http://jeanettefriedman.com/2006/12/90/the-ressurection-of-the-agunah-girls-techiyas-hameysim-for-the-sake-of-tikkun/ Journalist, author, activist Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://jeanettefriedman.com/2006/12/90/the-ressurection-of-the-agunah-girls-techiyas-hameysim-for-the-sake-of-tikkun/comment-page-1/#comment-502 Noah Smith-Pilegesh.org Sun, 14 Jan 2007 07:36:18 +0000 http://www.jeanettefriedman.com/?p=90#comment-502 B"H I started <a HREF="http://Pilegesh.org" rel="nofollow">http://Pilegesh.org</A> as a way to raise awareness of the agunah issue. The ketubah was introduced as a way to protect Jewish women, but now it's not effective in most cases. A Jewish woman sells herself into potential slavery as you have experienced already. Instead of trying to involve the state and create additional issues of "get miusah" the better solution is to create awareness that pilagshut can be a viable option in particular if both parties will sign a prenuptial agreement and or cohabitation agreement. You want to take Jewish marriage and change the rules of the game to essentially make it more "feminist friendly" but still call it a marriage to look "proper" in the eyes of your fundie Christian neighbors I want to make it known that Jewish family can be built under the framework of pilagshut if the couple so desires and there is nothing wrong with it. See: <a HREF="http://pilegesh.blogspot.com/search/label/Advantages" rel="nofollow">httphttp://pilegesh.blogspot.com/search/label/Advantages</A> and <a HREF="http://pilegesh.blogspot.com/2006/12/lubavitcher-rebbe-on-polygamy.html" rel="nofollow">http://pilegesh.blogspot.com/2006/12/lubavitcher-rebbe-on-polygamy.html</A> PS. By the way, I agree with you that a husband who is mistreating his wife to the point that she wants a divorce , but he refuses to give a get and takes a pilegesh as way to force the wife to stay "chained" is a naval be reshus haTorah-acting un-ethically under the color of Torah law. B”H
I started
http://Pilegesh.org
as a way to raise awareness of the agunah issue.
The ketubah was introduced as a way to protect Jewish women, but now it’s not effective in most cases.
A Jewish woman sells herself into potential slavery as you have experienced already.
Instead of trying to involve the state and create additional issues of “get miusah” the better solution is to create awareness that pilagshut can be a viable option in particular if both parties will sign a prenuptial agreement and or cohabitation agreement.
You want to take Jewish marriage and change the rules of the game to essentially make it more “feminist friendly” but still call it a marriage to look “proper” in the eyes of your fundie Christian neighbors I want to make it known that Jewish family can be built under the framework of pilagshut if the couple so desires and there is nothing wrong with it.
See:
httphttp://pilegesh.blogspot.com/search/label/Advantages
and
http://pilegesh.blogspot.com/2.....ygamy.html
PS. By the way, I agree with you that a husband who is mistreating his wife to the point that she wants a divorce , but he refuses to give a get and takes a pilegesh as way to force the wife to stay “chained” is a naval be reshus haTorah-acting un-ethically under the color of Torah law.

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