Tora conversion verses Rabbinic conversion!
TORA CONVERSION.
The way Hashem expects conversion to be done!
Sh’mot-Exodus 12. 48-49.
And when a Ger (Jewish Convert) shall sojourn(attach) with you, and will keep Ha’Pesach unto Hashem, let all his Zachar (Males, family members, tribal clan) receive Brit Milah (The
covenant of circumcision), and then let him come near and keep
it (Observing the actual festival Pesah), and He
shall be as one that is native born in Ha’Aretz (Sabra); for Lo Arel (No uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. 49 Tora Echad (One Tora)shall be to Him that is native born
(Sabra) and unto Ha’Ger (The Jewish Convert) that sojourns among you.
#1. “Hashem’s Tora Conversion” demands that the candidate must receive Hatafat Dahm Brit Milah(Circumcision as well as all the males within his household). According to Hashem’s
instructions the convert is equal to the native born Jew, they are not considered separate or less classified than Yisrael. They are equal as if they had been born Jewish themselves. That
same one Tora is for Ha’Sabra and Ha’Ger to study, learn and live by. They must observe the Tora mandated Moedim such as Pesach as mentioned within the verse and the verses to
come. Hem
Domim-
They must be identical in every way to the natural born Jew in adherence to Tora and Hashem.Lakhog-
to celebrate Hashem’s Moedim equally with us natural born Jews.
A. Thus the conversion service must contain: Circumcision or that drop of blood and the study of Tora.
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Sh’mot-Exodus 20. 8-10.
Remember Yom Ha’Shabbath (The Sabbath Day), to keep it Kodesh (Holy) Sheshet Yamin (Six days) shall you labor, and do all your work; but Ha’ Yom Ha’Shevi’i (The seventh day) is
Ha’Shabbath of Hashem Eloheicha (Your G-d); in it you shall not do any Melachah (work, labor, laborious effects equal to the six days ), You, nor your son, nor your daughter, your
servant, hired workers, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your Ger (Jewish Converts) that are within your gates.
#2. The convert must keep Shabbath and must live within the Jewish Community or with a fellow Jew within there home, within their gates, and the Jews (Sabra, Ha’Ger) can not do any labor
or work on Shabbath.
B. Thus the conversion service must contain the Tora verses pertaining to the observance of Shabbat.
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Vayikra-Leviticus 16. 29-31.
And this shall be a Chukkat Olam (Eternal never ending decree) unto you; that in the Chodesh Ha’Shevi’i (The seventh month), on the tenth day of Ha’Chodesh( The month) you shall afflict
your Nefashot (Souls), and do no Melachah (work) at all, whether it be Ezrach, Sabra (Native born Jew) or Ha’Ger (The Jewish Convert) that sojourns among you. For on that day shall
Ha’Cohen (The Priest) make Kapporah (Atonement) for you (The native born Jew and the Convert), to make you Tahor (clean before Hashem), that you may be Tahor from all your
Chattot(sins) before Hashem. It shall be a Shabbat Shabbaton (Sabbath of Sabbaths) unto you, and you shall afflict your Nefashot (Souls), by a Chukkot Olam (Eternal never ending decree of
Yom Kippur).
#3. The convert must follow Ha’ Luach (The Biblical Calendar), and must therefore follow and observe all of Hashem’s Moedim such as mentioned already Pesach, Shabbath our weekly
Moed, Yom Kippur and must afflict His soul like the native born Jew, that is set aside Himself for Hashem, to restrict and withdraw from all over weekly occurrences for the purpose of
total concentration of Hashem’s Moedim such as is the case in the verse regarding Yom Kippur, Yoma. He the Convert must as the native born Jew concentrate himself or herself to
Hashem.
C. Thus the conversion service must teach about how the Convert is mandated to observe all of Hashem’s Moedim such as Shabbath, Pesach, Yom Kippur etc..
The Tora has given us the manual to follow right within the Tora itself!!!
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Vayikra-Leviticus 17. 8-16 “The Ger performing Ha’Olah”
And you shall say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of Ha’Bnei Yisrael (The children, literally the men of Yisrael), or of Ha’Ger that wish to sojourn among them, that offers an Olah
(Burnt Offerings- The Jewish Convert is allowed to offer burnt offerings before Hashem) or Zevakh (sacrifices), And brings it not unto Ha’Patach (The Door) of Ha’Ohel Mo’ed (The tent of
meetings), to offer it unto Hashem; even that man shall be cut off from among his Jewish people. And whatsoever man there be of Beit Yisrael (Men of Yisrael) or of Ha’Ger that sojourn
among you, that eats any manner of Dahm, will be cut it off from among its Jewish people. For Ha’Nefesh (The soul, life) of Ha’Basar( The meat) is in the Dahm; And I have give it to
you upon Ha’Mizbe’ach (The Altar) to make Kapporah (Atonement) for your Nefashot ( souls): for it is Ha’Dahm (The blood) that makes Kapporah( Atonement for Ha’Nefesh (The soul). Therefore
I said unto Ha’Bnei Yisrael (The men of Yisrael), No Nefesh(Jewish soul, person) of you shall eat Dahm, neither shall any Ger that sojourns among you eat Dahm. 13. And whatsoever Ish
(man) there be of Ha’Bnei Yisrael, or of the Ger (The Jewish Convert) that sojourn among you, which hunts down any beast or fowl that may be eaten (Kosher animal), he shall even drain out
the blood thereof, and cover it with dust, dirt. For as for Ha’ Nefesh( The soul) of all Basar (meat, animals, the blood of it is its nefesh (soul); therefore I said unto Ha’Bnei Yisrael
(The men of Yisrael), You shall not eat the blood of any animal; for the soul of all animals is the blood thereof; whosoever eats it shall be cut off. 15. And every soul that eats Nevelah
(carcass), or Terefah (that which was torn by beast). Whether native born or a Ger (Jewish Convert), he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in Mayim, and be Tamei (impure)
until Erev( night); then shall he be Tahor (clean). But if he wash them not, nor bathe his basar (body); then he shall bear his avon (iniquity).
#4. The Jewish Convert as mentioned is required to observe all of Hashem’s Moedim- Na
Lo Lehafree’a Gerim and
to forsake all pagan edifices in that just like the Jew. He/She can not consume blood which is a pagan practice. The Convert is required to wash themselves and to remain unclean for the
same amount of time as the Jew if He/She becomes unclean by violating the Tora prohibitions. The Convert is continually addressed as they that dwell with us the Jewish People indicating
that they in the eyes of Hashem are not considered any different than the Jewish People. Something that we will see as mentioned later in the Prophetic writings of Ha’Olam Ha’Bah in
Ezekiel 47. 21-23 which we will address later....
