I do not know if there is any specific way to explain the "Why" and "How" when someone feels truly Jewish and is not Jewish at all.
Maybe children of exogamic marriages can feel more Jewish, because their father is Jewish and there is a direct lineage transmission even if according to the Halacha (Jewish Law) is Jewish a person born to a Jewish woman only. So what about the father ? Well he doesn't pass down the religion but the tribe (if he's a levi, a cohen for example).
Can Jewish ancestry or jewish blood encourage people to become halachicly jewish and undergo a hypotetical conversion to be fully accepted ?
Do Jewish people think this category of potential converts have a real reason to become Jewish more than total strangers ?
Are they more sincere and true with themselves, with G-d, with the Rabbis because they are the consequences of assimilation ?
Can it be considered as a tikkun (reparation) ?
I have no knowlegdements in ethnology nor in psychology. It must be hard for these persons to be like any other goy but to feel jewish because they have been surrounded by jewish relatives and traditions their entire life. Or discovered they had jewish family and think they can be a part of this people but then realize that... it's not that simple !
What happens to those who have nothing to do with the Jewish people, no family, no friends ? what happened to them, how did they discover Judaism ?
I think there is a lot to say about that : an interest for the origins of Religion, the land of Israel, the History (especially the Shoah), the music, the food, a best friend, a boyfriend/girlfriend... that lead to the Torah
Is it legitimate then for these people to be willing to convert ?
It can sound very strange to Jewish People that somebody is really into it, and usually they think the interest is on the purpose to get married to a Jew.
Okay, there is something that makes you discover that there is something outside your world that is called Judaism, but what is a Jew ?
We saw it, in the Jewish Law a Jew is a person born to a jewish mother or converted according to jewish laws by an Orthodox Beis Din.
Historians would probably say something else. I'm not sure about the real definitions you can find by different groups but usually can be a Jew a person that considers oneself practising the religion, who is a part of the Jewish people even if he doesn't practise anything at all or not jewish according to halacha.
There must be a little something that brings you to this strange thought of "I feel so close to Judaism", and then what ? What do you think ? What do you do ?
For me, when I opened up to people and explained what i felt, and how I was willing to convert, they almost all told me that I was a gilgul !!
What is that ? simple explanation : it's the reincarnation of the jewish soul.
I have no jewish relative, I didn't grow up in a jewish environnement. I discovered it later, when I thought that I was "special" : there is no other word for someone who was raised catholic and felt Jewish without knowing what to be Jewish meant. It's now, that I know better about the jewish world, the jewish people and the religion itself that what I could feel when I was a kid, then a teenager was what a Jewess feels.
I can't rationally explain or speak with assurance that I have an ancient jewish neshama but it would explain a lot !
Maybe children of exogamic marriages can feel more Jewish, because their father is Jewish and there is a direct lineage transmission even if according to the Halacha (Jewish Law) is Jewish a person born to a Jewish woman only. So what about the father ? Well he doesn't pass down the religion but the tribe (if he's a levi, a cohen for example).
Can Jewish ancestry or jewish blood encourage people to become halachicly jewish and undergo a hypotetical conversion to be fully accepted ?
Do Jewish people think this category of potential converts have a real reason to become Jewish more than total strangers ?
Are they more sincere and true with themselves, with G-d, with the Rabbis because they are the consequences of assimilation ?
Can it be considered as a tikkun (reparation) ?
I have no knowlegdements in ethnology nor in psychology. It must be hard for these persons to be like any other goy but to feel jewish because they have been surrounded by jewish relatives and traditions their entire life. Or discovered they had jewish family and think they can be a part of this people but then realize that... it's not that simple !
What happens to those who have nothing to do with the Jewish people, no family, no friends ? what happened to them, how did they discover Judaism ?
I think there is a lot to say about that : an interest for the origins of Religion, the land of Israel, the History (especially the Shoah), the music, the food, a best friend, a boyfriend/girlfriend... that lead to the Torah
Is it legitimate then for these people to be willing to convert ?
It can sound very strange to Jewish People that somebody is really into it, and usually they think the interest is on the purpose to get married to a Jew.
Okay, there is something that makes you discover that there is something outside your world that is called Judaism, but what is a Jew ?
We saw it, in the Jewish Law a Jew is a person born to a jewish mother or converted according to jewish laws by an Orthodox Beis Din.
Historians would probably say something else. I'm not sure about the real definitions you can find by different groups but usually can be a Jew a person that considers oneself practising the religion, who is a part of the Jewish people even if he doesn't practise anything at all or not jewish according to halacha.
There must be a little something that brings you to this strange thought of "I feel so close to Judaism", and then what ? What do you think ? What do you do ?
For me, when I opened up to people and explained what i felt, and how I was willing to convert, they almost all told me that I was a gilgul !!
What is that ? simple explanation : it's the reincarnation of the jewish soul.
I have no jewish relative, I didn't grow up in a jewish environnement. I discovered it later, when I thought that I was "special" : there is no other word for someone who was raised catholic and felt Jewish without knowing what to be Jewish meant. It's now, that I know better about the jewish world, the jewish people and the religion itself that what I could feel when I was a kid, then a teenager was what a Jewess feels.
I can't rationally explain or speak with assurance that I have an ancient jewish neshama but it would explain a lot !
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