How is religion passed on from mother to children?
Posted by admin on 28 Sep 2008 6:06 pm. Filed under Israel.
عاکفه asked:
I would like a thorough explanation of the concept of how Judaism is passed on from the mother to the children. We are a bit confused as to how this could be, as my friend and I were discussing that women are not allowed to perform ritual prayer, only men. Yet women are the ones who pass on the religion to their kids that is why a woman can marry a non jewish person, but a man must marry a Jewish woman.
I would like a thorough explanation of the concept of how Judaism is passed on from the mother to the children. We are a bit confused as to how this could be, as my friend and I were discussing that women are not allowed to perform ritual prayer, only men. Yet women are the ones who pass on the religion to their kids that is why a woman can marry a non jewish person, but a man must marry a Jewish woman.