Translation:Mishnah/Seder Zeraim/Tractate Berakhot/Chapter 2/5/Translation
- A groom is exempt from reciting Shema on the first night, until Saturday night
- if he has not done the deed.
- A story about Rabban Gamliel
- who recited [Shema] on the first night that he got married.
- His students said to him:
- Didn't you teach us, our teacher, that a groom is exempt from reciting Shema on the first night?
- He said to them:
- I will not listen to you, to remove the kingdom of heaven from me for even one hour.