What if you weren't Jewish?

Probably stop posting on this website lol.

Honestly speaking I think I would be megayer. I lived so many years this way and I am happy with this lifestyle and used to it even though its challenging.

DY

Heh.

DY: Love it…

Honestly? I don’t know.

My dad says he’d go to KFC and McDonalds and all that, try everything once, and then head over to the beis din. But honestly, while I get fulfillment from being Jewish, if I’m not, I don’t NEED to be. There would be no need AT ALL for me to convert to be close to Hashem. I might, anyway, but it’s not the kind of thing I really know about right now.

I would immediately eat some bacon. Then I would eat some more bacon. Then ice cream.

My second step would be to find a website called “The Catholic Seminary World” and troll their coffee room. Or maybe “The Madrassa World”.

My third step would be to take my kids out of yeshiva, and enroll them in public school, and use the money I saved to buy more bacon.

My fourth step would be to marry someone 25 years younger than me, and not even care about the shidduch crisis.

My fifth step would be to go OTD and not care about OTD crisis.

My sixth step would be to become a member at HIR. Then I woudld have them convert me conservative so that I could still eat pastrami, chopped liver, and lox and bagels, and so that I could still do all the fun parts. And go to bar-mitzva’s. But I wouldn’t convert my wife, so that we could also have a christmas tree and get presents.

I’m too full to think of more stuff right now.

I’d convert al pi halacha… oh, wait…

I would throw the biggest diva fit this side of the Dead Sea with the beis din that did my geirus.

I would cry and rush to see my Rebbe to make it right. Doing anything else would expose to myself that I was a fraud.

I know a posek who gave several warning to a “group” of Yidden… You don’t fix this gross injustice then I will, he told them. They ignored – intentionally refused, they sent word that they would do nothing. The posek acted just as he had warned them he would.

He was summoned to “their” beis din after he did what he told them he would do. This posek was not under the auspices of their beis din, so he didn’t have to appear, but he did. The Din asked why he chose to come. He said, all my life I learned about, supported and promoted our system so if I didn’t come when summoned I wouldn’t be me.

They found him guilty, gave him his penalty, all of which he did not have to accept. However he did so with pride… If he had done anything else, then the greater harm would have been done to him by his own hand, by his obvious acute lack of Yiras Shemayim.

For the most part we are all observant people who post here…if I found out today that I was not Jewish, like the posek above, I would make it right, no matter the difficulties, otherwise I wouldn’t be true to who I am as a human being.

And to who I am… I can only thank HaKodesh Barachu for placing me with all the wonderful Yidden who supported me in becoming the an I am… What a shame if I walked away because of some mistake made by others… And what a great mistake they made… From what we all know, who would want to live like a goy?

So no one would start studying the noachide laws?

The very first thing I’d do is put on my left shoe before my right.

I’d give a shir to my fellow goyim living in my jewish neighborhood in hilchos amira l’akum so they’d know how to take a “hint” & do what has to be done k’halocho especially when the yid in need has no clue as to what they are & aren’t allowed to ask or be n’heneh from.

Letz – I was MAMASH about to write that – you took the words straight off my screen!!!

I’m not Jewish. I’m a woman.

I would be devastated.

I love being jewish:)

“If you found out today that you aren’t Jewish, what would you do?”

I’d convert to Judaism.

Why do you assume all Ravs in the world speak English?

Let me guess… you also wonder why all the actors in Les Miserables are speaking English when they very clearly should be speaking French?

The Wolf

Me? I’d run and do the only mitzvah a Goy alone can do – bring and be makrev a real Korban to HaShem!

Then I’d head for beis din.

I’d probably be Megayer but I would have a dilemma as to which type of Jew to be.

Sefardi? Ashkenazi? Teimani? Litvish? Yekkish? Chasidish? Hungarian?

WIY: I’m not a posek, (surely not if I found out I’m a non-Jew!), so it appears. No, a non Jew can bring a Korban anywhere, it should preferably be with all brand-new utensils. There’s a gemarah somewhere about it, if I’m not mistaken.

DaMoshe: I’m writing about something a non-Jew can do – but not a Jew. Jews are also included in those seven.

One more thing, DaMoshe, you write that a non Jew who follows the seven laws and leads a good life can also get a share in the next world. Yes that is true. BUT IT DOES NOT COMPARE TO ONE HOUR OF LIVING A JEWISH LIFE, here on this world. ??? ??? ??? ?????? ?????? ????? ????? ???, ??? ??? ????? ???. How much more so in the afterlife. No, not comparable. – ??????? ?? ????? ??? ???? ?????!!

That is actually a message we should strive to internalize. How precious and dear it is TO US, to HaShem, every minute we as Jews spend on doing Mitzvohs, Torah, teshuva, maasim tovim. Actually the life lived as a Jew in itself is so important. So important, it allows for desecrating Shabbos, just to prolong a Jewish life (even if unable to perform any mitzvhos).

I would

1. Talk during Cazaras hashatz and krias hatorah.

2. come late for davening

3. stop daf yomi immediately

4. Carry in the eruv

5. start using chalav stam

6. eat gebrochts on pesach

WIY- Tongue in cheek

I would go to the police and tell hem everything I know.

Then I would convert.

@squeek – The Rabbonim beat you to it.

batseven, you win the Prize!

Thanks!

For being honest.

For being sincere.

For not being shy to show off the good person you are.

For not trying to be funny & sounding pathetic.

Oh and just to be polite & answer the OP, I’d follow batseven.

Also, why would you stop the Daf? You should try to know as much Torah as possible when you become a Yid.

First of all that was all said tongue in cheek.

Second, I would not be megayer. I could get to Olam Haba relatively easy being a righteous goy. Why become a Jew, with all the challenges and trials. There is absolutely no mitzva or chiyuv for a goy to become a yid.

Schreck, I did see it and respectfully disagree. Yes the upside is great by being a Jew, but the potential downside is so much greater. Who can say they are living up to taryag mitzvos. The only reason I do mitzvos is that I am metzuveh. If I wasn’t a yid I certainly would not volunteer for it. It is too easy to be over kares. Nope not volunteering for that. Do you even realize how serious every aveirah is? Tread carefully.