This just occurred to me that the religious society's
approach to a BT (in our days) was that a BT is attempting to do tshuvah not
with God but with the frum society, as if they themselves "are" God and
that the BT's are coming before them, to be judged as to whether their
intentions are true. And that positioning gives the uneducated within that
society (often these are easily found in yeshivot, as much or more, than in
general frum society) the impetus to engage also in "hazing." As in,
the BT must prove himself, constantly prove himself, in order to be normalized
even more so than a convert for whom the Torah commands one to love. The Jew
(whose family line who at one point departed from the rabbinic-controlled
societal forms & approaches of Europe (since the 1800's) must be
tested/tried. “If we are going to let them back into the religious society, we
have to cleanse them...and keep reminding them of their status...and find ways
to denigrate their status".
I point to the irony & ridiculous approach to BT
Kohanim...which challenges the frum community at all levels.
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