[Avodah] Chiyuv l'kabel gerim

[Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer]

Why should they be deprived of full-fledged geirus? If they "realize 
that Yahadus is Emes," why stop as Gerei Toshav. I always understood GT 
as meant basically for masses who didn't want to give up cheeseburgers. 
One who is willing to forgo them should surely be accepte, no?

When were Chazal not mekkabel gerim?

KT,
YGB

Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
> RYGB:
> If we believe that Yahadus is emes and that yakiru v'yeid'u kol yoshvei
> teivel that emes, how can we not have a chiyuv to be mekaabel geirim!?
>
>
> Because there is a level before that - Geir Toshav. Even if there wasn't -
> Yakiru V'yeid'u only means that they will realize that Yahadus is Emes - it
> doesn't imply that they will become Yidden, just that they renounce Avodah
> Zarah. During Kriyas Yam Suf, for example, the nations renounced AZ, saying
> Mi Kamocha... (Mechilta on that Pasuk.) That seems to me to be a full Yakiru
> V'yeid'u. In any case, there were times in Jewish history when Chazal were
> not M'kabel Geirim, because their motives were questioned.
>
> KT,
> MYG
>
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