Mazel Tov!
Just remember that another 0 may cost you dearly (Photo: ShutterStock)
The management of the Rabbinical Court issued a call to the bridegrooms not to exaggerate the amounts of the Ketubah and to specify realistic amounts, with the understanding that a Ketubah deed is a serious financial commitment for all intents and purposes.
That's what Lavala says!
Money is a senior factor in the rabbinical courts, also against the background of the slowdown and darkening of the economic horizon of the economy in Israel.
His words are well anchored in the Israeli reality where grooms, sometimes without any financial ability, pledge in their address for very high sums, either due to a desire to express their love or in view of the fear that the spouse will see them as stingy.
One way or another, quite a few guys like this have found themselves over the last few years faced with a court ruling that requires them to pay some or even the full amount they committed to, sometimes in the amount of hundreds of thousands of shekels.
"Check for anything and everything"
"A ketubah constitutes a check for all intents and purposes, and just as you would not write a check knowing that it has no cover, so should a groom behave in relation to the amount he writes on it," point out attorneys Liat Shclares-Horowitz and Dana Tirosh-Eliyahu, who are involved in the legal field The family.
For those of the readers who are not familiar with the laws of the Ketubah and its meaning, here is a reminder: a Ketubah is a binding legal document accompanying the Kiddushin, which details the husband's duties towards his wife, especially his financial obligations in the event that she is divorced or widowed.
Today it is customary to give the ketubah deed to the bride during the ceremony.
Check for everything.
Adv. Liat Sheklarz and Dana Tirosh (Photo: Yehats)
Until a few years ago, apparently in light of the low public awareness of the very strict financial commitment in the ketubah, quite a few Israeli men used to write extremely high sums in it.
According to a recent study conducted by the Forum for the Rights of Men in the Family, the average amount of the Ketubah pierced in the years 2000-2015 was more than NIS 200,000. In recent years, it is evident that there is an internalization among the Israeli public of the financial significance of the Ketubah and the financial pit into which quite a few have entered men, following a ruling that required them to pay Shlomo. "We definitely see an estimated 20% decrease in the amount in the last five years," the forum notes.
Indeed, the rabbinic courts also confirm that there is a certain disillusionment among men in Israel: "In our impression, indeed, in the last two years grooms It is customary to adhere to realistic and lower amounts ranging from NIS 26 to 101,000, while addresses of hundreds of thousands of NIS have become relatively rare," they point out.
According to them, "In the past, grooms would commit themselves in a ketubah for sums in large numbers, such as an amount of 555,555 shekels as a lucky number. But, at the moment of truth, many grooms discovered that the amount of the ketubah they had committed to was much higher than their financial capabilities, so a complication was created."
And how big is the complication sometimes?
"We represented in a case in which the spouse impregnated both the wife and the lover. The court ruled that the wife will receive the amount of the writ, which is 555 thousand shekels," the attorneys Clares and Tiros point out that, in another case handled by them, the man was ordered to pay an amount of 280,000 shekels, in light of a long affair that he conducted and documented in a notebook.
The Tzahar rabbinic organization also addresses the issue, aware of the gap that often exists between the amount recorded in the ketubah, and the groom's lack of financial ability to pay off his obligations.
"The ambition is that the amount will be respectful and relevant and compatible with the ability of the couple," they point out.
Oops, I forgot to write "zero" at the end (Photo: ShutterStock)
And we will end with a relevant curiosity.
About a month ago, a couple happily got married in one of the most luxurious halls in Israel.
A very well-known rabbi is invited to the wedding.
The man accidentally omitted the number 0 from the written amount so that it was written for only 100 thousand shekels.
Later that evening, after the couple went up to his room, the woman discovered that the amount was significantly lower than what she expected.
The next day, at 9 o'clock in the morning, the rabbi was summoned in a hurry, as well as witnesses, while she forced the man to add the number 0 to her address, so that it would be registered for a million shekels.
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