One of the questions my beit din asked was how I made sense out of the fact that, as a convert, I participated in the life of my synagogue community more consistently than many longtime, lifelong Jews in our congregation. I answered that I had already come to the conclusion that there is a prophetic aspect of being a Jewish convert. That part of the role we adopt as converts is to serve as an example to Jews-by-birth about the worth, depth, and meaning of living Jewishly that sometimes gets forgotten about or that sometimes born Jews lose faith in. So if it were me, I would discuss the inherent leadership role of those who join the Jewish people, and how the rabbis might honor and develop that role in the synagogue communities that they will eventually lead.