D. Thus the conversion service must teach avoidance of Paganism and pagan practices that they would have observed prior one way or another. Thus the service and course must address the
importance of not calling on any other as god but Hashem! Thus
to forsake-> if
they were Christians prior, they have to forsake Yashke/ Yeshu/ Jesus. If
they were Muslims before, they have to forsake Islam and Mohammed etc. If
they were non-religious they have to forsake humanistic, liberalistic ideologies. There can be no proclamation to no one else but until Elohim, Hashem alone!!!!
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Vayikra-Leviticus 19. 33-34.
And if a Ger sojourn with you in your land (Eretz Yisrael), YOU SHALL NOT MISTREAT HIM. But if Ha’Ger (The Jewish Convert) that dwells with you shall be unto you as one born among
you, and
you shall love him as yourself, for you were Gerim (converts) in Eretz Mitzrayim (The land of Egypt-Africa): I am Hashem Eloheichem (Your G-d).
#5. The Convert is allowed to dwell with the Jewish People in our home land, Yisrael! And the convert is to have equal citizenship, equal rights with the Jewish People in every sense of
the word. We the Jewish People are to love the convert as if they are our own Jewish relatives, even more so to the level that we love ourselves, for we were aliens, converts in Egypt!
That doesn't mean that we converted to the ways of the pagan Egyptians. It means they considered us as there possession, there slaves. Thus Hashem wants us the Jewish
people to remember that we have been in alien land in exile ourselves and must be kind to those who seek after the truth being Hashem and His Tora!
E. Thus the conversion service and class must teach and discuss how the convert has a right to the land of Yisrael equally as does all of the Jewish people. And that according to Hashem
they are equal in every way to the born Jew. With that responsibility the convert who is now our joined family members are accountable and held by the same decrees, laws, oaths,
requirements and obligations as the Jew. This
is further exemplified in the next chapter and verse....
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Vayikra- Leviticus 24. 22.
You (The Jewish People) shall have Mispat Echad (One law, verdict, decree, oath, laws, Tora, requirement), as well as for Ha’Ger( The Jewish Convert), and Ha’Ezrach( The citizen): for I
am Hashem Eloheichem (Your G-d)!!!
#6. There
is one way, one course for the Jew / Convert as well as for any citizens that dwell where the Jewish People live. Which obviously is relating to those who aren’t Jewish. If you
live amongst or around the Jew you are held by the same requirements by living amongst us. “ So tell your neighbors to move so they don’t have to face Hashem’s judgment to
come :)) by
being around us! The
convert is held by the same chumra as we are held by. They don’t have less responsibility because they were not born Jewish. They are equally faced with the same accountability as we are
held. They haven’t any excuses either...
F. Thus the conversion service and class must teach the candidate that they are held by the same level of responsibility that we are held by before Hashem. The conversion candidate must
know and understand how serious, crucial, detrimental and fearful this is that they have decided to take upon themselves. If they knew and were taught as the Tora states here, I am sure
many would turn away from this as has the liberal Jew tried to do. However the Jew can’t even if they decide to forsake Tora within themselves, they are still held by it. It shows me how
far I am away from pleasing Hashem. How far I am away from Hashem’s expectations within the tangibility of my own avera chattaim.
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B’Midbar- Numbers 15. 13- 16.
All that are native born (Jews) shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by Eish (fire), of a Re’ach Nichoach (pleasant smell) unto Hashem. And if a Ger (The
Jewish Convert) stays temporarily with you orwhosoever be
among you in your Derot( generations), and will offer an offering made by Eish, of a Re’ach Nochoach ( pleasant smell) unto Hashem; as you do, so he shall do. One Chukkah (decree, law,
oath, verdict, rule, responsibility, accountability) shall be both
for you of Ha’Kahal (The assembly), and also for Ha’Ger (The Jewish Convert) that sojourns with you, a Chukkot Olam (One eternal decree forever )in your Derot
(generations); as you are, so shall Ha’Ger( The Jewish Convert) be before Hashem. One
Tora and one Mispat shall be for you, and for Ha’Ger that sojourns with you.
#7. The Jewish Convert who like the native born Jew makes an offering before Hashem is held by that same eternal decree that we are held by. There is but one Tora and on Mispat- one
verdict, one rule, one judgment, one justice. The native born as well as the Jewish convert must both equally offer to Hashem a pleasant smelling offering, which without a temple today is
Him or Herself. The verses say again whosoever stays amongst us the Jewish People are held by those same standards rather they have taken on the mantle of conversion, or are citizens
within the land of Yisrael or people who have taken up temporary residence. They are yet once again held by the same accountability, responsibility, obligations to Hashem as is the Jew,
to the Jew and the converted Jew in equal standings.
G. Thus the conversion class must teach and implement how vitally important it is for them to offer to Hashem themselves at the same heightened sense of awareness as is the native born
Jew held by. And that when the temple- Beit Ha’Mikdash is returned in its glory back in the land of Yisrael, now, or when Mashiach comes within the future- the Jew as well as the
Convert will have to make offerings and sacrifices before Hashem again within the family and tribal structure of their own families as established by Ha’ Cohenim, Cohen Ha’Gadol. If the
potential candidate for conversion don’t or haven’t been taught these Tora truths. I dare say many of them or some of them would have decided not to take on this full mantle as with this
is the great responsibility as established by Hashem himself. Also
understand once a person takes on this mantle, there isn’t a way to remove it or take it off. It isn't something like a jacket that you can slip on and take off. You are
permanently in this life and after this life held by it for ever before Hashem!!!
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Dvarim-
Deuteronomy 10. 19-22.
Love you (The native born Jews) therefore Ha’Ger (The Converted Jew), for you were Gerim (Converts) in Eretz Mitzrayim. You shall fear Hashem Eloheicha (Your G-d); Him shall you serve,
and to Him shall you have your Deveykus(cling too), and swear by Sh’mo (His name). He is your Tehillah (praise), and He is Eloheicha (Your G-d) that has done for you these great and
wonderful things, which your eyes have seen. Avoteicha ( Your fathers- Avraham, Yitzchak, Ya’akov) went down into Mitzrayim (Egypt- Africa) with Shivim Nefesh (seventy souls); and
now Hashem Eloheicha (Your G-d) has made you as Ha’Kokhavim( many as the stars) of Shamayim (Heaven) for multitudes.
