Torah miracle! Change what you can change, and accept what you cannot change. Jewish Halakhah can be changed, but it depends on if the congregation will accept the changes. And it depends on if one wants to be the vehicle of the change. I am a Chalalah, and my Dad was a Hebrew Levi Priest who married a wife of a forbidden lineage, a Catholic. Chalalah is the term in Hebrew that is used for my type, as the child of this union. I had to come to a realization that I was not a bat Levi, according to Halakhah, some fight over this and many have different conclusions, but I do not want to be the reason for the fights, the arguments and the disagreements. I want peace between all people. So I have turned down the opportunity to have the 2nd Aliyah and instead have chosen on my own, to go last. I now have the last Aliyah by choice, and I could have had the 2nd Aliyah by choice. I want to choose peace and not make a fuss. I know denominations have been formed and re-formed because of this disagreement to this Halakhah. I am proud of both my parents, my father and mother, my mother and father, but do not want to be the reason for a split in Judaism because of a split in a family. I now have the Aliyah of MY choice and my choices have all brought me the honor that I will accept.
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