Rabbi M. Gollop, member of the Beth Din, the Chief Rabbi’s Ecclesiastical Court in London, upheld a Quebec judge who ruled that there was nothing in the Jewish law against a rabbi officiating at his own wedding.
Mr. Justice Gibson of Quebec had upheld the validity of the marriage of Rabbi S. Eliasoff, which had been contested on the ground that the Rabbi performed the ceremony himself.
Rabbi Gollop said it is most unusual, if not unique, for a Rabbi to marry himself but that it was not against Jewish law.
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