[Avodah] geirut for marriage

[Zev Sero]

On 18/02/2011 9:21 AM, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
> R' Zev Sero wrote:
>
>> In principle such candidates should not be accepted for giyur,
>> because we're afraid that if the marriage breaks up ch"v they'll
>> go back to their old ways.
>
> And yet, for reasons which I still don't understand, when Machlon and Kilyon died, Naami ENCOURAGED Rus and Orpah to go back to their old ways. Even if the conversion was "al tenai" or some other sort of quasi-conversion, why would Naami try to get it nullified?

Who says they had undergone any sort of giyur?  As I understand it,
M and K intermarried.

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