{"id":98808,"date":"2022-11-20T03:54:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98808"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:54:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:54:21","slug":"a-marriage-mended-by-malady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/a-marriage-mended-by-malady\/","title":{"rendered":"A Marriage Mended by Malady"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Marriage Mended by Malady<\/strong><\/p>\n

A certain righteous woman constantly comes to ask me for blessings for other women. She does her deeds l\u2019shem Shamayim<\/em>, never asking anything for herself. She once brought a woman who was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors could not find a cure for her disease-ridden body. I gave her some suggestions regarding mitzvah observance, in the merit of which she might find healing. Then, without realizing, I asked if she was married. \u201cOf course I\u2019m married!\u201d she asserted.<\/p>\n

The righteous woman at her side corroborated her reply. \u201cWhy does the Rav ask such a question,\u201d she asked in bafflement. \u201cOf course she is married!\u201d<\/p>\n

I apologized for insulting her. \u201cPlease forgive me,\u201d I asked. \u201cI did not mean to undermine her marriage contract. I don\u2019t know why I asked this question.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ill woman accepted my apologies, but the entire way home, she could not calm down. She spoke about my question the whole time. \u201cForget about it,\u201d her friend said. \u201cOf course you are married. The Rav said he didn\u2019t mean anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Suddenly, the escort asked her friend, \u201cTell me, were you married in a Beit Hakeneset, with a rabbi presiding, according to Jewish custom?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI had only a civil marriage, not a religious one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The woman was shocked to hear this. She immediately phoned me to ask what to do. I was pleased to hear that I had not done something wrong by asking my strange question. I instructed the woman to undergo a Jewish marriage in the Beit Din, and to keep all the laws of family purity as we were commanded in the Torah. Then I wished her a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n

Hashem proved to all that my inquiry about her marriage was not irrelevant at all. In the merit of my words, this ill woman corrected a great misdeed and married according to halachah.<\/p>\n

This incident honed in on the fact that, sadly, many Jews have civil marriages, which are not recognized by Judaism whatsoever. Moreover, there are countless couples, who, even if they married according to halachah, accept only a civil divorce, and not one from the Beit Din. Women divorced in this way who subsequently remarry are considered as having two husbands, a very severe sin. May this case awaken others to be more careful in this matter<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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