Kiddushei Ta'us--Or Just Ta'us?
A certain overseas university chancellor advocates a certain approach to "solving" the Agunah problem.
Indeed, there is a problem. However, as far as I know, that approach of his has been rejected by every major halachic authority on record:
HaGaon Rav Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik, Zatzal, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, the Agudas Yisroel, and the Badatz rejected it (vide “Unaccepted Proposals To Solve The Aguna Problem-Part IV,” by Rav Howard Jachter, found at www.tabc.org/koltorah/aguna/aguna59.7.htm); theRCA rejected it (vide Letter To RCA Membership, 10/27/98); Rav Aharon Lichtenstein rejected it (vide “Rackman’s Aguna Challenge,” by David Weinberg [7/19/98]); Rav Hershel Schachter and Rav Ovadiah Yosef rejected it (vide “Making A Farce Of The Halacha,” by Rav Hershel Schachter, posted at http://www.torahweb.org/torah/special/2001/rsch_nissuin.html); Rav J. David Bleich rejected it (vide Tradition 33:1 [cf. particularly p. 118 & n.41 on p.128]).
Indeed, there is a problem. However, as far as I know, that approach of his has been rejected by every major halachic authority on record:
HaGaon Rav Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik, Zatzal, the Israeli Chief Rabbinate, the Agudas Yisroel, and the Badatz rejected it (vide “Unaccepted Proposals To Solve The Aguna Problem-Part IV,” by Rav Howard Jachter, found at www.tabc.org/koltorah/aguna/aguna59.7.htm); theRCA rejected it (vide Letter To RCA Membership, 10/27/98); Rav Aharon Lichtenstein rejected it (vide “Rackman’s Aguna Challenge,” by David Weinberg [7/19/98]); Rav Hershel Schachter and Rav Ovadiah Yosef rejected it (vide “Making A Farce Of The Halacha,” by Rav Hershel Schachter, posted at http://www.torahweb.org/torah/special/2001/rsch_nissuin.html); Rav J. David Bleich rejected it (vide Tradition 33:1 [cf. particularly p. 118 & n.41 on p.128]).
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