New answers tagged conversion-to-judaism
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Why does a convert receive bris milah before the mikvah?
R David Brofsky asks and answers your question in a series of lessons on the laws of conversion and circumcision (here) and brings different opinions
The Talmud (Yevamot 47b) teaches that after the ...
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How does one reconcile the fact that Avraham Avinu proselytized to non-Jews and yet Judaism is not a proselytizing religion?
The conversion that it is written that Abraham converted is not the same conversion that we are talking about today.
Abraham our father according to the book of the Khazari he belongs to a holy seed ...
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How does one reconcile the fact that Avraham Avinu proselytized to non-Jews and yet Judaism is not a proselytizing religion?
Maimonides wrote that we should imitate Abraham. And, what did Abraham do? Abraham proselytized. He made converts. He sat in the front of his tent, waiting to teach about God to anvone willing to ...
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How does one reconcile the fact that Avraham Avinu proselytized to non-Jews and yet Judaism is not a proselytizing religion?
I think there is a subtle difference.
To proselyte is to ask/convince someone to convert to a religion. In the case of Avraham there was no Jewish religion, it was just an acknowledgment of G-d's ...
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