Reply To: Cherem Rabbeinu Gershom

Dr. Pepper, my starting assumption is that both parties are ehrliche yidden, even if they have a dispute. I don’t understand why you think it is “more complicated” if she complies with the Beis Din, and appropriately responds to their summons, than if she had inappropriately chosen to ignore any subpoena from B”D.

My point in the scenario I described is that the husband has no right to divorce his wife and Beis Din will tell him he cannot divorce her. Shopping around for another Beis Din, when one doesn’t like the ruling of the first, isn’t a legitimate approach. The wife can stand her ground and insist on remaining married to him once the first Beis Din ruled she was within her rights, as per CRG, to decline to accept a Gett.