#8. The Jew as well as the converted Jew must fear Hashem! That is to serve, cling, draw to and proclaim the name of Hashem alone. That is the converted Jew can not proclaim the name of
another god that is not a god at all. The converted Jew as well as the native born Jew must cling to Hashem as did our Avoteichem. We the native born Jew as well as the converted Jew must
swear by, that is proclaim no other name within our prayers, duties, obligations and observances other than the name of G-d in His many characteristic identifiers- Adonai, Elohim, Hashem,
Adoshem, Yah, Ein Sof etc.... That is we must call upon the Creator alone, not the gods of other religions which are the ways men invented. The outcome of the Jewish People as well as
Converted Jews seeking Hashem is the growth and development and establishment of the Jewish People first and foremost in the land of Yisrael, far more so than Gola. And the seeing of our
people quadruple in number as is seen within this generation within our world more than ever before in history.
H. Thus the conversion class must discuss how the Jewish Convert has to draw, cling and proclaim the name of Elohim alone and not the names of other gods which are not gods. That the
native born Jew as well as the Converted Jew must serve and cling to Elohim as did our fathers- Avraham, Yitzchak and Ya’akov and that the outcome of doing as Hashem said to do would
cause tremendous growth and development amongst our people as is seen today. Yisrael has more than six million people today not counting all of us the Jewish People within this world,
those in Yisrael and us who are still in Gola- Galut. The
first thing Hashem commanded the Jewish native born Jews to do was to love the converted Jews!
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Dvarim- Deuteronomy 24. 14- 18.
You shall (The Jewish People) not oppress a hired worker that is Oni (poor) and Evyon (needy), whether He be of your Jewish brethren, or of your Ger (Jewish Converts) that are in your
land within your She’arim (gates); Each day you shall give him his earned wages, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is Oni (poor); and sets his soul upon it, lest he cry
against you unto Hashem, and it be chet (sin) unto you. 16. Ha’Avot
(The fathers)
shall not be put to death for the banim (children), neither shall Ha’Banim (the children) be put to death for the Avot ( The fathers); every
Ish (man)
shall be put to death for his own chet (sin).
You shall not pervert Ha’Mispat (The rules, oaths, verdict, decree, laws) due the Ger (The Jewish Converts) nor of Ha’ Yatom (The fatherless); nor take an Almana’s raiment to pledge ( You
shall not take a widows clothing's or things as security); 18. But you (The Jewish People) shall remember that you were a servant in Mitzrayim (Egypt- Africa), and Hashem Elohicha (Your
G-d) redeemed you then, therefore
I command you to do this thing.
#9. The Jewish People who own companies, land or have granted a job to someone can not withhold their pay, they can not allow the day to go away having not paid the person for the work
that they did. Rather He be our own Jewish People or Jewish Converts and live with us within our communities or gates. To do so is sinful says Hashem. Furthermore no one, not even the Jew
is responsible for the deeds done by our Jewish children or Jewish parents or family members. Every
single Jew, Convert, Human being is responsible for His/ Her own actions. Just like the native born Jew is accountable before Hashem for His/ Her deeds so is the Converted Jew. The
natural born Jew can not pervert, twist, change, convolute the laws of Hashem to the Converted Jew because they don’t know them or don’t understand them as well as the natural born Jew.
This is lying which is sinful and manipulative. The native Jew can not do this to the Converted Jew, the fatherless or the widows that live amongst them or us. Hashem continues drawing us
back to the fact that we were once slaves in Egypt, remember that and it was Hashem that redeemed the Jewish People then as He will do again in removing us who are in Gola. Thus Hashem
isn’t requesting that we abide by this, he commanded it.
I. It is equivocally important for the candidate for conversion to understand that Hashem wants the convert to be treated fairly by His/ Her native born Jewish brothers and
sisters. Al
Tistakel Bakankan Ela Bemah Sheyesh Bo
“ We have yet to read within all of these verses anything relating to money have we?” The
course for the convert to follow is ascribed within Tora that we need not have any other manuals, course work or institutional organizational agendized books for the convert to study or
learn. If He/She stays within the Tora and learn that, then there desire for learning will afford opportunities for them to learn the foundational relevant rulings of Judaism/ Halacha as
it is today since the second century! But
they haven’t even a foundation in the Tora and the guides by which the synagogues are teaching them conversion has very little to do with the actual written Tora and that is
where I have my problems with them and their greed for money. Conversion should not have a cost associated with it period!!!!!! The Tora has provided more than enough substantial relevant
laws and commandments for the convert to study! If we but focus more on what has become today the national or universal agreed upon standards for the religion called Judaism and
Tora is not in that equation, I Rabino Aminadav Hinton am telling you it is worthless, pointless organizational regularizational secularism! And thus you are converting into a group, a
bubble, a uniform, a club- of which your membership in this club has all kinds of financial cost ascribed to it. Again I have no problem with conversion when it is done as Tora mandates
it to be done. I have a problem with how it is being done today!
People are going around thinking that they are Jews because they paid their money, read the programs, stood before three people and then took a dip into water that they are Jews! I am
saying they are members of the socially accepted group that debunked them into this nonsense. It is Hashem that does the conversion not men, not Rabbis, not organizations. So many think
because they did those things their Jewish! They wear there Kippas, Tzitzit Katans, Mogen Davids, Beards and think that makes them Jewish! Your nothing more than a member of a club, a
very expensive club- and you
have not been converted unto Hashem.
And that is why many of them haven’t the faintest ideal about the basis of Tora, less known Judaism, even less regarding Halacha. “
Judaism, Halacha are great, they merit much but nothing, again nothing takes precedence over the actual written Tora as given to Moshe from Har Sinai!
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Dvarim- Deuteronomy 5. 12-15.
Keep Shabbath to set Shabbat apart as Kodesh (Holy) as Hashem Elohecha ( Your G-d) commands you. Sheshet Yamim (six days) shall you labor, and do all your work: But Ha’ Yom Ha’Shevi’i (
The seventh day) is Ha’Shabbath Hashem Eloheicha (The Sabbath unto Hashem Your G-d); in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your hired workers, nor
your female workers, nor you ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your Ger that is within your She’arim (gates); that your eved (servant) and your amah (maid) may rest as well
as you. 15. And remember that you were a servants in Eretz Mitzrayim (The land of Egypt- Africa), and that Hashem Eloheicha (Your G-d brought you out of there through a Yad Chazakah
(strong hand of redemption) and by an out stretched Zero’a (arm); therefore Hashem Eloheicha ( Your G-d) commands you to be Shomer Shabbath ( Careful observer, keeper of Shabbath) on Yom
Ha’Shabbath (The day of the Sabbath).
