[Avodah] Would Ruth's conversion be rejected today?

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:06:27AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> Again, nothing to do with her conversion.

For some reason Zev is choosing to be oblique. So, to spell things
out.

Devarim 23:2-4 has three prohibitions phrased as "lo yavo ... beqehal
Hashem. Pasuq 2 -- "petzua daka ukherus shofkhah", pasuq 3 -- "mamzeir",
and pasuq 4 -- "amoni umoavi".

Pesuqim 8-9 permit an Adomi and Mitzri after three generations "yavo lahem
beqehal Hashem.

As is clear from the other pesuqim (or Rashi on ours), we are talking
about marriage, not geirus.

Just as is well known about a mamzer, a Moavi too can marry a mamzeres or
a giyores. And like a mamzer (but unlike a Jew who is ethnically Adomi
or Mitzri), the child is also excluded "gam dor ha'asi lo yavo lahem
beqehal Hashem" but here it is added "ad olam".

Anyone know the difference in implication?

:-)BBii!
-Micha

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