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<span>Posted:</span> 06 Dec 2007 11:27 PM CST</p>
<div style="margin:0;font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;"><p>Mike,</p>
<p>I believe you are mistaken. I have been listening to over a year of weekly lectures given by R’ Rakeffet in 1993-1994 on the subject of hafka’as qedushin. It was never common. By the end of the eonic period, we have no record of it being used at all. Even the Rosh, who proposed such a taqanah did not actually apply it when the case came up halakhah lemaaseh. Similarly the Rashba, in his teshuvos. The Rashba simply concludes that if hafkaas qedushin were so easy — why do the last 2 chapters of Yevamos exist?</p>
<p>There is also a significant difference between saying a unified qehillah can pass a law that declares all future ceremonies of a certain format invalid (or an invalidation of a get declared as grounds for retroactive annulment) and annulling marriages on a casewise basis.</p>
<p>-micha</p>
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<span>Posted:</span> 06 Dec 2007 08:41 PM CST</p>
<div style="margin:0;font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;line-height:140%;font-size:12px;color:#000000;"><p>I think you were a little careless in your discussion of nulifying marriages. Rav Rackman’s innovation was to nullify marriages retrospectively. It was fairly common in the Middle Ages, before our current practice of performing eirusin and Nissuin at the same ceremony, for communities to enact general takkanos prospectively nullifying marriages not made in accord with the takanah (any kiddushin not performed with a minyan was a pretty common one.) There are a number of t’shuvot of the Rishonim and Acharonim paskening that such takannos are valid and enforcable, and the girl (it was usually a girl and not a grown woman as the bride in these cases) did not require a get. If I recall correctly Rav Kook wrote a t’shuvah regarding the applicability of such a takkanah in the Sephardic community in Yerushalayim to kiddushin given in the marketplace elsewhere in Israel.</p>
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