[Avodah] Court retroactively revokes conversions

[Richard Wolpoe]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM, <T613K at aol.com> wrote:

>   From: "Richard Wolpoe" rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com
>
>
> >>>>>
> Who in the world ever demanded a promise of perfection as a prerequisite
> for gerus?!
> And who ever nullified a gerus on the grounds that the convert turned out
> to be a less than perfect tzaddik?!
>
> *--Toby Katz
> =============*
>
> I posted this before but let me repeat in other words::
Ka salka da'atach thatthe kabbalh has to be 100% w/o reservations - and then
if he sins LATER ON he is ok but  NOT if he expresses reservations up front.

Came Rav Parness [not RRW!} and said if the propsetive Ger  says: "I accept
but K know the flesh is weak and I  might or am likely to sin..."  ka mashma
lan it is still an OK kabbalah.

People have been conflating the issue of KABBALAS Mitzvos with performance.

Lemashal: let's say a person is a smoker and a prerquisite for joining a
group is to renounce smoking.  Waht if he says "I renounce smoking but I
know that I am an addict and once in a while I will probably sneak smoek!"

Or lehavdil when a Jew was forcibly Baptized what if he said at the time of
the BAptism " i mgith be tempted to have some matza on Passover or light a
candle on a Friday Night once in a while, would he be accepted?"

What this Ger is saying is he accepts Mitzvos but realizes that  he is
subject to human frailty and  if if is for Te'avon he is OK. That is the
hiddush here.


-- 
Kol Tuv / Best Regards,
RabbiRichWolpoe at Gmail.com
see: http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/
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