Ribbit and Egyptian Converts

Question

The Halacha is that Egyptian converts can only marry other Jews after the 3d generation Deuteronomy 23:8-9. Since the prohibition against charging interest to fellow Jews is based on the principle Jews are familial with each other, is there a permission to charge them ribbit before 3d generation

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  1. The Just Ask! - AskTheRabbi.org Team

    According to the Rambam since the dispersion of all the nations at the of Sancheriv we have no way of knowing who is truly an Egyptian and who is not. Subsequently, the subject is moot as even a convert who is Egyptian is accepted as being fully Jewish immediately.

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