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Daily Chizuk #0634
Marriage / Shidduchim
Embracing the Unthinkable: Inner Happiness and the Shechina
Don’T Push Off Marriage
Getting married and having children is the very first mitzvah in the Torah. The Sefer HaChinuch writes, it is that mitzvah which enables all of the other mitzvot to get done. It is one of the only mitzvot that we would even sell a sefer Torah to fulfill. The Bet Yosef, in his teshuvot Dineh Ketubot, siman 14, writes that this mitzvah cannot be compared to any other. It’s greatness extends all the way to the Heavens. It brings the Shechina into a person’s life. The Gemara in Kiddushin speaks about how much Hashem awaits for a man to get married when he becomes of age.
Chazal tell us, a man who is not married does not have true goodness in his life. He does not have blessing or shalom or Torah. Mashiach will not come until all of the souls that Hashem wants to come down to this world actually do come down. In Mitzrayim, only after they were fruitful and multiplied, then the geula came. Says the Tana Diveh Eliyahu Zuta, our geula depends on the same thing. A man who is able to overcome his fears and get married, will not only be doing a great mitzvah, he’ll also be hastening the coming of the Mashiach!
Getting married and having children is the very first mitzvah in the Torah. The Sefer HaChinuch writes, it is that mitzvah which enables all of the other mitzvot to get done. It is one of the only mitzvot that we would even sell a sefer Torah to fulfill. The Bet Yosef, in his teshuvot Dineh Ketubot, siman 14, writes that this mitzvah cannot be compared to any other. It’s greatness extends all the way to the Heavens. It brings the Shechina into a person’s life. The Gemara in Kiddushin speaks about how much Hashem awaits for a man to get married when he becomes of age.
Chazal tell us, a man who is not married does not have true goodness in his life. He does not have blessing or shalom or Torah. Mashiach will not come until all of the souls that Hashem wants to come down to this world actually do come down. In Mitzrayim, only after they were fruitful and multiplied, then the geula came. Says the Tana Diveh Eliyahu Zuta, our geula depends on the same thing. A man who is able to overcome his fears and get married, will not only be doing a great mitzvah, he’ll also be hastening the coming of the Mashiach!
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