The news was pretty startling. A group of men, including a Brooklyn rabbi named Mendel Epstein, had been arrested for conspiring to kidnap a husband and torture him until he gave his wife a get. The get is simply a piece of paper a husband hands his wife saying, essentially, it’s over. We’re divorced. Jews can get civil divorces like anyone else. But if you’re an Orthodox Jew, strictly following Jewish law, the get is the only real way to end a marriage.
Usually this goes off without a hitch. But sometimes a woman wants to get divorced and the husband refuses to give a get. That’s where Rabbi Epstein came in.
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Author: This American Life
Keywords: Mendel Epstein, Marriage, adultery, remarriage adultery, Divorce, Divorced, divorcee, Remarriage, Remarried, Bill of divorcement, Get, ghet, Certificate of divorce, Bill of divorce, Letter of divorce, Grounds for divorce, Reasons to divorce, Infidelity, Marital unfaithfulness, Marital infidelity, marry again, marrying again, Divorce remarry, divorce remarriage, Divorcement, Marriage contract, Remarry, Remarrying, Second marriage, agunah, chained woman, agunot, Putting away one's wife, sending away, sending away a wife
Bible reference(s): Deuteronomy 24:1-4, Isaiah 50:1, Jeremiah 3:8, Malachi 2:16, Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 19:3-9, Mark 10:2-4, Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:18, 1 Corinthians 7:27-28
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