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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
You haven't pointed out yet how anti-Semitic the Spanish are. If we're going to do that today, could we get it over quickly?

Could we tie this in?

http://www.polygamy.com/Jewish/Polyg...sh-History.htm

At a later period Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah maintains, contrary to his personal opinion, that
polygamous unions from a strictly legal point of view are permissible. Eventually, however, they were
proscribed under the authority of Rabbi Gershom (about l000), although cases of polygamy were found in
Spain as late as the 14th cent. That such cases were not rare may be inferred from the fact that in the
Spanish communities the Kethubah, the document marking the betrothal, exacted that the man was not to
take a second wife. The Islamic influence on the Jews in Spain was more or less pronounced until the
expulsion at the end of the 15th cent.