Can a new push for a halachically compatible prenup put an end to the tragedy of agunos and often vicious divorce proceedings that drag on endlessly, causing untold pain and hurt?
A young woman stood facing a man a few feet from her.
Her hands were cupped together as if to receive something. She looked up in his face, tears escaping her eyes, and he looked back at her and declared, “Harei at…,” and then dropped something into her hands.
But the setting was not a wedding hall; it was a beis din near Monsey. And the “harei at” was not followed by “mekudeshes li” but by “muteres lechol adam.” This act — the reverse image of their kiddushin some ten years earlier — brought a final closure to the idyllic dreams and aspirations of a young couple whose lives were ahead of them.
Yet, under the circumstances, it was a best-case scenario.
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