[Avodah] [Areivim] upcoming C 'psaks'

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 11:15:42PM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
: I haven't seen anything written, but the practise as I have seen it,
: both for adopted children and for gerim with Jewish bio-fathers, is
: to call them up by their father's name, because of kavod habriot.

This is the pesaq I was given lemaaseh, and is that of IM YD I:161. Others
require a suffix like "hammegadlo".

For Shuby, who is Jewish by birth, the pesaq is more complex. Some allow
just "ben Mikha Shemuel", others would only permit it with a qualified
"hammegadlo", either for the same reasons, or as a flag to remind people
to do extra checking before a shidduch. An adopted Jew won't know his
full list of arayos. Yet others would require using his birth father's
name. Shuby is now 9, so I haven't asked halakhah lemaaseh. For Mi
sheBeirakh, it's just my name, no qualifier. But there is little at risk.

This was discussed back in vol 7.

: I also understand, though I have not actually seen this, that in the
: ketuba of a ger with a Jewish biological father his name would be
: *written* as "ben Avraham Avinu", but would be *read* as "ben ploni",
: because of kavod habriot.

I would hate to be the mesadeir get for an adopted person's divorce.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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