01-20-2009, 08:57 AM
B''H
Sh'lom dear Director Michael and Academy Rabbis,
Imagine the following situation:
A gentile woman is married to a gentile man, they have children together and then they get divorsed.
Years later the woman finds out she is jewish (by the time of her marriage to the gentile man, she had no reasons to believe she was jewish, no informations, no suspicions at all).
My questions are:
Was her first marriage to the gentile man legitimate according Halacha?
Is she now considered a divorcée?
Can she now marry a (ordinary) Cohen?
Best regards and thank you for your help.
Sh'lom dear Director Michael and Academy Rabbis,
Imagine the following situation:
A gentile woman is married to a gentile man, they have children together and then they get divorsed.
Years later the woman finds out she is jewish (by the time of her marriage to the gentile man, she had no reasons to believe she was jewish, no informations, no suspicions at all).
My questions are:
Was her first marriage to the gentile man legitimate according Halacha?
Is she now considered a divorcée?
Can she now marry a (ordinary) Cohen?
Best regards and thank you for your help.