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Would you consider or recommend a shidduch with someone who has been twice divorced?
Maybe you should investigate what went wrong and decide if it applies to you.
That’s two red flags.
horsey, thats two.
I would suggest that a twice divorced woman may have the same status as a twice widowed woman.
How about if she is twice divorced but from the same guy. And he’s a kohen.
The Mishkanos Yaakov here http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=37575&st=&pgnum=294 in 37 says that there is no issur yet one should refrain from such a thing
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice …..
I know someone who is happily married, third time.
First marriage was a poor match. Second was a rebound. Third, a charm.
You never know…
It merits investigation.
I would suggest that a twice divorced woman may have the same status as a twice widowed woman.
No comparison.
Certainly there is. See the maare makom cited by “avrah” above.
My father’s third marriage is, by far, his most successful one — 25+ years.
The Wolf
The issue applies to a twice divorced woman. (See above.) Not a man who divorced two women. In fact, a man cannot be “divorced” under Jewish law.
This reminds me of my other friend.
So this friend got tired of dating, so he decided that instead of dating each girl and imaging what it would be like to be married, and then deciding based on his imagination–he would just marry them.
So each time he was set up with a girl, he just up and married them. And then if it was no good, he got divorced. All in all, he married 16 times and then the judge ordered him to never marry again until he was caught up with his alimony payments.
So then, he just made a new condition, that he would only agree to date and immediately marry someone if they would assume responsibility for his past alimonies. So he married 6 more times like that.
Then, one of his former wives was redt to him again, but it was assur because it was machzir gerushaso misheniseis.
Then, one of our other friends (the dumb one from the other story http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/my-dumb-friend) got mad at him because he is a kohen and he felt like this guy was wasting all these women and now he can’t marry them. It was especially a problem because this is the dumb friend who wants to marry a smart girl and he thinks that any girl who this guy would marry must be smart because this guy was so smart to think of this.
So the dumb friend decided to stop him. So what he did was, he got another friend and together they testified falsely against him that he was a ????, and then he had to marry that person and could never divorce her.
And now he is happily married.
So the moral of the story is: “If you’re gonna be a chochom, it pays to have a dumb friend.”
The issue applies to a twice divorced woman. (See above.) Not a man who divorced two women. In fact, a man cannot be “divorced” under Jewish law.
I never implied that it did. However, the OP was gender neutral — and was not asking vis-a-vis issur vs. hetter.
Besides, it’s her third marriage too. 🙂
The Wolf
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“a man cannot be ‘divorced’ under Jewish law”
What does THAT mean?!?
It certainly would bear investigation. Even if it were to be that in both cases the HUSBANDS were both losers, one has to wonder about her judgment in marrying two poor choices for husbands. Personally, I tend to believe that both sides contribute to a divorce situation, and there is nothing glatt about it (unless the spouse is abusive).
mommomia: Very simply that a wife cannot divorce her husband, under Jewish law.
Even if the husband divorces his wife (as opposed to her divorcing him), wouldn’t he, after the fact, be considered/deemed by Halacha as ‘divorced’??
No. A woman’s status is called a “gerusha”, but a man has no equivelent status in halacha.
@mommamia22, I’ve never heard of a “garush” before. The halachos of a divorcee (gerusha) would only apply to a woman. There wouldn’t be any halachic difference between a bachur and a divorced man, to my knowledge.
I guess I don’t understand the Halachik implications (if he is never considered divorced, how that matters).
What is the status of a twice widowed woman?
CRuzer: A Alman/Garush that marries another Almanah/Grushah only gets 3 days of Sheva Brachos, not 7.
Mommamia: A twice-widowed woman is not supposed to get remarried (except in certain circumstances; this is one of those issues, like Mamzeirus and Igun, where the Poskim use every possibility to be Mattir them).
The Mishkanos Yaakov cited above indicates a twice-divorced woman, like a twice-widowed one, shouldn’t remarry.
Shlishi: Tzarich Iyun Bidvarav because his case should only be Shayach to a woman who was divorced 3 times.
Sam: Why would you think so? If she became an almana twice it applies and he says if she became a gerusha twice it applies. Why would you differentiate?
Shlishi: There’s a Machlokes Tannaim B’kol Hatorah Kulah about whether it takes something happening twice to create a Chazakah or whether it takes 3 times. The Gemara in Yevamos talks about why and in which cases we split the P’sak. So the reason we say it’s a Chazakah after 2 in the case of a Katlanis (and by Meisu Echav Machmas Milah) is because there’s a Pikuach Nefesh involved so it’s S’feiko L’hachmir and we treat 2 as a Chazakah. But even if you will say like this Rashi that a concept of “Muchzekes L’geirushin” exists, there’s no reason not to Pasken that it takes 3 times to create a Chazakah because that’s the way we Pasken in almost every other case.
mommamia22,
Just to clarify: In halacha, a man can only divorce his wife, a woman cannot divorce her husband, i.e. he can divorce but NOT BE DIVORCED.
in other words, he cannot be divorced, where divorce is a verb. Of course he can be a divorcee, (after he has divorced his wife).
is that clear?
Here’s a novel idea, instead of judging a person based on a list of perceived flaws–flaws that may have been out of their control–save everyone the long phone bills and onesh for lashon harah that may or may not be l’toeles and just meet the girl and see if you like her. if you liked the first date, have another one, and then another, and then another, as many as you need to get to know her. if you get to know her and you dont see a problem and if you think you two can work as a couple then get married. im not seeing what the whole to-do is about.
This conversation about terminology of “being divorced” is so obnoxious and inane, it reminds me of my obnoxious and inane friend.
My obnoxious and inane friend had this idea that if she always made sure to correct everyone whenever they were technically wrong about something, then everybody would think she was smart and knowledgeable and then some dumb person who wanted a smart wife would marry her. Well, turns out that it worked, but do you really think she wants to be married to my dumb friend? http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/my-dumb-friend
Enjoy your shidduch crisis 🙂
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