#10. The conversion candidate is reminded again about the importance of Shabbat and must know how important the observance of Shabbath is to Hashem. The condition that Hashem instructed
us for the observance of Shabbat was to refrain from work, labor, a job. That which constituted the six days of labor activities that the Jew and the Converted Jew does must cease on
Shabbat. Today since the second century we have all kinds of wonderful activates that we do on Shabbath such as prayer from Siddurim, Oneg, Challah, Zemirot, Parashot and Haftarah study.
But Hashem commands only that we keep Shabbath as a day of rest, reflection of Hashem which includes the study of Tora for the Jew and the Jewish convert. Even the animals must rest
before Hashem on His day which He rested after the creation of the world. Everything within the earth must cease from its activities on Shabbat and reflect upon our Creator with rest! So
it makes it perfectly sensible to pray, study, celebrate, praise, dance and all other such functions that each Jewish Community does to honor Hashem and His Shabbath.
J. Thus the Conversion candidate must know that at the end of each six day of labor, Hashem requires that we set aside His day, Shabbat as a time of rest with family, loved ones, animals
and reflection of who Hashem is and that as the text teaches us that we Shomer - guard, watch, keep, love, devote, safeguard the Shabbath as a Holy set apart time unto Hashem. Hashem gave
us the Sabbath to link and connect us directly with our Creator.
The Ashkenazim Halachic ruling for Shabbath is that one walk and not drive on Shabbat. Thus turning the key in an ignition creates fire according to the Rabbis, Tora prohibits the use of
fire on Shabbat- Sh’mot
35. 3-You
shall kindle Lo Eish (no fire) throughout your habitations upon Yom Ha’Shabbat (The Sabbath day).
So we Jews cook before Shabbath begins and use electric burners to keep our food warm. Crock pots are acceptable. However
it appears to me that it is more laborious to walk to the Synagogue than driving. If you are walking you exert physical energy, sweat, labor in using that same physical energy that is
used in working, verses driving to Synagogue Shabbat service which seems to constitute resting as the vehicle is doing the work of getting you there verses your physicality- this is why I
don’t have a problem with someone driving to the Synagogue on Shabbat. The prohibition is we Jews are not to cook using a fire on Shabbat. Thus the person who drives is resting, the one
walking especially if they have an extensive walk is tired, wore out and in need of rest!
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Dvarim- Deuteronomy 1. 16.
And I charged your Shofetim (judges, Beit Din) at that time, saying, Hear the cases between your Jewish brothers and Jewish sisters, and judge righteously between every man and his
brother, and Ha’Ger (The Jewish Convert) that is with him.
#11. The Converted Jew that has cases between His/ Her Jewish People are equally heard amongst the judges within the Jewish Community. Hashem commands that righteous judgment be issued on
the behalf of the native born Jew as well as the Converted Jew without any impartiality
K. The candidate for Conversion and course must illustrate the importance of equality amongst the native born Jew and the Converted Jew as charged by Hashem. This righteous judgment is
conditioned and established by Tora on the grounds of any misunderstandings, disputes, property, religious quarrels or debates amongst Jew in general. Hashem
never as does Halacha sometimes separate the Converted Jew from the native born Jew. Hashem established that those same judges hear and absolve with righteous verdict any troubles between
Jews on equal stance. The native born Jew is not greater than the Converted Jew just because He/She was born Jewish!Hashem
hasn’t any nepotism but Tora! Hashem
has not made the native born Jew greater or more human, or more sacred than the Converted Jew! They are considered as equals before Hashem irregardless of what some Ashkenazim Dati may
think or write. This
superiority complex hasn’t anything to do with Hashem it is within the person or group themselves who want to make themselves appear more superior in front of others. I have seen that
amongst some Ashkenazim and us who are Sephardic Mizrahi Jews that we are oft considered less in stance and equality or Jewishness that the white Jew. The fact of the matter rather we are
White, Black, Indian, Chinese, Turkish, Russian or whatever location you come from as a Jew we are equal. Or as my good friend Rabbi Elkana Ben Avraham says: “ A Jew is a Jew
”
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Dvarim-Deuteronomy 23. 8-9.
You shall not hate an Edomi (Edomite, the descendants of Esau, the brother of Jacob, Jewish kinsmen); for He is your Jewish brother; You shall not hate a Mitzri
(an Egyptian/ African) because you were a Ger (stranger, alien, convert) in his land. Your
Banim (Jewish children) that are begotten of them shall
enter into Ha’ Kahal Hashem (The congregation of Hashem) in their third generation.
#12. Despite the hostility between Yisrael and Edom, the Edomites are not permanently excluded from Ha’Bnei Yisrael because they are our Jewish Family from our tribal ancestry
through the brother of Jacob. The Edomites were traced back to Esau the brother of Jacob as related in Bresthith 36.
In the third generation despite the enslavement of the Jewish People in Egypt. The Egyptians, Africans had provided a haven for Yisrael in the time of famine, for which Yisrael was to
recognize a continuing debt of gratitude. It further proves as mentioned that when Moshe and Ha’Bnei Yisrael left Egypt/ Africa that many of those same Egyptians/ Africans converted to
the G-d of Yisrael in Sh’mot 12 and left there own homes with Yisrael at such a point that the verse says something that you would otherwise look over or dismiss: It
states: That
the Jewish People married those Egyptians and had African Jewish Children with native born Jews, with the converted Egyptian Jews!!! It states your children that are begotten of
them......
L. The conversion candidate should see the importance within their course of Hashem’s love for all of His Jewish People! Those who commit themselves to Tora and even to those that have
forsaken it and have gone after other gods and other ways, those that are lost within themselves. That Hashem doesn’t want us to have hatred for them, for they are our brothers and
sisters. Even further more the convert should know that they must obtain a Jewish husband or wife rather they are born Jewish or a converted Jew! That the Egyptians who converted had
children with the native born Jew or Israelities and that those children were not forsaken or withdrawn from living with the rest of the Jewish Community. Thus Hashem said that they shall
enter within Ha’Kahal (The Jewish Community), thus having equal rights as any other Jew !!!!!
