Re: the Pleasure of the Season

Janet Wilder wrote:
> Frank wrote:
>
>> See Janet, that's what I was referring to, when answering El Al's
>> post about Jewish conversion for non-Jews and musing about why three
>> Rabis would try to talk them out of it. Hince my question about
>> "keeping it Kosher," meaning not the dietary definition, but one of,
>> how do I state this without being offensive, a racial or blood
>> continuity?
>
> Maybe you should have stated it that way from the get-go. With the OPs
> friend the racial thing would not have mattered as that group only
> recognizes matrilineal descent for racial continuity.
>
> I may very well be wrong, but I recall that the reason that we
> discourage conversion is because being a Jew has always been very
> difficult. Being among the "chosen" people has never been a walk in
> the park. It's a burden we "chose" to shoulder. There is nothing
> elitist about the term.
>
> It's one thing to be born and raised into such a situation, but to
> volunteer for such service can be dissapppointing to those who are not
> properly educated or whose motives are not thoroughly explored. Rather
> than accept converts who will turn away because they find it too
> difficult, we discourage them. If, after the discouragement, they
> still have the fortitude and desire to convert, then it's permitted,
> but even that process is not easy.

Well, I was trying to be sensitive about the matter, and did not want to
offend anyone's religion, by being Frank, about what I suspected was a
racial aspect of the conversion to Judaism. You're explanation confirms my
suspicions, about the "why," of discouraging conversions. Makes sense to me
to have these precautions in place.

--
Frank Howell
www.fphowell.com


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