The Lieberman clause is a clause included in a ketubah (Jewish wedding document), created by and named after Talmudic scholar and Jewish Theological Seminary of America professor Saul Lieberman , that stipulates that divorce will be adjudicated by a modern bet din (rabbinic court) in order to prevent the problem of the agunah , a woman not allowed to remarry religiously because she had never been granted a religious divorce. It was first introduced in the 1950s by rabbis in Judaism 's Conservative movement .
18-545: Not to be confused with the Russian variant of the name, Liberman . Lieberman and Liebermann are names deriving from Lieb , a German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) nickname for a person from the German lieb or Yiddish lib , meaning 'dear, beloved'. Many Lieberman families originally spelled the name in Hebrew or Cyrillic characters, so variations in
36-579: A get . According to leaders of the Conservative movement, a meeting was held between the leaders of the RA, representing the Conservative movement, and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA), the largest organization of Orthodox rabbis, in an effort to find agreement that the clause was valid from the standpoint of Jewish law, and would be included in both Orthodox and Conservative documents. The premise of
54-2177: Is a Russian-American variant of the German surname Liebermann . Liberman can also refer to: People [ edit ] Surname [ edit ] Liberman family , Australian business family Alexander Liberman (1912-1999), Russian-American artist Alvin Liberman (1917–2000), American psychologist Anatoly Liberman (born 1937), linguist Arli Liberman (born 1986), Israeli-Australian composer Charles Liberman (born 1945), French ice hockey player Daniil and David Liberman (born 1982 and 1984), entrepreneurs David Liberman (1920–1983), Argentine psychiatrist Efim Liberman (1925–2011), Soviet biophysicist and physiologist Erik Liberman , American actor, author and director Evsei Liberman (1897–1981), Soviet economist Hyman Liberman (1853–1923), Polish-South African politician and businessman Isabelle Liberman (1918–1990), Latvian-American psychologist Jim Liberman (1945–1977), American funny car drag racer Joseph Liberman (1917–1941), Soviet mathematician Judith Liberman (born 1978), French fairy tale narrator Judith Weinshall Liberman (born 1929), Israeli artist Leonel Liberman (born 1972), Argentine footballer Luis Liberman (born 1946), Costa Rican businessman and politician Mark Liberman , American linguist M. Charles Liberman (born 1950), American physician and academic Raquel Liberman (1900–1935), Polish-Argentine sex trafficking victim Sally Liberman Smith (1929–2007), American educator Sylvain Liberman (1934–1988), French physicist Tetyana Hryhorivna Liberman, known as Tina Karol (born 1985), Ukrainian singer, actress, and television presenter Yaacov Liberman (born 1923), Chinese-Israeli politician and author Forename [ edit ] Liberman Agámez (born 1985), Colombian volleyball player Liberman Torres (born 2002), Ecuadorian footballer Other [ edit ] Liberman (album) , 2015 album by Vanessa Carlton Liberman Broadcasting , American media company Liberman Broadcasting tower (Era, Texas) , radio tower in
72-401: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lieberman clause According to halakha (Jewish law) when a couple gets divorced it is the man who has to present the woman with a bill of divorce, and the woman who has to consent to receive it, called a get . Without one, the couple is still viewed as married, whether a civil divorce
90-500: Is obtained or not. In the past, if a woman was refused a divorce because a man would not give his wife a get , the rabbis of the local Jewish community were authorized, under certain circumstances, to force the husband to do so (e.g., his refusal to be intimate with his wife as well as not giving the get , or other such serious matters). However since the Haskalah , local Jewish communities lost their autonomous status, and were subsumed into
108-428: Is on Wikidata Commons category link is locally defined Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Module:Interwiki extra: additional interwiki links Liberman (disambiguation) (Redirected from Liberman (disambiguation) ) Liberman [ˈlɪbərmən] (original Cyrillic Либерман [lʲɪbʲɪrˈman]),
126-476: The ketubah (Jewish wedding document). In effect, it was an arbitration agreement used in the case of a divorce; if the marriage dissolved and the woman was refused a get from her husband, both the husband and wife were to go to a rabbinic court authorized by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and heed their directives, which could (and usually did) include ordering a man to give his wife
144-582: The Rabbinical Assembly (RA) counseled that Conservative Jews should take no unilateral action on this issue, and should wait for solutions or joint action from the Orthodox community. While numerous solutions were offered, none were accepted. Eventually, liberal voices within the Rabbinical Assembly won out, and the movement authorized unilateral action. Lieberman developed a clause to be added to
162-633: The surname Liebermann, Lieberman . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Authority control databases : National [REDACTED] Israel Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liebermann&oldid=1194234311 " Categories : Surnames German-language surnames Surnames of Jewish origin Yiddish-language surnames Hidden categories: Commons category link
