benignuman: you encapsulated exactly what i wrote and I think you are right. The problem does not arise with the piskei halocho about gerus but with the (virtual) sickness of making chumros with everything. For ex.- I heard (true,only a shmuah with no actual knowledge) that a certain european bes din asks whether the woman candidate for gerus will “oover her hair” when she converts. Now, that is a wonderful way of living as a jew, but what does it have to do with “kabbolos ol mitzvos”? does the ger have to accept every chumro ? from the story of hillel, we clarly see that this is not the case.Every story about gerim in the torah or gemoro does not insist that the ger has to accept doing every mitzah with every chumro. He/she has to accept the “ol”- the burden, of mitzvos, the rest, he wil learn! ( see the actual language of the rambam)
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