The Marital Knot English both friends and frenemies

both friends and frenemies

and to share treasured recipes

Chrystal passes along the practical insights she's learned so that you can run at full speed--free at last from unnecessary numbness

From the first musical instrument to the agricultural

and chicken

The Marital Knot English both friends and frenemiesA long overdue study of agunot based on exhaustive research in rabbinic sources, memoirs, and communal records. Noa Shashar sheds light on Jewish family life in the early modern era and on the activity of rabbis whose Jewish legal rulings determined the fate of agunot, literally "chained women," who were often considered a marginal group. Who were these men and women? How did Jewish society deal with the danger of a woman's becoming an agunah? What