Show tradition bars jews union with gentiles I 1 the american kilebrew ali tirca says that the tradition against intermarriage emong jews Is traced bad back to abraham who ordered ills his estate manager ICI Ul lozer lezer to obtain a wife for isaac from among his abrahams own peo people plein in alamea it should be added that this athla Is only a tradition it became a practice among jews at the time they returned front from the hie babylonian exile tit in the fifth century before the common era intermarriage however howeler has taken place among jews at all times the reason why jews have clung to the elie tradition of nt abraham and the enactment of ezra lies in tile the psychology of group consciousness especially as this Is welded by the religious ideal the belief of the jews that they ere are a people chosen by god to disseminate knowledge of him and ills moral find and ethical will airbag the peoples of the world Is also a great factor motivated by the debird to hold to its mission la in the world ard probably also by tile fear ear lest intermarriage should we weaken alien the force for carrying out its mission I 1 |