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Question
On which date should a convert celebrate his birthday?
Is it his biological birthday, or the date of his immersion in the Mikvah?
Answer
A convert shoud have a birthday on the day of his conversion since that is the day on which he becomes a totally new person, without any connection to whoever he was beforehand: "a convert is like a newborn".
Rabbi Ro'i Margalit
Ger in goyish place of worship
Rabbi Chaim Tabasky | 10 Sivan 5766
Conversion
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tammuz 21, 5781
Why dont Jews want converts but then do accept them?
Rabbi Ari Shvat | Tishrei 4, 5781