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Yechezkel-Ezekiel 47. 21-23 “ Will be established when Mashiach comes.”
So shall you (The native born Jew)) divide Ha’Aretz Hazot (The land by inheritance )unto you according to Ha’Shivtei Yisrael (The Tribes of Yisrael ). And it shall come to pass,
that you shall divide it by lot for a Nachalah (inheritance ) unto you, and to Ha’Gerim (The Jewish Converts) that sojourn among you, which shall father banim (Jewish Children, from
native and convert Jewish parents) among you; and they shall be unto you as native born among Ha’ Bnei Yisrael (The men of Yisrael); they shall have Nachalah (inheritance ) with you among
Ha’ Shivtei Yisrael (The Tribes of Yisrael ). And it shall come to pass, that in what Shevet (Tribe) Ha’Ger (The Jewish Convert) sojourns, there says Adonai Hashem (The master Hashem)
that he shall have an inheritance.
#13. When the Mashiach comes the Converted Jew will be placed within one of the 12 Tribes and given an inheritance as or equal to the native born Jew in the land of Yisrael. The Jewish
Convert shall father children with their native born Jewish wives and husbands in the land of Yisrael. The land of Yisrael will be the only land and G-d Hashem will be thee only G-d. All
such religions within the world as they exist now will cease to exist! Hashem hasn’t any multiplicity of ways to him, he has given the world one way and that way is Tora! And that land is
Yisrael. There will not exist a Gola as it is today, and they Jews will not be scatttered as we are today within this world. All Jews including converted Jews will find there place, their
tribal ancestry in the land of Yisrael! At such a place and point that Hashem is giving up some of the actual land of Yisrael to the Convert. This is astronomical to those of you who are
converted Jews.
M. The Jewish Convert must understand that they will be given a portion of the land of Yisrael to live in and will be married to a native Jewish person and raise children from native and
converted Jewish Parents in the land of Yisrael ! Hashem has told here the native born Jew to treat the converted Jew as if they themselves were born Jewish, born right there with them in
the land of Yisrael. How amazing is this? You that are Jewish Converts are not second class citizens, puppets for Jews to guile, you are not less than or lower than the native born Jew!
You are equal in every way irregardless of what others may write, think or say, and with that responsibility you are guaranteed all the same rights as us who were born Jewish! Included
within those rights are the sole responsibility unto Hashem since it is He that does the conversion, and it is He that has accepted you that He is even willing to give some of the land of
Yisrael to you.....
איפה אני לא מסכים עם צו הרבנים
By Rabino Aminadav Hinton.
רבינו עמינדב הינטון
Can being around a Jew make another person Jewish? Does going to Italy make you Italian? Does wearing a Kippa, Tzitzit make you Jewish or donning or doing Jewish stuff
make you a convert? It doesn’t.... |
{19 pages. Sivan 5775. }
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UVNEI HA’NECHAR HA’NILVIM AL HASHEM LSHADTO UL’AHAVAH ET SHEM HASHEM LIHIOT LO LA’AVADIM KOL SHOMER SHABBAT MCHAL’LO UMACHAZIKIM BAVRITI: V’HAVIOTIM EL HAR KADSHI V’SIM’MACHTIM BA’VIET
TFLATI OLOTIHEIM VZIV’CHI’HEM L’RAZON AL MIZBCHI KI BITI BEIT TEFILAH YIKRA L’KOL HA’YAMIM
Also the
sons of the stranger (Ben
Gerim- Uvnei
Hanechar) that join
themselves to Hashem to serve
him and L’Ahavah
Et Shem Hashem-to love the name of Hashem,
to be His Avadim (servants),
everyone that is Shomer
Shabbat ( observe Shabbat) avoiding Chillul
Shabbat (desecration of Shabbat), and holding fast to my Brit (Covenant,
Tora). Even
them (The
Jewish Convert) will
I bring to My Har
Kodesh (Holy mountain), and
cause them to have Simcha (joy
for the convert)
in Ami
Beit Tefilah L’kol Ha’Amim
(House of prayer for all nations, for all people).
Yeshayahu 56. 6-7
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CONTENTS:
1. My
email conversation regarding Conversion with Yitzchak -E. Hollis.
2. Rabbinic
Conversion and its beginnings.
some of the insight within this lesson is from Dr. Lawrence J. Epstein guide on conversion to Judaism.
By The Coalition for the advancement of Jewish Education.
3. Tora
Conversion.
“ See the way it’s suppose to be done “ The Tora has given us the guide needed to follow for the gentile to come to conversion. It is from the Tora itself- Come and see what
are Hashem’s expectations.
This lesson was written and created for the many friends who email me with questions who are undergoing or considering conversion at their local synagogues.The amount of questions are so
astronomical that I was impressed upon to stop what I was writing and working on to write this lesson which I consider to be
Ha’Yeshiva Baal Kore Sephardic Guide to Tora
conversion.
The lesson that I shall apply for my conversion class through the Sephardic Beit Dins that I am apart of .
There is so much more that could have been said, written here, that would have went well into too many pages.
So I have tried simplifying it .
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The only reason Hashem exiled the Jews among the nations was so that converts could
be added.
Pesachim b7b
“And they shall be My people “ (Ezek 37:27). Rabbah Bar R. Huna said: Compared to proselytes, Yisrael are given somewhat higher status, for of Yisrael it is written, “ I will be their
G-d, and they shall be My People” (Ibid),whereas
Scripture says of proselytes “ Whosoever has pledged his heart to approach unto Me, says Hashem, you shall then be My people, and I will be your G-d” (Jeremiah 30:
21-22).
B. Kid 70b
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PART 1. MY EMAIL CONVERSATION REGARDING CONVERSION WITH YITZCHAK-
E. HOLLIS
Wearing whatever you want to wear has nothing to do with being Jewish or not being Jewish! If you're like me, wear a beard, kippa, tzitzit katan tallit or a mogen da’vid this doesn't make you Jewish! It celebrates or venerates that decision of that which you already are within, on the inside. What makes you or anyone else Jewish is and please get this number 1. Acceptance of Hashem and his Tora! 2. Not following after other gods, the gods that are not gods at all which you will see in the Tora listing below. 3. It is a matter of the heart. 4.Action, the doings, observance, application of Tora into one's life!
“The religious semantic are ridiculous.”
