What are the most important things in a marriage? I think the #1 thing is for the couple to be “Equally yoked”. A yoke is something the farmers use when teaming up two oxen or donkeys to say, pull a cart. The yoke is a long heavy wooden piece that connects to both animals. With the connection, the effort of the two animals is combined into one force. If one falters for a moment, the other pulls it along and vice a versa.
When I talk about a couple being equally yoked, I am primarily speaking about their spiritual life; if one member of the marriage is Christian and the other Jewish, they would be unequally yoked. When anything, just life happens then each of the couple will approach it from different perspectives, making it very difficult to reach resolution in a lot of issues that WILL come up in marriage.
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