Chief Judge Rabbi rules that if a married man doesn’t have any offspring because his wife can’t or doesn’t want children, he is allowed to take a concubine • “The concubine may also live with the couple,” says Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel.
By Yehuda Shlezinger
The Chief Judge of the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Eliyahu Abergel, has ruled that in cases where a man has not fathered any children, and his wife cannot or does not want to bear children, the man may take a concubine.
In his recently-published book, Dvarot Eliyahu (“Eliyahu’s Rulings”), the rabbi writes, “establishing a family is an important commandment.
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