Reply To: Giyoress or Not?

Mr. Doniel -“Are you serious?”

Yes!

“Doesn’t lo tanu et ha ger mean anything to you?”

If they have a Din Ger. I’m not sure about this woman.

“If the S”A says that a ger who worships avodah zarah the next day is still Jewish, than certainly a woman who doesn’t cover her hair is still Jewish.”

That’s only if she was Mekabel to cover her hair. (On the Tzad that Not covering the hair is a Chiyuv.) Who says she ever planned to cover it?

“The wives of scores of Litvishe roshei yesiva didn’t cover their hair, including Rebbetzin Tonya Soloveitchik, a”h.”

They didn’t do it, but it didn’t make it right.

“And, R’ Yosef Messas, Teshuvot Mayyim Hayyim, says that b’zman hazeh, a married woman’s hair is not considered ervah.

The Aruch HaShulchan paskens the same, regarding kriat shema.”

Most Poskim don’t agree -so stop making uncovered hair as it’s Mutter!

And btw, why do the MO General Public always say the same thing about hair covering? I bet most MO Rabbonim hold that it’s Assur to Not cover your hair!

“Kabbalas hamitzvos, according to R’ Ovadia Yosef and many others, doesn’t mean that nonobservance invalidates the giyur.

What it means is that the ger understands that they’ll be punished if they don’t keep the mitzvot, not that nonobservance makes them non-Jewish.

Once they pass through the mikva, they’re Jews.”

So if you’re a Sefardi, then she might be a Jew acc. to them.

As far as I know, many Poiskim hold that Nonobservance does invalidate the Geirus!