One of the terrible stories from the Gitin tract. A story of betrayal and humiliation. The lowest ebb you can degenerate to. This is a story of abysmal evil.
A story that appears in the tractate ‘Gittin’ is a story about a tragic romantic triangle. A story about a carpenter who had an apprentice, the apprentice set his sights on the carpenter’s wife. Desire her. Later the carpenter needed a loan and the apprentice offered him a loan, and asked him to send his wife and lend to her. The carpenter sent the woman. She stayed three days with the apprentice. When the husband came to look for her, the apprentice told him that he sent her immediately but heard that she had been raped by young men on the way. The frightened husband did not know what to do and the apprentice suggested that he send his wife away. The husband said he had no money for her address and the apprentice offered to lend him again. So it was. The husband borrowed the money, sent the woman away and the apprentice married her. Later the owner did not have the money to repay the loan and the apprentice offered him to work for him for the money. In the last picture of the story, the apprentice, his wife who was previously the carpenter’s wife are sitting eating and drinking as the carpenter fills their glasses and his tears fall into the wine. At that hour the Gemara says the sentence was sealed. This is a story about a lying and greedy apprentice, and a husband who lets his wife go for three days and kicks her out after she is raped, and a woman who can drink and eat when her ex-husband cries. Triangle of inhumanity. of opacity.
Gabriel