[Avodah] Children at a Wedding

[Zev Sero]

Prof. Levine wrote:

> True, divorce was rare, but it did occur. Of course, divorce was rear 
> even in gentile society at this time.

Among goyim divorce didn't exist at all.  They weren't allowed it.
But among yidden it certainly did exist, and it wasn't all that rare.
Just look at the volume of teshuvot about gittin; that tells us how
many problematic gittin there were.  Now extrapolate from that how
many *un*problematic gittin there must have been, which didn't raise
any she'elot and didn't require any teshuvot.  There were also plenty
of men who simply left their wives and disappeared, thus generating
a plethora of teshuvot about heter agunah.  Of course many people
didn't live long enough to get divorced.


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