Conservative Invalid Kiddushin

Asked by Yair Hoffman · September 26, 2004 · Other

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"but many Conservative Rabbis, if not most, keep all the halachos of kidushin. " WHAT? I am sorry, but this is woefully inaccurate. I don't want to sit here keAitz Shasool Howling that their eidim are always pasool (sorry YaLaG). Basically, no self-respecting kasher leAidus Jew would partake in such a wedding, so the kiddushin are always invalid. The only issue is Rav Henkin's point, that there is an anan sahadi and that there is kiddushin anyway... Yair Hoffman

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Answered by Chaim Yisrael Abadi

well said, but he obviously knew of cases where they were fruma at the wedding. They may have gotten a psak from a Rov that they can go to the wedding for some reason. Even so, with kosher eidim, it is probably an unkosher kidushin. CYA