re: #23 Alouette
Kares. For all practical purposes, that’s what’s happening there. They can say what want, but if you’re in a state of Kares, it is what it is.
I said that I might challenge those words. There are no courts that can make such a decree, and many arguments can be made whether it can even happen nowadays since we are all so screwed up, but there isn’t any doubt that Judaism is both an obligation and a priviledge, according to the Torah. It’s not an immutable fact of a person’s character.