By David Ellenson, Daniel Gordis
Pledges of Jewish Allegiance prefaces its research of contemporary critiques with a dialogue of the classical Jewish assets upon which they draw.
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If he replies, “I know and yet I am unworthy,” he is accepted immediately and is given instruction in some of the minor and some of the major commandments. He is informed of the sin [of the neglect of the agricultural commandments of] Gleanings, the Forgotten Sheaf, the Corner, and the Poor Man’s Tithe. He is also told of the punishment for the transgression of the commandments. ” And as he is informed of the punishment for the transgression of the commandments, so is he informed of the reward granted for their fulfillment.
57 Immediately thereafter, Maimonides quotes the well-known elements of the ceremony as described in Yevamot, including the details of some commandments, their rewards and punishments, the same four agricultural laws, and so on. From the Mishneh Torah, it would appear that Maimonides follows the second of the three positions outlined above. The intentions of the convert are not irrelevant (except in the case of Solomon cited above, where the conversions were apparently sham), but neither are they sufficiently critical to invalidate the conversion retroactively.
After all, his mother was a Gentile and his father nonobservant. Even if the mother were to convert, there was virtually no possibility that such people would give their son a proper Jewish education and establish a household where the boy would be brought up to observe the commandments. Hirsch stated that if the baby were to be circumcised ritually and immersed for the sake of conversion, the baby would be burdened with obligations that he would have no need to fulfill as long as he was a Gentile.