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The Old Testament mentions many cases where men took more than one wife and polygamy is not strictly prohibited in Leviticus. However, in the year 1000 a rabbi outlawed polygamy among Ashkenazic Jews. Over time, the practice died out.

However, according to this document the prohibition was intended to be temporary and intended to be repealed in AM 5000 (1240 CE)

https://www.jta.org/1931/03/20/arch...alid-and-jews-may-now-have-more-than-one-wife

Your challenge is to reinstate polygamy in modern Jewish practice with a POD no earlier than 1240 (and polyandry if necessary in egalitarian Jewish communities today). I suspect a good way to start would be to start the practice in tolerant Muslim nations as Islam (I believe) allows polygamy.

Assume that if it survives today it would be similar to Mormon polygamy (for instance, I believe in Mormonism only the first wife has both a civil and religious marriage: the subsequent wives only have religious marriages)
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