something to think about
So I spend a few hours every morning learning a section of the Talmud dealing with marriage documents (although in reality the main things we've been discussing have to do with divorce and dissolution of marriage). **
[See important footnote.] [Now.]
Today's class actually dealt with the modern applications of a lot of what we've been learning and somehow or another, September 11th came up.
Our teacher told us that there were some religious men who, when trapped on the top floors of the burning towers, called their rabbis to tell them the situation, and that they were in the buildings, and trapped.
So their deaths could be 'witnessed' and their wives wouldn't become agunot.
This still gives me chills to think about.
(some other September 11th agunot cases.)
** Agunot are a tragedy in Jewish religious law; women who cannot remarry because their husbands have disappeared without any witnesses declaring their deaths. [Not to be confused with the more 'well known' tragedy of mesuravot get.]
[See important footnote.] [Now.]
Today's class actually dealt with the modern applications of a lot of what we've been learning and somehow or another, September 11th came up.
Our teacher told us that there were some religious men who, when trapped on the top floors of the burning towers, called their rabbis to tell them the situation, and that they were in the buildings, and trapped.
So their deaths could be 'witnessed' and their wives wouldn't become agunot.
This still gives me chills to think about.
(some other September 11th agunot cases.)
** Agunot are a tragedy in Jewish religious law; women who cannot remarry because their husbands have disappeared without any witnesses declaring their deaths. [Not to be confused with the more 'well known' tragedy of mesuravot get.]