The Semichas Chachamim Frees an Agunah

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How can a woman be freed when her husband vanished and nobody saw him die? A young husband, angry at his father-in-law's rebuke, disappears and leaves his wife an aguna. The Rebbe who made the shidduch falls asleep three times before ten talmidim and sends the family to an inn near Vienna. There the husband, now an army officer, is killed before witnesses, and the Rebbe reveals that he went into Gehenna to bring the husband back.

Key points

• A woman whose husband vanished is an aguna, stuck until proof of death or a get.
• Swearing he would defy even the king, the husband is killed by the other officers.
• The Rebbe had already seen him dead, and risked his own life in Gehenna to free her.

In this shiur

1. 0:00A son-in-law disappears
2. 0:37What makes a woman an aguna
3. 1:02Coming to the Rebbe for help
4. 2:30Three sleeps before ten talmidim
5. 4:46The journey to Vienna
6. 5:45The officer at the inn
7. 7:03The Rebbe explains what happened

Topics

• Aguna