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#There is a rabbinic tevilah for someone who completely left Jewish practice and wants to do teshuva.<ref>Rama 268:12. The Gra cites the source for the Tevilah in [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99_%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%9F_%D7%97#%D7%97 Avot D'Rabbi Natan 8:8].</ref> | #There is a rabbinic tevilah for someone who completely left Jewish practice and wants to do teshuva.<ref>Rama 268:12. The Gra cites the source for the Tevilah in [https://he.wikisource.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%91%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%91%D7%99_%D7%A0%D7%AA%D7%9F_%D7%97#%D7%97 Avot D'Rabbi Natan 8:8].</ref> | ||
# The general halacha is that if the mother is Jewish the child is Jewish.<ref>Igrot Moshe EH 1:8 has a fascinating nuance in some rishonim that if the father wasn't Jewish and the mother was completely not religious the child is considered not Jewish. However, Rashbash cited by Bedek Habayit YD 268:12 disagrees that Jewishness is decided by the mother even if she is not religious and the father was non-Jewish.</ref> | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
