Is the statement, "You are divorced," uttered unintentionally by a person suffering from obsessive thoughts, considered a divorce?
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A divorce uttered inadvertently by one whose tongue has slipped does not take effect. Similarly, a divorce uttered by a person suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder () does not take effect. Therefore, all that the person suffering from waswas imagines, such as apostasy or the prohibition of his wife, has no validity, and the marital bond between the spouses remains intact.
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