[Avodah] Pre-Sinaitic conversions

Daniel Israel dmi1 at hushmail.com
Fri Feb 29 11:34:27 PST 2008


Micha Berger wrote:
> (There are no recorded cases of someone joining the
> beris at har Sinai before the one by the Yardein.) And we simply need
> mesorah and context to disambiguate from the general idea to specific
> halachic category.

Yisro?  Does no one who hold he arrived after matan Torah also hold that 
he was m'gayer?  Or did I misunderstand you?

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Daniel M. Israel
dmi1 at cornell.edu




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