My Three Dads

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In the last few weeks, I’ve fathered three babies to three separate women, none of whom were my wife. Now, let me be clear – I have never committed adultery. At my last three Britot I legally stood in for the father during the ceremony. Two were cases of non-Jewish fathers and one was a case of a single mother by choice. It truly was an honor to do this. But, from a Jewish perspective, how as able to, and in what capacity was I the stand-in?

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