- Q. See question above.
Being that the father is זרע ישראל (from the father's side), if that father were to have converted, would he be able to take a position of שררה in the community? (Is he considered מקרב אחיך) In ספר שארית ישראל, it seems he would as such a person is considered a pre Matan Torah זרע ישראל requiring גיור.
If the Jewish grandfather (father's father was a Levi for example, does the individual in question have any continuity through זרע ישראל to being a Levi as well, or since his mother is not Jewish, there is a break off in the lineage?
A. On question 3657 we wrote:
Q. Regarding a complete family with children that converted to Judaism, how does the father comply with the mitzva of ‘Vehigadeta Levincha – telling the story of Pesach to his children? (When they convert Halacha rules that they cease being his children and they are considered being newborn). To whom should he now relate the Hagadah?
A. Since he has to remarry his wife immediately after the conversion, he can tell the story to her.
He may also do what people without children do, tell it to his guest as by Halacha standards his children are.
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Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman Horav, Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
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