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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 695488" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>First of all, it is against Jewish Law for the weak, the ill, small children, and those taking medications to fast at all. Your diabetic relative fasting was actually a sin, not on her part, but on the part of the people who made her fee she was obliged.</p><p></p><p>I didn't feel that I had to date Jewish boys, though oddly, other than the guy I lost my virginity to, who was older, I wound up with all Jewish boys. My husband, I didn't know was Jewish as he had a German last name, spoke fluent German, and had a "Middle Eastern" look to him.</p><p></p><p>It wasn't untii I heard his mother yelling at him in Yiddish and him answering her in same, (and his father yelling at both for speaking Yiddish) that I realized.</p><p></p><p>No, my nuclear family was not super religous. My dad's sisters were quite a few years older than he was. He was a "change of life baby". He went along with them taking me to the ritual bath to keep them happy. It was my first and last time at a mikvah as a participant. </p><p></p><p>I have been in others here and in Europe as they are a fascinating bit of the cultural history of women in Judaism, and often interesting buildings as well.</p><p></p><p>I think my parents were relieved that I married a Jew as my sister married a Catholic the first time. Ironically, it was my sister who had the grandchildren and I who wound up "barren". (I'm sterile due to endometreosis)</p><p></p><p>It was a bit different for me as my mother was a rabbi's daughter. She kept a kosher house early on so that her older in-laws, including her mother in law, could eat there. I think I was about 9 when she started to move away from Kashrut, which would coincide with her return to the workforce. </p><p></p><p>My mother really KNEW the Laws, and I was raised to know Kashrut, though I've forgotten a lot of it. I've also learned the "scientific" reasoning behind it, and most of it is B.S. now that Jews are no longer a group of nomadic tribes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 695488, member: 1963"] First of all, it is against Jewish Law for the weak, the ill, small children, and those taking medications to fast at all. Your diabetic relative fasting was actually a sin, not on her part, but on the part of the people who made her fee she was obliged. I didn't feel that I had to date Jewish boys, though oddly, other than the guy I lost my virginity to, who was older, I wound up with all Jewish boys. My husband, I didn't know was Jewish as he had a German last name, spoke fluent German, and had a "Middle Eastern" look to him. It wasn't untii I heard his mother yelling at him in Yiddish and him answering her in same, (and his father yelling at both for speaking Yiddish) that I realized. No, my nuclear family was not super religous. My dad's sisters were quite a few years older than he was. He was a "change of life baby". He went along with them taking me to the ritual bath to keep them happy. It was my first and last time at a mikvah as a participant. I have been in others here and in Europe as they are a fascinating bit of the cultural history of women in Judaism, and often interesting buildings as well. I think my parents were relieved that I married a Jew as my sister married a Catholic the first time. Ironically, it was my sister who had the grandchildren and I who wound up "barren". (I'm sterile due to endometreosis) It was a bit different for me as my mother was a rabbi's daughter. She kept a kosher house early on so that her older in-laws, including her mother in law, could eat there. I think I was about 9 when she started to move away from Kashrut, which would coincide with her return to the workforce. My mother really KNEW the Laws, and I was raised to know Kashrut, though I've forgotten a lot of it. I've also learned the "scientific" reasoning behind it, and most of it is B.S. now that Jews are no longer a group of nomadic tribes. [/QUOTE]
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