Thursday, December 18, 2008

Kiddushin 71 - Family Conflict

Rav Yehudah needed help finding a genealogically fit wife for his son. Ulla asked him, - do we know from where we come? We might be descended from those "...who lie upon beds of ivory and defile their couches." Instead, go after silence, that is, find a family whose members are quiet and peaceable.

If you see two families in conflict with one another, you can assume that there is some genealogical flaw in one of them, and because of that flaw, Heaven will not allow one of them to cleave to the other.

Art: A Peaceful Moment by Charles Baugniet

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