Anyone willing (read: brave/batshit crazy) enough to throw their fate in with the Jewish people and who wants to call themselves a Jew regardless of how they convert is Jewish. Period. The end. Fight me.
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Replying to @TuttleSinger
No one's going to fight you. Three millenia of Jewish history contradicts your assertion. Schism has only been caused by those who changed the rules of Jewish identity (Christians, kataites, Sabbatians and so on).
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Replying to @JeffreyWoolf @TuttleSinger
Jeffrey, your tweet is false and you certainly must know that. There was no formal conversion ceremony or even a need to convert in biblical times. People married who they wanted to and women followed the man's religion, or at least were subservient to it.
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Replying to @Shmarya @TuttleSinger
Wrong. There is no question that men were circumcised, and that those who joined the Jewish people had to accept the Jewish religion. The only question is immersion. IAC, it's irrelevant. From the earliest documented times, my point stands (and was first made by Jacob Katz)
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There was no formal ceremony, no formal conversion process and circumcision for individual male converts in biblical times is unproven. Even in early rabbinic times there was a debate about whether conversion w/o immediate circumcision was valid. (For some rabbis, it was.)
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