Comments on: How is religion passed on from mother to children?

By: Patti Wray

Patti Wray — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:16:50 +0000

Knowledge comes from within And I’m sure when teaching their children everyday life they had to have spoken some form of religion to them..Jesus being a jew gave women the right to speck the words of GOD…….Blessings Yahoo

By: Mihaela C

Mihaela C — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:01:26 +0000

Although women cannot pray, if they are religious people, the children may take over the inclination to religiosity, whatever the religion in which his mother or father is.

By: goldie

goldie — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:16:55 +0000

Annt Hu DeShalit said it right on
but just one thing i’d like to clear up,
women are actually not exempt from praying
according to Rambam women should say the shmonei esrei daily, whereas Ramban says that women should say any prayer that they so desire.
it is the custom of ashkenazi women (or at least should be) to adhire to Rambam’s advice…
whereas women of sephardi background either listen to Ramban’s opinion or just have no obligation to pray.

By: tramanmann

tramanmann — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:34:45 +0000

no, it is not that women are not allowed to perform prayer it is that they have more important things to do.

By: Abigail FTW

Abigail FTW — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:10:55 +0000

Down the umbilical cord silly!

By: claymore24242

claymore24242 — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:11:52 +0000

this question has appeared here several times
however i’ll gladly answer it again

the education of children is still predominantly done by the mother also
the certainty of the mother is absolute not so that of the father..

it makes more sense..

hope i helped

By: Whoo!

Whoo! — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:09:01 +0000

Because the mother is the child’s main source of everything. Who carried it for 9 months, was awake at every cry in the morning, nurtured it, fed it, comforted it raised it? The mother. So she taught them Torah. My mom, goodness. Every single day when she drives me and my siblings to school, she’s always teaching us it and talking to us about Torah and God.

By: B

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:56:39 +0000

Well, Jews and Arabs are both descended from Abraham (not all the Arabs, just the ethnic Arabs in Arabia, and probably not all Jews either), so if Judaism was ‘passed’ from father to son then Arabs would be considered Jews as well

By: ITSME

ITSME — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:27:13 +0000

well actually the women shouldnt marry a non-jew either. The answer to your question is quite onvious. The mother carries the baby for 9 months and she basically gives the baby life, by feeding it keeping it healthy. Its also because a mother is a mother, she is the one that is usually teaching the child lessons disciplining him/her. What if the child took the fathers religoun and the mother was a different religoun, then that would bring up some problems.

By: Shay p

Shay p — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:12:28 +0000

There is only one known mother, as for fathers in many cases he could be one of….. this is why I could never understand Islam, the child takes his fathers religion.

Talmudic Times

Sometime during the Roman occupation and the Second Temple period, a law of matrilineal descent, which defined a Jew as someone with a Jewish mother, was adopted. By the 2nd century CE, it was clearly practiced.

The Talmud (Kiddushin 68b), which was compiled in the 4th and 5th centuries, explains that the law of matrilineal descent derived from the Torah. The Torah passage (Deut. 7:3-4) reads: “Thy daughter thou shalt not give to his son, nor shalt thou take his daughter to thy son. For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods.”

Some scholars believe that this new law of matrilineal descent was enacted in response to intermarriage. Others say that the frequent cases of Jewish women being ***** by non-Jews led to the law; how could a ***** Jewish woman’s child be considered non-Jewish by the Jewish community in which he or she would be raised? Some believe that the matrilineal principle was borrowed from Roman law.

For centuries, while orthodox Judaism was the only form of Judaism, the law of matrilineal descent was unquestionably accepted. Orthodox Judaism even believed that anyone with a Jewish mother had irrevocable Jewish status; in other words, even if someone with a Jewish mother converted to another religion, that person would still be considered Jewish.