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The new Mishnah states that the wife of a husband who gave her a divorce on condition that he dies) must not be alone with him (with her husband between the delivery of the divorce and his death) unless there are witnesses there (that they did not engage in relations).
She may be with him in the presence of a slave, and even a maidservant, but not her own maidservant because she is familiar with her own slave (and will not be embarrassed to cohabit with her husband in front of her own maidservant)! What is she during those days?
We review Lord Jakobowitz's (OBM) essay on the struggles of modern orthodoxy and follow it with the conservative position on gaunt.