Teshuvot Maharam · Berlin Edition, Part III, Chapter 337
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ואשר שאלת תדע שאין לנו דין מורדת שבתלמוד בזה"ז וא"צ להעמיד בהלכות כל בזה"ז אין נוהגי' דין מורדת וכל מה שנחלקו ר"ת ור"י היינו לפי שטת דין התלמוד אבל עתה בזה"ז קיי"ל כרבנן סבוראי דהוי בתראי והם תקנו וגזרו דכל אשה שתאמר לבעלה לא בעינא לך כייפי' ליה לבעל לאלתר לגרשה כי מצאו בקעה וגדר גדרו שלא תצאן בנות ישראל לתרבות רעה.
Nowadays the talmudic law regarding a rebellious wife no longer applies. The ordinance of the Saboraim prevails instead, that when a woman refuses to live with her husband, he is immediately to be coerced into granting her a divorce. This ordinance was instituted in order that Jewish women should not turn to mischief. The woman is to receive whatever she has brought in as her dowry (Nikse Zon Barzel), and whatever is left of her own property to which her husband had the right of usufruct (Nikse Melug). The Geonim ruled that she was also entitled to the Ikkar ketubah. The husband is to be coerced, by threat of excommunication, into granting the divorce, for who will dare contradict the decisions of the great luminary Rabbenu Gershom, the Geonim, Alfasi, Maimonides, and R. Isaac di Trani? One may not object that such favorable treatment would encourage many women to rebel against their husbands; Heaven forfend, Jewish daughters are not suspected of such malefaction. They prefer to stay married even in adverse circumstances, and would not seek a divorce unless actually driven thereto. SOURCES: B. p. 285, nos. 337–9; P. 494. Cf. Weil, Responsa 78.
ואשר שאלת תדע שאין לנו דין מורדת שבתלמוד בזה"ז וא"צ להעמיד בהלכות כל בזה"ז אין נוהגי' דין מורדת וכל מה שנחלקו ר"ת ור"י היינו לפי שטת דין התלמוד אבל עתה בזה"ז קיי"ל כרבנן סבוראי דהוי בתראי והם תקנו וגזרו דכל אשה שתאמר לבעלה לא בעינא לך כייפי' ליה לבעל לאלתר לגרשה כי מצאו בקעה וגדר גדרו שלא תצאן בנות ישראל לתרבות רעה.
Nowadays the talmudic law regarding a rebellious wife no longer applies. The ordinance of the Saboraim prevails instead, that when a woman refuses to live with her husband, he is immediately to be coerced into granting her a divorce. This ordinance was instituted in order that Jewish women should not turn to mischief. The woman is to receive whatever she has brought in as her dowry (Nikse Zon Barzel), and whatever is left of her own property to which her husband had the right of usufruct (Nikse Melug). The Geonim ruled that she was also entitled to the Ikkar ketubah. The husband is to be coerced, by threat of excommunication, into granting the divorce, for who will dare contradict the decisions of the great luminary Rabbenu Gershom, the Geonim, Alfasi, Maimonides, and R. Isaac di Trani? One may not object that such favorable treatment would encourage many women to rebel against their husbands; Heaven forfend, Jewish daughters are not suspected of such malefaction. They prefer to stay married even in adverse circumstances, and would not seek a divorce unless actually driven thereto.
SOURCES: B. p. 285, nos. 337–9; P. 494. Cf. Weil, Responsa 78.