AMBIVALENCE IN PROSELYTISM . b. Tosefot Kiddushin 70b, s.v. kashim. . b. Pesachim 7b. 2. b. Kiddushin 70b, s.v. kashim.

3. supra note 10.

. Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael (ed. Lauterbach+, Tractate Nezigin, Chapter 18, pp. 137-138. See supra note 1.

5. Maimonides , Sefer HaMitzvot,(ed. H. Heller), Positive Commandment no. 3.

. Sifrei Deuteronomy,(ed. Meir Ish Halom), Vienna, 1864, sec. 32;(ed. Finkelstein), New York, 1969, sec. 32.

. Yeruham Fischel Perla, Commentary on Sefer HaMitzvot of Rabbi Sa'adya Gaon, Warsaw, 1914, positive commandment no. 19, p. 295. See also Talmudic Encyclopedia, Jerusalem ,

1975, vol. 1, col. 205 and vol. 6, col. 426.

. Sefer Derekh Mitzvotekhah(Azharot), Susa, Tunisia , 1920, p. 16.

. b. Yevamot 47b. . Zohar HaRagia, Constantinople , 1515, positive commandment no. 40.

See Moshe Zemer ,"The Rabbinic Ban on Conversion in Argentina", Judaism , v. 37, no. 1, Winter, 1988, pp. 84-96.

Shaul David Setton, Responsa Dibber Shaul, Jerusalem , 1928, Yoreh Deah no. 3.

3. Ibid. no. 2, which is identical with Aharan Halevi Goldman, Responsa Divrei Aharon, Jerusalem , 1981, Y. D. no. 40.

. Goldman, op. cit. no. 35.

. Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Deah 268:2, Sifte Kohen, paragraph 3, based on b. Yevamot 47a.

. Goldman, op. cit. no. 35.