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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Zev Sero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">A mixed wedding is not a valid chasuna, so how could a rabbi officiate?<br> To ask where is the source would be lending credibility to a mixed<br>
marriage.<br></blockquote><br>And yet it is a valid legal and social act - at least valid enough to<br>trigger the issur of "lo titchaten bam".</blockquote>
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<div>The issur is triggered bShas B'ilah (Rambam Hil Issurei Bi'ah 12:1).</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">There's certainly no validity to a mixed marriage anymore than<br>2 non Jews who marry (as far as the halachic definition of a Jewish<br>
marriage goes).<br></blockquote><br>The marriage of two non-Jews certainly does have halachic validity;<br>the wife becomes an eshet ish. </blockquote>
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<div>Here too the Geder of Eshes Ish is not Chal until B'iah (Rambam Hil. Mlochim 9:7)</div>
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<div>NOTE: this has obviously nothing to do with the issue at hand.</div>
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<div>Kol Tuv,</div>
<div>Yitzchok Zirkind</div></div>