Lifecycles

On the ________ day of the week, the ________ day of the month of ________________, in the year ________________from the creation of the world according to the calendar reckoning we are accustomed to count here in the city of___________________________ in the state/province of ______________________ in the country of _________________:

 I, ______________________________, also known as ______________________________,
the child of_____________________________________who today am present in the city of _____________________________in the state/province of ________________________,
in the country of _________________________, being under no restraint, do willingly consent to release from any religious marital obligation to me, you, my spouse, known as __________________________________ also known as ___________________________, the child of __________________________________,who today is present in the city of ___________________________, in the state/province of ___________________________, in the country of _______________________.

 Thus, I do release you from any religious spousal obligation to me, in order that you may be completely free to follow your own path and to remarry, if you so wish.  No person may hinder you from this day onward, and you are completely free from any religious marital obligation to me.  This shall be for you from me a bill of divorcement, a letter of release, and a document of freedom in accordance with the customs of the people Israel.  I release the past into the past and receive the future as God’s gift of new possibilities for us both.

Witnessed by ______________________________ and _______________________________

Presiding Rabbi _______________________________________________________________