[Avodah] Ahab

[Saul Guberman via Avodah]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Lisa Liel <lisa at starways.net> wrote:

> On 11/26/2015 5:21 PM, Saul Guberman via Avodah wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Eli Turkel via Avodah <
>> avodah at lists.aishdas.org <mailto:avodah at lists.aishdas.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Later in history Ezra fought against the prevelant custom of
>>     marrying nonJewish women.
>>     see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_marriage_in_Judaism
>>
>>     Eli
>>
>>     So was the switch to matrilineal descent from a takana Ezra or before?
>>
>>
>>
> Why do you think it was a switch?  It was always matrilineal descent.
> Ever since Sinai.
>
> Lisa
>

All of the Avos, Shefatim & Kehuna are through the father.  Nothing
mentions the mother.  Therefore it seems that there is a switch at some
point.  Ezra is the first mention of getting rid of a non Jewish spouse.
He does not mention anything about the children.  So one might assume that
even in this instance the kids follow the father not the mother.
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