Series: Yadin Yadin

Venue: YU Wilf Campus YU Wilf Campus

Halacha:

Even Haezer,  Kiddushin 

History:

10 - 15th Centuries CE 

Machshava:

Kabbalah 

References: Shulchan Aruch: Even Ha-Ezer Siman 2 ,  Nodah B'Yehudah: Yoreh Deah Siman 93 ,  Igrot Moshe: Even Ha-Ezer 1:4 ,  ????? ?????: Tzava'as Rabbi Yehuda HeChasid 23 ,  ????? ?????: Sefer Chasidim 477  

Description

Sefer Chasidim notes a prohibition against marrying a wife with the name of one's mother or a husband with the name of one's father. What is the basis and reason for this prohibition? When does it apply or not? And to what extent is this prohibition accepted by Halakhic decisors?