Nadav Har'El wrote:
>[1] If I remember correctly, it was Rebinu Gershom around the year 1000
>who declared it forbidden to read other people's mail without permission.
>
>
This argument is flawed because of a perhaps unexpected point Nadav has
forgotten. While it is true that Gershom forbade read other people's
mail (among the other things this Herem forbade), Haramim only hold true
for 1000 years, and this particular Herem expired at around 1999. You
are, once again, allowed to read other people's mail, just as you are,
once again, allowed to marry more than one woman. This is no joke.
Shachar
P.S.
Try to actually ask the Rabanut to marry you to a second wife, and they
will tell you that, while it is true that there is no Halacha forbidding
this any more, there is a custom that you don't do such things, and
therefore they won't. I wonder if the same holds true to reading other
people's mail.
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