[Avodah] Halacha vs. Policy - Poll re: Who To Marry

[Rich, Joel]

WRT the discussion about RYK's psak, and whom it would actually apply to - as the person who it would apply to would not normally be asking she'elot - on another email list, several years back, there was a discussion by a RW member - who was vigorously championing the position that RYK rejected - that one should rather marry a non Jew than not keep taharat hamishpacha - and the nafka mina was whether one should try to be meshaddech two nonobservant Jews - or steer a nonobservant Jew towards a non Jewish mate - and this RW poster was insistent that it was preferable to steer the non Jew towards a non Jew, and was against much of the activity of others for Jewish shidduchim.
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See melamid lhoil 3:8 where he discusses converting a civil married goyah who is "married"  to a cohain .  He says yes (even with the issur of a cohaim and giyoret!) but his final line is to warn them to keep taharat hamishpacha else the loss is more than the gain.
KT
Joel Rich

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