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From: meth@csd2.UUCP (Asher Meth)
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Subject: Re: Halachic not Humanistic Judism
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 16:57:00 EST
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In response to Yakim Martillo :

>I rather like a good story but the tikun of  Rab  Gershom  has  expired.

Interesting. Yet many great rabbis have said that even though the original
cherem (which was for 1000 years) has expired, it is still in force (because
the people continued to accept it, or because the rabbis renewed it; i'm not
sure why).

>In any case, no Rabbi who accepted Gershom's rather silly tikun -- which
>to  tell  the  truth  I believe is a myth -- would consider mamzerim the
>children by a second wife of a man who never gave his first wife a  get.

Yakim, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.
There is no reason to belittle rishonim. (Rabbeinu Gershom was the rebbi of
Rashi; or was he the rebbi of the rebbi of Rashi. I'll have to recheck the
source - in the last perek of Pesachim.)

By the way, among us Ashkenazim, it is called Cherem DeRabbeinu Gershom, and
not Tikun. Granted that this cherem was not accepted by the Sepharadim; but it
was accepted by the Ashkenazim.

     asher meth