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Remaining single in Judaism [duplicate]
Everywhere around me I keep seeing couples getting divorced and separated. I keep hearing tales from work/university colleagues and family members having marital problems which often have led to ...
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Four counted as dead & Agunot
Nedarim 64b relates of the Gemara: "it was taught in a baraita: Four are considered as if they were dead: A pauper, and a leper, and a blind person, and one who has no children."
Could one ...
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Why isn't a divorced woman mentioned in the first mishna of Maseches Kesuvos?
Maseches Kesuvos 2a begins with:
בתולה נשאת ליום הרביעי ואלמנה ליום החמישי
A virgin is married on Wednesday and a widow on Thursday.
The ensuing dafim tell us the reasons why these days were ...
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Not to marry a divorcée
I remember hearing in a daf yomo shiur (and I want to find where is it written)
something similar to this: it is preferable not to marry a divorced woman (if her ex-husband is still alive) because it ...
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