[Avodah] aveilut for an abuser

M Cohen via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Wed Aug 31 08:17:47 PDT 2016


MYG... A man receives a heter mei'ah rabbanim, marries again, and then his
first (and still) wife dies. He sits shivah for the first, presumably, even
though they may have been estranged for years. (A similar situation, though
less weird to me, would be in regards to an agunah, where a spouse would
presumably sit shivah for the spouse even though they haven't been in
contact for years.)

2 points.

It was perfectly normal for a man (before r'gershon, or for Sephardim) to
sit shiva for a wife, while still married to other wives

In the agunah case - if he was mechuayav to divorce her and refused to do so
he (perhaps) w be considered a rasha and no shiva would be required.

Mordechai cohen




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