[Avodah] Court retroactively revokes conversions

[Daniel Eidensohn]

T613K at aol.com wrote:
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> >>>>>
> I don't know a written source, but my father zt'l said that, unlike 
> the case with a regular would-be convert who is initially discouraged, 
> in the case of someone whose father is Jewish, if they say they want 
> to convert, you don't discourage them.
>  
>  
> (However it seems to me that this would not apply to Russian goyim 
> with one Jewish great-grandfather, who have no intention of living an 
> observant life, and who clearly have ulterior motives, as Israeli 
> citizens, for wanting to be considered Jews.)
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> *-*
This is the view that I heard from Rav Nosson Kaminetsky in the name of 
his father Reb Yaakov. He only said they should not be pushed away but 
were not to be proselytized to convert. Thus they need to show some 
initiative.

Daniel Eidensohn