How to CONVERT to Judaism 

Excellent presentation. I began studying Judaism about 30 years ago including studying Hebrew, Yiddish, even some gemara on my own (didn't get real far with that) and only recently began attending shul on a regular basis plus finally closing my business on Saturdays, lighting candles on erev shabbat, and other things. You are absolutely correct when it comes to the effort required to really convert and while people think I should be a prime candidate to do it, I am reluctant. The blessings in my life from trying to observe shabbat just to the limited extent I do, for example, has been tremendous and definitely has drawn me closer to God but it is something I choose and am not obligated to do. Since I am past 70, a widower and did not grow up in an observant family, I honestly do not know if I could handle doing a proper conversion on my own. My only problem is that I feel a little guilty receiving the blessings without being under the obligation so I am grateful that the Jewish people have survived in spite of all the challenges and hope that I am being respectful.

This is so inspiring! I have been thinking of converting to Judaism for years, but there is no Jewish community where I live... I now want to convert even more, for God and for myself

Thank you for doing this! I'm 68yo and just contracted with a Rabbi to convert to Judaism ✡️ after many years of studying on my own. It is no longer enough just being a Noachide! I NEED both the written and spoken Torah! Thanks again!

I am currently in the process of converting so thank you for that lesson, that is a perfect moment for me to see that video.

Hashem has called me to worship HIM and only HIM. HE has given me peace in my heart and a love that is strong and forever. Hashem has also brought your video to me. You nailed it on what I have been feeling. I have been reading the Torah/Tenak along with morning and evening Shemas online daily and I watch and listen to Rabbi's lessons on RU-vid. I have been celebrating Shabbots for over a month and look forward to doing so for the rest of my life. I will be purchasing "Torah for Dummies". This decision has been a long process for me. I have left the Roman Catholic Church for all the idolatry that is practiced. Hashem is not glorified first in the Catholic faith. No priest has given me a comprehensivable reason why Hashem is not put first. Hashem is the reason why I left and I will cling onto Hashem forever. Baruch ata Hashem! Baruch ata Adonai!

I'm currently in the process of converting and this lesson couldn't have come in a better time! Thank you very much!

Our heartcry is to convert,we are sparks strewn to very remote part of the world but are brought back to the kedusha in our current location in one of the final galut and constriction. BH!! We rejoice and look up because our redemption is on. Shalom Aliechem.

I love Torah and Jewish religion I am learning Hebrew language by RU-vid videos

I coverted started at 14 now im 35 parents thought it was a phase. Ha Judaism Torah community save my life

Thank you for creating your youtube channel! I am working on a conversion and am still looking for a rabbi in the Buffalo, NY area. Your story of being from Toronto has helped me to be patient enough for the community to find the right person for the sponsor part, prior to the Beis Din of Toronto taking over.

I’m also in the process of converting and I’ve never felt such peace.

Thank you for this presentation Rabbi--I always learn so much from you. I feel I am drawing closer to HaShem more each day and pray for the day when I can start the formal process to convert for I do this my life and all things for HaShem---always have just didn't know it until now.....Shalom

I appreciate you and am grateful that G.od directed me here. I've been trying and searching to truly find my spiritual home and I know understand that my home is a Jew.

I am very interested in Judaism and Jewish customs, I would really like to learn more about Judaism and get ready to start my conversion.

Thank you Rabbi for that serious advice. The way I see it, the learning doesn't stop at conversion. Conversion is a commitment to God. Someone who is not a born in jew, needs to learn much harder to change the life and traditions, as someone who is born in and grew up with it. Does my lifetime on this earth reach for the amount of new things Iam supposed to learn? I don't know. But I trust in God that he will help me to keep going, if I am weak or if I don't know what to do next. We are all born imperfect. But it is worth it to just go the way God offers us.

It is true The Jewish people are some of world's Greatest Commedians .Laughter is a powerful medicine when it is wholesome.

