<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 4:49 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font style="background-color: transparent;" size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial"><div class="Ih2E3d">From: "Richard Wolpoe" <a href="mailto:rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com" target="_blank">rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com</a><br>
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<div>>>>>><br>Without getting into whether this would work
halachically, I would like to point out that if you are working on the
assumption that human nature has changed, I believe that assumption is
incorrect. For financial and social reasons, women find it easier to bail
out of a bad marriage than they used to, but you still find that a majority of
women would rather remain in an unhappy marriage, or stay with an abusive
boyfriend, rather than be alone. You see this every day, among both
Jewish and non-Jewish women. <font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial" lang="0"><b><br></b><br><b>--Toby
Katz<br>=============</b></font></div></font></div></blockquote></div><br>I would say things have changed. Call it circumstances or nature. It is documented inthe Gmara that the lishma re: Yibbum changed. Such Changes are clearly recognized by Shas in other cases. Look at takkanos that kept on morphing re: kil'ayyim because ha'aramas changed. And Sanhedrin ditched misas beis Din because of increased violence. Our halachic literature is replete with changes inattitudes, etc.<br>
<br>That does not mean that poskim have to repsond to EVERY last nuacne of change. But to be mattir agunos, it is certainly plausible.<br><br>Furthermore, it is clear from Choshen Mishpat that communites and batei Dinnim are exmpowered to do many things in the realm of hora'as sho'oh. Think of the execution of 80 witches in 1 day as a Talmudic precedent for over-riding 1 execution per shemita.<br>
<br><br> <br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a><br>
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