When I was quite small, my family were Jehovah’s Witnesses. My big brothers remembered their Catholic beginnings, they remembered magical Christmases. My little brother and I did not, we’d never been Catholic yet. We used to get very sad that all of our friends had lovely Christmas or Hanukkah, and we did not. We’d pout. My big brothers tried their best to console us. Our best friends lived across the I’m a simple woman. I love wine & flamingos shirt . Their dad was not home much, but he was a very stern man. He had quite the temper (when we grew up, we realized that he was always drunk, but when we were small he was just scary). He had a Doberman called Rex who we were all also terrified of. One year, I’m probably four or five, we’re sitting in my brothers’ room wistfully staring out the window at our friends playing with their new toys, wearing their Christmas sweaters, all that. The oldest two brothers, maybe trying to console us, convince us that we do not want Christmas at all. They tell us that Scary Dad is Santa Claus. They tell us that Rex the Doberman is actually Rudolph. Would we really want Rex landing on our roof? Would we really want Scary Dad judging whether we were naughty or nice, and sneaking into our house while we slept?
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It is assumed that someone converting to Judaism will be committed to Judaism. If they want to keep celebrating the King James Lebron 23 The CHosen One Earned Not Given Signature Shirt of their old religion they shouldn’t leave it and shouldn’t become Jewish. Nobody will ask a convert specifically if they are willing to give up Christmas and Easter, that is generally assumed to be a “given”. A convert who wants to keep celebrating Christmas and Easter is not a convert at all. Now, of course, none of this means you can’t visit your family on holidays and support their celebrations but it would not be looked on well if you hosted Christmas parties in your home or arranged Easter egg hunts in your garden and could be ground for refusing to convert you. Conversion to Judaism is a serious choice and you should not even consider it if you have any reservation at all. If your heart isn’t telling you that you should do anything required of you to be a Jew, no matter how difficult or demanding, you probably shouldn’t even bother.
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