A Be’er Sheva beis din ruled that the dozens of descendants of a woman who had a daughter in Israel after leaving the former Soviet Union in the ‘80s without receiving a get from her first husband were kosher and could marriage regular Jews.
Comprised of three veteran av beis dins, the beis din explained in a lengthy psak din, “We have here at least two doubts regarding the effectiveness of the marriage… according to which we can determine that she can be presumed to be unmarried and by virtue of this alone we can rule permissibly.”
“During those years, the rule of the wicked Communists was at its height and Judaism was already uprooted for dozens of years beforehand,” the dayonim explained. “Therefore, in the ‘60s, the witnesses could be presumed to be ignoramuses and public Shabbos desecrators.”
The dayonim added that the person who arranged the marriage was a chazzan unqualified for the purpose, one witness was a relative and the other was unobservant, and it was unclear whether the wedding ring belonged to the husband before he used it in the ceremony.
{Matzav.com Israel}
OK, OK.
NO mention of Rav Henkin’s “Anan Saadei”, since they lived together for years etc…
I expect the beis did considered that to be znus. No problem.
Relying on a lot of maybes…I just hope the woman was really not married so that she didn’t commit bigamy and her future children are truly kosher Jews.
Well, that was the point of the beis din’s psak, wasn’t it? The woman was really not married. Read the article – again.
I read the article. Since the p’sak was based on so many maybes, the main hope is that the first marriage wasn’t kosher. It would be tragic otherwise.
According to R’ Moshe’s psak we dont believe anything she says so why do we assume that she was married in the first place?