Divorce Due to Improper Conduct
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Question
Hello, in Deuteronomy 24:3, Rashi mentions that a husband who finds improper conduct in his wife is commanded to divorce her. What is the definition of improper conduct? And what is the ruling in our times?
Answer
Hello
It means that he found in her actions signs of promiscuous behavior.
Source
Shulchan Aruch, Even HaEzer, Siman 119, Paragraphs 3-4
Paragraph 3: A man should not divorce his first wife unless he finds in her an act of indecency. etc.
Paragraph 4: A woman with bad character traits, and who is not modest like the virtuous daughters of Israel, it is a mitzvah to divorce her.