Saturday 18 July 2015

conversion to judaism - What shevet did a convert in the midbar belong to (if any)?


During the time in the midbar or when the land of Israel was apportioned by shevet, if someone converted what tribe (if any) would s/he belong to?


The purpose of this question is to deduce a converts status in the midbar in relation to things like where they camped (h/t @ari a) whom they could marry, etc.



Answer



The Chidushe Ham'iri to B'rachos 20:2 says that the Keni got land in Israel and calls it "nat'lu chelek baaretz", which makes it sound like he considers it on a par with anyone else's land. They got it in Y'richo, which was in Binyamin. I don't know whether there were any other converts in the midbar (or during the fourteen years of capturing the land, except maybe the N'sinim).




However, see the comments to this answer.



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