According to the facts presented to a session of the Knesset Law Committee on Tuesday, 2 Iyar 5773, in most cases, 84%, a get is given within 30 days. This statistic reflects the nationwide Chief Rabbinate Rabbinical Court system. The number may vary in certain cities.
The director of the rabbinical court system Rabbi Shlomo Dichovsky explained to committee members that of the 11,227 divorces processed by the beis din in the past year, 9,401 were completed within 30 days (84%) of the court’s decision. In 16 cases, a psak din compelling a get was given. During that time period, 307 restraining orders were issued by the beis din including 91 arrest warrants against recalcitrant husbands. Seven of these husbands are in jail today in addition to Shai Cohen, who escaped and remains at large.
In an effort to compel recalcitrant husbands to give a get, the rav asked to amend the law to permit jailed husbands to be placed together with the general criminal population, a move the rabbi believes will be a “magic formula towards giving a get”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Smart Rav. Let the courts agree!
A Get issued under duress of a jailing, is a get meusa (invalid get) and any subsequent remarriage results in mamzeirim.
a move the rabbi believes will be a “magic formula towards giving a get”.
I am only aware of 1 magic formula:- Giving the father proper visitation, and not tolerating the mother in any way to impede nor withhold the visitation.
i.e. Shall win much more with honey than with vinegar.
Doc, there’s a wealth of responsa to the contrary, along with other permissible ways of making a recalcitrant husband come around. By whose authority do you dismiss these methods and pronounce people mamzerim?
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That is true in most cases, and in those cases even jailing under comfortable conditions would invalidate the get. But in the exceptional cases when the halacha requires a get, and jailing (and even physical duress) are permissable, there’s not much difference halachikly between one kind of jailing or another.