ABSTRACT
Jewish converts to Christianity have always had a bad reputation. The warnings of Rashi and the taqqanot of Rabbenu Tam against reminding the repentant of their former errors 1 reflect a general suspicion that those who once converted - even had they endangered themselves by returning to the fold-were persons of little faith. If under pressure, or of their own free will, they had once fled Judaism, they were surely prone to do so again.
