Negative Commandment 356 (Digest)
Remarrying a Divorced Wife Who Remarried in the Interim
"Her first husband who sent her away may not marry her again"—Deuteronomy 24:4.
It is forbidden for a man to remarry a woman he divorced if she has remarried [and subsequently been divorced again or widowed] in the interim.
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> The 356th prohibition is that a man is forbidden from remarrying his divorced wife, if she was married to another man in the interim.;)
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> The source of this commandment is G‑d's statement;) (exalted be He) [that if her second husband divorces her or dies,] "then her first husband who divorced her cannot remarry her."
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> The punishment for transgression of this prohibition is malkos (lashes).
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> The details of this mitzvah are explained in a number of passages in Yevamos.
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> Footnotes
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> Even if the second husband passed away or divorced her.
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> Deut. 24:4.