Q. Kvod Harav. I as a Rabbi, was offered to enact two very different weddings on the same time but at different locations, and I cannot do both. One is a common young Frum couple, the other is an elderly couple in their late eighties that lost their partners and are getting married just to keep company.
Which marriage should I choose to perform?
A. Although, as you told me, the elderly couple are unable to have marital relations at their age, Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that the wife still has to immerse in a mikva after following the usual traditions.
The Rov also maintains that the usual brochos are recited at the chupa of the elderly, followed by the customary Yichud seclusion.
The Rov’s Shlit’a opinion is that although it is a very great mitzva to help the elderly couple in their quest to enjoy relief of loneliness and obtain such necessary mutual help at that difficult age, it is still a greater mitzva to perform the wedding of the young couple, that is able to procreate and establish a new family with children.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu Shlit’a
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