We live in a world where divorce and child abuse have become way too common. In a humorous and entertaining lecture, Rabbi Orlofsky explains how to build a successful marriage and family.
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We follow the mother's line, regardless of whether someone converted to another religion or not. If your mother's mother's mother was Jewish, then you're Jewish. If your dad's Jewish, but your mom isn't, then you're not Jewish. Proof would be a ketuba (Jewish marriage certificate) from an orthodox institution.
@@juliac3597 In other words if your great grandmother said "I'm jewish" then you can obtain a piece of paper that says "you're jewish" from a group of people that says "we're jewish". Let me rephrase the question: how does one know they are a direct bloodline descendant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?
No, her word's not enough; you would need other proof. If you could find your grandparents' ketuba, that would be best, but there could be other proofs. If you have reasonable evidence or reason to believe that you're Jewish and would like to confirm it, you should probably discuss this with an orthodox Rabbi. Maybe try contact the aish.com staff of a local Beth Din (Rabbinical Court, such as the OU) for advice. If there is questionable evidence, but nothing substantial, it could be that they'd ask you to undergo a 'just-in-case' conversion if you're serious, but I have no real idea about how they assess these things. The main point was that you're Jewish Jewish according to the matriarchal line, regardless of how far down the line they intermarried or converted. The patriarchal line doesn't count for Jewishness, but only for which tribe and sect you belong to, provided that he married a Jew.
There are families who have documents tracing their families back that far, but due to the various pogroms and whatnot that the Jewish population has faced since the destruction of the second Temple, there are very few families that still retain such documentation. There have been some studies that have discovered the 'Cohen' gene, which biologically links Aaron (Moses' brother) descendants. I don't think that they have specifically identified a Jewish gene yet, beyond the relation to the Arabs, whom we know to be the descendants of Ishmael.
@@juliac3597 Thanks. So to be honest...no one really knows for sure if they are blood related to the people that God brought out of Egypt. To conclude...there are no traceable Hebrew Israelites (descendants of Jacob) alive today.
