Here at Team Ketubah, we love Canada. For many, many reasons.

First, one of our founders lived there for a long-time (should out to Victoria BC!) and another one of us has only taken oh, 30 or 35 trips there over the course of his life.

Secondly, Canada has been historically very friendly to the Jews. It has no history of oppressor nor expulsion nor significant anti-Jewish laws the way almost every other country in the western world does.

Third, the Jews of Canada — overall, on average — tend to be much more into the Jewish traditions than the Jews of the USA. We’ve found they tend to have more traditional upbringings, use more ketubahs, preserve a lot of the old-fashioned awesome side of Judaism, more than most American Jews do. Interestingly, even the Jews of Canada who intermarry, still get ketubahs, with an interfaith ketubah!

Canada: we love you. We’d love to create lots and lots of Ketubahs for all Canadian Jews!!!

Morgan
The Modern Ketubah Store from Team Ketubah!

Here at This is not a Ketubah, Yes it is, one of our favorite things to do is to create ketubahs in series.

Do you want a Ketubah with a skyline of your city? Do you love the New York or Paris or Toronto or (Insert your favorite city here) skyline? Did you meet in a romantic moment in a particular city?

We have the Ketubah for you!

Check out our Skyline Ketubah Series. These are ketubot including the skylines of lots of great cities, from Miami to Montreal!

Do you want a Skyline ketubah of a city we don’t have? Just ask us!

Morgan
The Modern Ketubah Store from Team Ketubah!

Most Ketubah shops have a whole variety of ketubahs, from all along the spectrum, from the cheapest to the most luxurious — trying to please everyone and anyone.

Team Ketubah — the guys and girls behind This is Not a Ketubah, Yes it is! — has a different philosophy:

Only the Best Ketubahs. Start, end, finish. No ifs, ands, or buts.

And of course, top notch service as well, so you enjoy every moment of the process!

If you want a large selection of mediocre Ketubahs — we’re not the place to look. But if you want a smaller selection of supremely awesome ketubahs, then lets talk!

And the phrase “supremely awesome” is a great phrase. Much better than the recently-overused word “awesome”!

Have any Ketubah questions or want to see some more? Just say hi!

Morgan
From the Modern Ketubah Shop of…. This is not a Ketubah, Yes it is! Aka, Team Ketubah!

One of our favorite types of Ketubahs to create is…. a sports ketubah

Love Baseball? Love the Yankees? Love Yankees Stadium?

Name your sport, name your team, name your stadium — or name your favorite player or number or favorite any-aspect of it.

Here at This is not a Ketubah, Yes it is we believe that your Ketubah should represent your passions and what unites you two as a couple. And if it is your favorite team — then that’s so perfect.

And name your sport: Baseball, football, basketball, soccer, hockey — you name it, we’ll do it!

Yes, it’s true: I’m a die-hard Mets fan. But if you love the Yankees, we’d still love to create the Perfect Ketubah for you two :)

Morgan
The modern ketubah store from Team Ketubah

Hey y’all!

We’re working on a super-exciting project: a Braille Ketubah!!!!

Yes, you read it correctly.

Based on our research, it’s never been done before.

We’re very very excited to have the amazing opportunity to bring a Braille Ketubah to the world.

If you are looking for a Braille Ketubah — then send us a note.

It will be an honor and pleasure to create a Ketubah for anyone in Braille. We believe deeply that everyone who wants to memorialize their wedding vows with a Ketubah should have one, no matter what the limitations, visual or otherwise. We will make it happen for you.

Morgan
Our Awesome Ketubah Store (Team Ketubah!)

You know what our new favorite thing in the world is?

A few couples have recently asked us to create Ketubot, so that their friends and family can fingerprint it.

It’s been a spectacular success. We love it, the couples love it, it’s so cool!

This is a great way to expand your Ketubah beyond just your Rabbi and Witnesses signing it, and bring in the family and friends closest to you.

And this also makes for a spectacular piece of art to hang in your home — that is much more personal than just some awesome piece of art you buy!

Sound interesting? Want more information about a Fingerprint Ketubah? Just ask! Nina would love to tell you all about our Fingerprint Ketubahs!!! Just call or email Nina!

Morgan
The Modern Ketubah Store from Team Ketubah

Here at This is not a Ketubah, Yes it is, we create a lot of interfaith Ketubahs. We’re big fans of them. Our general viewpoint is: if makes couples happy, then we support it!

