<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Micha Berger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Even without any safeiq in her yichus, we would require miqvah and<br>
qabbalas divrei chaveirus in front of a BD. Reaffirming a return to the<br>
Jewish faith, even if already born into the Jewish people.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>To corroborate R' Micha's claim that this is common practice, see <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Play-Fire-Womans-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/9657108357/aishdas">http://www.amazon.com/Play-Fire-Womans-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/9657108357/aishdas</a>, the story of a woman whose parents converted to Christianity, and who grew up in the church, on the path to become a priest or something, became disillusioned, and eventually returned to Judaism. Although she was indisputably Jewish, the London Beth Din required her to tovel. This is not necessarily a proof for what would be the halacha in the case where the parents did not necessarily convert to Christianity but just married out or otherwise became "unJewish" while remaining Jewish.<br>
<br>KT,<br>Michael<br>