A young Chassidic man who had left the fold was dating a non-Jewish woman. The young man’s mother came pleading with a rav to intervene with her son and at the very least “knock some sense into him” by convincing him not to marry a non-Jew.
The rav met with the wayward son and asked him—in Yiddish of course—“Maybe at this point in your life you are not frum. However, why marry a non-Jew? There are plenty of nice non-frum Jewish women in New York. Why break your mother’s heart?”
At this point the young man said with decisiveness, “Ich vil nor chasunah huben mit ah shiksa—I specifically want to marry a non-Jewish woman.”
The rav asked, “Why is that?”
The young man replied emotionally, “If I marry a non-Jew, my children won’t be Jewish and my mother will stop ‘tcheppering’ [badgering] me. I’ll finally have some rest from her.”
