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From: R. Halevi
Subject: Digital verification of kashrut certification
Date: 23 Elul 5780
The beit din does not certify that the convert is now metaphysically Jewish.
Think about what the certificate actually says. It says: this person appeared before us. They immersed in the mikveh. They accepted the mitzvot. Three rabbis witnessed. We signed.
Whether the conversion "took," whether this person is now Jewish in the eyes of heaven, whether other communities will accept them, whether the Rabbinate will recognize it: the beit din makes no claim. They witnessed a procedure. They recorded that it occurred.
—Dov Halevi
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