[Avodah] Request for Sources

[Zev Sero]

rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com wrote:
> A friend asked me:
> "Vu shtait geshribben that a rabbi may not officiate at a mixed
> wedding?". Apparently a Reformist argued to my buddy that since the
> couple is doing the deed NOT the rabbi therefore the Rabbi himself is
> off the hook.

If you're really not doing anything, and are just a spectator, then
"vos shteistu oiben-on?"  Go sit in the audience with everybody else!
And are you being paid, just to stand there and do nothing?  Elo mai,
you are doing something that is important to the couple, that *they*
consider a vital part of the ceremony; in that case you are mesayea`
yedei ovrei avera.


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Zev Sero                      The trouble with socialism is that you
zev at sero.name                 eventually run out of other people’s money
                                                     - Margaret Thatcher