Batyah the Israelite Priest[ess]'es long full raven black thickn[ess] of a lion's mane flowing down her back and draping delicately over her shoulders, gives me the strength of a mighty but beautiful warrior, peacefully breaking through barriers and knocking down walls that obstruct justice, but not breaking down fences that protect Torah.
It is a miracle to be born in a world of hatred but to want to love everyone. I have sisters who are now my Jewish kins[wo]men and Jewish brothers who are my landsmen, with the DNA of a father who was my hero: now One big happy family under One God. Still with love for the Irish who have hired me; the African-Americans who I have fought for; the Czechs who cannot relate to me; the Germans who would not have killed me, but now would. The people of the world all around me I view all the same.
A conversion to Judaism means I changed, and my love for Jews increased which means I love more people not less. Everyone in the world who was my friend still has the potentiality of being my friend; keeping the old and making the new. How they all view me is in my control if I continue to love them all, and with this inborn love of everyone to ask them to love me back. Since I love the people of the world, it is their choice to return my kindnesses with goodness, I cannot force this, but I will try to positively influence the world through mitzvot. Doing someone a good turn may be rewarded with a good turn in kind, but mitzvot should not be done to get a reward or a good turn back, good deeds [mitzvot] should be done even anonymously to help someone without claiming something for oneself. May all people be blessed with the same goodness that I feel for them.
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