Conversion and legitimacy of conversion

December 2, 2019 at 1:02 AM
Annon for modesty purposes asked 4 years ago
B”H You brought me to Torah and mitzvot with your videos on wasting weed, they were the entrance into it. I have a question. If a mother converts to Judaism and was learning in the beginning of that mother’s conversion and trying to keep Shabbat and kosher and mitzvot etc and was also converted through orthodox rabbinate but through struggles in her life and falling because of a lack of a shomer  environment stopped trying to be shomer Shabbat and keeping kosher but still identifies as a Jew and admits that they were not able to keep mitzvot because the mother was weak, does this, to you nullify the contract, or to you, is it still standing. And what about the children, are they Jewish. g-d willing her child becomes a light for her. Maybe this mother also said she felt Jewish all her life and had to convert as it was part of her tikkun. Every rabbi I have talked to said that this does not nullify a contract except for one rabbi and that’s why I’m asking.
Rabbi Rom Leibner replied 4 years ago

Hi Annon,

this is Rabbi Rom from the Atzmut team.
To answer your question, there are 2 main opinions in what constitues a jewish conversion. The first being a conversion process, mikvah etc. The second is actually keeping the Torah and Mitzvot.
So if the kids were born after the conversion, then they are all Jewish, of course to make this more in effect they would need to keep the Torah properly.