[Avodah] [Areivim] upcoming C 'psaks'

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Wed Dec 26 14:29:08 PST 2007


Elazar M. Teitz wrote:
> RMicha Berger remarked

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

> Having been faced with the situation, the practice adopted was:
> (a) If both natural parents are non-Jews, write "ben Avraham Avinu"[...] 
> (b) If both natural parents are Jews, write the birth-father's name.   

But if he is regularly called to the Torah as ben the adoptive father,
shouldn't that count as an alias?  "Reuven ben Shimon, hamechuneh ben Levi"
or something like that?


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Zev Sero               Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's
zev at sero.name          interpretation of the Constitution.
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