[Avodah] Writing a Get Yom Tov Sheni

[Zev Sero]

martin brody wrote:
> "When Rabbi Eleazer Landau, the grandson of the Noda beYehudah
> permitted a man who was on his deathbed to write a get, to avoid
> agunah problems on 2nd day Yom Tov"
>  
> Excuse my ignorance, but it seems this fellow was so sickly that he was 
> unlikely to make it through the day, and anyway, where was he going if 
> he did manage another few hours or days?
>  
> With all these witnesses around, what was the Agunah problem?

He may have had no children, and a brother whose location was unknown or
who was a minor, or an apikores or meshumad who could be expected to
refuse chalitza.

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