Editing Jewish views on marriage (section)

=== Consent ===
According to the Talmud, a father is commanded not to marry his daughter to anyone until she grows up and says, "I want this one".<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Even Ha'ezer, 37:8</ref> A marriage that takes place without the consent of the girl is not an effective legal marriage.<ref>Shulchan Aruch, Even Ha'ezer, 42:1</ref>

A {{transliteration|he|ketannah}} (literally meaning "little [one]") was any girl between the age of 3 years and that of 12 years plus one day;<ref name="JewEncMaj">{{Jewish Encyclopedia |article=Majority |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?letter=M&artid=91}}</ref> she was subject to her father's authority, and he could arrange a marriage for her without her agreement.<ref name="JewEncMaj" /> However, after reaching the age of maturity, she would have to agree to the marriage to be considered as married.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/legal-religious-status-of-married-woman |title=CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR LEGAL MARRIAGE |author=Tirzah Meacham |access-date=5 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10435-marriage-laws |title=MARRIAGE LAWS |author1=Solomon Schechter |author2=Julius H. Greenstone |access-date=5 February 2020}}</ref> If the father was dead or missing, the brothers of the {{transliteration|he|ketannah}}, collectively, had the right to arrange a marriage for her, as had her mother.<ref name="JewEncMaj" /> In these situations, a {{transliteration|he|ketannah}} would always have the right to [[Annulment|annul]] her marriage, even if it was the first.<ref name="JewEncMiu" />

If the marriage did end (due to divorce or the husband's death), any further marriages were optional; the {{transliteration|he|ketannah}} retained her right to annul them.<ref name="JewEncMiu">{{Jewish Encyclopedia |article=Mi'un |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=669&letter=M}}</ref> The choice of a {{transliteration|he|ketannah}} to annul a marriage, known in Hebrew as {{transliteration|he|mi'un}} (literally meaning "refusal", "denial", "protest"),<ref name="JewEncMiu"/> led to a true annulment, not a divorce; a divorce document ({{transliteration|he|[[Get (divorce document)|get]]}}) was not necessary,<ref>Yebamot 107a</ref> and a {{transliteration|he|ketannah}} who did this was not regarded by legal regulations as a divorcee, in relation to the marriage.<ref name="Yeb108a">''Yebamot'' 108a</ref> Unlike divorce, {{transliteration|he|mi'un}} was regarded with distaste by many rabbinic writers,<ref name="JewEncMiu"/> even in the Talmud;<ref>''Yebamot'' 109a</ref> in earlier classical Judaism, one major faction – the [[House of Shammai]] – argued that such annulment rights only existed during the betrothal (not engagement) period ({{transliteration|he|[[erusin]]}}) and not once the actual marriage ({{transliteration|he|[[Nissuin|nissu'in]]}}) had begun.<ref>''Yebamot'' 107a</ref>