Sir, your videos are saving my college grades! Thank you so much, and congratulations on your content. It's very complete and interesting!

Love the new glasses Professor!

In fact perhaps Rabbenu Gershom (of Metz/Mainz) was a precursor even to the Roman Catholic Christian church with his ban on polygamy in the marriage. In the RCC the "holy sacrament of marriage" - not simply the act of the wed persons passing simply in a church service but a special blessing by the priest and the declaration of the bond of marriage to be eternel and unbreakable as long as the two persons live and unbreakable - "a bond made by god can only be broken by god" - is introduced in the 11th century. Officially the "holy sacrament of marriage" was decreed in 1184 but earlier already the often existing earlier practice of repudiation and divorce to remarry with the background of political and economic alliances, was strictly condemned by the church. To obtain a divorce in the Catholic Church became extremely difficult. Trying to safe her marriage by undergoing all ignominies by her family-in-law, ended up in the martyr death of some Flemish young woman (Saint Godelieve of Ghistel) who was canonised for this in 1084. This woman was very soon a very important saint in Flanders. Church made a very ardent promotion for the unbreakable character of marriage - leading up in part to the major conflict with king of England Henry VIII and another batch of martyrs. Perhaps the lessons and rulings of Rabbenu Gershom transpired to the christian theologic theoreticists.

Dr. Abramson, I just have to say I like the new glasses. You look even more distinguished than before.

Really interesting; thank you. I know a bit about medieval history but not much about Jewish medieval people specifically and this was very enriching.

Hi, sir, I enjoyed this video, but I have one 'easy' question of a general nature. You have referred in earlier videos to the importance of places in Mesopotamia for Jewish life and scholarship, but have I missed one on the effects of the Mongol invasions?

Hi Dr Henry, I just watched videos 71, 72, & 73. 😔No wonder my loved MIL would caution me about being “too open “ about our family name. 😔😔😢

Hi Dr Abram, when are you doing the history of jews in india ?

In all of the Talmud we find no Tannah or Amorah that says explicitly that they had two wives, although their women are mentioned . In the bible there are two verses that being with “and he had “: one says “ and he had two wives (I Samuel 1:2) and the other says “and he had prepared the tools of death “(psalms 7:15).

A second wife? One is not enough?

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