[Avodah] pilegish status

[Akiva Miller via Avodah]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 08:54:58AM -0700, saul newman via Avodah wrote:
:
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-torch/after-10-years-as-an-agunah-and-2-getts-later-i-know-better/

R' Micha Berger commented:

> 1- You would need a woman willing to be a concubine. ... ...

Well, the author of that article is a woman who prefers that status, so I
think she has pretty much proven that there are indeed such women in
existence.

> 2- The price would be the eradication qiddushin. That's pretty
> high. Or to put it another way, every women caught as an agunah
> because we don't replace qiddushin with pilegesh is in a sense
> sacrificing herself for qedushas Yisrael.

I'm really not sure what you are saying here.

I have no knowledge of the halachos of pilegesh, but the author there
believes that:

> Such a couple does not have the benefits of marriage
> (spousal support, monogamy etc..), but either party may
> end the relationship at any given point.

The author concedes that kiddushin does have real benefits, and each of us
might add to that list, as RMB did. But it also has drawbacks. Each of us
weighs these factors differently, and given her experiences as an agunah, I
can certainly sympathize with the weight she gives to the ability for a
pilegesh to end that relationship unilaterally.

Akiva Miller
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