[Avodah] Officiating at a Mixed Marriage

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 06:40:45AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
:>A mixed wedding is not a valid chasuna, so how could a rabbi officiate?
:> To ask where is the source would be lending credibility to a mixed
:>marriage.

: And yet it is a valid legal and social act - at least valid enough to
: trigger the issur of "lo titchaten bam".

And one of the 7 mitzvos benei Noach recognizes such women as eishes
ish.

For that matter, I half remember a Ketzos in which he talks about 2 dinim
in Jewish marriage, that qiddushin is in addition to Noachide marriage,
not instead. The amazing nafqa mina is that he holds a pilegesh requires
a get shichrur. And unlike R' Moshe Feinstein, who ruled that a couple
who lived together thinking they were married (and thus "ein adam oseh
be'ilaso..." doesn't make a presumption of qiddushin a"y bi'ah) would still
require a get -- but a get shichrur, not a get kerisas qiddushin.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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