"Open Marriages: A Jewish Couple’s Solution?" by Atid Malka - Canopy Forum

"Open Marriages: A Jewish Couple’s Solution?" by Atid Malka - Canopy Forum

“Open Marriages: A Jewish Couple’s Solution?” Atid Malka Jewish Wedding by Wincenty Smokowski (1858, US-PD). Throughout the Pentateuch and subsequently in the books of the Prophets and Writings, readers are confronted with the existence of polygamous relationships – Abraham, Jacob, David, and Solomon, to name a mere few – but as of the eleventh century CE, Jewish men have been prohibited from taking more than one wife. These bans took effect on …