Israeli Beis Din Extracts Get From Man Hiding Undercover From Grey-Market Loan Sharks

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Rabbinical Court in Israel

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A woman recently came to one of the Batei Din [rabbinical courts] in Israel with a strange request. She wished to obtain a get from her husband, despite not having any dispute with him. The woman explained that her husband had taken heavy loans on the grey market which he could not repay and had disappeared and gone under cover. She was afraid that he would disappear without a trace and she would be left an agunah.

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The couple are in their 40’s and have two children. The husband who worked in business had suffered a cash crunch and could not pay his debts to the banks. He therefore turned to the grey market for assistance but the business did not accrue enough profits and he could not return the high-interest debts, leaving him with about 500,000 NIS in debts.

The grey market representatives started to come to the man’s home and threaten him,  The woman realized that her husband’s life was in danger and he might disappear unexpectedly and therefore she requested a get. Soon after the husband went under cover to hide from his debtors.

The Beis Din’s agunah department sprung into action, succeeding in locating the husband and contacting him. At first the husband refused to cooperate and cut off contacts but after continued contacts with his other family members and assurances that the rabbis did not intend to harm him or reveal his hiding place, he was persuaded to cooperate. However he refused to notify when or where the get could be given. When the date was finally made, the rabbis went without knowing where the meeting would take place. After changing the meeting place three times, the rabbinical representatives finally met the man, who was wearing a flak jacket and looked very scared for his life. The rabbis signed the man on a document of “Kisvu U’Tnu” since he refused to allow more than two people to meet him. This authorized the sofer to write a get and present it via an emissary to the woman, which was performed after the two representatives returned.

Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan, the head of the rabbinical courts, said that “the Batei Din and the agunah department use bold, innovative and creative methods to find solutions and will go to every effort to save a woman from being an agunah, even if it requires professional challenges.”


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LeibelFromKentucky
LeibelFromKentucky
1 year ago

500K NIS is not that big amount of money. Let’s band together and redeem this poor individual.

Help a fellow yid
Help a fellow yid
1 year ago

Why should a whole family be destroyed for generations to come if it is only a money issue isn’t this what we yidden stand for please open a link and contact b”d that the funds should transfer to this broken Yid I’ll iyh help out with a nice amount to jumpstart the fund if Vin gets back to me

Boruch
Boruch
1 year ago

Poor guy, my heart goes out to him. If he really indeed is in such a bad matzov, can Vin set up a go fund me page which can be endorsed by the Rebbunim who were knowledgeable
In this person’s terrible situation. He did listen to the Beis din and we should try and help him.

Last edited 1 year ago by Boruch
AuthenticSatmar
AuthenticSatmar
1 year ago

Strange that they would help her but not help him. And why is vinnews posting exclusive private bais din stories.

Moish Rubin
Moish Rubin
1 year ago

Why not help this yid return to his family. We the Jewish people would be very happy to help out in a situation as such….

yosher
yosher
1 year ago

Of course we should address the underlying problem: ריבית. Maybe we should re-visit the concepts of היתר עיסקא and פרוזבול. And yes, we should bail this family out….how come this didn’t cross the minds of בית דין?

ruby
ruby
1 year ago

no one gets divorced for a 100 grand , people settle , yidden help, there is always amex…
there got to be more to the story or it was millions… this article seems to be a marketing piece for the agunah division

triumphinwhitehouse
triumphinwhitehouse
1 year ago

very suspicious story.

Yochy
Yochy
1 year ago

VIN. Please get the whole story out, and only the truth with the Bais Dins telling us exactly what needs to be done to help this poor yid.

I will help out as well.

Thanks.

Judge Sander
Judge Sander
1 year ago

Sounds like in the times of King David, warriors would write a gett to their wives with the understanding that if they returned alive from battle, they would remarry them.

Alta Bubby
Alta Bubby
1 year ago

So sad.
So special.
I hope and pray that he somehow recovers from his debt.
Who knows, seems like he is really a decent fellow.
Very hard on the family.
Perhaps there are some people who can give him a good start in life.
Perhaps he can re marry his wife, if she wants.
If money was the whole problem.
Poor kids
For now, they are Korbonos.
I hope this family is receiving whatever kind of support they need, financial, emotional

lazerx
lazerx
1 year ago

Poor fellow, after he is running and hiding for his life and he really could use help, so his wife decides to divorce him. Not the kind of wife I would want.

judith
judith
1 year ago

If they cared so much about agunas, they would require a halachic prenup as a condition for marriage.