caa a22 4500 386315663 CHVBK 20180307111604.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1988 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021223700009304 doi S0021223700009304 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021223700009304 Shilo Shmuel Halakhic Leniency in Modern Responsa Regarding Conversion [Elektronische Daten] [Shmuel Shilo] The process of conversion to Judaism is paralleled to the acceptance of the Torah by the Jewish people at Sinai. In Jewish sources, the Sinaitic experience is viewed as a mass conversion of the Jewish people. The essence of this conversion was the acceptance of the commandments as binding upon the Jewish people. Similarly, the essence of a Gentile's conversion to Judaism in later generations, is his acceptance of the yoke of the commandments as binding upon him. In fact, the Talmudic sources go so far as to state that the Jewish people at Sinai underwent the same process as a proselyte: circumcision, immersion in a mikve and the bringing of a burnt-offering. In short, traditionally, the essence of conversion was the acceptance of the mitzvot. Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1988 Israel Law Review Cambridge University Press 22/3(1988), 353-364 0021-2237 22:3<353 1988 22 ISR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223700009304 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021223700009304 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Shilo Shmuel NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Israel Law Review Cambridge University Press 22/3(1988), 353-364 0021-2237 22:3<353 1988 22 ISR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge