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🌐 Agunah Day (Adar 13)

🌐 Agunah Day (Adar 13)

This is an archive of prayers written for יום העגונה (Yom ha-Agunah), Agunah Day, advocating for Agunot, Jewish women trapped and often extorted by husbands refusing to grant them a get, a bill of divorce in accord with halakhah, rabbinic Jewish law. The coincides with Taanit Esther (the Fast of Queen Esther) on the 13th of Adar.

International Agunah Day was established by the International Coalition for Agunah Rights in 1990.
Click here to contribute a prayer you have written for Agunah Day.


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Isles Of The Forsaken, an illustration of the plight of Agunot by Ilene Winn-Lederer (2002)

תפילה לעגונות | Prayer for the Liberation of Agunot, by Shelley Frier List (2005)

מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ לְהַתָּרַת עֲגוּנוֹת וּמְסֹרְבוֹת גֵּט | Mi she’Berakh for the Release of Agunot and Women Denied a Writ of Divorce, by Dr. Yael Levine (2006)

מי שברך לעגונות | Mi sheBerakh to Support Agunot and Call Get Refusers to Account, by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer

תפילה לעגונות ומסורבות הגט | Prayer for Agunot refused a Get, by Rabbi Alona Lisitsa