Also please understand that going through ritualistic exponents per any given organization doesn't make you Jewish. That is following a conversion program, a class. A person whose Jewish can't make you Jewish just because they are Jewish. Such idiocy is ridiculous! Can a German make you German by following what German's do? Think how crazy this is- Can an Irish person make you Irish just by following what Irish people do. It is a matter of the heart! It is a matter of following The G-d of Yisrael. Religious garb is fine, but it is the reason behind it that grants it significance, not merely the doing of a thing. It is Hashem that does the conversion, making a person a Jew by observing what was given to the Jew to observe and follow, that being Hashem and His Tora! Ha’Ta’ahug Kulo Sheli Ger Hashem- The pleasure of the convert is Hashem!
I have no problem with conversion, but it is today, very different from Tora and the way that Hashem expected conversion to be done. I have no problem with Ha’Beit Din. However as
mentioned reform conversions aren't accepted anyway beyond that circle, but that's besides the point. Furthermore calling yourself Yitzchak- when G-d laughs or rejoices is gloriously
apart of the conversion decision, not process. You should continue following and applying not only that Jewish name to yourself but further more what it stands for and
means as
confirmation to that decision which has already been made within your heart. Hashem's
expectation of conversion is a matter of simply rejecting all other gods, forsaking idol practices and calling on other gods which are not gods and following
after him! What
modernized conversion is today is nothing more than social acceptance, assemblage- you take the class, study it, pass it, stand before three Rabbis or Shofetim which is the requirement
universally then you receive Hatafat Dahm Brit Milah a prick of blood and Mikvah then you are confirmed through service as a Jew after the
right price- which your Synagogue is charging 1600
dollars for
you to be socially accepted within their grouping is outrageous!!!
What they consider as a Jew is nothing more than religious
mannequins, but it doesn't make you any more Jewish than a rock being Jewish! What they will make you is a
member within their bubble. A
paying puppet, a
ventriloquist on the strings of mimicry !!! In
reference to forsaking the Kippa as your Rabbi said? I must ask why do you don it then? Like I said wearing a Kippa doesn't make you Jewish. But wearing it for the purpose by which we
cover our heads does... We wear Kippa to show respect that G-d is above us! and over us !!! It isn't a matter of garb, religious doings that bring about or means
anything. It
is why it is done that matters! If you're doing anything for religious reasons then your doing so is a waste of time, pointless parading! G-d
must be the reason for everything other
wise what ever reason you have is worthless....
So if you are wearing whatever for the purpose of serving G-d then continue doing so for it is for G-d regardless of what anyone says, if you are Yitzchak for the purpose of following
Hashem, then continue doing so. I was given the name Aminadav from Hashem without ever looking up the name when I came to understand my Jewish ancestry....
Can a person make you a Jew? can a person tell you what name to call yourself or not? Can a person tell you because they think their a Rabbi that you're not Jewish? Read
those scriptures that I gave you then come back to me and you will see for yourself Hashem's expectation of conversion is far different from what the Rabbis have created it to
be!
The definition for Ger which
today means: Convert comes from the literal meanings of the words Gar, Gari, Gerim-
To take up one's abode, to dwell as a stranger, to lodge, sojourn, to fear (Elohim),
to be afraid(serve
Elohim),
anxious, to revere, to crowd together, to meet. Yitgorar-
To settle, dwell, sojourn, to assemble, to gather together. So then who is the convert following, fearing, lodging with, sojourning with, settling or assembling with? The
person that has left all prior pagan observances and have forsaken all other gods and have cleaved to Elohim,
the Creator has
just by doing so converted.
The semantics or the service, classes are nothing more than confirmation to that which already took place within, on the inside. But obviously today to affiliate with any organization,
they have created their
own programs, fees,cost, dues, prices, objections that
one has to follow to ascribe to their version or there trajectory. And the most important aspect of a potential convert coming to them is “
How much money they can get out of them as far as the cost of the conversion course, dues to join a synagogue, cost for the books, material. You even told me they want to charge
you, to give you a Tanakh.There
shouldn’t even be a cost for a conversion course.”
Thus a person would say that you are not Jewish, because you didn't fulfill their objection or their program in order for them to make you socially acceptable, a common chameleon. That is
why I told you that I have great respect and admiration for Judaism as a Jew or for Halacha but
nothing takes precedence over the actual written Tora!
Judaism I do believe is the closest to the original, that which the Creator gave to Moshe, Avraham and the like. However over the years with human input one can imagine how they have
added to it and changed, revised that original Judaism which I call " The
Tora faith or Biblical
Faith" into
a formation which is authorized, signed and approved by mere men like you and me for the
right price. I love Judaism, I love Halacha, however I wonder what was Judaism like in the days of Avraham, Moshe and Ha'Bnei Yisrael in reference to today! How much in reference
to their observance of Tora and the Creator did they observe where we today falter in application of mere man methodological formulations.
How much did it cost those converts in Sh’mot 12, those Egyptians that converted, how much did it cost them to take on this mantle of Yiddishkeit? How much did Moshe charge
for them to learn and study Tora? How much did Hashem charge them ? How much were the “dues” in the camp of Ha’Bnei Yisrael? What manual, class and cost did Hashem
charge them to become Hebrews? What Beit Din did they have in place for them to be considered as Hebrews? Just asking......
Hashem is He who does the conversion and the manual needed is Tora!
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PART 2. RABBINIC CONVERSION AND IT’S BEGINNINGS:
If
someone in Tora times
wished to become a Hebrew, that person simply joined the Hebrews, the Jewish community, through acceptance of Hashem, His Tora and the observances of that Jewish
community. The
first place we hear of Converts is Sh’mot 12 after their sojourn into Egypt, the Jewish people or Hebrews escape from slavery, after their receiving of the Tora at Mount Sinai, the Jewish
people returned to Ha’Eretz Yisrael. Only to find it inhabited by a variety of foreigners. Some of these Ha’
Nochri-
literally the foreigners- wished to remain apart from the Israelites. Others,
however did wish to join the Jewish People. These strangers, called Gerim (the
masculine singular is Ger,
the feminine singular is Gioret or Giyoret-
plural Gerim,
the process of conversion- Gerut/ Giyur.
In Parasha
Sh’mot Moshe
marries Tzipporah and they have a son in Midian named: Gershom emphasizing
Sh’mot 12 as Gershom
means: Ger-
stranger or convert, Shom-
name. A stranger by name or a convert by name). Tzipporah was the daughter of Reuel or Jethro, the Cohen of Midian. Midian the location named after the son of Avraham
the convert which means strife. The son of Avraham and Keturah- Gen 25. 2; 1 Chron 1. 32 progenitor of the Midianites or Arabians who dwelled in the desert north of the
peninsula of Arabia.
