Marriage

[Zacharias]

I've seen a movie called The Fiddler on the Roof. I'ts about a Jewish family. Anyway A guy's daughter marries a greek they ignore her existence and to them she is now dead. I was wondering what are the MJ's views on marriage. Is it ok to marry a gentile. If not would you disown your daughter if she married gentile.

G-d Bless

 

[simchat_torah]

Most messianics are gentiles anyway...

 

[Zacharias]

oh, lol Thanks.

G-d Bless

 

[Henaynei]

most true Messianics feel the same way most true Christians do when a child marries outside the faith


In Judaism, for a child to marry outside of (non-Messianic) Judaism is a severe and tragic event - for it means the end of Judaism in that branch of the family. In the VAST majority of the cases the generations of children are lost to Judaism, no matter how well meaning their religious upbringing is. Therefore they ARE dead in a very real sense of the word. It is, in the sense of the core values of the perpetuation of Judaism as a commandment of G-d, as if the child had died and left no offspring. This is what HaShem means frequently when scripture states that doing or not doing such and such will cause one to be "cut off from Isreal."

The confusion of having both a Jewish and non-Jewish parent tends to nullify to impact of both. It is called assimilation and is a cancer that is eating away at the bowels of Judaism.

 

[Zacharias]

Thanks, Henaynei.

G-d Bless