Wow, random question, are jewish people only allowed to marry other Jews? Can they marry non-religious?

Question

Just wondering......

If you are non religious it doesnt really have a problem with anyone right? Because you have no religion and don't believe in a specific one.

Btw, even if you are non religious you still can believe in god but you just don't go to church or believe in something specific.

Wow,...this is getting controversial,...more answers please!!! And only from people who are jews themself or know a lot or know friends that did it.

Wow,...this is getting controversial,...more answers please!!! And only from people who are jews themself or know a lot or know friends that did it.

Answer 1

Every faith hopes that its members marry someone who is also of the same faith, in Christianity it is called 'equally yoked' from

2 Corinthians 6:14 Be ye not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers: for what
fellowship hath righteousness with
unrighteousness? and what communion hath
light with darkness?

There are a few reasons for this. First, marriages have enough problems staying together, that when you add the differences that come from different faiths, it makes the marriage a lot less stable, more likely to divorce, which is indeed the stats on this. Take religious holidays, that are supposed to bring families together. Issues come up at the Christmas/Chanukah season, like, Whose parents will we spend the holidays at? How much of one faith, or the other, will we have in our home? How can i raise my children in one faith, when the other faith states that they will be damned by Gd to eternal torture for not being a believer?

Second, since every faith values its distinctiveness, wants to maintain those values and beliefs which are distinct to it, the best way to pass those values and distinctiveness to the next generation is to marry within the faith. According to most studies, in the U.S., when a Jew marries someone who is not Jewish, the kids are raised as Jews in only a fourth of the marriages, regardless of whether or not they told the rabbi who married them that they would raise their kids as Jews.

But please note that this has nothing to do with race or nation, but has everything to do with having the same values and beliefs, the two most important factors for having a solid marriage!

Answer 2

By Torah law it is against the Jewish practice to marry outside the faith - a Jewish person can marry a non practicing Jew but not a non Jew, unless the person goes through a kosher conversion

Joey is wrong

If you are a non religious Jew than for him it makes no difference - but in the letter of the law it is not acceptable.



A non practicing Jew is always considered a Jew no matter what

That is how the Jews survived after so much persecution - when the big wave of Russians emigrated to Israel most of them were non religious Jews - but if there mother was Jewish then they were still considered Jews and would be able to marry other Jews

Answer 3

Joey B is correct. However, the past couple of generations of Jews are getting less and less religious, and conservative and orthadox Jews tend to try to coax their family members into marrying other Jews, because the Jewish population is so small.

Answer 4

Traditional Judaism does not permit interfaith marriages. The Torah states that the children of such marriages would be lost to Judaism (Deut. 7:3-4), and experience has shown the truth of this passage all too well. The 2000 National Jewish Population Survey found that only a third of interfaith couples raise their children Jewish, despite increasing efforts in the Reform and Conservative communities to welcome interfaith couples

Answer 5

purely remember that obviously the church and different individuals of a church will allow you to recognize now to not marry outside the religion. they could like you to marry in the religion and then create a lot of Jewish children to keep the religion alive and transforming into. i in my opinion disagree, i imagine that you would possibly want to look at someone and settle on in case you imagine they're making morally acceptable alternatives on your opinion and ignore about the clarification that they are making those alternatives(oftentimes religious beliefs). also sure you could replace your faith, what's extra significant isn't any matter if the church you want to regulate to will settle for then you definately no matter if the former church can help you bypass.

Answer 6

Of course they can marry non-religious! My best friend who happens to be Jewish is marrying a Catholic woman in September. Also, look up Cokie Roberts. She's Catholic and her husband is Jewish.

I'm sure belief-wise it's easier to marry in your religion, as I'm sure it is for any religion, but it doesn't mean you're restricted to it. Love doesn't see religion, the same way it doesn't see color or weight.

Answer 7

i don´t think so.The Jew aren't allowed to marry other people but Jews.This also includes the non-religious and if you ask me these are the most detested, more than any other type of religious

Answer 8

no and yes