The 'Rampant Rabbi' who has seven wives and eight children

Philip Sharp emerges from his farmhouse kitted out in jodphurs, a thick red sweater and boots, and strides purposefully towards the stables to take his racehorses for their morning gallop. Before arriving, I had not formed a clear impression in my mind of what a 'rampant rabbi' looks like, but the man in jodphurs before me - albeit one with a rascal-ish gleam in his eye - is definitely not it. Nonetheless, this is the man himself, the man who has found infamy across the land for living with his 'harem' of seven 'wives' and their many children. Enlarge Perhaps 'harem' is a little misleading. The women concerned are not seductively lying about the farmhouse waiting for the return of their master from the gallop; they are out and about working hard on his farm. The rampant rabbi is nothing if not practical. He does not go for a... [read full story]                    

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