Bedouin Police Officer Murdered In Israel Terror Attack Has A Chabad Uncle
by CrownHeights.info
As surprising as it may sound, the Bedouin police officer stabbed and murdered in a terror attack this week is the nephew if Rabbi Tami Ben David, a Chabad Rabbi living in Australia.
Rami Ben David was born Rami Sawaed in the village of Wadi Selma in the Galilee. A Bedouin, he served in the IDF Paratroopers before going through a proper Jewish conversion. From there he moved to Australia, but has maintained a warm relationship with his Bedouin family.
Rami’s nephew, Staff Sgt. Asil Sawaed, was attacked by a Palestinian teenager as he was questioning him near Shuafat on Monday. Asil suffered from stab wounds as well as a gunshot wound from friendly fire. He later passed away in a hospital.
Biological Uncle
Halachically speaking a ger is not related to his pre-geirus biological relatives.
Not so simple
Yet a ger cannot marry his biological sister (d’rabbanam) and there is no yichud for a giyores with her non-Jewish father.
So there still IS a connection.
And when a ger is feeling the loss of a biological relative, we should be supporting him.
meyer chein
Did someone ask you for this advice? or the halacha?
From a Gerus
Are you a Rabbi? I’m sorry, but I find this statement insensitive. I was told by a very competent rabbi that I had to stillhonor my biological parents in every sense of the halacha.