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How big an inyan is it to marry someone as a Chesed? And what kind of chesed is it practical to marry someone for.
I heard the Chazon Ish married his wife even though he knew (beforehand) that she was infertile. I also heard another modern (post WWII) gadol (I heard the name but I forget which) married someone he knew was a very nervous woman.
Wow from the same guy who wants to “practice date” on yenems cheshbon. Spend less time on the internet….
Actually, the only marriage that the torah calls a chessed is a brother and sister committing incest.
I wouldn’t marry someone to do chessed, what if that person would only be marrying me to do a chessed
Didn’t take too long for shmendrick to reappear .
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most women believe marrying any man is a chesed.
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I also heard another modern (post WWII) gadol (I heard the name but I forget which) married someone he knew was a very nervous woman.
I can easily find out the name of the person, but I won’t ask the person who told it to me, because when I heard it, I didn’t believe it for a second (that he married her as a cheseed because he knew she had mental issues and would have a hard time finding someone to marry her).
How do you know it is true? Did you speak to him before he got married and he told you he knows she is a nervous person but he is marrying her anyway? Or you know someone who spoke to him before he got married and got that info?
No, I believe a lot of things I hear. Some things I don’t believe. I didn’t say it’s not true. I said I don’t believe it. Just because people have decided that’s why he married her, doesn’t mean I have to believe that that’s indeed the reason.
Many times people try to figure out why something happens that doesn’t make sense to them, so they come up with a reason that could be plausable. Doesn’t make it fact.
Instead of saying with certainty that it’s true, you could rather say you believe it’s true.
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I don’t know which gadol this story is said over about, but ask yourself this: Unless the “bubbe maaise” came to light after the wife passed, do you think the gadol in question would reveal the fact that he married his wife as a chessed? Wouldn’t that be a complete disrespect to her if he admitted it publicly?
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“I wouldn’t marry someone to do chessed, what if that person would only be marrying me to do a chessed”
“most women believe marrying any man is a chesed.”
That sounds like my marriage. My wife is a tremendous baalat chessed.
sometime it wors out well, as in Boaz and Rus.
In most cases, the greatest favor you can do to someone you don’t really want to marry, is not to marry him/her.
Presumably a baal chesed would want to marry someone with a deficiency.
Would you want to marry someone who you know will be married to a fool?
This is one of the biggest chasodim that a person could do! Imagine, you will be living a lifetime of chesed. Every day you will be married to your spouse and tolerating her chasorins and helping her along with it. That is piling up chasodim each and every day of your married lifetime.
Unfortunately I cannot engage in this tremendous form of chesed due to cherem rabbeinu gershom and that I am already married to a wonderful spouse without any chesronos (other than having married me.)
IMO everyone should view the fact that he or she is married, as an opportunity to do chessed for his/her spouse.
There’s a reason the the extreme of Chesed, is Znus.
KH- That’s not what T613 said. She was simply pointing out even chessed can be taken to an extreme. Poshut pshat is that it would be the wrong thing to do to marry someone for chessed unless: 1) you are 110% sure that you will never be bothered by your spouse’s chisaron that makes them a chessed case, and 2) you will never ever make them feel for even a second that you consider your marriage to them a chessed. Unless you are secretly a member of the underground Lammed Vav Society, you are probably not holding by that level of self control.
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