Q&A: Anyone Who Denies Idolatry Is As Though He Acknowledged the Entire Torah
Anyone Who Denies Idolatry Is As Though He Acknowledged the Entire Torah
Question
‘Anyone who denies idolatry is as though he acknowledged the entire Torah.’
The very fact that he comes and accepts upon himself to be a Jew means that he understands that it has been determined that he is not a member of another religion.
He denies idolatry or another religion.
So immediately this is as though he acknowledges the entire Torah.
Why is there room to philosophize about which acceptance of commandments he accepted?
(Unless he explicitly said: this particular commandment I do not want to apply to me, in which case he himself limited that broad acceptance of “the entire Torah”)
What does the Rabbi think about this?
Answer
I don’t understand the question. You need to phrase your questions more clearly.
Discussion on Answer
So according to this, there is no need at all for acceptance of the commandments in conversion? Is this Purim Torah?
The very fact that he comes to become Jewish
means that he denies idolatry and has left the definition that he belongs to another religion or nation.
And the conversion process shows his seriousness.
Already through this he is included in “anyone who denies idolatry is as though he acknowledged the entire Torah,”
and this is his acceptance of the commandments.
Is that enough?