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9/26/2021 6:17 PM
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On the sixth day of the week, the thirteenth day of the month of Nisan in the year five thousand seven hundred and ten [1950] since the creation of the world, the era according to which we reckon here in the city of Saratov that Meir son of Benjamin said to this virgin Rivka [Rebecca], daughter of Samuel Isaac:
"Be my wife according to the practice of Moses and Israel, and I will cherish, honor, support and maintain you in accordance with the custom of Jewish husbands who cherish, honor, support and maintain their wives faithfully. And I here present you with the marriage gift of virgins one hundred silver zuzim, which belongs to you, according the the law of Moses and Israel; and I will also give you your food, clothing and necessities, and live with you as husband and wife according to universal custom." And Miss Rivka, this virgin consented and became his wife. The trousseau that she brought to him from her father's house in silver, gold, valuables, clothing, furniture and bedclothes, all this Meir son of Benjamin, the said bridegroom, accepted in the sum of one hundred silver pieces, and Meir son of Benjamin,_the bridegroom, consented to increase this amount from his own property with the sum of one hundred silver pieces, making in all two hundred silver pieces. And thus said Meir son of Benjamin, the bridegroom: "The responsibility of this marriage contract, of this trousseau, and of this additional sum, I take upon myself and my heirs after me, so that they shall be paid from the best part of my property and possessions that I have beneath the whole heaven, that which I now possess or may hereafter acquire. All my property, real and personal, even the shirt off my back, shall be mortgaged to secure the payment of this marriage contract, of the trousseau, and of the addition made to it, during my lifetime and after my death, from the present day and forever." Meir son of Benjamin, the bridegroom, has taken upon himself the responsibility of this marriage contract, of the trousseau and the addition made to it, according to the restrictive usages of all marriage contracts and the additions to them made for the daughters of Israel, according to the institution of our sages of blessed memory. It is not to be regarded as a mere forfeiture without consideration or as a mere formula of a document. We have followed the legal formality of symbolic delivery (kinyan) between Meir,the son of Benjamin, the bridegroom and Rivka. the daughter of Samuel Isaac,_this virgin, and we have used a garment legally fit for the purpose, to strengthen all that is stated above, and everything is valid and confirmed.
Attested to: T. Grenadier [?] Witness
Attested to: [illegible] Witness
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