According to an email from GetORA.com, the owner of Succah.com is a recalcitrant husband. Although his wife has asked him, he will not grant her a get and therefore she cannot remarry. The Baltimore Beit Din has issued a seruv against him. Please keep this in mind when making your sukkot purchases this year.
According to Jewish law, a husband has to grant a wife a get, or divorce, to terminate a marriage. When a husband refuses to do so, the wife may become an agunah, a chained wife, who is stuck in the relationship and unable to remarry. Considerable pressure sometimes needs to be exerted by the community to get the husband to give a get.
GetORA is an organization working for the rights of agunot.
Date: Mon, September 20, 2004 11:33 pm
Sam Rosenbloom has a seruv issued against him by the Baltimore Beis din. A copy of the seruv can be viewed by going to http://www.getora.com/seiruvim.htm
Mr. Rosenbloom owns and operates an on-line succah business www.succah.com
We would like everyone to be informed of this information and request that one should consult their local orthodox rabbi before purchasing anything from www.succah.com
Thank you.
www.getora.com