She could only be divorced on the same conditions as a wife.
Moreover, the land was purified when it became divorced from the practices of a luxurious court and lost many of its worst inhabitants.
Even on the population returns certain answers, such as the number of the divorced or the number unable to read and write, may be open to question.
There is probably no other branch of art in which orthodox tradition is so entirely divorced from the historical sense, and the history, when studied at all, so little illuminated by the permanent artistic significance of its subjects.
Mysticism is often the expression of a revolt against authority, but in Luria's case mysticism was not divorced from respect for tradition.