Permission to get a get before leaving for the battlefield - 1948 - a plan that at the end did not happen, rare!

Permission to get a get before leaving for the battlefield - 1948 - a plan that at the end did not happen, rare!
Divorce authorization form on behalf of the Chief Military Rabbinate. An unfilled form, intended for soldiers to sign before they go into battle, in order to prevent agonizing problems, is extremely rare!

"I am the undersigned ... who goes to war. From now on, I appoint all the Jews who reside in the cities of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, within their municipal borders, on the day of the establishment of the State of Israel ....

The practice of giving a get before going to war began at the time of Moses, continued in the wars of the House of David, and similar cases from the days of the World Wars in the twentieth century. In the Second Lebanon War, in an attempt to find out whether such a practice was recognized and institutionalized in the IDF, it became clear that the main military buildup had no prepared notes.

The issue of the agunot of the women of the military was discussed in the early days of the state. In Jewish law, only the man, and not the rabbinic court, is allowed to expel the woman. A divorce permit form signed by the husband enables the court to expel the woman as his agents, thereby releasing her from her bondage. Therefore, the Chief Rabbinate, in cooperation with Rabbi Shlomo Goren, the Chief Rabbi of the IDF, prepared a permit form for which a soldier was supposed to sign.

This was not the case in the early years of the state.

In the responsa of Heichal Yitzchak (cited in note 3) , Rabbi YL HaLevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel, wrote: I have examined the first comment of Rabbi Goren, As well as in the halachic proposal, and the city's beauty was that during the war of Shaul, they had to deal with this problem of agunot, because those who went to war did not lose their presumption of life. , And a permit for a get was written and signed in every case of a person who goes to war. But because of the lack of a military order, it did not happen in most cases, and we will be free from Gd and from Israel.

Rabbi Shlomo Goren referred to the words of Rabbi Herzog in his responsum published in his book, "Respondent-War," p. The text of the permit for a get to soldiers who go to war against the orders of the General Staff, as I drafted it with the consent of the Chief Rabbi of Eretz Israel at the time, Maran Hagaon Harav Herzog, and the text was printed as an official form of General Staff. Execution of the signing by the soldiers. Orders from the General Staff No. 34.0402.

However, as we wrote in the answer itself, when we came to sign the soldiers on the permit form for the get, both the commanders and the soldiers objected strongly: The commanders claimed that the signing of the permit for the get when the soldier was about to go into battle would seriously damage the morale of the fighting and increase his fear and concern for his family. .. ".

This is the original and rare form printed by the IDF as part of this initiative, when it was empty, because the plan was shelved and did not materialize.

Size: 29 * 20 cm.

Condition: Very Good, slight stains.