Marriage and Torah Scholars

A Torah Scholar shouldn't marry off his daughter to a lay person: Pesachim 49a

A Torah Scholar may marry the daughter of a Kohen, although he is not one: Pesachim 49a

A Torah Scholar may have sexual relations during the day in a dark room, because a Torah Scholar will not look: Shabbat 86a; Niddah 17a

Marriage prior to Learning: Yoma 72b

Torah scholars should not be with their wives sexually too frequently, like chickens, lest that reduce the time spent on study: Berachot 22a

The ideal period of onah for a Torah scholar and his wife: Ketuvot 62b

Requiring a Torah scholar to get his wife's permission to leave town in order to study Torah, because of his requirement of sexual relations: Ketuvot 61b [and see Tosafot התלמידים], 61b-62a, 62b

The wives of Torah scholars waiting up late at night for their husbands, who are learning from their rebbe: Ketuvot 62a

Stories of Sages who stayed away from home for years in their studies, and what happened when they were reunited with their wives: Ketuvot 62b-63a


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