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Indeed, while. Jewish law clearly and unequivocally forbids intermarriage, the biblical source of this prohibition has been a matter of con- siderable debate and
Thank you for the important source.
ReplyDeleteIt does raise the eternal, bothersome question - if a non-religious boy comes up and says he has a choice between marrying a non-religious girl or a shiksa, which way do we point him? Do we say "Well you have to marry Jewish" and then stick him in a situation where marital relations are kareis or with the shiksa where it's just a lav?
Rav Yaakov's responsum addresses this question - he says the intermarriage is worse in the bigger picture, because he will have non jewish children. The "kareis" is only "small fry", relatively speaking.
ReplyDeleteBesides, if he is non religious, he is tinook shenishbaa.