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partnership’s profits?! His partner is clearly entitled to tell him: Ei-
ther you take an injection and regain your strength so that you can
continue sewing suits according to our agreed upon quota, or we
dissolve the partnership. (as set out in the Shulchan Aruch, Choshen
Mishpat 176,19)

It is the same in our case. He must either appease his wife so that
she forgoes her mitzvah of onah or take the injections, or allow her to
accept a divorce and pay her her kesuvah and release her. But to hold
onto her with her obligations towards him, while for his part he is not
fulfilling his obligations, is untenable.

The halachah is that if a man stipulates upon marrying that he shall
be under no obligation to supply his wife’s conjugal rights, his condi-
tion is null and void [even if she consented] for since this involves
physical deprivation it is not subject to her forgoing. It is therefore
possible that even if he appeases her to forgo his discharge of this
obligation henceforth, her agreement lacks substance and he will be
in violation of the Torah prohibition of “her conjugal rights, he shall
not diminish.” However, if he seeks her forgiveness for a specific time
her acquiescence is valid.

ɳ Summary and Conclusion

The husband must either take the injection or appease his wife so
that she forgoes this right until he regains his strength or enable her
to accept a divorce.

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Medical Treatment to Facilitate Marital

Harmony

ɳ Question

I would be grateful for the Rav’s responses to the following problems:

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