Tfillin and Marriage Symbols

[debka_notion]

Just noticed this morning that not only do we recite psukim (verses) about being bethrothed to G-d while wrapping tfillin straps around our fingers, we then go on to wrap the strap around the ring where people contemporarily wear wedding rings. I wonder if there was some influence, although I very much doubt it. But it was a striking sort of coincidence.

I wonder if that affects how married Jews feel about their rings and/or about their tfillin. (Input, anyone?)

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[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

And it points to the default assumption that a Jew is male, which is one of my sore points.

There's got to be some Purim Torah-type potential there for citing symbolic betrothal between God and the Default Male Jew as precedent for halachic gay marriage, though. Or some really weird theological argument positing the Jewish people as God's possessive, abusive husband.