Divorce cases are rarely "pretty". but some are just strange. Even very strange.

A recent case in Haifa had a husband divorcing his wife and accusing her of performing witchcraft on him. He was making this claim in the hope that he would not have to pay her the value of the ketuba, which was very high.

The dispute was over the ketuba of 1,555,000nis. The husband claimed in the beis din that he should not have to pay it because she was attacking him with witchcraft. he brought in video evidence of her slipping unknown powders into his drinks - and he says it might have been poison or mystical poison.
As well, he brought in a former-shipputznik (renovator) and current "distributor of mystical materials and student of kabbala" to show that she had purchased 9000nis worth of witchcraft materials and potions that he had whipped up for her in order to "cause enemies to submit and to be able to control people".

The husband's claim was that a wife that deals in withcraft is considered a rebbelious wife, meaning there is justification for forcing a divorce and she "loses" her rights to the ketuba.

In response the wife claimed that she had placed things in his drink, but they were supplements to his coffee and not potions and witchcraft. Regarding what she bought from the shipputznik/mystic, she admits to the purchase but says she never made use of it.

Anyways, after much contemplation about this strange set of claims, the dayyanim decided that she was not involved in witchcraft and there was nothing special or unique about the list of materials and potions she had bought from her supplier and there is no evidence of real witchcraft and just because somebody makes a potion and says it is mystical and powerful does not actually make it so. And, the fact that a wife uses witchcraft, which in this case is not clear, against her husband, is not a reason to mkae her lose her ketuba.

That being said, the beis din decided to force a compromise, as they have the right to do, and decided that he would have to pay her ketubah to the tune of 250,000nis.
source: Ladaat

weird.

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