Paraḥ mateh Aharon (The Staff of Aaron Had Sprouted)
Aaron ha-Kohen Peraḥia
1701
On the Case of a Deviant Woman
The rich and honorable Moshe haCohen, resident of the city Castoria may God protect it, says as follows: he has been given a bad wife, and that during their marital life he has not lived in peace and quiet due to her ceaseless wicked actions and her quarreling nature. Thus, he went and married a second wife, by…
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