[Avodah] Chiyuv l'kabel gerim

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, January 10, 2008 3:28 pm, Daniel Eidensohn wrote:
: The Maharal also indicates that there is no mitzva for beis din to
: convert non-Jews but rather the obligation is for the non-Jew to be
: converted. The Mishna Halachos that I cited before also cited this
: gemora as proof for this assertion.

I'm going to use the word "chiyuv", since "mitzvah" is ambiguous.
Clearly geirus is a mitzvah, in the sense of the word that writing a
get is a mitzvah. The question is whether there is a chiyuv to help
someone for whom it's a zekhus (IOW, they show all signs of becoming
shomerei Torah umitzvos), a reshus (mitzvah qiyumis), or a hechsher
mitzvah, or....

I'm missing something. What's the nafqa mina between saying BD has a
chiyuv geirus, and saying the geir has a chiyuv to convert ASAP, he
can't do so without a beis din, and therefore BD must help him?

It's a little parallel to piryah verivyah for women, except that there
"lasheves yatzrah" guarantees even less of a nafqa mina.

SheTir'u baTov!
-micha

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