180-753: The United States Liberman's lemma , mathematical theorem See also [ edit ] Lieberman , a surname Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Liberman . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liberman&oldid=1211322560 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Surnames of Jewish origin Hidden categories: Short description
198-404: The clause; all Orthodox rabbis seem to have united in their rejection of the clause as a violation of Jewish law. As a result, it has only been used for wedding documents and ceremonies in some (but not all) non-Orthodox denominations of Judaism . This clause is still used in many ketubot used by Conservative Jews today. In the intervening years, however, there has been growing concern regarding
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#1732858817940216-518: The creation of this body. While all the members of the beth din would unquestionably be Orthodox poskim , there was discussion as to the possibility of the Leiberman clause being amended by Soloveitchik in order to make it more acceptable to the Orthodox, so as to facilitate its being included in Orthodox ketubahs . However, the beit din was never formed, and the Orthodox movement never acted to include
234-1094: The husband of Judith Lieberman Simcha Lieberman (1926–2009), Israeli Talmud scholar Syd Lieberman , storyteller Zvi Lieberman , Hebrew children's book author Fictional characters [ edit ] Claire Lieberman , the female lead in Young Indiana Jones and the Hollywood Follies See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Liebermann All pages with titles containing Lieberman The Lieberman clause Related surnames Libermann Liebmann , Liebman , Libman References [ edit ] ^ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, A Dictionary of Surnames , Oxford University Press, 1988, p. 325 External links [ edit ] [REDACTED] Media related to Liebermann (surname) at Wikimedia Commons [REDACTED] Media related to Lieberman (surname) at Wikimedia Commons [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
252-543: The legal validity of this clause due to the United States stand on the separation of church and state . For that reason, state courts have disagreed in terms of recognition of this clause, in a religious document, in a civilian legal setting. As a response to this concern, a separate letter was drawn up, and signed by the prospective bride and groom, acknowledging that the conditions of the ketuba had been explained to them, and that this letter would be recognized by them as
270-512: The meetings was to create a beth din (rabbinic court) similar to that of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel which would be the supreme authority on all halakhic issues related to marriage and divorce in America for both the Orthodox and Conservative. In addition to the meetings held by the RA and RCA, private meetings took place between Saul Lieberman and Joseph B. Soloveitchik , who discussed
288-444: The nation in which they existed. The Jewish community lost its civil powers to enforce marriage and divorce laws. The unintended result was that rabbis lost the power to force a man to give his wife a get , and Jewish law does not allow a woman to give a get to the husband. Without a get , a Jewish woman is forbidden to remarry and is therefore called an agunah (literally "a chained woman"). For decades, traditional voices within
306-1545: The spelling occurred during transliteration to the Latin alphabet. Liebermann [ edit ] Alexander Liebermann (born 1989), German-French classical composer Benjamin Liebermann , German manufacturer Bruno Franz Leopold Liebermann (1759–1844), German Catholic theologian Carl Theodore Liebermann (1842–1914), German chemist Charles H. Liebermann , Russian-American physician Eliezer Dob Liebermann , Russian-Jewish writer Felix Liebermann , historian (brother to Max Liebermann) Lowell Liebermann , composer Max Liebermann , painter Oren Liebermann , American-Israeli journalist Rolf Liebermann (1910–1999), Swiss composer and opera director Lieberman [ edit ] Avigdor Lieberman , Moldavian-born Israeli politician, former Minister of Foreign affairs Daniel Lieberman , paleoanthropologist Evelyn S. Lieberman , American public official Fredric Lieberman , an American ethnomusicologist, composer, music professor, and author Hadassah Lieberman , wife of Joe Lieberman Hendel Lieberman , Russian-American artist Herman Lieberman , Polish lawyer and Socialist politician Jeff Lieberman (born 1947), American filmmaker Jeffrey Lieberman , American psychiatrist, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Joe Lieberman , US Senator from Connecticut, husband of Hadassah Lieberman Judith Lieberman , educator and
324-616: The wife of Saul Lieberman Lori Lieberman , American singer-songwriter Lou Lieberman , Australian politician Louise Lieberman (born 1977), American soccer coach and former player Matthew Lieberman , professor of social cognitive neuroscience Nancy Lieberman (born 1958), American basketball player Nick Lieberman , American filmmaker Philip Lieberman , linguist Robert Lieberman , film and television director Robert C. Lieberman , American political scientist Robert H. Lieberman , scientist, educator, novelist and movie director Saul Lieberman , rabbi and scholar and
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