This is the way I heard the story – there was a Jewish village somewhere in central Asia I believe and there was an anti-semetic christian priest who was trying to turn the local king against the Jews. He was a ba’al kishuf and was able to kill people by just looking at them so everyone was afraid to confront him. The Jews knew that on the other side of the river were remnants from the lost 10 tribes and figured there would be somebody there who knew how to overcome the black magic so they had to send somebody there to contact them and they gave a psak that he could cross the river on Shabbat as it was pikuach nefesh but he wouldn’t be able to cross back again since it was no longer pikuach nefesh. Since he would permanently be on the other side he gave a get to his wife before leaving.
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