Reply To: Clarification regarding Syrian Jewish Community and geirim

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Why do you persist at asking this?

The Takana states:

The Takana bans conversions that kasher intermarriage which are fictitious and valueless.

Why do you continually INSIST that this covers ALL gerim when this is clearly not the case?

Do you have personal experience in a case of a Ger Tzedek from a qualified Beis Din who was NOT accepted in the Syrian community?

I DO personally know of Gerim and their children and grandchildren who are fully accepted in the Syrian community.

Here is a story from Rabbi Moshe Shammah posted back in 1994. I do know of this woman and also know that her children married in the community and her grandchildren attend the schools:

The decree focuses on those who convert for the purpose of marrying a Jew or Jewess. A non-Jew who is clearly motivated by marriage but who sincerely and properly converts, should normally be accepted halakhically. However, the Syrian rabbis realized they were being fooled by insincere candidates, etc. and established the 1935 decree not to accept those who were converting in conjunction with a prospective or past marriage. The decree was not addressed to those who converted just for the love of Judaism.

I really hope that you will stop slandering the Syrian community by saying that the Syrian community does not accept Gerei Tzeddek. It is simply NOT true.