Joseph

“Is leaving their spouse the only muttar way?”

Yes. It is prohibited to live with a non-Jew. Every day living with him/her is an additional sin.

“Is it fair to put pressure on this person to leave his or her spouse?”

Yes. We are required to encourage anyone to stop sinning.

“You dont try to convince them to leave their spouse”

We don’t even recognize a “marriage” to a non-Jew as a marriage. We absolutely do encourage them to stop sinning by leaving the prohibited relationship. No less than if a Jew were married to a sibling or if a Cohen was married to a divorcee.

“You are better off trying to convience the non-jewish partner to convert”

Judaism strongly opposes encouraging conversion. Especially in such a case where it is clear the non-Jew isn’t interested in leading an observant Jewish life, in which case no conversion would even be valid.

What percentage of people who leave their house do so due to a hurricane? A miutely small proportion of those who leave their home.

So in that sense you, indeed, make a good comparison to divorce. Only a small percent were necessary.

They are a symptom of a disposable society. So many divorces were unnecessary and the marriages were very savable.

Klal Yisroel needs to work on reducing divorces. Of course reduce underlying causes for divorce. But even in cases where the underlying issue persists, reducing the desire to seek divorce despite the persistence of issues that are less worse bearing with while maintaining a marriage than the problems triggered by divorce. Divorce should be strongly discouraged. Of course there will be exceptions, but this should be the strong rule. Chazal and Halacha makes this point as well.

A very large problem with divorces (and I’d argue it affects a very large majority of divorces, but it is futile to dispute percentages) is that people getting divorced think divorce will make things better. When in fact it turns out that divorce makes things worse. Sometimes much worse. And other times no better.

Especially if one has children and will, therefore, have to deal with the ex for the rest of their life. And still co-parent with them after divorce. Many wrongly assume a divorce means they will singularly parent/decide for their minor children.

Perhaps a man who would divorce his wife for trivial reasons is so wicked that his wife is better off without him?

No. Chazal clearly say that a woman is better off with a bad husband than being divorced/single.

Halacha places strong safeguards and stopgaps against a spouse who wishes to divorce without the consent of the other spouse, preventing him from divorcing her.

“M”: 1) Those reasons you cite from Tannaim justifying divorce is, even according to that own shitta, only applicable if it is the husband desiring it. If it is she desiring it, they agree that is an insufficient reason for divorce. 2) Even if the husband desires divorce for that reason, halacha l’maaisa is paskened that it is an insufficient reason.

It’s also the Halacha in Shulchan Aruch.

The type that Dovid HaMelech refers to in Tehilim.

Non-factual claims that humans cause Global Warming isn’t a matter of fun and games.

Wow, well over 36 hours after the OP factually stating that Global Warming is not man-made, and we haven’t a single opposing voice non-factually claiming that it is man-made.

As the most seasoned coffee roomer in the annals of this coffee room history, I can now hereby declare with great authority that this is the single longest OP, other than baking, recipes and other non-controversial discussions, to have gone on without any disagreement.

The odd thing the more liberal posters above will find is that the shidduch crisis is less severe and couples get married younger in communities that have stricter separation of the genders than in communities that are less strict about separating the genders.

CTL, I haven’t heard of any registerable instances of wedding crashers in-town, either.

golfer, when’d you become a leitz?