OT laws
Ian & Pam Dorion dorioni@ipa.net
Sun, 1 Mar 1998 10:22:47 -0600 (00888790967, 199803011624.KAA21272@siren.ipa.net)
IAN
This just goes to prove that Christians don't have a monopoly on stupidity.
Can this couple just live together after the divorce or can they possibly
remarry?
> NANCY
>
> The following story was posted to the SKEPTIC maillist. I thought some of
> errancy's readers might find it of interest.
>
> Nancy Todd
> todds@pa.net
> >
> > JERUSALEM, Feb 26 (AFP) - An Israeli religious couple with nine
> >children will have to divorce after rabbis ruled the wife had
> >"disgraced" her husband by being raped, the Yediot Aharonot
> >newspaper reported Thursday.
> > Senior religious leaders in the Jewish state searched for a
> >ruling in religious scripts that would allow the couple, known to
> >their friends as Romeo and Juliet, to stay together.
> > But in the end the rabbis ruled that they would have to
> >separate, the daily said.
> > According to Jewish law, a married woman has "disgraced her
> >husband" if she tells him she has been raped and he believes her.
> > The unnamed Orthodox woman was brutally raped by foreign workers
> >while she was returning home from immersion in a religious bath in
> >Bnei Brak, a suburb of Tel Aviv, Yediot reported.
> > The rabbis searched desperately for a way to let the two stay
> >together, even searching for mistakes in their marriage agreement to
> >rule it null and void and thus be able to declare the woman had been
> >raped while single.
> > Religious author Naomi Regen said the rabbis had not searched
> >hard enough. "Usually, when the rabbis want, a way under Jewish law
> >can be found," Regen told army radio. "It is a failure of Jewish law
> >that they didn't find a way."
> > But a leading rabbi in the southern city of Beer Sheva said the
> >husband could save the marriage by saying he did not believe his
> >wife had been raped, the newspaper reported.