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1) Didnt Moshe Rabbeinu get divorced from Zipporah? See Rashi Bamidar 12:1, על אודות האשה: על אדות גירושיה. Sounds like he divorced her. I dont think this shittah is universal though. Still looking for more sources.
Tosafos in Yevomos 62:a dichsiv says that possibly he wrote her a Get.
2) Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer (chapter 30) brings down the following story ...
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The only divorce I can find in Tanach al pi peshat is Avraham's divorcing Hagar. The verse (Genesis 20:10) says:
גָּרֵשׁ הָאָמָה הַזֹּאת, וְאֶת-בְּנָהּ
Cast out this bondwoman and her son.
The word used is גרש which is the word used for divorce generally in Tanach (eg. Leviticus 22:13) and it seems to be the peshat here because we never hear of Hagar ...
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Rama writes, when discussing how to spell the various Hebrew months in a Get (Shulchan Aruch EH 126:7):
אייר, בשני יודי"ן; ואם כתב בחד יו"ד, פסול, אם לא בשעת הדחק. ויש נמנעין ליתן גט באייר, אך במקום הדחק נותנין וכותבין בב' יודי"ן.
Iyar is spelled with two Yuds. If one wrote it with one Yud, it is invalid except in pressing circumstances. Some ...
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As I understand it, if a Kohen is certain that his wife was violated by another man, their union is now prohibited and a divorce would be needed. A kohen is prohibited from being married to an isha zonah, which the Talmud defines as a woman who has had relations with any man -- regardless of her choice in the matter! -- other than her husband, with the ...
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See the Fall 2010 issue of Tradition, with the article entitled "A Marital Agreement to Mediate" by R. David Joseph Mescheloff and also the letters section of the Spring 2011 issue, with letters by R. Howard Jachter and the author. The dispute is whether R. Moshe Feinstein and R. Soloveitchik supported the use of prenuptial agreements (according to R. ...
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It is important to note that the husband must "believe" his wife in order for them to need a divorce.
There is a very pertinent teshuva from R' Moshe Feinstein (אגרות משה אה"ע א' סימן כ"ד) in which he writes that the criteria for "belief" is different from what one may imagine. In essence, according to him, even if a husband says he believes his wife, we ...
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Fist of all, making women un-married retroactively is possible due to gzeira (decree) of Hazal (the rabbis), and gzeira has strength because "כל דמקדש אדעתא דרבנן מקדש" ("anyone effecting kidushin (marriage) does so intending it to be effective only to the extent instituted by Hazal") and the like.
Tosafot in Gittin 33a ד"ה ואפקעינהו proposes this, and says ...
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The following is a verse from Isaiah (50:1) which helps us in our understanding this verse:
כֹּה אָמַר יְהוָה, אֵי זֶה סֵפֶר כְּרִיתוּת אִמְּכֶם אֲשֶׁר שִׁלַּחְתִּיהָ, אוֹ מִי מִנּוֹשַׁי, אֲשֶׁר-מָכַרְתִּי אֶתְכֶם לוֹ; הֵן בַּעֲוֹנֹתֵיכֶם נִמְכַּרְתֶּם, וּבְפִשְׁעֵיכֶם שֻׁלְּחָה אִמְּכֶם.
Thus says God: Where is the the bill of your mother's ...
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The verse separates clearly between Israel and Judah -- the standard language referring to the Northern and Southern (Davidic) kingdoms:
Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement
that yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot
So it seems Israel ends up with a divorce ...
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God takes the children of Israel back. No other nation replaces:
http://ohr.edu/tw/5756/devarim/haazinu.tw
In times to come, when Israel is redeemed from among the nations and
Hashem gathers us to Him, Israel will say "Master of the Universe, it's
written in Your Torah that when a man divorces his wife and banishes her from
his life, should the woman ...
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The Talmud prescribes extra blessings to be said at any after-parties held several days after the wedding; if it's an "encore wedding" (as Miss Manners would say), that period is a few days shorter.
But as for the dancing at the wedding itself, it's really a matter of taste decided by the people involved. My impression is the most common ...
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These are the cases he brings here:
If the sender (husband) is very sick can the Shliach (messenger) give the Get?
If the sender (husband) became a Shoteh after making a Shliach to write a Get for his (husband's) wife?
If the husband died - the Shliach definitely can't give it.
If Shliach used his own paper (Klaf) is it a kosher Get?
If one makes a Shliach ...
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There are some mitzvos that one must fulfill only if puts himself in a situation in which the opportunity for the mitzva presents itself. For example, there is a mitzva of writing a bill of divorce (get) when divorcing one's wife. One who does so fulfills a mitzva, God's command. However, divorcing one's wife just so as to have the opportunity to do it via a ...
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In "Gray Matter - Discourses in Contemporary Halachah", Rabbi Chaim Jachter explores various proposed solutions to the Agunah problem, including the idea of instituting a condition that would retroactively annul the marriage in the event of civil divorce. He writes that such a suggestion was made in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by some ...
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I don't know about the above case, but my Rav was commissioned by the gedolim in eretz Yisrael to cleanse a mamzer in the U.S using a similar tactic:
The mishna says that a man threw a get to his wife in a public domain: If it lands "close to her", she's divorced. "Close to him", she isn't divorced. ""1/2 by 1/2", "she's divorced and not divorced.
The ...
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R' David Silverberg discusses some non-literal interpretations:
The Maharsha explains that Rava urged Rabbi Zeira to drink during the Purim festivities, to the point where Rabbi Zeira took seriously ill. Rava then prayed on his colleague's behalf and Rabbi Zeira recovered from his intoxication. According to this reading, the Gemara relates this story ...
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Thirty two years ago I gathered material for an article I never brought myself to write. The RCA had not yet endorsed pre-nuptual agreements that require mandatory arbitration through a bais din and, in fact, were on the record opposing such agreements. In 1954, following the drafting of such an agreement by Conservative Rabbi Saul Lieberman, the RCA went ...
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