<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px; text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">You shall not (inter)marry with them; you shall not give your
daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter for your son. (Dev.7:3)</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">Since marriage between a Jew and a non Jew has no halachic validity, it is an oxymoron. How can it say you shall not marry them? <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Rambam's answer, I believe, refers to civil marriages which are recognized as valid by the non Jewish countries, such as the U.S. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">However, my question is: Could THAT have been what the Torah had in mind when it uses the word "marriage" (sischatayn).</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">[Not that it means much, but Va'eschanan has chassan as three of its letters].</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">Kol tuv.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;">ri</span></font></p>
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