Due to great investments and business concerns, an affluent engaged couple that did not yet celebrate their Chupa and traditional banquet wedding, needs and plans to register their official legal marriage.
They plan to do it at the time of Sefira in which they keep their parents prohibition of getting married. Is that then permitted?
A. Since they are not celebrating yet their true Chatuna and religious wedding and joining life as a traditional couple does living together, the legal wedding arrangements although they are happily accepting and contracting to, are not considered to be a real Chatuna and are therefore permitted during Sefira.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Y. Hirshman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu, Horav Kalman Ochs, and Horav Dovid Bartfeld consulting in need Horav Hagaon Rav Yitzchak Berkowitz Shlit’a
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