To my converted or converting brothers and sisters.
You are valid. You are now Jewish.
I want to be a Rabbi one day, so I like to help out with the conversion courses in our Synoguage. I love to sit in on the days where you explain (as my Rabbi says it) "what brought you here, to this moment. Sitting at this table? What makes you feel you are Jewish?"
The answers are always unique but similar in so many ways. Hearing a majority of you muttering some kind of version of Kol Nidre, I see people who their families were forced to convert and they want to come back, people find out through ancestry.com that they have Jewish grandparents.
I've seen older adults sitting at that table, I've seen young adults sitting around that table, I've even seen elderly people sitting around that table.
Every one of your stories you tell, everything you feel, it's valid. I can feel the love and the pain that is in that room on those days.
Many Jews feel that conversion means "astray and coming back"
Many converts, even with no prior knowledge, find blood Jews in their family tree.
My feeling is that a convert is no longer really white, either. Your family, most likely at one point in more recent times, either chose to convert to another faith, went crypto, or were forced to convert to another faith.
All that matters is that you are coming/came home.
💙✡️💙
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welcome to another episode of: the man who talks about how much he loves his wife does not, in fact, really love his wife and seems to be overcompensating when speaking about how much he loves said wife
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I FEEL YOU
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[Commission in the making]
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I am really curious how this one will look in the end.
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"I think I'm having a panic attack, Bob. I don't know. I've never had one. Or I'm always having one."
Teddy, Bob's Burgers
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