Boris Akunin. Pelagia and the red rooster (№ 439583)

After all, a Jew is not the one who was born a Jewess, wears sidelocks and does not eat pork, but the one who wants to cleanse his soul. Anyone who makes a covenant with the Lord can become a Jew, and there is absolutely no need to invent stupid prohibitions and cut off a piece of meat for little boys. God will believe a man even without it. ... Judge, he said, himself, O member of the rabbinical council, why does God, who owns all the treasures of heaven and earth, need such a treasure - a piece of your pipiske?