History & Halacha

If he would return to his wife, he would not be allowed to cut his hair or drink wine ever again.

Who was Mottel Breslau, and how did he end up on the tracks out in the lands belonging to the Seminole Nation?

She had been forced into marriage, enslaved, and exiled. Would she finally be allowed to start a family?

In 1710 Caselle, Yedidya's joke of placing a horsehair ring on Gotla's finger led to a serious controversy over potential betrothal.

A Safed resident moved to Syria and died, but not before the community tried taxing him in absentia. The city's rabbi ruled on the case.

The Rabbinic Controversy of Warder Cresson's Circumcision.

“If I save you from the well, will you marry me?” asked the man, who was excited by her rich and illustrious family.