QUESTION:
1) Does every man have “two feminine halves” of the neshamah that are supposed to be married to him, just as Rochel and Leah were the two feminine halves to Yaakov’s soul?
ANSWER:
Sometimes the other parts of a man’s soul appear as “parts” to his soul, sometimes the parts appear as “one” unit, and sometimes a man only needs one “part” alone [to complete his soul].
QUESTION
2) Since a woman can also have two halves to her soul, was a woman allowed to be married to two men?
ANSWER
It is forbidden for a woman to be married to 2 men at once. Sometimes, in order for a woman to find all of her “parts”, she has to become either divorced or widowed.
QUESTION
3) Is marrying 2 wives the ideal situation according to the Torah? And if it is, then why is this forbidden today?
ANSWER
Yes [it was ideal in the times of the Torah], but it became forbidden later because the two wives become tzaros, “co-wives” (and bothersome) to each other, and the tikkun for this is to forbid such marriages.
QUESTION
4) In today’s times where a man is not allowed to marry 2 wives at once, does that mean that today a man only has “one” other feminine half of his soul? Or can it be that a man also has two feminine halves to his soul, even today?
ANSWER
Sometimes, if a man is zocheh (meritorious), both of the feminine parts of his soul are included in one woman. In other cases, he has to marry 2 different wives in the same lifetime [in order to become connected with both of his feminine parts] or in another lifetime.
In most cases in the later generations [today’s times], a man’s soul is only a “part” of his soul and he isn’t living with his complete soul, and that is why one wife will be enough to complete that “part”.
QUESTION
2) Since a woman can also have two halves to her soul, was a woman allowed to be married to two men?
ANSWER
It is forbidden for a woman to be married to 2 men at once. Sometimes, in order for a woman to find all of her “parts”, she has to become either divorced or widowed.
QUESTION
3) Is marrying 2 wives the ideal situation according to the Torah? And if it is, then why is this forbidden today?
ANSWER
Yes [it was ideal in the times of the Torah], but it became forbidden later because the two wives become tzaros, “co-wives” (and bothersome) to each other, and the tikkun for this is to forbid such marriages.
QUESTION
4) In today’s times where a man is not allowed to marry 2 wives at once, does that mean that today a man only has “one” other feminine half of his soul? Or can it be that a man also has two feminine halves to his soul, even today?
ANSWER
Sometimes, if a man is zocheh (meritorious), both of the feminine parts of his soul are included in one woman. In other cases, he has to marry 2 different wives in the same lifetime [in order to become connected with both of his feminine parts] or in another lifetime.
In most cases in the later generations [today’s times], a man’s soul is only a “part” of his soul and he isn’t living with his complete soul, and that is why one wife will be enough to complete that “part”.
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