[Avodah] kiddushin and bigamy

[Simon Montagu]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Eli Turkel <eliturkel at gmail.com> wrote:

> An interesting story from the last shiur of R. Zilberstein on medical
> halacha.
>
> A man was always making bad investments against the advice of his wife.
> Finally
> she went to a bet din to demand a divorce which they required the husband
> to give.
> The man gave the "get" and a little while later remarried. Much later the
> wife decided to
> remarry and the mesader kiddushin asked to see the "get" (I guess some copy
> as she
> normally doesnt get the original). He found out that her middle name was
> left out
> of the :get" and said she needed a new get. When she went to the first
> husband he said
> for a second "get" he wants $50,000.
>
>
I always understood that the reason that the wife doesn't get the original
get was davka to prevent this kind of situation arising.
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