[Avodah] Officiating at a Mixed Marriage

[Yitzchok Zirkind]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> 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".


The issur is triggered bShas B'ilah (Rambam Hil Issurei Bi'ah 12:1).


> There's certainly no validity to a mixed marriage anymore than
>> 2 non Jews who marry (as far as the halachic definition of a Jewish
>> marriage goes).
>>
>
> The marriage of two non-Jews certainly does have halachic validity;
> the wife becomes an eshet ish.


Here too the Geder of Eshes Ish is not Chal until B'iah (Rambam Hil. Mlochim
9:7)

NOTE: this has obviously nothing to do with the issue at hand.

Kol Tuv,
Yitzchok Zirkind
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