I’m Bnei Anussim and I wanna start my conversion process here in California ❤️❤️

Still studying my Torah and learning Hebrew so until I'm ready I'm an observer

I just started to read the talmund.cause when i was young i was confused by so much things.but the words of god changed my life to a better.seen all the hate and greed in the world i realized how important these words for us and our society.i wish it would reach everyone so we all could reach peace and kindness

Hi Jackie. I hope you have a lot of success. Pray for everything you need in detail. Best wishes Eliezer freedman

I listen carefully. It was very interesting to listen and I think I am learning something. Especially the 13 points. Very interesting. I have watched your videos and after listening, it makes me think. I can tell you are a very smart person. I have always been curious about the Jewish religion. Your videos explain things. I have always had a lot of respect for the Jewish religion and people.

And I accept Judaism and I love Israel

❤ As of around 2005, it all started…me disgusted with the religion I was born into. Honestly, since I was a child, but, I didn’t really have a choice because I didn’t know anything else and one is not given a choice. Finally…I did away with deviant worship 5,6 years ago. I began seeking Torah teachers on “RU-vid university” 😅 and joining Torah seeker groups online. I do very much want to convert and contacted a rabbi in my state; finally scheduled an appointment for an official interview after a couple phone conversations. My interview is later this month. I have one question, I’d like to ask publicly. Why are the orthodox communities in just a very few inner cities in the US maybe just a handful of cities? Where it is the most expensive to live and not able to find housing at all at times. I suppose I’ll find out during my interview. I sold everything to move near an orthodox community and I can’t find housing. I been seeking accommodations in preparation it’s been impossible. Just saying. I’m very pleased Rav Moshe Chaim shared this video. Much respect sir, thank you.

This made me cry as this is exactly how I feel. It is interesting that other people feel this way too and that I am not alone. Thank you Rabbi, shalom.

I am so interested in Judaism. You mentioned blessings, and I felt so much joy. I've been doing blessings, in the correct order and saying the blessing after eating. I love this religion. I need the Torah. I am an empty she'll without this

Thank you. This has consumed my every thought for sometime, and this video came when I needed to see it.

Thank you for such clear explanation ✡️🙏♥️🔥 Shavua Tov!!💪🙂

Its true it is was so hard for my son to find a job especially during the festivals he told the job about the festival that he can not be at work and the next day he was so excited to go back to work but when he got there he was fired

Being Jewish is not converting the other. It is accepting the other "as is" and helping them see the good in themselves 🙏

Well explained Rabbi Moshe Chaim! I really appreciate your point about the need to accept Oral Torah. Here in the west, there are so many who will dismiss it and 'demonize' it, but they'll turn right around and create their own Talmud/Mishna in the way of Magazines, books, and youtube videos and claim it's 'better' than what our Sages handed down to us--pure insanity. Baruch HaShem!

I keep the best Sabbath the best I can at home I don't go to church I don't believe in paganism I don't like Christmas trees or even Easter eggs I need to go to a temple to keep the Sabbath day Sundown Friday to sundown Saturday

@In some versions of the myth, hope had to work its way back into the box so that it could be found by Pandora. After all the evils were released, hope was left behind, but it had to voluntarily return to the box to offer solace to humanity. This aspect of the story emphasizes the idea that hope is not easily extinguished and can be rediscovered even in the most challenging circumstances. Thank you for pointing out the missing information, and I apologize for any confusion caused.

I really enjoyed your talk, thank you.

thank you for making this video

Please pray for me Rabbi ❤

👍 very informative I am a Muslim person from India ❤️👍

I love that starting story,

Im in the process. I embrace the Torah

It's easy to convert to Judaism. Just love the God of Yisro'el with all you heart, with all your life and with all that you possess. And love your fellow neighbour as yourself. But beware of people who want to transfer you to someone you are not.

Thank you Rabbi Moshe Chaim.

I’m a Jew in spirit. ❤

Just curious, why do you call it the “Toy-rah”? Is that just the Yiddish accent or is that how it is supposed to be pronounced in the original Hebrew? Thanks 😊

I’m confused: Some are saying that it’s not necessary to convert, and saying that there’s a place for the gentiles in the world. However, the more I learn, the more it seems that there’s ultimately only one way: To follow Torah. So if we don’t have to convert them how do proceed forward? What’s the difference between learning and applying the laws and becoming Jewish? If it’s not necessary to convert, where do we draw the line about what to observe, what not to observe?

what do you say if a natural Jew left to the "world" and returns to Hashem. What does he have to do in your understanding? Or if a Jew became crypto-Jew, anusim or "Converso" to Christianity and let's say now he wants to return to Hashem?

