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Feb 22, 2016
kallah messes up marriage over possible ayin hara
There was an interesting, albeit sad, breakup of a wedding, at the wedding, that ended up in beis din.
The groom had 180,000nis written into the kesuba as the amount he would give her in case of divorce or his death.
At the chuppa, after the actual marriage, the bride did not like discovering that her kesuba was worth "just" 180k. She demanded 555,000nis instead. She claimed she was insisting on that amount in order to thwart any potential evil eye.
The argument deteriorated and the husband left.
A divorce claim was immediately filed in the beis din, along with an alimony claim of 500,000nis, in addition to the 180,000nis promised in the kesuba. She also claimed that he had caused her material loss, as she paid a lot of money for the wedding that was all lost.
The beis din decided neither side owed the other money, as they had both taken significant losses.
source: Behadrei
Does anybody have any idea what is "anti ayin hara" about the number 555,000? I have no idea. In fact, it seems strange to me that demanding more money can be against ayin hara. It seems more likely to me that more money would cause greater ayin hara.
It is sad that a relationship has to break up like that so quickly over such an argument.
The groom had 180,000nis written into the kesuba as the amount he would give her in case of divorce or his death.
At the chuppa, after the actual marriage, the bride did not like discovering that her kesuba was worth "just" 180k. She demanded 555,000nis instead. She claimed she was insisting on that amount in order to thwart any potential evil eye.
The argument deteriorated and the husband left.
A divorce claim was immediately filed in the beis din, along with an alimony claim of 500,000nis, in addition to the 180,000nis promised in the kesuba. She also claimed that he had caused her material loss, as she paid a lot of money for the wedding that was all lost.
The beis din decided neither side owed the other money, as they had both taken significant losses.
source: Behadrei
Does anybody have any idea what is "anti ayin hara" about the number 555,000? I have no idea. In fact, it seems strange to me that demanding more money can be against ayin hara. It seems more likely to me that more money would cause greater ayin hara.
It is sad that a relationship has to break up like that so quickly over such an argument.
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ReplyDeleteYou're obviously not Sephardi.
ReplyDelete555 = Chamsa chamsa chamsa.
But yes, this is quite a silly reason to end a marriage.
that's good. she could have asked for 180,555, or just 55,500 or any other number with a 555 in it and not destroyed her marriage so fast
DeleteAnyone who would break up a marriage that literally just took place over something that could have been trivially discussed beforehand is not someone to whom I'd like to be married. The groom is plainly lucky to have found out so quickly just what kind of person he married.
DeleteMaybe she did it to get the 180,000.
ReplyDeleteWhat a sad story - 'true love', what a joke. Money seems to trump everything.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe marriage had an ayin hara so strong that it was too late to change the ketuba.
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ReplyDeleteHe's certainly better off without her---altho one has to wonder how well this guy even knew a woman that would do this, and what his own marriage values are, accordingly. Right family? Right height-weight ratio? Davens the right nusach?
ReplyDeleteThe real question is, was this simply a really dumb excuse, or does she actually believe that God would want you to break up a brand-new marriage over ayin hara----essentially, that God would allow, or cause, bad things to happen to someone if they didn't break up the marriage.
Anyone who believes something like that---and I think there are many---is not serving the same Hashem the rest of us do... more like an angry, petty, irrational pagan deity.
This whole ayin hara thing has gotten out of hand---(yeah, we know: "it's 'brought down in the Torah'!")---and amounts to thinly disguised avodah zara & superstition.
You don't know sfardim. They actually believe thisis important.
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