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

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Mon Jun 4 12:53:14 PDT 2012


On 4/06/2012 10:06 AM, Micha Berger wrote:
> In the case in the gemara, the girl is married to a kohein and eating his
> terumah, so yes, it's in her best interest to affirm her Jewishness.

Huh?  The kohen's child bride is not a giyores!   If she were, then
he couldn't marry her no matter how old she was and how firm her
Jewishness.

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		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
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