Sins for which Yom Kippur won't atone:
This is Yigal Sagi. He left Israel in 2009, leaving his wife Sarit an aguna – a woman chained to marriage. About six years ago, she agreed to send the children to him for a short summer visit – and since then she has not seen them.
Although the couple lived as secular Jews in Israel, since leaving Israel Yigal has become entrenched in a religious Brooklyn community and has become observant.
The children – who left Israel thinking they would return to their everyday lives in a month – apparently now study in ultra-Orthodox institutions.
Sarit, who suffered a stroke shortly after learning that the children wouldn't be returning, required a long rehabilitation, and to this day has still not been able to see them, in spite of a number of attempts.
