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https://yahadut.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/depositphotos_1148672_original_1140.jpg1920881Non-Jews who wish to convert to Judaism may do so. This reflects the fundamental Jewish belief that people have the potential to transform themselves (unlike some belief systems, which maintain that people cannot change). Therefore, anyone who wants to join the Jewish people may do so. Following conversion, a convert is fully Jewish, and there is a mitzva to treat him or her with even more respect than other Jews. For even a minor slight is likely to be very hurtful. Therefore, the Torah demands that we be very careful about this. Someone who hurts the feelings of a convert is transgressing three separate prohibitions. First is the prohibition of hurting any Jew. Additionally, two more admonitions pertain to a “stranger,” which the Sages understand to mean a convert: “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Exodus 22:20), and ...