Yehudah Lubetzky & Moshe Weiskopf. Tenai BeNisu’in.

(DIVORCE).

Paris

1908

Henrew Manuscript, written in a neat Aschkenazic hand on paper. With presentation inscription by the authors and ownership stamp of Rabbi Elie Munk, Paris.

A polemic endorsed by a host of rabbinic leaders opposed to the proposals advanced by quarters within the French Rabbinate, seeking to permit civil divorce as being sufficient without recourse to Halachic “Get” proceedings (as long as certain conditions were mutually agreed upon the onset of marriage). Two decades later, R. Chaim Ozer Grodzenski saw the need to again raise awareness in opposition to the newly proposed trend and had the work published in Vilna in 1930 under the title Ein Tenai BeNisu’in. The present manuscript differs slightly from the published work. It is written in a different order and contains some unpublished materials. For example, the responsa of R. David Tzvi Hoffman on p. 33 contains three lengthy paragraphs which do not appear in the published tex