Oct 18 2012 6:02 pm

PHOTO: Over one hundred Kollel and Yeshivah Leit gathered at Park Terrace this morning to observe the uncommon event and Mitzvah, of ‘Chalitzah’.

Chalitzah is performed when a widow and her husband’s brother avoid the duty to marry after the husband’s death, in the unfortunate situation in which the husband dies childless.

The ceremony involves the taking off of the brother-in-law’s special Chalitzah shoe by the widow of the brother, through which ceremony he is released from the obligation of marrying her, and she becomes free to marry whomever she desires.

The event was held in the presence of the Beis Din of Rabbi Shmuel Meir Katz and affiliated Dayonim.

(Please note: Other photos and video were not published, as per the advice of a Dayan involved).