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A Compilation: Thou Shalt Love the Convert Jewish State 1/20/2016 Bulletin: Lenient Halakhic rulings on Conversion Like 6 Tweet Share Announcements Updates Resources Contact Us Editorial Discuss this and other issues with fellow RRFEI members in the network's new Facebook group by January 18, 2015 clicking HERE! Dear Friends, Many in Israel are working toward a return to halakhah as intended by our tradition, and not as a political gambit to secure power in the A compilation: Thou shalt love the convert Jewish State. by Rabbi Chuck Davidson We have heard in past [Click to download] weeks from Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz, who is working for a rational and traditional Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, Israel has standard of kashrut that been privileged to receive more than one does not coerce Israelis into million Olim from the former USSR. This paying exorbitant fees or Aliya has continued for over two decades, discriminating against other blessing the State of Israel in many ways, religions: a kashrut that is including economically, academically, about food and not about technologically, demographically and politics. [link] culturally. These Olim share a great desire to contribute to their new home, including serving in the IDF's We heard from Rabbi combat units in larger percentages than the general population. The Michael Chernick about second generation has been successfully absorbed into the country, those groups working to and are no different from their Sabra peers who were born in Israel. reform the marriage laws in Israel, so that the hundreds On the one hand, the successful absorption of these Olim has been of thousands or perhaps a blessing to the whole country, and on the other hand it has even millions of Israelis presented significant challenges to Israeli society. This is a result of excluded from marriage in the approximately 300 thousand adult Olim who immigrated under Israel by the Chief the Law of Return, which grants the right of return to anyone with a Rabbinate will be able single Jewish grandparent (provided they have not chosen another http://hosted­p0.vresp.com/577764/3ea84ff40b/ARCHIVE 1/5 1/20/2016 Bulletin: Lenient Halakhic rulings on Conversion marry the person they love faith), who are not Jewish according to Halacha. Another 80 in the land of their thousand children and adolescents who were born or raised in Israel citizenship and the land are not Jews according to Jewish law. Of these 380,000, who are they serve. [link] officially classified as "having no religion" according to the Ministry of the Interior, most consider themselves Jews in all respects. This week we are sending the booklet of halakhic Additionally, almost all of these Olim are considered "Zera Yisrael" statements [download here] (the seed of Israel), descendants of Jews, who themselves are not collected by Rabbi Chuck considered Jewish according to Halakha. Unlike the conversions of Davidson of Jerusalem non­Jews, conversions of "Zera Yisrael" are considered a mitzvah of concerning historical "bringing back the lost ones," i.e., bringing back into the Jewish fold positions important rabbis those that were lost to the Jewish people, which is especially true for have taken on gerut. Jews of Soviet ancestry who were cut off from all things Jewish by Hiddush staffer David force of the communist regime for more than seventy years. And so, Bogomolny has done us the the Halakhic requirements for converting those who are "Zera favor of translating Rabbi Yisrael" are significantly less stringent than the requirements for Davidson's introduction to converting those who have no Jewish roots. his hoveret into English for This blessed Aliyah resulted in a number of challenges, including: ease of reading. We know your time is precious, and 1. The rate of intermarriage, which had been negligible in Israel thought an English before the fall of the Iron curtain, has grown tenfold, and now translation might save a few stands at about 5%, i.e. one in twenty. This phenomenon has moments. The Hebrew is penetrated even the Zionist Orthodox community, among also included. There follows those who no longer live their lives according to Halakha. over 170 statements of 2. Those who are classified as "having no religion" according to rabbinic opinions, some the Ministry of the Interior cannot get married in Israel due to from rabbis you know and the Chief Rabbinate's monopoly on marriage. some less famous, who 3. The cohesiveness of Israeli society, which is already fragile have defined conversion as and tearing along political and ideological seams, has further a process of joining the weakened due to this incomplete absorption of the Olim from Jewish people for those the FSU. who sincerely seek 4. Facing the historic opportunity of bringing Olim from the FSU membership in Am Yisrael. towards Judaism, the