Conversion to Judaism: The Challenges

[Music] Robert Romero is asking Series in the process of conversion and moving to a Jewish Community I noticed huge resistance both spiritually and physically to the point of breaking question is how to avoid or lessen this resistance in a second round of trying uh well first and foremost you should know that it is not going to get less it's not going to less to expect conversion or chuva to be easy is a uh is simply not a realistic uh uh uh uh thing because you have to understand that so long as a person is not following what Hashem said okay and he's making sins that means that in essence he is not on hashem's Army he's on the Satan's Army so the Satan wants this person to continue making sins because as he's making sins he's continuing to produce more and more demons more and more soldiers that are creating more havoc in the spiritual world and giving the Satan more and more power so when a person wants to convert wants to convert and wants to leave all of the Tuma of the idolatry completely forsake it and not only that but actually accept the highest level of kadus by becoming an actual Jew the Satan will not let that happen easily simply not going to let that happen easily and in fact I've tell I tell this to every one of my converts from day one the closer you get to the actual conversion day the more difficulties you will have things you never even imagined that were going to happen may happen and in many cases do happen things are difficult to tell you that oh it's is going to be smooth sailing you're going to learn some books and you're going to move and everything's going to work out doesn't work that doesn't work that way the more the closer you get to conversion in most cases not all cases but in most cases the more difficult it becomes the good news is that I tell people and I've seen it with my own eyes is that if a person had a difficult time before conversion typically their uh after conversion is much smoother much much smoother especially the first year especially the first year is a lot of blessings and a lot of uh uh extraordinary Miracles that happened after conversion especially for those that had a very difficult uh time converting and uh a lot of obstacles that have to overcome there's one thing that uh could uh you know give them some uh encouragement is that after conversion there's a lot of big Miracles that happen it doesn't mean that the rest of their life is easy but uh usually there is a lot of blessings that I've seen with my own eyes uh that people that have a tough time before conversion get after that uh after that conversion for at least the first year sometimes even uh more than two three four five years uh depends on different people there are some cases where people have an easier time converting uh where I read a story about someone I don't know the person personally who actually used to be a priest and uh he discovered the truth he was living in Texas I discovered the truth and him and his family all converted he said that it all happened within less than a year and they were already living in Israel and he was learning in a Yeshiva and that's it like he said I don't know why people experience but he said in an article that I read years ago he said our conversion was easy amazing and uh extraordinary now I could uh say obviously I believe that what he's saying I don't see a reason why he would lie so how do you explain such a thing I think it's relatively simple to explain it by simply understanding of what he sacrificed now he may not view what he sacrificed as difficult because he knew that he's sacrificing falsehood but in the eyes of Hashem he sacrificed something very difficulty sacrificed an entire lifetime of teaching falsehood a church tons of money and so on and so forth so that was enough difficulty for him that there was no needed for him to overcome any other obstacles other people that are not in that type of position like that that was a that the is called after him who forsake the idolatry that he was the leader of uh you know people that don't have that kind of sacrifice typically have other sacrifices that they have to make uh monetary sacrifices marriage sacrifices and so on and the key to understand is that if somebody wants to become part of hashem's army but not just the uh the the Army that's just a member and you're doing the best to you can but rather the upper echelon of the army he wants to be one of the generals he wants to be one of the people you know he could be a righteous Noah hide she could be a righteous Noah hide but of course their obligation is lower and thereby their reward is lower on the other hand if he wants to be one of the generals he wants to be one of the chosen people their obligation is higher and so is the consequences if they don't deliver so of course there's going to be more that is required and expected from such a person just like it is in the regular world so but if a person goes into it with that mindset not looking for a smooth ride not looking for anything just simply I'm going to do my job no matter what I'm going to do my best I'm going to learn my best I'm going to make the sacrifices I'm going to pray to Hashem and simply wait for him to eventually open the door for me because I'm not going to stop knocking you know it's just simply I'm going to do everything I can and Hashem is eventually you know going to accept me whenever that's going to be a month from now a year from now 10 years from now whenever it happens and that's the thing if he does that if she does that they will eventually succeed in becoming not only a Jew but a righteous Jew but if a person has expectations and and and and pre-disposition of what they expect they expect the community to be such such way they expect the uh monetary situation to be such a way they expect the knowledge to be such a way the rabbis to be such a way everything is is conditions generally speaking they never succeed and if if they succeed in becoming a Jew they become many times one of the most problematic Jews