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Rabbi Ruben AI speaking here. Yes. If
you are in a legitimate process of
conversion, meaning you have a
sponsoring rabbi and are seriously
pursuing orthodox conversion, you must
observe pes at
99%. This means you should clean for
pes, prepare for the holiday and conduct
the can a person conduct sed if they're
in a process of a conversion. If they
are in a legitimate process of a
conversion, meaning that they are, you
know, everyone is on board, the wife,
the husband, everyone's on board and
they're just simply uh learning
everything and uh uh doing everything
and they're just waiting for that uh day
to come where they have enough knowledge
or at least they're acknowledged that
they have enough knowledge and they're
accepted among uh the uh the community.
then they need to celebrate all of the
holidays
99%. But if they're just thinking that
maybe one day I'm going to convert uh
because I like it but uh you know my
husband is not ready yet but either way
having a nice meal and calling it pes is
still going to be fun. Those types of
things it's better not to do it. It's
better not to do it. It's only good to
live a Jewish life if you're either
already Jewish or you're in a serious
process uh of becoming one and not just
serious in in a person's mind but also
serious being acknowledged by the rabbi
that's sponsoring them and and other
people. But nonetheless, if a person is
in a serious process of conversion, not
only should they conduct the pes, they
have to because you have to practice.
And that's why usually conversions that
are legitimate and and have the right
guidance usually take at least a year
because the uh sponsoring rabbi wants to
uh have the student go through at least
every holiday at least once and
experience it for themselves at least
once because a lot of times there are uh
you know people that want to convert to
Judaism uh not for the right reason, not
necessarily for the wrong reason.
They're not like looking to become
missionaries or anything, but just
because they're very idealistic, you
know, they think that once they become a
Jew, maybe they'll make more money,
maybe they'll find a better husband or a
better wife, maybe they'll be closer to
God, maybe they'll be holier, maybe God
will talk to them, maybe they'll be
elevated spiritually in some way. And
people are very very idealistic. And uh
it's there's nothing necessarily wrong
with being idealistic to a certain
extent but many times it's taken to a
complete extreme and uh they end up uh
converting uh for the wrong reason and
uh unfortunately sometimes uh they uh
they end up going back to where they
came from. They go back to idolatry and
heresy uh as a result of this and this
is a very very serious problem. That's
why the sponsoring rabbi is uh sometimes
even more important than the uh the
bedin because if the sponsoring rabbi is
a joke uh then uh you know it's it's
it's it's also uh shows who the students
are uh you know so that's that's the
that's why I say for example on the uh
the evil clown Asher Mesa and his
partner Moshe and all the that are in
that organization over there here in
Florida doing massive conversions as if
we are Christianity. Those people, they
just convert anyone and everyone without
looking at it twice. And and it's not
just me saying it. You see it from their
own videos. They just go to the beach,
men, women together, no one's mad. They
just dip into the ocean. No big deal.
Completely uh going against Allah in
every aspect. And you see that those
people that they're converting, they
live like in Guantanamo Bay or
something. They live in the end of the
world. The closest Jew they have to them
is a different state. But they figure
that this brand new Jew is capable of
being a Jew by himself, which is
completely ludicrous. Completely
ludicrous. You know, it's just even
scholars scholars were scared of being
Jews by themselves. Uh but the point
being Abu Tai is that sometimes the
sponsoring rabbi misguides the people
and he tells people and gives him the
impression that anyone can be a Jew no
matter what no matter where and you
should and you could and this and that
and he ends up putting the people in a
very very big dilemma that is impossible
to get themselves out of. So again it's
important that if a person is going to
convert they have to take into account
who is going to guide them uh who is
going to actually do the complete
conversion and so on and so forth and be
more concerned with that than than uh
how quickly it takes. A lot of people
are very concerned about it taking
quickly and usually that's only because
they're converting for idealistic
reasons and not for the right reason. Uh
so I would be careful with that. As a
rabbi, I must emphasize that this
mitzvah is mandatory for every Jew as it
ensures all members of Israel can
properly celebrate the holiday with
dignity and joy.
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