Rabbi Cherlow
is Rosh Yeshiva of the Hesder Yeshiva of Petach Tikva. He wrote the following
two responsa, which appeared in Hebrew on his Yeshiva’s website ypt.co.il. He
has given permission to the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals to have the
responsa translated and published in English. The following translation is by
Bentsi Cohen. Rabbi Cherlow has written:
“I received a great many responses to this article. The large majority touched
on the question whether it was at all appropriate to publicize my position on
this issue, or should such topics be dealt with privately out of concern for
the 'slippery slope'. My position on this is found in the articles themselves.
I think it proper to very much narrow the gap between those things discussed in
extreme privacy and those which are discussed openly in public as a halakhic
stand. Only a minority of those who disagreed with me disagreed on the contents
of what I wrote.”
Question to Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Rosh Yeshiva of the Hesder Yeshiva of Petach Tikva:
I ask you to bravely write an answer to a question that has been disturbing me very much for quite some time. I am a thirty-six years old woman, rather pretty, educated and well taken care of, who has been attempting for over fifteen years to get married, but to no avail…
