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 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Carol, I love and respect my mother very much. But she IS schizophrenic. Everyone in my family knows this. And I don't think it's a coincidence that she "decided" to become Jewish, without doing ANY research on it--all she went on were some vague dreams and "feelings" she had--right before she fell into her permanent delusion that the ubiqitous "they" were out to get her and poke through her stuff when she was out the house.
2006-07-27 05:45:55 · update #1
It sounds from what you are saying is right.
a person that is mentally unstable dose not have the ability to convert because they do not have the ability to understand their actions.
besides for that I hope your mother is getting help for her problems I have seen what mental disorders can do to a family.
2006-07-27 05:40:45 · answer #1 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if she didn't do any research on it, then I assume it wasn't an orthodox conversion, in which case you were never jewish.
on the side, its possible that your mother's mental illness was apparant, and I hope that anyone that could would offer help.
2006-07-27 07:59:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about showing your mother some respect.
Exodus 20:12 Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
2006-07-27 05:36:04 · answer #3 · answered by Carol M 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think you should talk to the rabbi and see whaqt he has to say about the situation....maybe he can give you some insight as the what happened....
2006-07-27 05:36:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he was probably trying to help her.
2006-07-27 05:36:51 · answer #5 · answered by Allison L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