{"id":7979,"date":"2011-08-18T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T09:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahideworldcenter.org\/ask\/2011\/08\/18\/bnei-noah-family-question\/"},"modified":"2011-08-18T09:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T09:15:59","slug":"bnei-noah-family-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/bnei-noah-family-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Bnei Noah family question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q:<\/strong> Shalom, could you tell if a Ben Noah may have more than one wife? Thanks, Ahava<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q:<\/strong> Shalom, could you tell if a Ben Noah may have more than one wife? Thanks, Ahava<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A: There are many different customs among many nations concerning marriage. Some<\/strong><strong> societies tolerate or even encourage polygamy and some forbid it. The Noahide law establishes only the minimum required to be a righteous man before God and not the maximum. So the question of having many wives or not is the prerogative of the court of every society. For example, we have a tradition that the court of Shem, the son of Noach, forbid prostitution, even though this is not included in the seven laws.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Shalom, could you tell if a Ben Noah may have more than one wife? Thanks, Ahava<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customs-and-practices"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}