So, I'm pro-Exile and bump elbows with the goyim all the time and love it and think it sustains Judaism externally, but the constant attacks against intermarriage made me question whether Judaism is strong enough internally.
So, the school I may want to attend someday to maybe be a rabbi some hypothetical, later day has this policy. It goes: don't apply if you're married to a gentile. One of the posts I read recently (in like the last month) was this big lash out against intermarriage. In typical poor form, I do not have the article here for you but my point stands. Jews should be able to marry whomever they choose.
Can and has intermarriage been detrimental to Judaism—for sure but attacking it is attacking a symptom not finding a cure. I do not believe the problem is a lack of Jews but a lacking judaism that leads to this assimilated dispersion.
Why can we not, do we not, in our parental relationship with Avinu Malkeinu [our father, our king] and tell him we want to love Judaism AND whomever special we have found in our lives? At the very least, we neet is not my advice to pursue intermarriage, but merely to acknowledge that temptation drawing support away is less our problem than malcontent, boredom and resentment pushing away, even driving out.
So if the genetic pool has its heart on straying, remember that families which flex and compromise, stay together. Judaism is based on supreme love; the Covenant is a marriage between the people Israel and G-d. And if G-d has taught us anything, despite the constant barrage of fatherly threats—straying doesn't separate us, love unites us.
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