I love life stories! People always start off talking about themselves and then apologize and ask me if they're boring me, but I'm always up for hearing about other people. My fiancée's mother's family is 100% Irish Catholic, and her parents are divorced also. She's not really "religious" at all right now. All her life, though, anytime she was with her mother's family for any holiday or anything, they would always be shoving ham and stuff down her throat! :roll:
I'm reminded of all the theories I've read on what makes a person Jewish.
Some say that any Jewish part of a person's ancestry makes them Jewish. Based on a very common tradition, it has to be the mother, according to many, who is Jewish to make a child Jewish. In the Bible, however, ancestry was always recorded through the fathers. Others say that simply adopting Jewish customs and/or beliefs makes a person Jewish, with or without a formal conversion. In the Bible, several aliens were allowed into the Jewish community to believe and observe with them provided they make themselves ceremonially clean, and numerous stories are told of people who married outside the people of Israel. Exempli gratia, The entire house of Joseph is half-Egyptian! :idea:
