Jirishman77

I know I’m more than a little late on this, but I’m surprised by the conclusions here. If one would read just a little further on in the Mishneh Torah there would be no discussion: “A king should not be appointed from converts to Judaism…This does not apply to the monarchy alone, but to all positions of authority within Israel. A convert may not serve as an army commander, a leader of fifty, or as a leader of ten. He may not even supervise the allocation of water from a stream to various fields.” Hilchos Melachim uMilchamoseihem 1:4

If a convert can’t even be in charge of an irrigation ditch, all the more so they’re not authorized in giving a psach din, or being leader/rav of a congregation, or having any official titles that bespeak of authority, etc.

But the original question was “WHY are gerim unable to become a Rov?” Short answer is because the halacha (i.e. Mishneh Torah) says so. But a deeper thought told over to me is because Chazal wants a ger’s choice to convert to Judaism to be so far removed of an ulterior motive that there’s 1.) No question of their sincerity, i.e. no possible ‘Trojan Horse scenario’ like what we’re seeing now with Asher Meza et al. and 2.)The reward for converting is even greater.

Just because some gerim are called “rabbis” and therefore “can” be rabbis, it doesn’t mean that they should be.

P.S. I’m a ger myself and hold by the RaMBaM