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rabbiofberlin
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dear chaverim, with great respect, I don’t take translations as the authority of any psak or saying. If you check the original in ‘Loshon kodesh”, R’Moshe writes that “ger shelo kibbel mitzvot”, a ger who does not accept the mitzvos. No one denies that – although , quite obviously, in R’Moshe’s times there were other rabbonim who did dispute this and they had to be responsible rabbonim (not Zionists, I am pretty sure….)otherwise why quote them.

THEN, R’Moshe declares ‘anan sahadi” -we are witness- that he doesn’t accept “kabolas mitzvos” them his geirus is not valid. but ‘anan sahadi’ is a very nuanced term. How do we know? Does eating a cheeseburger- “leteovon”- means he doens’t accept the mitzvos? maybe he was just famished- I am not kidding, “leteovon’ means exactly that. He accepts the mitzvot but just is too weak ,for now, to follow them.

r’Moshe does not tell us what “anan sahadi’ means.

Lastly- you didn’t answer my last note that this teshuvo was written in 1929,under very different circumstances. how do we know how R’moshe would pasken today.