[Avodah] yovel

[Lisa Liel]

At 03:49 PM 6/29/2011, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
>If his mother had brothers, then the father's land would go to the 
>child's uncles, and not to him. But that would be true even if the 
>child's father had been Jewish, so her choice of a partner would 
>have had no effect at all on the tribe's land.

>But if the mother did not have any brothers, then the mother (and 
>her sisters) would indeed inherit some of Ephraim's land. (Is this 
>not what we learn from Bnos Tzelafchad?) And then, when the mother 
>dies, why wouldn't he inherit his mother's land?

>My conclusion is that in the case of a Jewish woman who marries a 
>non-Jewish man, the tribe ends up with the same amount of land as if 
>she had married a Jew.

You're assuming a lot. Since he isn't a member of Ephraim, why would
he inherit Ephraim's land? I don't know where the idea of the child of
intermarriage belonging to the maternal grandfather's tribe comes from.
Do you have any source for that?

Lisa