The particular halachic process to utilize to create a legal bond between two partners is one of much debate. Is kiddushin relevant and appropriate? Can one base a marriage on a neder (vow), or on the process of shutafut (partnership)? How do those choices inform the words recited under the chuppah? How do they impact how the ketuba or ketuba-equivalent is constructed?
Elucidating this discussion is a major part of the Kol Sasson project, and will take time to compose in full. The initial attempt is only just begun.
This section is broken into a few subsections:
- What is kiddushin?
- What is the ketuba?
- The role of chuppah
- Problems with kiddushin
- Is it still a wedding without kiddushin?
- Is this “K’dat Moshe v’Yisrael”?
- Parallel kiddushin
- Hitkadshut – Self-consecration / kinyan hadadi – mutual acquisition
- Derech Kiddushin
- Non-acquisitional Kiddushin
- Shutafut – partnership
- Nedarim and Shevuot – Vows and Oaths
- Brit – covenant
- Mix and match
- Rings without kiddushin and additional texts
- Considerations
- Texts