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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- The ceremony
- The ''halitzah'' shoe
- Halitzah document
- Frequency
- In Reform Judaism
- See also
- References
thumb|right|Engraving of a chalitza ceremony
Halitsah or chalitzah () in Rabbinical Judaism is the process by which a childless widow and a brother of her deceased husband may avoid the duty to marry under the biblical system of yibbum (levirate marriage).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Halizah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.