Does the sponsoring rabbi know about your Yeshua-faith? Do you concider Reform conversion valid, when the convert chose to skip bris or mikvah. As a believer in Yeshua, why don't you convert through the MJRC?
Yes. That's all I can say about it.
I do not consider Reform conversion valid under any circumstances. While the label "Reform" has no halachic import in my view (neither does "Conservative" or "Orthodox" for that matter), a conversion without kabbalat 'ol mitzvot, accepting the obligation and responsibility for the commandments is not a conversion. If they then choose to, on top of that, skip some of the required steps for a valid conversion, then even more so.
Many reasons:
- I don't view the MJRC's rabbis as rabbis.
- A conversion they perform would be meaningless, because none of my communities would recognize the validity of that conversion, not even my secular friends.
- I don't really have anything to do with Messianic Judaism. I practice Judaism, I believe in Yeshua, I hang out with some people who do sometimes, but as far as the congregational movement is concerned...it's just not part of my life right now.