The Tora calls upon the Jewish People to love these strangers as in Vayikra
19:34 which
we will get too later. “
The stranger (Ger) who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens (Sabra); you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt”
(This
statement is continually repeated!)
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The foundational ideas of Judaism gradually led to the notion of religious conversion. A
religious concept of Judaism evolved that required particular beliefs which today in many cases differ from the Tora’s ideal of conversion! It required, first, the
revolutionary idea of monotheism which comes from Tora’s expectation for conversion. We Jews were to follow the covenant agreed to at Mount Sinai and obey the Divine teachings,
Ha’Mitzvot. Gentiles were to follow the covenant G-d made with Nocha- Ha’Sheva
Mitzvot Bnei Noach with
its universal morality mandating that all people refrain from idolatry, incest, adultery, bloodshed, profaning G-d’s name, injustice by the affirmative act of establishing courts of law,
robbery, and such cruel acts as removing a limb from a living animal. Those
laws that D’Rabbonom ascribed to us as coming from Nocha-Noach which aren’t even written in the portions of the Tora where Nocha-Noach is discussed even though they are good, have merit
and are useful they
are not written within the Tora. There
aren’t even any Mitzvots mentioned in Bereshith at all, we don’t obtain any Mitzvots until we get into Sh’mot and
those laws are actually only for us Jews.
There aren’t any laws for Goyim, or Gentiles but to those that would convert to The G-d of Yisrael. Goyim don’t have a way of acceptance other than through conversion thus there aren’t
any laws or instructions for them within the Tora but for the convert. Thus in reality the Noahide laws were the instructions the Rabbis created to deal with the Gentiles that wanted to
attend Synagogue and follow some of our observations that didn’t want to fulfill conversion. However in terms of Tora these people are excluded and there really aren’t any laws for them
but for the convert. You will see this abit more later when we get to Tora.
Thus the Gentile is pagan and they have no way to the Creator but through the Creator, until that acceptance takes place they are not even identified, acknowledged or recognized
regardless of what the Rabbis created to deal with this problem.
The Gentiles who joined the Jewish People were now called Nilvim (accompanist), those
who attached themselves to G-d ( Isaiah 56. 3-6; Esther 9. 27, Zechariah 2. 15) or Nivdalim (Separators), people
who left the pagan world to follow Hashem and His Tora (Ezra 6. 21).
Jonah’s-Yonah Ha’Navi mission
caused a whole Gentile city to convert to The G-d of Yisrael by way of Hashem and His Tora-! (Jonah 3. 10). Rut became through her words a convert (Ruth 1. 16). There were evidently large
numbers of converts during the Hellenistic period up until the destruction of the Second Temple ( 332 BCE- 70 CE). In part, we know this because of a great increase in the Jewish
Population. The destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and the subsequent loss of Jewish national identity for almost two millennia radically transformed the notion of religious
conversion. As
the Talmudic age emerged, a specific conversion ceremony was adopted. The term Ger came
specifically to refer to a convert, a proselyte, and the word Giyur referred
specifically to conversion in Judaism. The Rabbis who wrote and edited the Mishna and the Gemara, as well as other related writings, had generally favorable attitudes towards converts.
There are a few negative remarks toward converts in the Talmud, some of which are open to interpretation. For example, the most well known of the negative comments
of Rabbi
Helbo’s (Yevamot
109b)
that converts are as troublesome as a sore. The reason this is, is because we have had a number of converts that learned Tora, Hebrew, Halacha and reverted back to paganism using that
which they learned to propel paganism such as those who became Christians or reverted back to Christianity. Maimonides,
for example, thought the comment referred only to converts who had ulterior motives, not to the great majority of righteous converts(Ger
Tzedek).
The best known Talmudic story dealing with converts involved the two great Sages Shammai and Hillel
(Shabbat 31a.)
A stranger came to the House of Shammai, and Shammai asked the stranger what he wanted. The stranger with an unclean heart said that he wished to learn the whole of the Tora while he
stood on one foot. Shammai angrily struck the stranger and made the stranger go away. The stranger then went to the House of Hillel. Hillel greeted him and asked what he wanted. The
stranger repeated his mocking request to be taught the whole of the Tora while standing on one foot. Hillel, like Shammai, understood that the stranger was making fun of him, and making
fun of the Tora and Judaism, but Hillel didn’t become angry. Instead, Hillel said that he would teach the stranger as was wished. Hillel said, “ What is hateful to you, do not do to your
neighbor.” The stranger waited for more. Finally, he asked, “ Is that all the Tora?” Hillel answered: “ Yes, that is the foundation. All the rest is commentary, Go and study. “ The
stranger said, “ If that is the foundation, I will study all of the Tora.”
This welcoming attitude toward even those who initially made fun of Judaism reflects the more common attitude of Talmudic Rabbis. Perhaps the most provocative comment about the importance
of conversion occurs in Pesahim
87b,
in which Rabbi
Yohanan asserts
that G-d exiled Jews from their homeland for only one reason, to increase the number of converts. What makes this comment from an illustrious Rabbi so startling, of course, is the
attribution of positive outcomes to so horrible an event as exile from the sacred, promised land. Evidently, Rabbi Yohanan considered increasing converts to be so worthy an aim that it
justified the exile (Gola).
Various midrashim also extol welcoming converts. One famous passage admonishes Jews that they had better use the exile to present their religion: “ If you will not proclaim Me as G-d unto
the heathen nations of the world, I shall exact penalty from you “ (Vayikra
Rabbah, 6:5).
Such an offering was tempered by the Rabbis understanding that ethical deeds, not specific attachment to Judaism or Tora, defined a gentile’s obligation. As the often quoted sentence
from Ha’Tosefta
on Sanhedrin, chapter 13 goes:
“ The
righteous of all nations shall have a portion in the world to come.”
This feeling provides for some ambivalence at times towards converts, as reflected in the famous dictum that the appropriate approach was “ distancing those seeking conversion with the
left hand even while drawing them with the right “ (Mekhilta
Amalek 3).
