agunah
Want a get? Forego compensation
B”HAnother reason not to marry with Chuppah and kidushin, but to live in a pilegesh relationship insteadPS: See also “Stop kvetching start a revolution!” http://pilegesh.blogspot.com/2007/02/stop-kvetching-start-revolution.html :Want a get? Forego compensation
By Tamar Rotem
“Is it possible to explain the bitter disappointment a woman feels during years of futile back-and-forth discussions in the rabbinic court, when [...]
Pilegesh relationships and Jewish Unity
B”HThe following is reprinted from Kayama.org.
Jewish Unity Throughout history, the Jewish community has often been divided along philosophical lines, but its social cohesiveness has never been compromised. Unfortunately, ignorance of Jewish divorce laws is causing a rift to develop which will result in large sectors of the Jewish community being unable or unwilling to [...]
Stop kvetching start a revolution! (Updated version for mailing list readers additions at the end.)
B”H(New Bumper sticker. Free with your donation of $5 or more.)
Shalom everyone!Dear readers please read the article bellow and after that pray tell me why should this situation go on in the future when there is a much easier solution that doesn’t involve breaking arms and legs or risking lives of elderly rabbis [...]
Stop kvetching start a revolution!
B”H(New Bumper sticker. Free with your donation of $5 or more.)
Shalom everyone!Dear readers please read the article bellow and after that pray tell me why should this situation go on in the future when there is a much easier solution that doesn’t involve breaking arms and legs or risking lives of elderly rabbis like Gordon [...]
ISO: Kosher Concubine The Jewish week reports
B”HShalom!Good news and bad news:Good news: We got some media exposure and got Agudath Israel of America spokesman Rabbi Avi Shafran to admit that pilegesh is permitted but is not normative (whatever that means). Apparently it’s more normative Jewish practice to endure community members picking up hookers(and infecting their own wives with STDs) or a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Rabbinic supervision.
B”HI have recently asked the author of Jewish Polygamy blog who is an Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi and a Dayan (Rabbinic Judge) in Jerusalem specializing in matters of marriage and divorce who is also a member of the new Sanhedrin to oversee this blog and and the personals web-sites http://www.PilegeshPersonals.com and http://www.NoahidePersonals.com that I have made answer [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )There is no mitzvah to marry:
B”HRabbi Yaakov Emden writes:
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Rabbi Yaakov Emden’s responsa regarding pilegesh.
B”HBellow is the complete translation of the Rabbi Yaakov Emden’s clarification regarding the permissibility of pilegesh relationship.
Update: Thanks to Mark Guterman it is now available as a PDF for easier reading and printing:http://pilegeshpersonals.com/Rabbi_Yaakov_Emden’s_responsa_on_Pilegesh.pdf(if you have a slow computer right click the link above and click “save as” to download)
Click on the pictures of [...]
Advantages of being a pilegesh.
B”H
Rabbi Yaakov Emden writes:
“[A single woman living with a man] ought to feel no more ashamed of immersing herself in a communal mikveh at the proper times than her married sisters.“Those who prefer the pilagshut relationship may certainly do so. . . . For perhaps the woman wishes to be able to leave immediately without [...]
