B"H
I suppose that most of you already know this article and its message:
Rabbinate Confronted with 60 Missionary Converts
I also sent a comment to ARUTZ 7 (see no.51).
According to my opinion, the Rabbanut (chief rabbinate) makes it far too easy for converts to Judaism. Especially within the past few years. How come that the haredi Rabbi Nissim Karelitz never has such scandals ? Because false converts wouldn't dare going him. Nothing scares false converts more than Haredim and haredi society. There they cannot tell their ferrytales, stupid visions and dreams about how wonderful it is to be a Jew (whispered into their ear by the false Messiah J.) .
The below comments on the Arutz 7 article are quite interesting. Especially because at least one false converts is making her remarks and not letting out how much she dislikes the Rabbanut. Apparently she is still on the same Christian path "All Rabbis (in particular Haredim) are stupid".
How can it be that such people convert ?
The woman in question was not converted by the Rabbanut but by a Beit Din arranged for her through "special" connections. This is how you do it today. Even the Rabbanut doesn't want you anymore but don't give up and put your own Beit Din together.
Those false convert ashame every honest convert studying in very well accepted programmes.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
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Define false convert.
ReplyDeleteB"H
ReplyDeleteI am referring to Orthodoxy:
Everyone converting without having the intention of keeping the Torah. Conversion doesn't mean keeping all the Mitzvot today or tomorrow but it does include a certain honesty and the will to finally get there. Not having Christianity in his mind but the knowledge of ONE ETERNAL G - D who created everything. The awareness of the meaning of Mitzvot and leading a JEWISH religious life.
False conversions with false intentions can take place where converts wants Israeli citizenship or, as in this case, trying to convert in order to, later on, missionize Jews.
I find the whole conversion thing confusing. It seems that now there are so many definitions of being a Jew. At one time you were either a Jew or you were not. While I think freedom of religion for all nations is necessary, I have a problem with Jews redefining who we are. To change what our forefathers were somehow seems wrong. Sometimes I think that it is all the "watered-down" Jews that will bring this country down. I am not a perfect observer of mitzvot, but I believe in the Torah. Those who are trying to re-define Torah should perhaps not be in this country. Only Hashem can say...
ReplyDeleteB"H
ReplyDeleteWe do need certain regulations, laws and limits. Even if the Torah doesn't define everything, the Oral Law, the Talmud, does.
The Torah was made in Heaven (by G - d) but it is up to the Jews (Sages, Rabbis) interpreting it, as the Talmud stipulates !!!!
Already in the days of Moshe, he himself and the elders interpreted everything and somehow, G - d said, there have to be firm interpretations. And one of those regulations is the conversion process. If you like it or not.