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Conversion in Jewish Philosophy and Law

This Jewish Life - With Rabbi Yaakov Wolbe

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The Role of Converts in the Development and Transmission of Torah

There are some very notable villains of our history who either convert themselves or their descendants convert. Rabbi Meir, the primary author of the Mishnah, he descended from converts. Shhemiah and Avtallion wanted to convert, but God artificially stopped them. And we see many of those people, many converts in general, play very important roles in the development and the codification of Torah.

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