Converts to Judaism - did you convert so you could get married to a Jew or because you found it yourself?

Answer 1

DSM gave you a meaningless answer.
Today's Jews are indeed the descendants of the Israelites/Hebrews of Biblical times!

It is considered a poor reason to convert if you are doing it just to marry a Jew. Any rabbi considering accepting you as a candidate for conversion will inquire closely into your motives. You would have to convince the rabbi, and the Bet Din, that you really want to, for yourself.
I know many Jews-by-choice. All of them converted because they felt a strong pull to become Jewish, or that they had "a Jewish soul". If they do marry a Jew, they tend to be more devout than their spouses. Some of them converted many years after the marriage.
The rate of inter-marriage in the USA today is approaching 50%. Only an Orthodox congregation would be overtly unwelcoming to an intermarried couple, so there is no need to convert just to get married.

Answer 2

Depends on your definition of a Jew. Since the Torah observant Jew would not accept the Talmud observant as being a real Jew, the question is real. There was a time when G-d delivered His chosen people from their enemies and when He spoke to His people in a language that was clear and instructive instead of like today.

The Talmud observant call themselves Jews but can't prove their lineage back to the destruction of the second Temple ....let alone to the time of Moses or Abraham. Therefore, even if a Temple was built as mandated by the Torah, no priest could fulfill the priestly duties as required by the Torah.

The only way to continue the Torah observant Judaism would be to have a priest in the line of Melchizedek. With the diversity of the rabbis today, is it even possible to imagine that if a Messiah bringing peace came, that the rabbis would the Messiah a majority vote?

So everyone somewhere converted to Judaism as lineage is not an option. Likewise, what is called Judaism today would not be accepted as true Judaism, so what the Judaism today is like a Mormon calling themselves Christian....there is no comparison to the real thing.

Answer 3

My husband and I discovered Judaism after many years as agnostics. My only regret is that we didn't find it soon enough to raise our children as Jews.
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