<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">In response to the following post:<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000E73">"one should rather marry a non Jew<br>than not keep taharat hamishpacha - and the nafka mina was whether one<br>should try to be meshaddech two nonobservant Jews - or steer a<br>nonobservant Jew towards a non Jewish mate - and this RW poster was<br>insistent that it was preferable to steer the non Jew towards a non<br>Jew, and was against much of the activity of others for Jewish<br>shidduchim.<br>Therefore, the question does (and did) arise, and has a nafka mina<br>lehalacha for those who actually care about halacha<br>(most of the people on the list were shocked by the position taken -<br>but it is the extreme version of going by the book and determining<br>what is the most extreme issur involved...)"</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000414"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000414">I believe something is being missed here. If two non observant Jews marry,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000414">there's at least the hope that one or more of the children may some day become</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000414">baalei teshuva.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000414"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000414">ri</font></div></body></html>