Title: Embracing Judaism
Author: Simcha King, Carl M. Perkins
Genre: Non- Fiction
I'm considering converting to Judaism. I mentioned this a few weeks ago on Twitter of all places but other than that I've only spoken about it with B and my stepmother. So this is the first "public" statement on it. To set my feet upon the path to possible conversion I reached out to the rabbi of my local synagogue, a Conservative Jewish congregation. We had a great email discussion and then a very nice meeting. During that meeting he recommended that I read two books and then get back to him with any questions and whether or not I want to move forward. Moving forward doesn't necessarily mean conversion of course, really moving forward just means learning more.
In any case this was one of the books the rabbi recommended to me. It could accurately be described as "a brief introduction and history of the Jewish faith and people." It was very well written and really distilled an overwhelming amount of knowledge into a smallish (right at 200 pages) book that gives a strong introduction to Judaism and it lists many resources for further study. I enjoyed reading the book and learned a great deal by reading it. Truthfully a great, great deal of the material in this book made me think quite strongly that yes, the path to conversion is definitely the right path for me to be on. That being said I still have more study, thinking and self reflection to do before I make that firm decision.
Next up a book called The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism written by, of all people, conservative commentator Dennis Praeger. The rabbi described him as being "not a friend to the gays" but said we should overlook that for the sake of reading this book because the book has a lot of very useful information in it for someone thinking of converting. I really like the rabbi.
Author: Simcha King, Carl M. Perkins
Genre: Non- Fiction
I'm considering converting to Judaism. I mentioned this a few weeks ago on Twitter of all places but other than that I've only spoken about it with B and my stepmother. So this is the first "public" statement on it. To set my feet upon the path to possible conversion I reached out to the rabbi of my local synagogue, a Conservative Jewish congregation. We had a great email discussion and then a very nice meeting. During that meeting he recommended that I read two books and then get back to him with any questions and whether or not I want to move forward. Moving forward doesn't necessarily mean conversion of course, really moving forward just means learning more.
In any case this was one of the books the rabbi recommended to me. It could accurately be described as "a brief introduction and history of the Jewish faith and people." It was very well written and really distilled an overwhelming amount of knowledge into a smallish (right at 200 pages) book that gives a strong introduction to Judaism and it lists many resources for further study. I enjoyed reading the book and learned a great deal by reading it. Truthfully a great, great deal of the material in this book made me think quite strongly that yes, the path to conversion is definitely the right path for me to be on. That being said I still have more study, thinking and self reflection to do before I make that firm decision.
Next up a book called The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism written by, of all people, conservative commentator Dennis Praeger. The rabbi described him as being "not a friend to the gays" but said we should overlook that for the sake of reading this book because the book has a lot of very useful information in it for someone thinking of converting. I really like the rabbi.
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