Shavuot Ketuba Marriage Certificate between God and Israel 5780 2020

This is to certify that on Friday, the sixth of Sivan, the day appointed by Adonai for the revelation of the Torah to God’s beloved people… The Invisible One came forth from Sinai, in the year 2448 since the creation of the world, The Bridegroom, God, Ruler of rulers, Distinguished among the select, Whose mouth is pleasing and all of Whom is delightful, said unto the pious, lovely and virtuous maiden, the people of Israel, who won God’s favor above all women:

Many days wilt thou be Mine and I will be thy Redeemer.

Behold, I have sent thee golden precepts through the lawgiver Moses.

Be thou My mate according to the law of Moses and Israel, and I will honor, support, and maintain thee and be thy shelter and refuge in everlasting mercy. And I will set aside for thee the life-giving Torah by which thou and thy children will live in health and tranquility.

God’s bride, Israel, consented and became God’s spouse. Thus an eternal covenant, binding them forever, was established between them. The Bridegroom then agreed to add to the above, all future expositions of Holy Scripture, including the Oral and Written Law. 

The dowry that God’s bride brought from the house of her parent consists of an understanding heart that understands, ears that hearken, eyes that see and senses that obey.

The Bridegroom, desiring to confer privileges upon God’s people Israel and to transmit these valuable assets to them, took upon Godself the responsibility of God’s marriage contract, to be paid from the best portions of God’s property…

All these conditions are valid and established forever and ever. The Bridegroom has given God’s oath to carry them out in favor of God’s people and to enable those that love God to inherit substance. Thus Adonai has given God’s oath. The Bridegroom has followed the legal formality of symbolic delivery of God’s document, which is bigger than the earth and broader than the seas. Everything, then, is firm, clear, and established.

I invoke Heaven and Earth as reliable witnesses.

May the Bridegroom rejoice with the bride whom the Eternal has taken as God’s lot

and may the bride rejoice with the Husband of her youth while uttering words of praise.

 

This Ketuba was reaccepted and reconfirmed on Thursday evening the sixth of Sivan 5780 corresponding to May 28^th, 2020 by the holy Jewish community in the land of elk and honey.

 

May this document bind these two together until the coming of the Messianic Age.