yytz: Would you argue that if a potential convert was blissfully and earnestly unaware that Judaism prohibits – eating pork, doing labor on Shabbos, having a toeiva partner, having a party on Yom Kippur, and going to church on Sundays with his unconverted parent. And he was honestly led to believe that the main, and perhaps only, requirement of being Jewish is to light two candles every Friday night. And with that misunderstanding goes through a conversion which he celebrates after drying up from the mikva with a party with his new Jewish friends, including his toeiva partner who convinced him to convert as a sign of commitment to him, at Ruth’s Chris Steak House with delicious steak and pork chops. And then the next day lights two beautiful Shabbos candies Friday evening before he heads to his day labor job the following Saturday morning. Followed by his being kibud av by attending church with his father that Sunday.
He, as you said, clearly stated honestly and earnestly that he accepts as binding on himself all the mitzvos, and the entire Torah without reservation. He simply didn’t know all the preceding was kneged halacha.
And his conversion was presided over by left wing Orthodox rabbis, not any who consider themselves Conservative, who did the conversion because they felt it would keep this potential converts Jewish partner within the fold. So they never told him all the halachic prohibitions in order not to scare him away from Judaism.
His conversion is valid?