Vilna Gaon on Polygamy
B”H
The Vilna Gaon, was one of the greatest Torah giants. He
was also a great Tzaddik. In the course of a year, he didn’t waste a total of five minutes from learning
Torah. He said (Ma’aseh Rav Hashalem page 276) “If I would be successful, in accomplishing two things
I would be idle from Torah and T’fillah and go from city to city [to get them accepted]. One is to eliminate the prohibition of Rabbeinu Gershom against taking two wives for with this the Geulah (final redemption) will become closer, and the second that they should have bircas Cohanim every day.” In his lifetime he didn’t succeed, but his talmidim who came to Eretz Yisroel succeeded to have bircas Cohanim every day.
for more on this see:
Jewish polygamy in our time.
THE ORTHODOX JEWISH
PRO POLYGAMY PAGE
By EMES L’YAAKOV (Emes L’Yaakov is an Ashkenazi he is an Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi in Jerusalem who is a Dayan (Rabbinic judge) specializing in matters of marriage and divorce he is currently the main posek (rabbinic advicer) of this blog and personals site regarding pilegesh/polygamy related issues.
http://pilegesh.blogspot.com/2007/01/halachic-polygamy-in-our-time.html