The Halacha derived from this and other Talmudic passages as well as later writing such as the post- Mishnaic minor tractate Gerim and Codes such as Ha’Shulchan
Arukh presents
a straightforward approach to Conversion. After someone comes to a Rabbi with a desire to convert, the Rabbi discusses the prospective convert’s motivation, specifically that the person
is sincere, is coming to Judaism without moral reservation, and is prepared to lead a Jewish Life. The candidate must be willing to accept the teachings and practices of Judaism
-Kabbalat
Ol Ha’Mitzvot,
literally the acceptance of the yoke of the commandments. After a successful discussion, the person begins a process of education-Hakhinukh
Matkhil Ba’Bayit.
When that is completed, that course and manual the conversion applicant comes before a court, a Beit Din made up of three male judges which inquires into the candidate’s knowledge and
motivation. If the candidate is accepted by the Beit Din, the male candidate has circumcision (Mila),
or if circumcision has taken place earlier, a drop of blood is drawn (Hatafat
Dahm),
and then immersion (Tevilla
Mikveh).
Immersion is also required of women. Following immersion in a pool of water 150 to 200 gallons as prescribed by Halacha a second declaration is made. The candidate then emerges from the
water and is formally Jewish!!!
Both the Orthodox and Conservative movements believe that they adhere to this Halachic procedure, although, Orthodox Jews believe Conservative Judaism doesn't adequately follow
this procedure. The Reform movement offers guidelines, but recognizes that individual cases may vary. Thus,
for example, the procedure of circumcision and immersion are not required according to the Reform- which is a clear violation of Tora!!!, thou by Tora standards which more
importantly state that circumcision has to take place for males, otherwise
they have not received conversion. But of course Reform reinvented Judaism without the need for the Tora in my opinion. That’s one of the reasons I’m setting it straight here
concerning conversion. The Talmudic references to conversion were mostly positive let me say, and while the Jewish people evidently absorbed large numbers of converts during the era of
the Second Temple, in the aftermath of the destruction of the Temple, the Jewish attitude toward conversion underwent a transformation. Converts were no longer sought. Judaism began to
see itself as a religion that made affiliation difficult.This transformation occurred for a variety of reasons. One important reason was persecution. Roman, Christian and,
later, Muslim authorities
all made strict laws forbidding the Jews from seeking or accepting converts, and severe punishment was given both to the Jews and the converts. For example, between 81-
96 CE., Domitian ordered
that a convert’s property be seized and the convert be put to death or sent into exile right along with the Jew. In 325
Constantine forbade
Jews to engage in any proselytizing activity. There were a large number of such legal efforts to restrict Jewish efforts to welcome converts. Inevitably, prudent Jewish leaders saw that
the dangers of welcoming converts made it necessary to curtail the activity, at least on a temporary basis. Let us not forget the two hundred years of the Crazy
Christian Crusades neither-
Hundreds of thousands of our Jewish People were called “Christ
Killers and
murdered”
Another reason for the transformation was that Christianity changed
the notion of mission. Christianity altered the idea of conversion from a voluntary ideal into a religious requirement for salvation and changed the means of effecting conversion from
offering into intrusive missionary work. This tainted notion of welcoming converts led the Jews to find any welcoming of converts more suspect. Another cause for the decline of
conversionary work was the Jewish need for a justifying ideology for their isolation, an ideology which permitted them to retreat from external religious
activity.
Other reasons included the Jewish refusal to simplify the requirements for conversion, for example. Paul
the Pagan Pacifist of the Trick Testament had for pagans wishing to become Christians, the success of Christianity and later Islam in winning converts from among the people
who might have gone to Judaism.
There were two kinds of teachers of the Halacha in the second half of the thirteenth century. These teachers, or schools, worked independently and had different opinions about converts.
The first group, Ha’Mefarshim,
or commentators, were centered in France and Germany. These commentators, exemplified by Rashi and the Tosafists, favored welcoming converts. The Tosafists seemed to imply that Jewish law
required the acceptance of converts. Indeed, Ben Zion Wachholder, in his essay “ Attitudes Towards Proselytizing in the Classical Halacha (Historia Judaica, Oct. 958, Vol XX, Part 2. 95)
argued that “ The Franco-German Rabbis made the commandment to proselyte their basic premise.”
The other group of teachers were the posekim (Ha’Sephardim
Mizrahi Rabinos),
or decision makers. They were centered in North Africa, Spain and other areas where Sephardi Jews lived. They included such important scholars as Simeon Kayyara, Isaac Alfasi, and
Maimonides. In general, Ha’Posekim were more restrictive in their view of proselytizing although Maimonides, in particular, was solicitous toward righteous converts. The existence of
these two schools with very different attitudes towards welcoming converts led to confusion. Asher Ben Jehiel attempted to produce a code that balanced the views of both schools. His son,
Jacob Ben Asher, produced a familiar code called the Tur. Nahmanides and his disciple Rashba also attempted to blend the two systems. It was in these attempts to blend the approaches that
the anti-conversionary approach prevailed. The reason for this is, perhaps, because of the increasing hostility toward Jews during the Middle Ages, and the concern that any attempts to
welcome converts would only make the already precarious Jewish condition even more dangerous. At any rate, when Joseph Caro wrote the authoritative code Shulchan Arukh ( 1564-65), he
favored the Spanish Sephardic School in almost all areas. In 1569-71 Moses Isserles added Ha’Mappa, the notes, to the Code and the Shulchan Arukh became the most important code. In Yoreh
De’ah, Chapter 268-269, Caro discusses proselytes. The attitude toward converts is mixed. He seems opposed to active proselytism (As
a Sephardi Mizrahi Jew I agree),
but presents the laws for converts more favorably than the Spanish School and did include some Tosafist opinions. He specifically does not quote Rabbi Helbo. At
one point, Caro even writes that prospective converts should be told that the Idolatrous nations will perish, but that Yisrael will survive and Judaism will become the sole
religion.
(He cites Yevamot
47a).
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As a Sephardic Mizrahi Jew I obviously side with this Sephardic ideal and differ from the Ashkenazim’s ideal of conversion. My
objective is that the Tora’s condition of conversion is most important, that there shouldn’t be any cost, fees, dues or organizational agendas within the conversion process. That the
outline which Tora gives for conversion is all that is needed for the candidate as we shall discuss momentarily as a Pesher Posikim. And
that it is Hashem who does the conversion, that a Beit Din is not necessary though that is the deciding rule. That a Rabbi who sees a person is fully committed to Tora living, then
Judaism thus Halacha has the right per Tora to under-see the conversion process as has been done in small rural urban Sephardic countries where a Beit Din was not in place or found such
as in Africa for example.
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