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We learned in the Mishna on yesterday’s daf that if a man married to two women who share the same name tells a scribe to write a geṭ for one of them and that he will decide later on which wife to divorce, the geṭ would be invalid.
From this ruling our Gemara wants to conclude that en berera – that we do not take seriously a later action which clarifies an earlier issue. The question of whether or not halakha recognizes berera – the later clarification – is a topic discussed in relation to many laws throughout the Talmud.
In late 1793, when the Habsburg Monarchy led the coalition against Revolutionary France and all of Europe was at war, one Jewish woman waged her own private struggle in Trieste, the thriving Habsburg free port on the Adriatic. The desperate twenty-three-year-old Rachele Morschene Luzzatto sought to extricate herself from her failing marriage to Lucio Luzzatto, a thirty-eight-year-old broker, her husband of five years, and father of their two-year-old daughter.
We examine the Jews of the Hapsburg Empire.