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January 18, 2018 11:44 am at 11:44 am
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Joseph
Participant
Why are you assuming that the wife has to accept a Get? The wife has the right to refuse to accept a Get if she doesn’t want the marriage to end, even if her husband wants to divorce her. Rabbeinu Gershom gave this right to all Ashkenazic women. Are we smarter than Rabbeinu Gershom or trying to overrule this edict he issued?
Similarly a man has the right to refuse to give a Get if he wishes the marriage to continue. Whereas the wife’s’s right was given to her by Rabbeinu Gershom, the husband’s right is explicitly given to him by the Torah.