One question we often get is, do interfaith ketubahs satisfy the requirements of the Jewish law?

Our answer is….

First, Jewish law — unlike that of most other religions — is deeply decentralized. Every rabbi has his or her own opinion. So the key question above all is: what does your rabbi say? Since there is no central governing authority, if your rabbi supports it — then we support it, too. Of course, some rabbis will sign interfaith ketubahs — and others won’t.

Secondly, the closest that we come to having a centralized authority of ketubot is, what the government of Israel says. The government of Israel, as of today, doesn’t yet accept them. (This is due to the strong influence of the ultra-orthodox on the Israeli government.)

The only practical consequence of this is, if both of you want to make Aliyah and get Israeli citizenship. Then it might be a bit hard.

Note that, this is changing, slowly but surely. There is now a bill in the Knesset to allow for secular weddings in Israel, and to similarly allow secular clergy to perform weddings and sign ketubahs. Thus, in the not-distant future, this might even be a realistic possibility!

In conclusion, our suggestion is: the best strategy is to find the right rabbi. If your rabbi isn’t super over-the-top enthusiastic about your wedding — then it’s probably not the rabbi for you! There are thousands, probably tens of thousands, of rabbis out there, and so many of them are wonderful. (Unfortunately, there’s one-too-many less-than-wonderful rabbis out there: but c’est la vie.) You just want to find the right one for you two!

If you want any help finding the right rabbi — just ask us! We know hundreds!

By the way, you might want to check out our partner, Interfaith Ketubahs for some awesome interfaith ketubahs there, too!

Morgan
The Modern Ketubah Store from Team Ketubah

So, when I’m not spending my time creating ketubahs, I happen to love spending my time… studying ancient etymologies. Where did words come from? How do they relate? I even run two different web pages about it, just for fun (Learning Spanish using Etymologies and Etymologically Speaking).

So I was shocked last night, to be doing my normal reading about etymologies in my spare time and discover an Aramaic connection. I thought Aramaic was dead as a language — but it still survives… in the word abracadabra. À la Wikipedia:

Abracadabra is an incantation used as a magic word in stage magic tricks, and historically was believed to have healing powers when inscribed on an amulet. The word is thought to have[weasel words] its origin in the Aramaic language, but numerous conflicting folk etymologies are associated with it. Many[weasel words] consider that the word “Abracadabra” is actually a Hebrew phrase meaning “I create (A’bra) what (ca) I speak (dab’ra).” This etymology is rather dubious, however, as ???? ????? in Aramaic is more reasonably translated “I create like the word.” The second lexeme in this supposedly Aramaic phrase must be a noun given the presence of the definite article on the end of the word (it cannot be an infinitive construct, as the infinitive cannot take the definite article).

Every time we go see a magician and he uses the word “abracadabra”… remember your Ketubah, and remember the etymology-loving folks here at Team Ketubah!

Morgan the Language Nerd
The Modern Ketubah Store from Team Ketubah

Who knew that Aramaic was still spoken today?

Well, in the This is not a Ketubah, yes it is office, we spend our free time chatting in ancient languages. Not to mention, since our Ketubot are partially in ancient aramaic, we need to be on the tip of our toes (tongues?), and always perfecting our ancient aramaic. But we thought that no one else spoke it outside of our arts studio!

But we were wrong! I just read on Wikipedia, 400,00 people speak Aramaic today. Who knew?

That’s certainly a lot of ketubah writers (sofers) ;)

-Morgan
The Modern Ketubah Store from Team Ketubah

Are you getting married at a crazy exotic destination? An island near Hawaii? The Caribbean? Right off the south of France? Bali? I’m jealous just think of the list of the exotic destinations for weddings we’ve seen!

Well guess what? We’d love to create a Ketubah for you two for your destination wedding!

A few things to keep in mind:

– We will create the Ketubah on a paper that is amazing and easy to transport, so you can bring it back and forth without any problems

– We’ll send it in a travel-friendly container so it won’t get squashed and it won’t take up much space.

– We can even create a commissioned, custom ketubah for you — based on the theme of your destination wedding. For example, a Ketubah based on a scene at the beach on Bali! Just ask us!

Conclusion: we can do whatever you want, if possible — but you need to tell us, to ask us, so that we know what you want and to help you figure it out :)

-morgan
The Modern Ketubah Store from Team Ketubah