that exist in the world and unfortunately I've seen some of them none of them are my students but I've seen some people that have converted that literally fulfill fulfill the uh the the words of the sages that converts are skin disease to the people converts are skin disease to the people the gar says why does the why does the gar say that converts are skin disease to the Jewish people when the Torah mentions 36 different times that converts are very special that you have to love a convert even more than you love a natural born Jew so much so that the rambam says you have to love a convert as much as you love God why would thear say that preceded the rambam that converts are like a skin disease to the Jewish people so thear explains and explain on this is the number one if the convert is a righteous convert if it's a righteous convert and he's so righteous that he makes the Jews that are not as righteous uh you know that can guess themselves jealous it's annoying to see this new guy he's only a Jew for 2 3 four five six years completely in love with hem learning to nonstop doing all the this woman on day one she loves AEM she doesn't care about anything else but hem whereas me I'm I'm a do my whole life 20 30 40 50 years and I'm barely going to pray I'm barely want to do PES I'm barely this I'm barely that so it's a little Annoying for the Natural Born Jew but that's in essence the rebuke on the Natural Born Jew look you have no excuses this guy's a new guy this girl is a new girl and she's consuming AEM as much as she possibly can so that's like a skin disease it's annoying on the other hand if it's not a righteous convert then I've seen with my own eyes how this is fulfilled in this generation people convert for the wrong reasons people convert and they should really never have converted because they have some conditions they have some require IR ments they have a chip on their shoulder they think that they're better than everybody else they think the world owes them something the community owes them something they walk into the community expecting the whole Community to fund their life they walk into the community expecting everybody to kiss their feet they walk into the community expecting everybody to just stop their life just because they're a convert and these people are a nightmare nightmare to the Jewish Community they create the most amount of problems biggest m and literally they're very very easy to understand why they're compared to a skin disease because they're annoyance is never over they are people that always have a problem with everyone nothing is ever good you give them what they want it's still not good enough you don't give them what they want it's not good everything is not good for them and they're constantly in battles and lawsuits and and uh all types of uh conspiracies and all types of scandals and all types of victimized behavior and literally a nightmare nightmare this is also something that you live and learn you see this you see certain people they converted with somebody that just simply wanted their money somebody just wanted to uh tell people that they convert people so in reality they didn't verify that this person really even should be a Jew just converted this this person and you see those people more times than not become the biggest problems in the world it's usually the people that didn't have a difficult time converting and even if they did it's really because of them they should have never converted was trying to discourage them from converting but the point being is is that those converts are a nightmare I've seen them and it's a uh unfortunately it's a it's a never ending thing so that's why there is skin disease so what I would recommend for anyone that wants to convert to Judaism is to know if you want to be part of the Jewish people and be on the righteous side be on the good side expect sacrifice expect sacrifice and be ready for sacrifice welcome sacrifice and do everything you possibly can to be accepted by Hashem and the Jewish people don't go against the Jewish people don't mock the Jewish people don't frown upon the Jewish people don't call the Jewish people that they're not religious enough uh because you think that since you converted you're better than them these are all bad mentalities if you want to be part of the good part of is the first and most important thing that a person needs to know is to be part of is to be part of is is not just about following MIT and and and and and knowing who God is but to be part of am is you have to love am is and he said no no I love God I don't have to love no no no you have to love is why you have to love is because if you really love God you would love what he loves and he loves which means if you don't love there's a problem with you there's a problem with you you think maybe you're you're you're supposed to be a different so again I'm not saying to go love every atheist Jew out there in the world but the point being is is that you have to make sure that you see the good in especially the religious people the ones that are not religious be helpful to them not critical of them be rebuking from love not rebuking from ego uh be someone that is trying to uh uh learn not only trying to disseminate your ideas being somebody that's accepting the T from the not someone that's trying to tell theim what to do be somebody that's trying to get accepted into the community not someone that's trying to sh shake up the community people that want to do all those things that want to shake up the community they want to renew things and so on those are the skin disease those are the those are the problem and even if they have a on their head even if they have a long beard and even if they have all types of accents if they are trying to go against the tradition they go against the they they they don't accept they don't accept Judaism for what it is they want a new version of some kind they think they're smarter than the rabbis and so on these people for sure skin disease and very likely also part of the [Music] oh [Music]