For those of who who haven't been paying attention, my name is Anna M and I am an ex-Jew, now an apathetic agnostic.
My mother and I converted to Judaism when I was 8, then my mother went insane. Or perhaps, she was already down the slippery slope to madness before we converted.
She told me once that the only reason we became jewish was because she had "visions" and dreams about symbols that she thought were Jewish. She eventually told my rabbi about her dreams, and that she believed people were "after her" because of them, and shortly after we stopped going to temple altogether. I never got a straight answer from her about why. I think it's because the rabbi saw that my mother was becoming mentally unbalanced, and perhaps offered her help, and she became convinced he was out to "get" her too. Maybe, he even thought that her desire to convert wasn't sincere because of her mental state, and so it kind of invalidated the whole process.
What do you think?
2006-07-27
05:32:39
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