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

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Tue Jun 5 10:01:10 PDT 2012


On 5/06/2012 12:57 PM, Micha Berger wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:39:09AM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
>>> The extension of the gezeira to pechusah mibas 3 was during the period
>>> of the amora'im. Eg Kesuvos 11a. There are discussions in shas that
>>> predate it.

>> What gezeira?  This is an issur de'oraisa!  And there is no discussion
>> of it on that page.

> The notion that you have to worry about every giyores being a perutzah
> AFAIK is derabbanan.

The issur has nothing to do with any such worry.  It's a gezeras hakasuv.


> And gechusah mibas 3 is definitely. In Kesuvos 11a,

No, it is not.


> the first mishnah talks about a kohein marrying a giyores, shevuyah or
> shifchah who was returned to the community before age 3.

No, it doesn't.  It doesn't mention a kohen and has nothing to do with
a kohen.  A kohen cannot marry a giyores, at any age, mid'oraisa.  Only
RSBY allows it, and the halacha was decided against him before the
amora'im's time.


-- 
Zev Sero        "Natural resources are not finite in any meaningful
zev at sero.name    economic sense, mind-boggling though this assertion
                  may be. The stocks of them are not fixed but rather
		 are expanding through human ingenuity."
		                            - Julian Simon



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