Q&A: A Convert’s Betrothal
A Convert’s Betrothal
Question
A conclusive refutation of the entire Oral Torah:
If a convert who converted is like a newborn child, then how can he make acquisitions and effect betrothal?
Boom!
Answer
Wow! Fallen, never to rise again, is maiden Israel. Did you think of this all by yourself? Absolutely wonderful.
Let me add another difficulty for you, in the spirit of “and Judah yet more in the reading”: that same person, since he is like a newborn baby, has to nurse or else he’ll die. But he has no one to nurse from, since his gentile mother is no longer his mother and it is forbidden for him to nurse from her. So he’ll die within a few days, and in any case there’s no need to discuss his acquisitions or his betrothal. True, his mother could get him a gentile wet nurse, but here he has no mother, and this requires further analysis. And we need a carpenter, the son of a carpenter, to solve it.
With forgiveness from your honored Torah stature, I believe I see here an error in a matter of Torah. Indeed, every convert nurses from the channels of holiness, as it is written: “Peoples shall call them to the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they shall suck the abundance of the seas” — “peoples” means the seventy nations of the world, that is, the gentile nations; if they are called to the mountain of God, meaning they convert, then they will indeed suck the abundance of the seas, for they truly are like a newborn child and, sadly, have no mother.