Marriage & the Family Quotes

• ’Become one flesh’ Genesis
• ‘She shall be called woman for she was taken out of man’ Genesis
• ‘He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favour from the Lord’ Proverbs 18:22
• ‘A man who has no wife is doomed to an existence without joy, without blessing‘ Talmud
• ‘When a man and his wife unite sexually in holiness, the Shekhinah rests between them’ Maimonides
• ‘do not commit adultery’ Exodus
• ‘A wife returning from the mikveh is as fresh to her husband as on their wedding day’ Talmud
• ‘What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also’ Genesis
• ‘You shall not lie with a male as a woman, it is an abomination’ Levictus
• ‘Honour your father and mother’ Exodus 20:12
• ‘Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it‘ Proverbs 22:6
• ‘These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children’ Deuteronomy
• ‘Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned his son for many days’ Genesis
• ‘If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her’ Deuteronomy
• ‘If a man divorces his first wife, even the altar of the Temple sheds tears’ Talmud
• ‘Let us make humans in our image, in our likeness’ Genesis
• ‘A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies’ Proverbs 31:10 - 11
• ‘Be fruitful and increase in number’ Genesis