Anybody know whether a haredi jew is allowed to marry a woman who is a liberal or a reform jew? Thank you!?

Question

Anybody know whether a haredi jew is allowed to marry a woman who is a liberal or a reform jew? Thank you!?

Answer 1

According to the Torah, a jew must marry a jew.

According to jewish law, which most rabbis believe is implied by the Torah, a person is only a jew if they convert or are born to a jewish mother, who is a jew according to the same standards.

Let us assume there is a haredi jew and a reform or reconstructionist jew who is jewish by jewish law, then yes, the two are not religiously prohibited from marrying. However a haredi jew would typically not marry a jew who is not as observant as they are.

Then we have the issue of converts. Orthodox jews do not recognize conversions done by reform or reconstructionist rabbis. They do not consider these converts to be real jews and so would not marry them.

Whether or not they are real jews in the eyes of God is obviously up to God.

Answer 2

IDK.

Answer 3

That's a tricky question.

If the woman is Jewish, then it would be allowed.  But it's not that simple.

A hareidi Jew is someone who observes all the commandments.  If the woman they wanted to marry was not interested in keeping those commandments, it is doubtful that a religious Jew would even consider marrying her.  Just keeping a kosher home requires a significant level of knowledge and commitment - and if his home was not kosher, he would not be able to eat there, nor would his family.  If he was no longer interested in being Orthodox, then that wouldn't matter (obviously), but so long as it mattered to him, the woman would have to agree to become hareidi herself or they would not get engaged.  It's not the person, it's the practice, that would be crucial.

Having said that, there would also be an additional potential roadblock.  Several years ago, the US Reform movement announced that they would accept children as Jews who only have one Jewish parent, including when the father is Jewish and the mother is not.  That goes directly against Jewish law.  So if a hareidi man fell in love with a Reform woman, he would absolutely check to find out if she was actually Jewish according to halacha, or whether she was "patrilineally descended" - and if so, she would be asked to convert to Judaism.  For the record, a Modern Orthodox, Sephardic, and even a Conservative Jew would do the same thing - and possibly a Liberal Jew (UK Reform) as well.  Jewish law is extremely clear about the definition of Jewish tribal membership, regardless of how cavalier the US Reform movement has become about it.   So again, the woman herself could be married to a hareidi Jew - it's no strike against her as a person - but she would have to change her status first.

Who you fall in love with isn't the issue - even someone born a non-Jew could marry a hareidi Jew under the right circumstances.  But if they don't follow Jewish law to the letter, and if the Orthodox Jewish person in question intends to stay Orthodox, then it would be the non-observant person who would be expected to change in order for the marriage to take place.  For the answerer who said that they would not marry a convert - that's not true. While the most Orthodox groups are also the least lenient when it comes to allowing conversions, nevertheless, when someone converts according to the precepts set out by their own beis din, they will and do accept them.

Answer 4

doesnt matter what type of jew, they're all allowed to marry eachother.. The more orthadox jews however would prefer their family to still marry other orthadox jews just to keep it within the family. No matter what type of jew one is, they're still a jew....

Answer 5

A Haredi Jew could probably marry a Jewish man or woman who was born Jewish, as they still believe a person born to a Jewish mother is a Jew; they probably wouldn't be allowed to marry someone who converted to Judaism, as they don't believe in conversion to Judaism at all.

Answer 6

IDK I'm sure it's ok dude, just as long as ya love her.

Answer 7

A Jew ought to be able to marry another jew.

In most of these United States, though, they better be of opposite sexual persuasions.