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1Conversionא - הגיור
  1. 1.The Mitzva to Love Converts
  2. 2.The Prohibition of Wronging the Convert
  3. 3.Honoring the Convert
  4. 4.The Mitzva to Gladden the Convert and Care for His Welfare
  5. 5.The Virtue of Choice
  6. 6.The Innate Quality (Segula) and Choice
  7. 7.Repairing the Sin of Adam through Conversion
  8. 8.Repairing the Shattering of the Vessels
  9. 9.Avraham Our Father
  10. 10.Conversions Le-khatḥila and Conversions Be-di’avad
  11. 11.The Difficulties in Accepting Converts
  12. 12.Exile and Redemption Depend on Conversion
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2Righteous Convertsב - גרי הצדק
  1. 1.The First Converts
  2. 2.Yitro
  3. 3.The Difficulties and the Success
  4. 4.Raḥav
  5. 5.Rut
  6. 6.Shemaya and Avtalyon
  7. 7.Onkelos the Convert
  8. 8.R. Akiva, the Son of Converts
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3Complex Conversionsג - הגיורים המורכבים
  1. 1.The Erev Rav (Mixed Multitude)
  2. 2.The Good and the Complications in the Erev Rav
  3. 3.The Dross of the Erev Rav in Jewish History
  4. 4.Moshe Rabbeinu and the Level of the Great Tzaddikim
  5. 5.The Givonim
  6. 6.The Status of the Givonim
  7. 7.The Givonim in the Days of Shaul and David
  8. 8.Determining the Status of the Givonim
  9. 9.The Kutim (Samaritans)
  10. 10.Hostility and Distancing
  11. 11.Distancing the Foreign Wives in the Days of Ezra
  12. 12.Sending Away the Wives in the Days of Neḥemya
  13. 13.Why They Did Not Try to Convert the Foreign Wives
  14. 14.The Conversion of the Edomites
  15. 15.The Conversion of Slaves and Maidservants
  16. 16.Upon Being Freed, Slaves Become Jews
  17. 17.The Beautiful Captive Woman (Eshet Yefat To’ar)
  18. 18.The Complicated Rectification
  19. 19.Ammonite and Moabite Converts
  20. 20.Edomite and Egyptian Converts
  21. 21.The Children of Canaan
  22. 22.The Conversion of an Amalekite
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4The Beit Dinד - בית הדין
  1. 1.The Beit Din in the Conversion Process
  2. 2.Who Is Fit to Serve as a Judge
  3. 3.It Is a Mitzva to Accept Righteous Converts
  4. 4.Conversion for the Sake of Benefits
  5. 5.The Dilemma of the Beit Din
  6. 6.The Approaches of Shammai and Hillel
  7. 7.Everything Is According to the Judgment of the Beit Din
  8. 8.A Beit Din of Laymen
  9. 9.A Valid and an Invalid Beit Din
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5Conversion in Practiceה - הגיור למעשה
  1. 1.The Order of Conversion Is Like the Revelation at Mount Sinai
  2. 2.“Your People Shall Be My People, and Your God My God”
  3. 3.The Study in Preparation for Conversion
  4. 4.Methods of Study in Preparation for Conversion
  5. 5.The Declaration of Acceptance of the Mitzvot
  6. 6.Circumcision
  7. 7.The Order of Circumcision for a Convert
  8. 8.The Mikveh and the Preparations for Immersion
  9. 9.The Order of Immersion Before the Beit Din
  10. 10.Welcoming the Convert After Immersion and Holding a Celebration
  11. 11.Marriage and Waiting Three Months
  12. 12.The Law of a Convert Who Was Circumcised Before His Conversion
  13. 13.Immersion of a Female Convert Not Before a Beit Din
  14. 14.The Convert’s Sacrifice
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6Conversion in Pressing Circumstancesו - הגיור בשעת הדחק
  1. 1.Conversion Be-di’avad
  2. 2.The Problems in Converting Spouses of Jews
  3. 3.The Ruling of the Poskim to Convert, and Their Reasons
  4. 4.Should Relatives of Jews Who Will Not Be Religious Be Converted?
  5. 5.The Opinion of the Stringent
  6. 6.The Opinion of the Lenient
  7. 7.May the Partner of a Kohen Be Converted?
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7The Conversion of Minorsז – גיור קטנים
  1. 1.The Conversion of Minors
  2. 2.Annulment of the Conversion by Protest
  3. 3.The Procedure for Converting a Minor, and His Status
  4. 4.Those Who Are Stringent About Converting a Minor Who Will Not Be Raised to Observe Mitzvot
  5. 5.Those Who Are Lenient About Converting a Minor Who Will Not Be Raised to Observe Mitzvot
  6. 6.Those Who Are Stringent Not to Circumcise the Son of a Jewish Man and a Non-Jewish Woman
  7. 7.Those Who Are Lenient to Circumcise the Son of a Jewish Man and a Non-Jewish Woman
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8Family Lawsח - דיני משפחה
  1. 1.The Convert’s Inheritance from His Non-Jewish Parents
  2. 2.The Convert’s Property After His Death
  3. 3.Repaying a Convert’s Loan to His Children
  4. 4.The Convert’s Obligation to Honor His Non-Jewish Parents
  5. 5.Additional Matters in Honoring Parents
  6. 6.Mourning
  7. 7.Peru U-revu (Procreation)
  8. 8.Forbidden Relations for Converts
  9. 9.A Convert Woman and a Kohen
  10. 10.The Father’s Name in the Ketubba
  11. 11.His Father’s Name for Being Called Up to the Torah
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9The Status of the Convert and Its Lawsט - מעמד הגר והלכותיו
  1. 1.The Convert’s Sins Are Forgiven
  2. 2.The Convert Prays in the Same Wording as All Israel
  3. 3.Liturgical Rites and Communal Customs
  4. 4.The Converts’ Eating Utensils
  5. 5.Obligation in the Mitzvot
  6. 6.The Convert in His First Days
  7. 7.Authority and Leadership
  8. 8.Appointing a Convert to Judicial Positions
  9. 9.Positions of Rabbi and Rosh Yeshiva
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