Halakhah for Sanhedrin 41:4
<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> למימרא דר' יהודה דריש טעמא דקרא ור"ש לא דריש טעמא דקרא והא איפכא שמעינן להו
and R. Simeon doesnot?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Therefore, notwithstanding the explicit statement that the king must not multiply wives, R. Judah permits it, where the feared consequences will not follow; whilst R. Simeon keeps to the letter of the law. ');"><sup>7</sup></span> But we find the reverse; forit has been taught: A pledge must not be taken from a widow, whether pooror rich, as it is written, Thou shalt not take the widow's raiment topledge:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XXIV, 17. ');"><sup>8</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
From the laws of the commandments is that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Sanhedrin 21a) that it is permitted to marry up until eighteen wives, but not more - and even if they are like Avigail, who was righteous, alacritous and good. [This] and the rest of its details are in the second chapter of Sanhedrin. And this is from the commandments which are only upon the king.
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