But R'Simeon B'Gamaliel says: His sons and the members of his family are also required to accept [these obligations] in the presence of three haberim, because the case of a haber who accepts [these obligations] is not on a par with the case of the son of a haber<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The father, a haber, will be more strict, as he publicly accepted in the presence of three haberim the obligations involved, whereas the son of a haber only sees his father practise these laws. Another interpretation is as follows: The reason, according to the first Tanna quoted above, why the sons and the members of the family of a haber are not required to accept these obligations is because the family of a haber actually seeing these levitical laws observed at home, are not suspected of disregarding them and therefore there is no necessity for them to accept these obligations in the presence of three haberim.');"><sup>15</sup></span>
Tosefta Demai
A convert [others have Gentile = גוי] that takes upon himself all the obligations of the Torah, and is suspected about one of them, and even [?] about the entire Torah, behold, he is [considered to be] like a Jewish apostate. [Note: The Erfurt Manuscript contains a large gap with hash marks at "אפילו ... על התורה כולה" = "even ... about the entire Torah", indicating missing words. Compare Bekh. 30b:3.]
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Tosefta Demai
An am ha'aretz who takes upon himself all the obligations of being a a chaver except for one of them, we do not accept him. A convert [others have Gentile (גוי)] who takes upon himself all the obligations of the Torah except for one of them, we do not accept him. Rabbi Yosei son of Rabbi Yehudah says, [that is true] even if it is a small thing from [among the] fine points in rabbinic enactments [following Jastrow re "דקדוקי סופרים"].
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Tosefta Demai
An am ha'aretz who takes upon himself all the obligations of being a a chaver except for one of them, we do not accept him. A convert [others have Gentile (גוי)] who takes upon himself all the obligations of the Torah except for one of them, we do not accept him. Rabbi Yosei son of Rabbi Yehudah says, [that is true] even if it is a small thing from [among the] fine points in rabbinic enactments [following Jastrow re "דקדוקי סופרים"].
