Should there be a distinction between someone who asserts a family tradition of being Jewish, versus someone who says "my great grandmother used to avoid eating pig, so we're probably from crypto-Jews" (a highly speculative and, as I understand it, often innacurate assertion)?
I strongly agree, and I do not understand why Rav Ahron allowed this to be put out in public. At least address the serious issue of maalin mitrumah leyuchsin! The woman who has worked in my house says that her grandmother never cooked meat and milk in the same oven. Does that mean anything at all? I do not know. (I hope not, because then she could not help us on Shabbos or Yomtov. I was someich on her being a dedicated church-going Catholic.) Maybe I shouldn't have published it- but again, if Reb Ahron decided it should be out there, who am I to disagree.
Should there be a distinction between someone who asserts a family tradition of being Jewish, versus someone who says "my great grandmother used to avoid eating pig, so we're probably from crypto-Jews" (a highly speculative and, as I understand it, often innacurate assertion)?
ReplyDeleteI strongly agree, and I do not understand why Rav Ahron allowed this to be put out in public. At least address the serious issue of maalin mitrumah leyuchsin!
DeleteThe woman who has worked in my house says that her grandmother never cooked meat and milk in the same oven. Does that mean anything at all? I do not know. (I hope not, because then she could not help us on Shabbos or Yomtov. I was someich on her being a dedicated church-going Catholic.) Maybe I shouldn't have published it- but again, if Reb Ahron decided it should be out there, who am I to disagree.