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The gemarah in krisus [8b-9a] discusses the requirement for a convert to bring a korban (sacrifice) to enter into the community. If this is the case, how could Rus have converted in Moav or along the road to eretz yisroel (as is discussed by the commentaries)? Wouldn't she have needed to wait until she arrived at the mishkan (Tabernacle) in eretz yisroel to bring her korban and complete the geirus (formal conversion) process?

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-1 The Korban is only neccasary in order to enter the mikdash and eat other kodshim. She could convert on the way for every other practical purpose, and likely did as there is no need to bring the korban immediately upon conversion. – Double AA♦ Jun 5 '12 at 13:58
that is not correct according to the tana kamah and from the hemsheich of the gemarah 9a. – user1552 Jun 5 '12 at 14:52
Even the other hava amina is that lack of korban would prevent her from marrying a Jew. I still don't see why that means she can't have converted='became chayav in all mitzvot etc.' on the way. She doesn't even try to marry anyone until many months later. – Double AA♦ Jun 5 '12 at 19:10
What's the question? Nitipicking ---> – Seth J Jun 5 '12 at 20:28
Don't we say that the Korban is not Me'akev (hence conversion today is valid without it)? – Seth J Jun 6 '12 at 13:44
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Rus lived at a time of "heter haBamos" (when private altars were allowed to be used) and, as such, she could have brought her korban on a private altar in Moav and converted there.

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Perfectly fine answer, assuming you can provide a source (a bit jargony, though not terrible), but why ask the question if you knew the answer? – Seth J Jun 5 '12 at 20:25
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@SethJ SE thinks answering your own question is perfectly acceptable so long as the question is a good question by itself. There was a recent blog post about this somewhere... – Double AA♦ Jun 6 '12 at 5:57
@SethJ I saw the 'ask a question post and answer Q&A style' button and wanted to try it out – user1552 Jun 6 '12 at 13:09
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Can you edit the question (or do you mind if I do) to be slightly less leading into the answer? As @DoubleAA stated, it's perfectly fine to answer your own question, but this one sort of seems like the riddle questions we tend to discourage or the vortlach "questions" that seem to irk some users. – Seth J Jun 6 '12 at 13:19
@SethJ b'vakasha – user1552 Jun 6 '12 at 13:25
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