Will You Marry Me?

Every person has their way of approaching life.

Someone always tells me I jump into pools without water and then … and then I go from there.
I call it naaseh v’nishmah. Do and you will eventually understand.
Having children.

Coming to Eretz Yisrael.
These are all moments of jumping when we’re not 100 percent positive what we’re jumping into. This is Shavuos. This is Matan Torah when Hashem says “Trust me. I will trust you.” This is the basis of our marriage to Him.
What could be more naaseh v’nishmah and needing of trust than marriage? It’s like climbing a mountain with a rope attached to another person. We have to trust each other work together to hold the rope so the other doesn’t fall.
Hashem gave us that rope at Sinai. He gave the Torah to us as a nation and the kesubah to us individually.
The kesubah is an amazing thing. It ties a couple together with obligations. The Torah ties us to Hashem with mitzvos obligations to become am echad. The kesubah ties our separated souls back together.
As the kallah walks around the chassan under the chuppah I always picture her weaving invisible magnetic-force threads around him.   

So what is the kesubah? The kesubah is also a sort of naaseh v’nishmah. Do and accept this agreement and you will come to understand. It is an original attachment agreement which gives us the ability to hold on when the going gets tough and a guarantee that if you do these things you will come to understand. Do and you will come to understand is a long journey. No one gave a time limit guarantee. That we will understand in three minutes or less just that we will eventually understand.