Rabbinate's inhospitable approach You will see that Rabbi results in exactly the opposite and pushes them further away Yisrael Be'eri, who was the from their Jewish heritage. Chief Rabbi of Nes Tsiyona, Today, the pathway to government recognized conversion through contended that the intention the Ministry of Religious Services and the Chief Rabbinate requires to be a Jew who those who are converting to convince the rabbinic conversion courts acknowledged that Judaism that they intend to live a Halakhic lifestyle as do Orthodox Jews, has mitzvot, even though which most of them do not plan to do. Even most of those who do the convert did not intend to manage to complete this conversion process don't actually live out keep those mitzvot, was this commitment. Therefore, the government's conversion program sufficient for conversion. In actually puts the majority of this population off from pursuing other words, to convert to conversion at all. live a Jewish life as other contemporary Jews live as This booklet I have compiled addresses the critical question of the http://hosted­p0.vresp.com/577764/3ea84ff40b/ARCHIVE 2/5 1/20/2016 Bulletin: Lenient Halakhic rulings on Conversion Jews in our time suffices. above mentioned population's future, as well as the continuation of Halakhic Jewish status for an increasing number of Israeli citizens As long as the convert who have Jewish identities, but are not considered Jewish according accepts the authority of the to Halakha. Torah and the punishment for not observing the The booklet introduces the reader to more than 170 rabbinic mitzvot, some would say citations on the matter of Jewish conversion over the centuries and l'hathila and some would millennia. The quotes have been shortened in order to present the say b'diavad, that person is material in simple and accessible language. However, the exact accepted as a Jew. references are noted on every page, and in any case, the selected Historically conversion was quotes represent the rabbis' final opinions on this matter, to the best not intended to build up and of my understanding. sustain a particular The opinions included in this booklet only represent lenient Halakhic interpretation of Judaism. rulings. Clearly, in the matter of conversion, as with every other Rather, for many rabbis, it's Halakhic matter, legitimate disagreements arise. Since the more to build up the Jewish stringent rabbinic opinions are better known among the wider public, people in its entirety with this booklet aims to include the lesser known rabbinic opinions. This true believers who accept booklet was written with the intention of raising interest in the subject the mitzvot as incumbent of conversion in the hopes that its readers will become inclined to upon them, whether they deeply study the sources. Further, the booklet does not intend to perform the mitzvot or not. represent any particular position as practical Halakha (Halakha le­ From the writings of Shlomo ma'aseh). Zalman Urbach we see that the issue, built on a p'sak My many thanks go to the great Rav Haim Amsalem, SHLIT"A, from the 13th century, is author of the monumental book "Zera Yisrael," from which most of that the ger accept the citations were drawn, with the addition of a few gems that I becoming a Jew entirely of uncovered with my own efforts, representing the Halakhic rulings of his own free will, without the leading rabbis of their respective generations. I merited the any coercion. The ger must immense privilege, which is impossible to describe, of getting to desire to be Jewish. Rabbi closely know the Rav, pouring water on his hands, and learning the Urbach wrote that the Torah of conversion from his mouth. critical issue is to ask the Kalman Pesach (Chuck), son of Pinchas, Davidson potential ger if he wants to 2015 convert, and that acceptance constitutes החוברת: ואהבתם את הגר acceptance of the commandments. נערך על ידי הרב צ'אק דוידסון And see Rabbi Yehoshua [לחץ להורדה] ben Meir's statement about Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's מאז נפילת מסך הברזל, זכתה מדינת ישראל לעלייתם של כמיליון בני אדם opinion that joining the מברית המועצות לשעבר. עליה זו על פני יותר משני עשורים הביאה ברכות Jewish people is doing what למדינה מבחינות רבות וביניהם הכלכלית, האקדמאית, הטכנולוגית, others in the Jewish הדמוגרפית, והתרבותית. רצונם של העולים לתרום למדינה הוא גבוה ביותר, community do as normative כולל במישור הצבאי כאשר משרתים ביחידות קרביות באחוזים גדולים מכלל in the community, in Israel http://hosted­p0.vresp.com/577764/3ea84ff40b/ARCHIVE 3/5 1/20/2016 Bulletin: Lenient Halakhic rulings on Conversion האוכלוסייה. הדור השני נקלט היטב בארץ עד including serving in the IDF שאינם שונים מעמיתיהם הצברים. as the other members of the community do, but not מצד אחד, קליטתם המוצלחת של העולים היא necessarily living according ברכה למדינה כולה, ומצד שני מציגה בפני החברה to the demands of halakha.
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