TheBlackRabbitofInlé
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Why would you bother converting to Judaism, when you & your offspring will always be
considered inferior? From: Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish people - by Menachem Marc Kellner
"Halevi (12th century Jewish mystic) meets the conversion by arguing that converts are indeed not the equals of native Jews and that only after many generations, so it would seem, can their descendants be fully amalgamated into the Jewish people. To adopt a brilliant and amusing metaphor of Daniel J. Lasker's, just as IBM PC clones may run the same software as original IBM hardware, but are still not the real thing; so, too, converts may believe what native Jews believe, and act as they do (software), they are still not the same as native Jews (hardware)."
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6HlxxKP1AtAC&lpg=PA5&ots=fik12SoVQR&dq=jewish%20converts%20inferior&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q=jewish%20converts%20inferior&f=false
considered inferior? From: Maimonides on Judaism and the Jewish people - by Menachem Marc Kellner
"Halevi (12th century Jewish mystic) meets the conversion by arguing that converts are indeed not the equals of native Jews and that only after many generations, so it would seem, can their descendants be fully amalgamated into the Jewish people. To adopt a brilliant and amusing metaphor of Daniel J. Lasker's, just as IBM PC clones may run the same software as original IBM hardware, but are still not the real thing; so, too, converts may believe what native Jews believe, and act as they do (software), they are still not the same as native Jews (hardware)."
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6HlxxKP1AtAC&lpg=PA5&ots=fik12SoVQR&dq=jewish%20converts%20inferior&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q=jewish%20converts%20inferior&f=false