Jewish%20thought for Yevamot 48:4

שהיה רבי נחמיה אומר אחד גירי אריות ואחד גירי חלומות ואחד גירי מרדכי ואסתר אינן גרים עד שיתגיירו בזמן הזה

WHO, [IN CONSEQUENCE,] WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM HER HUSBAND,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'and they (i.e., Beth din) took her out from under his hand'. He was ordered to divorce her. ');">¹²</span> HE MUST LET HER GO EVEN THOUGH HE HAD MARRIED HER.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Because the woman is Biblically forbidden to both husband and seducer. (V. Sot. 27b). ');">¹³</span> <b><i>GEMARA</i></b>. This implies that she may become a proper prose lyte.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Even though her conversion was solely due to her desire to contract the marriage. ');">¹⁴</span> But against this a contradiction is raised. Both a man who became a proselyte for the sake of a woman and a woman who became a proselyte for the sake of a man, and, similarly, a man who became a proselyte for the sake of a royal board, or for the sake of joining Solomon's servants,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' To enter the king's employ. ');">¹⁵</span>

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