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Question
Is it permissible for a woman who divorced her first husband, then married and divorced a second man, and then married and was widowed, to remarry her first husband? What is the status of her children by that remarriage?
Answer
She is not allowed as written in Deuteronomy 24; 4.
The children are not Mamzerim and can marry a Jewish spouse.

Raising children with a non-Jewish husband
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | Adar I 29, 5768

Remarriage to first husband after relations
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | Nisan 30, 5768

Civil Divorce
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 12 Sivan 5764





