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as a sideline. He was approached by the wife's family to see if anything could be done to convince Masri to grant her a divorce, since by this point she had been waiting 10 years for the document. Liebowitz turned to Aharon
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So there's going to be a video and you are going to give it around to the world or what? Are you prepared that if the government knocks at a Rabbi's home he will say that Aharon
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This is my order. Don't involve anyone else...nothing has happened, but this is my agreement, no other rabbi will agree to what I've agreed on.
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in a troubled marriage who had refused to give his wife a
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