My Jewish Learning's overview of polygamy in Jewish history and law: practiced by the patriarchs and by David and Solomon; banned for Ashkenazi communities around the year 1000 CE by Rabbeinu Gershom's decree, an authority Ashkenazi Judaism still holds binding; persisting longer in some Sephardic communities; and outlawed under Israeli civil law in 1977, with narrow chief-rabbinate exceptions.
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A general-audience Jewish educational reference site, not a primary halakhic text or peer-reviewed academic source; the fetched page names neither an individual author nor a publication date, an absence recorded here rather than left silent. Used for the well-attested, uncontroversial facts of the Rabbeinu Gershom decree's approximate date and its continued Ashkenazi authority, both corroborated by multiple other sources found in the same search. Citation
PublisherMy Jewish Learning
URLhttps://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/polygamy-in-judaism/
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names King David directly: "practiced by the patriarchs and by David and Solomon; banned for Ashkenazi communities around the year 1000 CE by Rabbeinu Gershom's decree, an authority Ashkenazi Judaism still holds binding..."
This source names Solomon directly: "by the patriarchs and by David and Solomon; banned for Ashkenazi communities around the year 1000 CE by Rabbeinu Gershom's decree, an authority Ashkenazi Judaism still holds binding; persisting..."
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