– Q. I was told that unless someone was registered in the conversion program with the Beit Din we are not supposed to invite them.

How does that work if people don’t know this procedure and the candidates don’t tell you? Shouldn’t there be a registry and the procedure made public? What should you do if someone comes to your house with another guest? Wouldn’t it be embarrassing to interrogate them or turn them away?

A. It is unlikely that such a reliable registry could be created in our large cities. The best probable way to correctly address such a situation when in need, is by asking prior to their coming, friends that know the guest or finding out in which if any shull or congregation they are members of. You may even very politely and in privacy ask the guest themselves, when they will not be embarrassed as to what their status is.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a.