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In about the year 1000, Rabbeinu Gershom of Mainz issued a decree, accepted by Ashkenazic communities, that outlawed polygamy/bigamy, either because it led to the mistreatment of women, caused domestic strife or was inconsistent with Western values. At the same time, a provision was made (some say by Rabbeinu Gershom himself) allowing for a man to take another wife even if his first wife was still alive. This would be prompted either by the wife’s inability to accept a Get (such as by being in a coma or a vegetative state) or her abject refusal to do so (Rabbeinu Gershom also ruled that a woman must agree to the divorce); or her having gone missing for an extended period. It was not to be used as a means of circumventing a mutually-agreed upon Get process. 100 rabbis from 3 distinct communities (in order to prevent any one rabbi from "railroading" the heter) would issue the permit, with a Get held in abeyance in case the first wife recovered from the coma or reappeared after being missing.
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Rabbi Stewart Weiss

Was ordained at the Hebrew Theological College in Skokie, Illinois, and led congregations in Chicago and Dallas prior to making Aliyah in 1992. He directs the Jewish Outreach Center in Ra'anana, helping to facilitate the spiritual absorption of new olim.
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