[Avodah] short marriage

[Arie Folger]

RMB wrote:
> So, R' Zvi Pesach Frank had husband #1 give a get al yedei shaliach and
> while the shaliach carries it, he renegs on the get bifnei eidim. Now
> when the shaliach gives the get to the woman, it was not gittin but
> hafkaas qidushin. And thus the marriage was anulled lemafrei'ah, and
> she wasn't an eishes ish at the time of remarriage.
>
> Now, would we rely on this engineering if it wasn't involving the Shoah,
> survivors, bedi'eved, someone who actually asked rabbanim and was given a
> heter to remarry, and possible children stuck in mamzeirus? I don't know.

I have heard that this is occasionally used, when nothing else will
work. This gives a new meaning to R'nTK's "Schroedinger's Mamzer" - if
you ask whether he/she is a mamzer(et), the annswer is: you'll know
when you look into the [rabbis' tool] box.

Kol tuv,
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