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Conversion in Jewish Philosophy and Law

This Jewish Life - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

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The Souls of the Original Converts

After Sinai, or at least after the Exodus, we meet the first actual convert. Previously, he was a priest for idolatry. We're told that he would experiment with every single pagan deity. And when he heard about the Exodus and all the miracles that the Almighty did for the Jewish people, he said, I gotta check these people out. He repudiated all the idolatry and he became a convert. But what does this word Va'yikad mean? Va’yikad Yisro. The second opinion is that his flesh got goosebumps thinking about it.

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