[Avodah] remarriage after divorce

[t613k at aol.com]

I want to ask the chevra whether there is any possible work-around or  
exception to the rule that a couple cannot remarry after a divorce if the woman  
had subsequently married someone else?
 
This is something that actually affects people I am close to, a case where  
the couple divorced years ago and the wife remarried and was subsequently  
widowed after several years in her second marriage.  The husband never  
remarried.  Now, years later -- they are both in their seventies -- they  have 
become friendly with each other again and are thinking about getting back  
together.  I told the husband that sadly, he is out of luck -- he is not  
halachically permitted to take back his ex-wife.  However, he has not asked  a 
shaila and I am not a posek.  So I wonder, is there any way he can marry  his 
ex-wife again?  When I told him he can't marry her, he asked me, "Well,  
can we live in sin?"  It certainly doesn't seem that that would be mutar  
either, but would it be worse or better, or no different, from actually marrying 
 her?  
 
There is a comical side to this question, I know, but I'm dead  serious.  
It is in reality a story with a lot of heartache in it.   This man and woman 
lost a son under tragic circumstances several years ago and  altogether, 
their lives have been full of sadness and hardship.  At their  age they have 
also lost many friends.  
 

--Toby Katz
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