I have a question regarding intermarriage. I would like her perspective in this area. I read some of the questions that have been asked previously on this topic, but was still left unclear on the issue of intermarriage. My question is this: if intermarriage goes against what the Torah says, which I do not dispute, then why does halakah define any child born to a Jewish mother as being Jewish even if the father isn’t? As this website clearly mentions someone who is born Jewish cannot have this taken away from them, so how is it that intermarriage in the case (between a gentile man and Jewish woman) "guarantee," that their kids will not be Jews. Since guarantee means 100 percent of the time surely, there are times when there is a committed couple and it does work out for the parents and the kids. I also understand that divorce rates are high for intermarried couples, but they are also high for the population as a whole. Is this not more a reflection of t

Hello Rabbi until last night, the idea that life origenated by it self without any of Hashem's guidence seemed very unlikly, considering that only to rendomly assemble the proteins (enzymes) in a functioning bacterium, from already existing set of amino acids is a 1 in 10^40,000 chance (this is taken from "Origens: A Skeptics guide" by Robert Shapiro). However, my very good and skeptical friends, who would never pass a chance to argue, said that... he agrees with me that this is very unlikly however there is still, as small as it may be, a chance... and since the universe is endless (i agreed with him that the universe is endless), even the least likely things can occur. my question is- what do I tell a person who claimes this, and tries to disprove, like you have said: "that the existence of matter and its lawfulness is the result of God's design"? Thank you very much and Shabbat Shalom! ~Rani Shakh

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I am Catholic and I wanted to know if you would be able to answer any questions about Jesus. If not, where do you recomment that I go to find the answers I'm looking for? Thanks!

My Jewish nephew has been asked to give a "Jewish blessing" at the start of his school's football game. He is a starting offensive line senior. What broucha should he say?