[Avodah] tchiyas hameisim/which spouse

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 01:37:19PM -0400, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
> Interesting that both Q & A assume that reunion will happen with one of  
> the prior husbands. Source? (Wow, this is pretty concretely esoteric...)

Last Jan, when we were discussing brain-death, I was asked if I believe
that a wife whose husband underwent heart-death would have to remarry
her husband.

As for sources, I found this in "To Live and Live again" by R' ND Dubov,
on Sichos in English
<http://www.sichosinenglish.org/books/to-live-and-live-again/13.htm>:

    Marriage Forever

    Will a man and his wife when newly resurrected need to be remarried,
    or does the original marriage bond continue? Some authorities suggest
    that a new marriage will have to be contracted.[373]

    A Woman With Two Husbands

    A divorcee who remarries will remain married to her second husband
    upon Resurrection.[374] There is a difference of opinion as to the
    status of a widow who remarries.[375]
    ...
    [373] See the Ben Ish Chai in the Responsa entitled Rav Pe'alim,
    loc. cit. [Copying from 371, that should be Vol. II, Sod Yesharim,
    sec. 2 -micha]

    The poskim debate the case of a person who died momentarily and
    was immediately resurrected (cf. the case cited in Kesubbos 62b,
    and the incident involving Rabbah and R. Zeira in Megillah 7b). See
    Knesses HaGedolah, cited in Baer Heitev on Even HaEzer 17:1; Birkei
    Yosef on the same source; Siach HaSadeh, Vol. II: Likkutim, sec. 4;
    the Responsa entitled Chessed LeAvraham (Mahadura Tinyana), sec. 14;
    Shoel U'Meishiv, Vol. II, sec. 131; Beis Yitzchak on Even HaEzer,
    Vol. I, 6:14; Avnei Nezer on Even HaEzer, end of sec. 56.

    On the related question as to whether there will be procreation
    after the Resurrection, Rambam answers affirmatively (in Iggeres
    Teiman, cited in Chiddushei Yad Rama on Sanhedrin, beginning of
    Perek Cheilek). See, however, ch. 10 above.

    [374] The Responsa entitled Rav Pe'alim, loc. cit.; Anaf Yosef
    on Sanhedrin (beginning of Perek Cheilek), in the name of Sefer
    HaNitzachon; Yad Shaul on Yoreh Deah 366:3.

    [375] The author of Rav Pe'alim holds that she will return to her
    first husband; the author of Sefer HaNitzachon holds that she will
    return to the second. The author of Piskei Teshuvah (sec. 124) first
    cites the reply of Sefer HaTechiyah of R. Saadiah Gaon - that this
    question will be resolved by Moshe Rabbeinu upon his resurrection -
    and then proceeds to cite the Zohar (I, 21b) as evidence that a woman
    in this situation will return to her first husband. (The question
    of where a remarried widow should be buried is discussed in Gesher
    HaChaim, Vol. I, ch. 27, sec. 7:3.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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