An aguna or agunah (Hebrew: עֲגוּנָה, romanized: ʿaḡunā, lit. 'anchored or chained [woman]', plural: עֲגוּנוֹת ‎, ʿaḡunoṯ) is a Jewish woman who is stuck in her marriage as determined by traditional halakha (Jewish law). The classic case is a man who has left on a journey and has not returned or has gone into battle and is missing in action.

The agunah is a "chained woman," who cannot marry because she is still technically married to a man she no longer lives with. In the overwhelming majority of cases, the get (Jewish divorce) process proceeds without hitches, offering men and women the ability to be freed of unwanted matrimonial bonds.

AGUNAH (Heb. עֲגוּנָה; lit. "tied," cf. Ruth 1:13), married woman who for whatsoever reason is separated from her husband and cannot remarry, either because she cannot obtain a divorce from him (see Divorce), or because it is unknown whether he is still alive.

2021年6月23日 · Agunot (agunah, s.) are women who are unable to obtain a rabbinic divorce (Writ of (religious) divorce get; gittin, pl.) because their husbands or their husband’s male next of kin are unable or unwilling to give one, leaving them chained in marital captivity (iggun). The term comes from the Hebrew word for “anchor.”

No one who has read Chaim Grade’s powerful novel The Agunah will soon forget its tragic heroine, whose husband has left her and refuses to give her a get (Jewish divorce), so that she can never remarry. Actually, the novel describes only one of several categories of agunah.

Agunah, in Orthodox and Conservative Judaism, a woman who is presumed to be widowed but who cannot remarry because evidence of her husband’s death does not satisfy legal requirements. The plight of the agunah has generated voluminous and complex treatment in Halakhic literature.

Perhaps the most well-known definition of an agunah is a woman whose husband has disappeared and is presumed dead. As a result, his wife finds herself in a limbo-like status. Without clear proof of his death, she cannot remarry or move on with her life.

Agunah: (lit. anchored woman”); A woman whose husband has disappeared and it is not known with certainty whether he is dead or alive; she is thus forbidden to marry unless a) the husband is located and grants her a legal divorce, or b) careful investigation by rabbinical authorities uncovers admissible evidence of his death. It can also refer ...

An agunah ("chained women") is a woman who is halakhically stuck in a dead marriage because her husband is unable or refuses to give her a get, or bill of divorce. The permissibility of using physical coercion to compel a husband to give a get when the law requires it is a significant and controversial aspect of Jewish divorce law.

An Agunah is a woman who is halachacally chained to her husband and cannot remarry, but that is not the complete definition. Our talmudic sages have been very clear as to what constitutes such a case.