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Q&A: Should One Convert?

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Should One Convert?

Question

Hello.
First of all, let me say that I really love your lectures and appreciate you personally. I’m not asking in order to offend, God forbid, or to provoke…
If tomorrow you were to discover that you were not Jewish, God forbid, would you—with your conception of God as you have it—prefer to undergo conversion, or to remain non-Jewish and keep the seven Noahide commandments? Or perhaps something else? Thank you.

Answer

I’ve already been asked this in the past. My inclination is to think yes, but in truth I don’t know how to answer, because I’ve never been in such a situation. I would be very happy to continue studying Torah, but as for the commandments, I’m not sure.

Discussion on Answer

Oren (2025-08-21)

Can’t a non-Jew study Torah?

Michi (2025-08-21)

It’s forbidden, and it’s also unlikely that you’d succeed without a supportive environment.

Moshe (2025-08-21)

From your answer I understand that there is no significant difference in the final outcome between being Jewish and being non-Jewish, and therefore you are not sure whether you would want to take upon yourself the yoke of the commandments if you had not been obligated in them from the outset.

What is the logic in God giving the Jews a much harder and more demanding role in order to reach the same result as the non-Jew? What is special about the choice of the Jewish people to be God’s people and to make a covenant with Him, as explicitly stated in the Torah, if it has no significance whatsoever in the outcome?

Michi (2025-08-21)

I didn’t understand what difference you’re talking about. All of humanity is supposed to fulfill its obligations in order to advance what needs to be advanced. Each person and his role. Just like in the army. If I’m a tank crewman, I won’t necessarily want to move to Sayeret Matkal. Together, all of us advance the overall goal.

Moshe (2025-08-22)

If we say that a soldier in Sayeret Matkal gains nothing more than someone who sits in an air-conditioned office sorting documents for 4 hours a day, it follows that there is an unfairness here, in that the fighter invests much more effort and gets the same result (like in communism).

Michi (2025-08-23)

I know nothing at all about reward and punishment, so I can’t answer. We were talking about the value and importance of the actions, not the reward. By the way, a fighter in Sayeret Matkal is not rewarded for it more than a regular combat soldier, and maybe only a few shekels more than an ordinary soldier. And nevertheless, many do choose it. In the religious context, a Jew has no option to choose.

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