Haha, I lived in the UK for 4 years, tea and coffee at work (and at home) are an absolute necessity, have on average 3 a day in the office. Coming from South Africa, coffee and tea is also a cultural thing since we have British ancestry, can trace my family line into Surrey, and I think Hampshire, going back 3-4 generations.
Anyway, I married a wife (with a full Jewish surname). Her father's line is Jewish, with her father born in Israel, but above him the family line gets mixed up. I will need to ask more questions to find out exactly what the history his. I know they moved back to Israel from Brazil some fifty years ago to start life there but ended up moving back to Brazil not long after that. Apparently the great grandmother, my children's great-great grandmother who's still alive, escaped from Europe to Brazil hiding in a ship somewhere during the 1910-20s era. Sorry for being so vague but I haven't asked many questions yet. However, my mother-in-law's side are Italian and obviously Catholics. My first child has an Italian first and second name while my second child has a British first name, Jewish second name, a Jewish surname and then my British surname to end the double-barrel surname. Crazy!
Anyway, how does Jewish ancestry work?
How many generations is too far to be called a Jewish descendant? Matthew 1:1-17 and Luke 3:23-38 have different family lines for Yahshua, splitting up through David's children, Solomon and Nathan. Does this have any significance? Because I've heard that a Jewish person's bloodline is determined through the mother while a their tribe through the father, or something to that effect. Is this true? In this case my wife would belong to a Jewish tribe but not be Jewish by blood, meaning that my children have no Jewish blood and no tribe. They might have a trace of Jewish blood then through their mother. I'm gentile, British descent with no known Jewish links.
Or maybe I should just forget about this, go make myself a cup of tea, and be thankful that Yahweh has grafted me into the Tree.
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