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Rabbi Chayim Friedlander רדנלדירפ םייח ברה
A Peaceful Home ךלהא םולש יכ תעדיו סרטנוק
Chapter 1 - Lesson 1

Chapter 1 - Lesson 1

I will create a helpmate for him.

If we want to clearly understand the topic of the essence of a marital
relationship and the relationship between a man and his wife we
must first learn the Torah’s topic of the creation of the woman.

(Beresheet 2:18) “It is not good for a man to be by himself, I will
make a partner for him who will be his helping counterpart.”
Regarding this pasuk the RambaN asks “It doesn’t seem likely that
man was initially created as a unique being in the world without a
partner and without being able to produce offspring, since everything
among living creatures was created as male and female in order to
produce offspring. Even grass and trees contain seed and produce
offspring?!” But it is possible to say something that is consistent
with the opinion (in Gemara Eruvin 18a) that man was created as a
single entity with two façades, front and back, and within his body
was the ability to naturally transfer fertilization from his male side
to his female side which would subsequently give birth to a child…
and the second side would help its counterpart side to give birth.
HaKadosh Baruch Hu ‘saw’ that it would be good if his helpmate
stood opposite him, that he would see her and that she would be
separate and distinct from him, and he would join together with her
as he desired. This is the meaning of “Let us make a helpmate who
would stand opposite him, independently as his counterpart”.”
That being so, the emphasis is not on “helpmate,” as she already was
a helpmate who was attached to him, the emphasis is on “opposite
him,” that she should stand opposite him as an independent creation,
and he would have the ability to choose to either bring her close to Consent from the Friedlander family
him or, G-d forbid, to distance her from him. The bonding together to translate and publish their father’s Kuntres.
that existed as a result of their nature at the initial moment of their

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