[Avodah] divorcee

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 04:53:25AM -0400, mcohen--- via Avodah wrote:
> why is a widow different/more helpless than a divorcee?

The idiom "yasom ve'amanah" date back to the chumash.

But in any case... Maybe the extra pathos of losing someone you love
and a relationship that was working? No matter how bad a gett is,
it is a way out of something that wasn't working and opens the door
to finding something that will.

Rather than a protection to not hurting the helpless, the extra issur
is hurting someone already suffering.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha