A Unique, Long Distance/Home study  Program  

for Conversion/Converting  to Judaism

 

                                 Plus Chicago metro classes  in Skokie                   

         email rabbi@convertjudaism.org

 

                                                                   call 847-331-3584                                                                        

   

                            

A Conservative Rabbinic Bet Din of Metropolitan Chicago

Adult Education Program awarded Gold Medal from United Synagogue of Coservative Judaism 2009

http://www.uscj.org/images/SolSchAwards2009_AdultEducation.pdf

 


                                                          

                     

Thank you!  I have been reading and listening to the UTube courses non stop since I spoke with you on the phone.  This is a wonderful set of classes and so informative.  This is wonderful.  Thank you again.   Colleen

 


The course is great! We would recommend it to anyone seeking a path to conversion.
The amount of information is astounding. You put so much work into the course.
We thank you tremendously. David and Cynthia

 

Esynagogue.org and JewU Online Courses
www.convertjudaism.blogspot.com/
www.onlinehebrewschool.blogspot.com/
www.judaismviavideos.blogspot.com/
www.judaismtochristians.blogspot.com/
www.pararabbitraining.blogspot.com/
www.barmitzvahbvatmitzvahonlinetraining.blogspot.com/

 

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
1. Complete application form.
2. Purchase books; pay tuition
3. Complete all 16 Sessions
· Complete all assigned readings
· Watch videos
· Complete memory work
· Email terms with completed definitions for each session
· Study values for each session
· Demonstrate familiarity with all assigned materials
4. After completing all sessions write a final essay as assigned.
5. Return completed answers to “100 Questions.”-there are videos to help
6. Each week during your process, find on the Jewish calendar and try and read the weekly Torah reading (Parsha) and commentary in the provided Etz Chayim Chumash. Optional-Return brief reports to 3 Parshaot over the course of your study process. Watch Rabbi Ginsburg's D’var Torah video for the week’s reading, which you can find at: http://weeklyvideodvartorah.blogspot.com/  (It will be the first one there that week).
7. Have conversations with  us as needed.
8. Demonstrate a commitment to Jewish living and religious practice as reflected by Declaration of Faith below.
9. Commit to learn basic Hebrew reading.
10. Appear before a Beit Din (rabbinical tribunal) at which time you will be asked the following questions, among others:
  • Do you choose to enter the eternal covenant between God and the people Israel and to become a Jew of your own free will?
  • Do you accept Judaism to the exclusion of all other religious faiths and practices?
  • Do you pledge your loyalty to Judaism and to the Jewish people under all circumstances?
  • Do you promise to establish a Jewish home, and to participate actively in the synagogue and the Jewish community?
  • Do you commit yourself to the pursuit of Torah and Jewish knowledge?
  • If you should be blessed with children, do you promise to raise them as Jews?
11. Males will require circumcision. If already circumcised, a ritual circumcision is required. Males and females will require immersion in a mikvah (ritual bath).
12. Read and sign the declaration of Faith.
13. Pick out a Hebrew name. For legal/spiritual  purposes your parents will be Abraham and Sarah.


  • Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg of the Ezra-Habonim, the Niles Township Jewish Congregation, Skokie il.

 

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