<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Lisa Liel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lisa@starways.net" target="_blank">lisa@starways.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/26/2015 5:21 PM, Saul Guberman via Avodah wrote:<span class=""><br>
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Eli Turkel via Avodah <<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:avodah@lists.aishdas.org" target="_blank">avodah@lists.aishdas.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
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Later in history Ezra fought against the prevelant custom of<br>
marrying nonJewish women.<br>
see also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_marriage_in_Judaism" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfaith_marriage_in_Judaism</a><br>
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Eli<br>
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So was the switch to matrilineal descent from a takana Ezra or before?<br>
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Why do you think it was a switch? It was always matrilineal descent. Ever since Sinai.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Lisa<br></font></span></blockquote><div> </div></div>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. <br></div></div>