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One striking source concerning this relationship is a rather cryptic statement in the very last Mishnah of Tractate Ketubot>Hakol ma'alin l'Eretz Yisra'el, "Everyone may force to go up to the land of Israel..." According to the Babylonian Talmud (ibid., p. 110b), the Mishnah means that both marriage partners have the right to coerce his or her spouse to immigrate to the land of Israel. If a woman refuses her husband’s request to live in Israel, he may divorce her without paying her the value of her ketubah. If a man refuses his wife's request to move to Israel, she may demand a divorce and the full payment of her ketubah.
In practice, contemporary Rabbinic courts are reluctant to enforce these Talmudic rules. If one searches hard enough, one can find authorities who argue that, for one reason or another, the obligation to live in the land of Israel does not apply nowadays. Moreover, it is abundantly clear that a husband and wife who are devoted to each other will work out the difficult issue of whether or not to live in Israel without recourse to a Rabbinic court. Nevertheless, as an indicator of the halakhic ideal for a couple that takes Judaism seriously - the Talmudic passage speaks volumes.
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