[Avodah] Request for Sources

[Arie Folger]

RRW 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.

See the Mishna in Shevi'it, quoted in Bavli Gittin, and in Yerushalmi
Shevi'it, about helping 'ovrei 'aveira. (mash-elet isha lishkhenta
nafa ukhvara ...), where we learn that it is for example prohibited to
greet someone while he ploughs during shemitta. Methinks that
officiating is much more than being me'hazeq yedei 'ovrei 'aveira.
Furthermore, see the gemara in Kethuboth regarding the merit of the
Nations, she-ein kotvin kethuba le-zakhar, which ipso facto shows that
even halakhically invalid contracts and unions are halakhicly relevant
and subject to censure, otherwise the question of whether there ever
was homosexual "marriage" would be moot, as it would anyway be
halakhicly unenforceable and hence not subject to recognition.
-- 
Arie Folger,
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