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Friday, 3 June 2016

Jewish Bet Din And Its Function In The World

By Virginia Parker


All over the world, people were not born with the same environment, people, culture, tradition, and religion. They were obviously not born on the same place which means each attitude of an individual would grow up according to the beliefs of the religion they belong to. This includes their adaptation of its very culture which sometimes or mostly must be followed.

Many religious courts around the globe operate everyday. Varying from many stuff from other religion, Jewish bet din appears to be an existing court today. Simply, this is disputes, cases, and other issues of Jew people.

On a daily basis, several churches do manage a routine. The Roman Catholic church for instance, has almost 200 diocesan judges or also known as tribunals that manage different cases and issues that include approximately 15,000 to 20,000 marriage annulments every year. Orthodox Jews on the other side, use rabbinical courts to handle marriage divorces and would resolve conflicts regarding certain matters with their fellow jews.

In case some have no idea, beth din is the Jewish religious court of law or called as house of judgment. The practice originated during the ancient times in the biblical land of Israel. The act is still done today. This civil court manages different things but mostly focuses on a main matter.

Not like any other religions, each person in Judaism tend to take different pathways in their lives. The teachings of their practice say that the sincerity of a Jew must be known sooner. Jews do not only exist on Earth to live irresponsibly but to follow their religious groups too. They would be taught in studying and practicing the nature of their religious laws to fulfill their jobs as followers.

Beit din is sometimes the meeting of a candidate and a clergy for conversion. The conversion focuses on the assurance of the sincerity of a candidate. The questions will concentrate on the journey of the person in the religion, his expectations, plans, and deeper learning of jew teachings. To achieve this, necessary rituals are done as well.

Another question would be, is what is the other important role of beth din. One of its major roles today involve the supervision of divorces. It is crucial for Jewish couples to arrange their divorce documents or also called get because otherwise, their marriage is still valid even if they acquired civil divorce. Unless one can present a get to the other, none of them will have the chance to remarry.

The wife must never have offspring from any other man without presenting official gitten because another case will be filed if she does so. Acquiring gittin became relevant, the reason why married ones should seek supervision and management from respected clergies in town. They do coordination with rabbis form different areas as well in fixing difficult issues like long distance separations.

There are many roles this practice plays in Orthodox community. Most people around the world would think that it is not good because divorce is against this and that. Of course, those people believe differently but every religion plays a big role not just in a country, but in the whole world. One must respect one another to make the world a better place to live.




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