Thousands of Jewish women remain trapped in unwanted or defunct marriages due to a fundamental inequity in Jewish divorce law: only husbands can initiate religious divorce proceedings. These "chained wives" (agunot) face prolonged marital bondage when spouses desert, disappear, become mentally incapacitated, or simply refuse to grant a religious divorce (get). Through analysis of cases like Mrs. Nurit Luk, whose husband defected to Egypt, alongside examination of Jewish legal precedents and rabbinic solutions, this research evaluates both existing and proposed remedies including conditional divorces, ketubah clauses, and civil court enforcement. While rabbis have historically demonstrated compassion through lenient evidence standards, current solutions provide only partial relief and fail to address cases involving desertion, insanity, or disappearance. A definitive solution emerges from the research: transferring executive power from individual husbands to rabbinic courts, following the prosbul precedent established by Hillel. This halakhic reinterpretation would eliminate the contradiction of allowing a personally interested party to make objective legal decisions while preserving Torah authority and addressing the systematic disadvantages facing agunot.