Israel – The Great Rabbinical Court has ordered the Israel Prison Service to deny a jailed long-time recalcitrant husband glatt kosher meals, as means to pressure him into granting his wife a divorce.
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In response the man declared a hunger strike and is currently being fed intravenously.
The couple got married 10 years ago, and two years later, after they already had two children together, the two separated and have been living apart ever since.
When they filed for a divorce with the rabbinic court it seemed that both sides were interested in a quick procedure, and the husband even stated at the time that he did not want to see his wife ever again.
But since then, and for the last eight years, the man has come up with various arguments and demands that have prevented the divorce from being finalized.
As the situation got more and more complicated, the woman agreed to give up alimonies, and visitation rights have been agreed upon. But the husband continued in his attempts to blackmail the wife.
The case was finally handed over to the Great Rabbinical Court, where the judges soon ruled that the man was in fact a recalcitrant husband, who is not genuinely interested in a divorce. “This situation must be put a stop to,” they said in their verdict.
The court then sentenced the man to five years in prison, of which he has already served two. However, even after he was incarcerated, the man continued to present demands and conditions to his wife in return for a divorce.
Having used up most of the sanctions available to them, the judges then came up with a new idea. They ordered the IPS to take the man out of the religious wing in which he was being held, put him in solitary confinement for two weeks, and stop providing him with strictly kosher meals.
But it seems that the stubborn man is willing to do anything but grant his wife her freedom. In recent days he has been on a hunger strike in protest of the change in his food’s kashrut kevel, and the wardens were forced to forcefully put him on IV.
I never understood why men make women suffer when it comes to devorice. ?if u had a bad marriage why do u want to contuine having contact with that person. ?
don’t they have the death penalty in Israel? Can’t they do a “heter meah Rabonnim?”
why is the halacha so much in favor of the husband that they have this right of not giving a get?????????
I’m the first person to say these lowlifes should suffer so they can’t mess up another poor lady, but i have to say I’m shocked at denying someone his religious rights, & by the Rabbonim, no less. WOW!!!
Hope it works. Actually, if they stop feeding him intravenously, she won’t need a Get.
Because they try to have power over their wives while they are married, and when she escapes, they still want to have the power, and unfortunately they can. so they do. It has nothing to do with a normal relationship.
He’s being fed intravenously – glatt or non-glatt ?
Maybe they should try waterboarding him like in Guantanamo.
Why feed him at all. If he doesn’t want to eat let him starve. Why feed him through a tube. F he dies from sþarvation than we don’t need a Get! A perfect solution to this monster of a man!
If it is the rabanut that is behind giving him questionably kosher food, then it would be better to request he be given NO food, but NOT that the food given is without the hashgacha he requires.
The rabonim are in effect, starving him. This is equivelant to murder, so they must be arrested acording to law. It would therefore be more honest if they came out openly to starve the man to death.
The true story, I don’t know. I don’t bbelieve the way it is presented, at any rate. It is an unlikely story, that he is simply making her suffer. You don’t believe such things about an incarcerated man.. It’s a disgrace that readers belive it, as is.
Either he wants her back, or he wants a just settlement which he is not being given because there is another option of torturing him instead.
(No, I personally have never been in such a situatuation. But I’ve heard stories of such cases).
So don’t feed him intravenously. If he doesn’t want to eat, he doesn’t want to eat. Either he’ll come to his senses or she’ll be a widow. Good result either way.
they are not starving him, they are giving him vegetarian food. they probably hope he will miss eating meat, but if he is this sick and stubborn, he may not.
some one that wasn’t involved in a divorce will never understand why and how a man can do this. I was involved in many divorces and I can understand anything
Stop giving him the IV!!!
A widow can marry as she wishes….
The Nine Days are coming, no need for glatt
The Torah does not give men the right to withhold a get at will, nor to blackmail their wives for exorbitant sums of money or ridiculous terms of custody. Even the power men hold to divorce their wives was curtailed by R’ Shimon ben Shetach and later by Rabbeinu Gershom, so that it would not be abused by losers and control freaks. In bygone days, Beis Din was allowed to beat a recalcitrant husband until he agreed to grant his wife a get.
Ok 16 and whoever else commented in similer vain ur am ratzim he only gets pairos bmaseh yadeha and not the keren it remains hers and if you have no clue what that means go learn a little before you show the world your ignorence
It is obvious that this man is mentally ill and needs to see a psychiatrist. The wife’s family should have handled this matter privately. I disagree with the court sentencing this man to five years just for this abuse of power. The Kehilla must take action if the Wife’s family is unable to do so. This should not turn into a death sentence for him by his jailors. Let him eat and then send him a Rav that will teach him Torah and Yiras Shomayim.
anything a person does, will come back to him. that is mida keneged mida. the goyim even understand the concept and call it “karma”. either way, the hands of the Rabbis are limited, especially without a Sanhedrin. These guys will get their fair share. we need to still believe
(as hard as it may be) that this is all from Hashem and it is He who is causing this suffering to the woman and her family. This husband may have volunteered, not unlike Pharaoh and y”s….that is the truth…
R’ Akiva Eiger famously reminded a husband that was refusing a get that a woman goes free in one of two ways 🙂
He should NOT be fed intravenously – he should continue his hunger strike and DIE , then his wife can get the get she deserves. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!