rabbenu gershom造句

• Ashkenazi Jews have continued to follow Rabbenu Gershom's ban since the 11th century.
• Among the many new decrees implemented or older decrees strengthened was the famous ban of Rabbenu Gershom against polygamy.
• Since the 11th century, Ashkenazi Jews have followed Rabbenu Gershom's ban on polygyny ( except in rare circumstances ).
• In the beginning of the 11th century, Rabbenu Gershom issued a decree prohibiting Jewish men from practising bigamy ( though this was not accepted by certain remote Jewish communities such as the Yemenite Jews ).
• The most famous of these ordinances is ascribed to Rabbenu Gershom of Mainz ( c . 960-1040 ), but was probably enacted in a rabbinic synod he convened c . 1000 C . E . The ordinance, still in effect today, prohibits polygamy among Jews in the West.
• In general, it is accepted that for a Jewish divorce to be effective the husband must hand to the wife, and not vice versa, a bill of divorcement, called a Rabbenu Gershom )-- accepted universally throughout European Jewish communities prohibited a husband from divorcing his wife against her will.
• Ashkenazi Jewry has not practiced polygamy since Rabbenu Gershom's ban in the 11th century " except in exceptional circumstances requiring obtaining in advance the permission of 100 rabbis . " Some Sephardi and Mizrahi groups, in particular those from Yemen and Iran ( where polygamy is the cultural norm ), only discontinued polygamy much more recently, for non-religious reasons.
• To prevent this decree from causing flippant divorces previously unnecessary, Rabbenu Gershom also decreed that " a woman may not be divorced against her will . " In certain extreme circumstances, however, such as the case of a man whose wife is missing, or who refused to accept a " get " for an extended period, a " heter meah rabbanim " ( exemption by one hundred rabbis ) may permit him to take a second wife ( in the latter case, after depositing a " get " with them ).