Excellent.

I had a dream about 10yrs ago where the Kohenim was under attack by an unknown enemy,I had to hide them and fought in defense for them.I was Catholic then,I had no idea what Judaism was.But when I woke up ,I looked up the scriptures and what I saw shocked me.I saw the full description of the regalia,the breastplate and the exact colours just as I saw in my dream. Don't know yet what the dream means.

Love the Seinfeld reference the dentist was pretty funny!

The Jew does not know who he is. Our whole story is about knowing who we are. Man is created on the sixth day but he will never know the seventh until he knows he is the image of God. Who is God? He is good, so first we learned evil. First, we are in darkness. It has always been about the Jew and the Nations. The Jew is the Torah. Torah is the instructions to know God to learn what is good, to know that God is love and loves all of us. If the Nations love the Jew, they love Torah. Torah is our love. Our love for each other births His love. Torah is meant to be an action, "we will do". Let's do and be in love 🙏

I'm part Jewish on my mothers side I grew up un aware of the Torah I Have studied for a few years. Do I need to convert an I Jewish or do i just learn All the jewish ways,?

I know inside me that the past Junni יונאי family was a Polish family and they had moved to Finland I don't know if it was 200 or 300 years ago, but here they were Christians, but somewhere inside and the calling of השם I know and when I did meet Him at my livingroom. Power come upon me and said אהיה "I AM"

Being a Jew for myself is that one cannot separate oneself from HaShem a Jew religious or not is intrinsically entwined with HaShem like it or not.

great information

What would Maimonides say about this verse: Deuteronomy 18:15 "The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

I needed this thank you

If you want to be a Jew? Practice all Jewish traditions, obey the Torah, including the oral traditions etc. Because Judaism is not an imperialist religion that wish to gather all people.

Thank you so much for this informative lecture.. really great explanation 💙 G-d bless.

The number one problem that I have with this class is there is absolutely no source in Halacha for much of what you said. I believe we should not get off script when talking to a potential convert. Open a Shulchan Aruch and when a Ger comes to you to convert read to him what it says word for word. Of course make it part of your memory. By the way the Rambam says the opposite of what you said. That someone who comes to convert you encourage them by saying that the next world is only for the righteous who are Jewish people.

The Whole House of Jacob (Israel) accepted the Torah. Why are there so many laws for Shabbat?

Dear Rabbi: I have an important question to ask you. I am watching this on October 25, 2023, after the Hamas attack inside Israel. I see fault in Israeli politics, in the expansion of the settlements into Palestinian areas as well as the humanity of the Palestinians. Do you consider the State of Israel to be beyond reproach, the politics of Israel to be beyond reproach? Also, if a Jewish person does something antisocial, is it true that "Jewish people don't turn in other Jewish people?" A Chasidic Rabbi told me this and admonished me. I didn't think that this person should be given immunity in the Jewish community just because he was born of a Jewish mother and father. I would go talk with this Rabbi but it seems that he has moved away. This has really upset and confused my understanding about what being a Jew means. Thank you.

God bless 🙏

I am in a very weird place. My familly is Christian, but they recently told me about my jewish ancestry, and that I am jewish and soo, I've been in a somekind of a fight for the last few months, and I am thinking of learning, and maybe converting to Judaism.

The origin of castes occurred later, while the gotras existed from the beginning. As far as I understand, our ancestors have been living in this region for about a thousand years. It was like a kingdom of our ancestors, and the entire area belonged to our gotra. Our ancestors' belief system at that time was different from today's Hinduism. There were five villages called Mehluon, governed democratically, similar to a modern commune. If we study this system, we find it is not present in Hinduism. Some say its origin is in Judaism. At one point, a king wanted to marry a woman from this region, but they refused. The king's arrogance led him to attack with his army, but our ancestors defeated him multiple times. So, the king resorted to a deceitful plan. He was informed about their belief system, especially their practice of not shedding blood while eating together during their sacred occasions. On one such sacred occasion, the king attacked and killed everyone present, sparing only those who were outside the village. This story is known through oral tradition. This kind of tradition is not found in Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism, or Islam. It is associated with Judaism, where bread holds great sanctity as it was provided by God. In Judaism, there is a festival of bread called Shabbat, which they celebrate with great sanctity. This indicates a connection between our ancestors and Judaism. Archaeological findings of burial sites also suggest a relationship with a burial-centric religion. While there is limited evidence other than the bones, and not everyone may accept this idea, it remains a possibility based on oral traditions.

