Get of Cleves (original) (raw)

The Get of Cleves was a contentious international 18th-century divorce case that ended when the allegedly insane husband remarried his "wife" in a marriage ceremony that omitted the major portions of a standard Jewish wedding. The date on the get (divorce document) was 22 Elul 5526, and it was written ina German-Dutch border town, Cleves, fourteen days after the date on the 8 Elul 5526 (August 14, 1766) marriage document. The truncated ceremony was in 1767.