[Avodah] Status of Non-Jew born to Jewish Father

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From: Zev Sero <zev at sero.name>
> Based on the mesorah in  which I was raised, I would strongly disagree 
with your friend's approach.   Converting a baby when the mother is not Jewish 
and will not be raising the baby  in a Jewish, Torah home is just plain 
wrong.[--TK]

The child is not being  converted now.  Only the milah is being done,
so that if the child  eventually decides to complete his conversion (or
if the family decides to  return to yiddishkeit) he won't have to have
that done as an adult.

--  
Zev Sero         
zev at sero.name   




>>>>>
The original post mentioned two eidim and a bris done leshem gerus.
 
IF the bris is taking place privately, with only the parents and the eidim  
in attendance, with the intention of making a later gerus easier (should 
one  eventually take place) then that would be acceptable.  But if the bris is 
 being done as a Jewish ceremony with friends and relatives in  attendance, 
and the gerus part hush-hush, then it is quite wrong and very  misleading 
to the immediate circle of friends and family and very dangerous to  Klal 
Yisrael.
 

--Toby Katz
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