About This Text
Author: Gershom ben Yehudah
Composed: Mainz, Germany, c.980 – c.1020 CE
Commentary by Gershom ben Yehudah (Mainz, c. 960 - c.1028). Rabbeinu Gershom is best known for his takkanot, ordinances, banning polygamy, requiring both parties to agree to a divorce, and forbidding people to remind those who were forced to convert to Christianity of their conversions.