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A 10 page paper which examines the religious conditions relating to
divorce among the Jewish people through history. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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not a great deal has changed in terms of the simplicity of gaining a divorce. Their laws are essentially written out in the Old Testament. While new times call for
somewhat new approaches, for the most part Judaism has clung to these old laws and adjusted them only slightly it would seem. In the following paper we examine Judaism and
divorce, presenting a look at divorce throughout history. The Old Testament According to one particular author, "The Old Testament divorce laws are not set out systematically...all we have
in the Old Testament is two rulings of case law, based on two specific and somewhat rare situations."1 The first of these is presented in Exodus 21: 10 where a
man marries a woman who is free after being married to a woman who was a slave. The second one comes to us in Deuteronomy 24: 1-4 which "concerns a
woman who has divorced, remarried and divorced again, and then wants to remarry her first husband. From the rulings for these two cases we have to infer the underlying principles
and the general rulings by which these principles apply."2 Many rabbis have argued that Deuteronomy indicates that a divorce requires a certificate of sorts so that a divorce could not
be granted simply and carelessly. "If there was a certificate, there should also be grounds for a divorce, especially as the example of a divorce in Dt.24 names a specific
ground. Different schools of rabbis differed about what the ground for divorce in Dt.24 consisted of (Hillel said indecency and (any) matter and Shammai said matter of indecency), but they
agreed on the principle that there had to be some ground for divorce."3 In many ways this was also the law of Moses, whose beliefs were those that argued for
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