It's impossible to stop being Jewish even if you marry a Hindu, or for that matter a Church of England ordinand.
Or even if you become the Bishop of Birmingham. :o)
I think the rules about who cohens can marry are mainly based upon some kind of idea that cohens should only marry virgins and divorcees and converts are assumed to not be virgins.
Cohanim can marry converts; it's only the Cohen Gadol who can't. (Also, cohanim are not forbidden from marrying non-virgins, but זוֹנוֹת—a distinction of more than theoretical interest to me (and which I shan't lecture you about any more, since you were sitting next to me at the appropriate talk (http://lethargic-man.livejournal.com/123785.html) :o)).)
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2007-11-20 09:30 pm (UTC)Or even if you become the Bishop of Birmingham. :o)
I think the rules about who cohens can marry are mainly based upon some kind of idea that cohens should only marry virgins and divorcees and converts are assumed to not be virgins.
Cohanim can marry converts; it's only the Cohen Gadol who can't. (Also, cohanim are not forbidden from marrying non-virgins, but זוֹנוֹת—a distinction of more than theoretical interest to me (and which I shan't lecture you about any more, since you were sitting next to me at the appropriate talk (http://lethargic-man.livejournal.com/123785.html) :o)).)