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Responsum: On a Wayward Wife
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Question 1: May our teacher and master, the great rabbi, who sits on the throne of halakhic rulings, please instruct and enlighten us regarding an episode that unfolded here in our city of Pisa, may…

Contributor:

Jacob Senior

Places:

Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Pisa, Italy)

Date:

Mid– to Late 17th Century

Subjects:

Conversion, Women, Violence, Life cycle, Marriage

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Law, Responsa
Responsum: On Women’s Rights to Divorce
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Question: Some of the poor members of the nation in Egypt [do as follows]. When a man fights with his wife and their marriage is not working out, and the wife wants to divorce but the husband does not…

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Moses Ibn Ḥabib

Places:

Ottoman Empire (Egypt)

Date:

Middle of the 17th Century

Subjects:

Marriage, Divorce, Agunah, Conversion, Arab-Jewish relations

Categories:

Law, Responsa