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Does the wife become divorced if she returns to the marital home after leaving it, based on the husband's statement to her and her father: "If you leave the house, you will not return," while he affirms his intention that this was not an oath of divorce, but rather a word he would enforce to assert his control, and does divorce occur if she returns to another apartment?

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A wife's statement to her husband, "If you leave the house, you will not return," is not an explicit suspension of divorce upon leaving, and divorce does not occur as a result of it unless the wife intended to effect a divorce upon leaving and then left. However, if she did not intend divorce and did not swear to it explicitly, then divorce does not occur by the wife leaving or returning.

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