Auction 70
Lot 287:
Sefer Ledor Acharon, "telling the recent generation what the Union of Rabbis did… for Taharat Hamishpacha… articles and protests… since marriage in unconditional and there is no Shlichut Gett while gettingmarried" Published by the Union of Rabbis of the USA and Canada, first edition – Brooklyn, 1937. 114 pp.
Stains. Very good overall condition. Fine, original binding With lime stains / paint?.
Background: After World War I, there were many Agunot since many Jews were recruited into the army. Therefore, the sages of Kushta came up with a halachic idea according to which, the marriage should be conditional so it could be annulled retroactively in the case of Aginut. The idea stirred heated controversy around the world. Rabbi Chaim Ozer of Vilna strongly objected to the idea, ordering to republish the book Ein Tnai Banisu’in dealing with a similar controversy in France several years earlier. What caused the dispute there was the French law that enabled women to divorce without their husband’s consent.
The rabbis of America printed this book, Ledor Acharon, introducing the protests and letters by rabbis from all over the world and explaining the impossibility of this Halachic solution. Following the publishing of this book, many of the rabbis of Kushta changed their minds.
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