)
Subject: [Avodah] Finding A Spouse
>
> ... living in the land is but one of many mitzvos.
>
> It's one of the 7 or 8 mitzvos hashequlos. (See R Wolbe's book by
> that title.) Still there are other mitzvos that outrank it. Going
> to learn bemaqom shelibo chafeitz. Finding a spouse.
>
Since you, presumably intentionally, wrote "finding a spouse" instead
of "finding a wife", which would be the normal way to say it, what is
your source for your assertion that a Jewish woman -- who is not
obliged to marry anyone -- is permitted to leave Eretz Yisrael to find
a husband?
Jay F. ("Yaakov") Shachter
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