[Avodah] Officiating at a Mixed Marriage

[Akiva Blum]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:

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> The marriage of two non-Jews certainly does have halachic validity;
> the wife becomes an eshet ish.  And a rabbi is absolutely permitted
> to perform or supervise at a ceremony to make it so: I even know one
> non-Jewish couple who were married under a chupah by an Orthodox rabbi!
> I couldn't make it, so I don't know exactly how different it was from
> a standard chupah, but if I were to do it I'd probably just omit the
> shem umalchus from the brachot, and replace "kedat moshe veyisrael"
> with "keminhag kol ha'amim".  And translate it all to English.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Not so poshut at all. See Chelkas Yaakov EH 78, and Cahvos Yair 185.

Akiva
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