DEUT1320 The Torah provides for divorce (this and following three verses), and so from our earliest texts the Jewish tradition has not consider divorce a sin. On the contrary, at times divorce is appropriate and possibly even a Jewish and moral good. That would certainly be true when the marital bond includes abuse or when it causes severe harm to the self-esteem of one or both spouses; but it might even be true when a couple simply cannot get along, despite counseling and other modes of trying to repair the relationship. On the other hand, though, the Talmud teaches that the Temple altar itself sheds tears upon the termination of a marriage (B. Gittin 90b), suggesting that divorce is a source of immense sadness to all involved, not only to the couple and the family but even to the community and the world. Divorce is sometimes the right thing to do, sometimes a tragedy, and often both.