<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:25 AM, <<a href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font style="background-color: transparent;" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">From: "Richard Wolpoe" <a href="mailto:rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com" target="_blank">rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com</a></font></div>
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</div><div>Who in the world ever demanded a promise of perfection as a prerequisite
for gerus?!</div>
<div>And who ever nullified a gerus on the grounds that the convert turned
out to be a less than perfect tzaddik?!<br></div></font></div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" lang="0" size="2"><br><b>--Toby
Katz<br>=============</b></font><br></div></font><br></div></blockquote></div>I posted this before but let me repeat in other words:: <br>Ka salka da'atach thatthe kabbalh has to be 100% w/o reservations - and then if he sins LATER ON he is ok but NOT if he expresses reservations up front.<br>
<br>Came Rav Parness [not RRW!} and said if the propsetive Ger says: "I accept but K know the flesh is weak and I might or am likely to sin..." ka mashma lan it is still an OK kabbalah.<br><br>People have been conflating the issue of KABBALAS Mitzvos with performance.<br>
<br>Lemashal: let's say a person is a smoker and a prerquisite for joining a group is to renounce smoking. Waht if he says "I renounce smoking but I know that I am an addict and once in a while I will probably sneak smoek!" <br>
<br>Or lehavdil when a Jew was forcibly Baptized what if he said at the time of the BAptism " i mgith be tempted to have some matza on Passover or light a candle on a Friday Night once in a while, would he be accepted?" <br clear="all">
<br>What this Ger is saying is he accepts Mitzvos but realizes that he is subject to human frailty and if if is for Te'avon he is OK. That is the hiddush here.<br><br><br>-- <br>Kol Tuv / Best Regards,<br>RabbiRichWolpoe@Gmail.com<br>
see: <a href="http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/">http://nishmablog.blogspot.com/</a>