Meir Soloveichik

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.

Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.

Marriage, like everything else in the world, is holy or unholy depending on the purpose the mind ascribes to it.

Of all the rabbinic sages of antiquity, perhaps none was more influential or famous than Rabbi Akiva.