While conditional divorces can free women in case of a husband’s disappearance or loss of mental faculties in battle, rabbis say pushing such a document on soldiers may hurt morale
It also seems that the get was given as the soldier shipped out to war because when Uriah reports to David HaMelech, he's told repeatedly to go home and be with his wife. Now, the obvious reason from a basic reading of the text is because David HaMelech wants it to be plausible that Uriah will think he's the father of the child because he was with Batsheva right away David HaMelech was. The halakhic answer is that he was ordered to go home and do kiddushin/nisuin through bi'ah with his current ex-wife.
At what point was Uriah meant to have been divorced? And why would he remarry just before setting out to war? It's possible that the rabbis were looking for a solution and came up with this one, rather than having had a mesora from Noah
King David didn't seem to have an issue. Nice to know that the Rabbanut of the army are more advanced than him.
ReplyDeleteYou mean he relied on Uriah's get?
DeleteWas the get retroactive?
The problem with that story is that it only appears in the sugya where the Chazal try to convince us that David HaMelech didn't commit adultery.
DeleteIt also seems that the get was given as the soldier shipped out to war because when Uriah reports to David HaMelech, he's told repeatedly to go home and be with his wife. Now, the obvious reason from a basic reading of the text is because David HaMelech wants it to be plausible that Uriah will think he's the father of the child because he was with Batsheva right away David HaMelech was. The halakhic answer is that he was ordered to go home and do kiddushin/nisuin through bi'ah with his current ex-wife.
DeleteAt what point was Uriah meant to have been divorced? And why would he remarry just before setting out to war?
DeleteIt's possible that the rabbis were looking for a solution and came up with this one, rather than having had a mesora from Noah