This collegue of mine is half jew. As per our conversation she told me that orthodox jew men are allowed to marry another women if couple could not have kids in five years. And this is part of jewish religion not something made up. Anyone shed some on this??
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If the couple can or canNOT conceive in five years?
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sorry for the typo Sadiyah..i have corrected it :)
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From what I know there is nothing in the Christian or Jewish religion that asks men to limit themselves to one wife. Many of the prophets referenced in the texts are mentioned to have engaged in polygamy, and its never actually disallowed explicitly.
I don't know much about the Jewish religion, but as far as the Christian religion, it was some time after Jesus's lifetime that polygamy was disallowed. The Church mandated the new law, so its not one based on the Bible.
I don't know if something is similar in Jewish faith.
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Although it is an interesting site you refer to, it’s view is not the accepted Christian and Jewish stand on polygamy.
The standard Christian view is that polygamy is wrong. Opponents to polygamy will quote Tit.1v6 and 1Tim.3v2,12 to indicate that polygamy was not preferred by the Jesus’ apostles/disciples/leaders immediately after Jesus left. The “church” therefor did not make it into a “new law”.
Tit.1v6, 1Tim.3v2,12 state that a leader/elder/deacon in the church should only have one wife.
I can’t recall ANY of the prophets in the Bible having more than one wife. I have to admit though that there is a difference about how the term “prophets” is used by Christians/Jews and Islam. Islam consider the Israelite patriarchs and kings to also be prophets (Abraham, David), while Christians doesn’t.
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In earlier times, Christian men were permitted as many wives as they wished, since the Bible puts no restriction on the number of wives. It was only a few centuries ago that the Church restricted the number of wives to one.
Polygamy is permitted in Judaism. According to Talmudic law, Abraham had three wives, and Solomon had hundreds of wives. The practice of polygamy continued till Rabbi Gershom ben Yehudah (960 C.E to 1030 C.E) issued an edict against it. The Jewish Sephardic communities living in Muslim countries continued the practice till as late as 1950, until an Act of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel extended the ban on marrying more than one wife.
Source Dr. Zakir Naik
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Unfortunately your source is not a very good one on Christianity. The New Testament, as I pointed out, made reference to only one wife per Christian leader. A detailed debate on the issue can be found here.
Polygamy is not explicitly prohibited in the Bible. One does though get the view from the Bible that monogamy is the better answer.
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Christians (Mormons) practice or did practice polygamy, both polygyny and polyandry.
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I didn’t read everything at the url you posted just browsed a little but will read it more later on when I have some time.
Could you explain what makes you think my source as in Dr. Zakir Naik is not very good? As far as I know Dr. Zakir Naik has thoroughly read/researched Christanity, Hinduism and Islam.
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Some of the things he have stated that I read, indicates that he has not a very thorough knowledge of Christian theology/thought. I find his knowledge very much like the knowledge of Jehova’s Witnesses. They study a certain issue deeply but in order to support a stance they have decided on beforehand. They tend to look for parts of scripture that support what they already have decided on. I am sure that for people like you (little knowledge of Christianity) he would seem to be an expert. Few (if any) people though can be an expert in more than one field…
As Sherlock Holmes said: It is a capitol mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts