[Avodah] ktuba of son of non jewish father

[Zev Sero]

On 29/04/2011 10:54 AM, menucha wrote:

> The chatan is distraught at the thought of his father not being
> mentioned, and by the fact that this is not "the normal way of writing a
> ketuba".
> There are definitely issues here of not getting the chatan "turned off
> to judaism" etc.

Is he upset at the very idea that the ketuba will be written differently,
that halacha regards his circumstances as different, or is it just that
he's afraid of being embarrassed if it's read out loud?  Because if that's
the problem, there's a simple solution: whoever reads it under the chupah
should skip the fathers' names on both sides.  Nor is there any need at
all to have the ketuba framed and put on the wall for all to see (another
very modern "tradition" that has no more basis than lining up for pizza on
motzaei yom tov).

As for the actual halacha, a get (and therefore also a ketuba) is kosher
if there is no father's name listed at all, and of course it's also kosher
if both parents are listed, since more detail is better than less.  The
one thing we don't want is to list names that are wrong!

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