Why?

@ChevraRavmosheChaim I am trying to convert to Judaism, what are my first steps to do?

What about the Noahide laws

You and your teaching is a blessing to me beyond words ✌️✌️✌️🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

Genesis 48:19 But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know; he also will become a people and he also will be great. However, his *younger brother* shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations." This is Ephraim and you will see this also in Ezekiel- Ezekiel 37:16 "And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, 'For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of *Ephraim* and all the house of Israel, his companions.' The two sticks become one through the Spirit of God. For Jacob He loved but Esau He hated. So it does not depend on man but on God who has mercy on whom He will have mercy. Exodus 33:19 And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the Lord before you; and I will be gracious to whom *I will be gracious,* and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion."

If a non-Jew converts to Judaism but one day later he wants to leave Judaism, what will happen to him?

How do I leave Judaism?

How can I convert to Judaism I m a Muslim

I've legally changed my name to Mode Ben Avraham as I have no doubt I'll spend the rest of my life converting, doing my best to live as a good Jewish man. I'm open to any advice. Thanks for the video.

Thank you🕍♥

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This message, wow!

why its so hard for me...i am manic depressive with anxiety disorder everytime i try my finances are bad to do it...maybe G-D will allow when he wants

And please help me

Isn´t it a belief, that the prophets were right? What if they were not? The word "belief" can makes an alibi, but anyway, if you don´t want to believe, but you wanna know. ?

Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty! The torah is true and perfect! ...God can write it upon the hearts and minds of those who love and fear God!, may God place all who call upon him in his heart and hand! Amen!

Can I convert if I ''Was'' a murderer and thief ?

I get fired for doing Shabbat all the time?

How do you convert to orthodox juadism

hi I'm Anil from India, how to convert in jewish religion

Are Black people prevented from converting? Just read a terrible experience by a black person who was responding to another and i wanting to know how widespread this is amongst Rabbis.

Is the same process for a woman?

The conversion process this rabbi is describing is not halachic

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We are long time jew the stop us to convert or not we are jew always forevere so so proud of jodah and jewish family every were eny were so...

I want the Torah

What does it mean that G-d is not corporal?

Can shia Muslim convert to Judaism ?????

Beyond flabbergasted to hear an Orthodox Jew say ‘chell or even smash. If this is God then He is far cleverer than I.

Which jewish sect that he belongs to?

Most of people who granted granted father was Jewish they might forgat who they are even they might convert to other religions,but god never forgot who they are,masiah is coming,he is going tell them who they are,he is going to remind them

Can’t convert orthodox if you are gay though. I desperately wanted a orthodox conversion and was willing to be celibate. I was point blank refused and lead out the door.

HaShem said nothing to the nations. It is written that He gave it ONLY to the Israelites. I know the thought behind the story but lets not put words in HaShem's mouth.

If the entire Oral Torah is from God, then what is Isaiah talking about in chapter 29:13-14?

13:40. 14:46

I heard it explained by a Rabbi that it's impossible to convert for the wrong reason(such as your example of the in-laws) because once you convert, it means you actually had a Jewish soul the whole time, and therefore, if the person didn't already have a Jewish soul, they would just quit, or some other obstacle would prevent them from finishing, showing they were not Jewish in the first place. If you convert for Hashem alone, you will, of course succeed, showing you always had a Jewish soul.

Jewish by blood, raised christain, always a jew by heart and soul. It's like having long term memory loss but the moment your surrounded back in the jewish world and life it's just like coming home from the army days. You don't chose to be a jew, your destined for it.

I am atheist (born Hindu) but want to convert to Judaism...Plz help...