DEUT1333 A newly married man shall remain at home with his bride during their first year of marriage, exempt from all tasks that would take him away from her. During the first year of marriage, a newly married man shall be prevented from taking on any responsibility that would take him far from his wife and home. He is exempt from military service, even in wartime. Not only is he not obligated to fight, he is also exempt from helping the war effort in any way--for example, to bring food and drink to the fighters--if the job that needs to be done requires that he be away from his wife. See Deuteronomy 24:5 happy CHINUCH 371-2

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DEUT1334 During the first year of marriage, a newly married man must make special efforts to make his wife happy. Hashem wants the world that He created to be inhabited by good, moral people born of legal marriages, not promiscuity. For this reason, He commands that when a man takes a wife, he must remain at home with her for their entire first year of marriage. He becomes accustomed to his wife and well acquainted with her mannerisms, personality and total being. As a result, all other women will be to him as strangers, for their behavior and personalities are very different from his wife's. Because of this year with his bride, he will always stay away from other women, and keep his thoughts on his designated mate--his wife. Thereby, the children that they will have will be upright and good, and the world will be settled by the type of people for whom it was created.

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DEUT1335 Simha [joy] in the Torah is never about individuals. It is always about something we share. A newly married man does not serve in the army for a year, says the Torah, so that he can stay at home "and bring joy to the wife he has married" [this verse]. You shall bring all your offerings to the central Sanctuary, says Moses, so that "there, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and rejoice in all you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you" (Deuteronomy 12:7). The festivals as described in Deuteronomy are days of joy, precisely because they are occasions of collective celebration: "you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, the Levites in your towns, and the strangers, the fatherless and the widows living among you" (Deuteronomy 16:11). Simha is joy shared. It is not something we experience in solitude.

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DEUT1336 To rejoice one’s wife is regarded as a full-time occupation, especially during the first year of marriage, which often either makes or breaks the marriage. This duty is considered as a national and not just a personal obligation. By consolidating your marriage, this law teaches, you perform a greater service to your nation, to the survival of your people, by having a stable home than by joining the army and defending the people in military battle. The ultimate security of our people lies in our homes. Had we relied merely on military strength and victories, we would have been extinct long ago. Hence, in the choice to be made here between home and army, priority was to be given to the home. By staying home for the first year “to rejoice your wife” you render a more essential service to the nation than by joining its defenders in the trenches. In the moral scale of values, then, even in terms of Jewish security, happy homes come before powerful armies. Jewish homes are our principal fortifications, our first line of national defence[sic]. (By Immanuel Jakobovits)

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DEUT1338 The prohibition is not restricted to these articles only, but you all utensils used in the preparation of food, such as: kneading troughs, pots for cooking, the schochet's knife and the like, since all are included in the category of "For he takes the man's life to pledge." Certainly if the messenger of the court or the lender were to enter the borrower's house and take such articles as pledges, he would all the more guilty – since he would be transgressing this special prohibition in addition to the commandment forbidding entry into the debtor's house to seize a pledge.

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DEUT1337 See [[DEUT1382]] Deuteronomy 24:15 poor SPERO 52-3

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DEUT1339 Not nether and upper millstone alone were intended, but all things that process food, as it is written: "for it is a soul [i.e., a life] that he takes as a pledge" (Bava Metzia 115a)

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DEUT1340 See [[EXOD561]] Exodus 21:16 kidnap ROSNER-BLEICH 202

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DEUT1341 See [[DEUT610]] Deuteronomy 13:6 death AMJV 354

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DEUT1342 "Take heed concerning the plague of leprosy" Sifra explains that this verse refers to loshon hora which is punishable by the infliction of leprosy.

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