diff --git "a/cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json" b/cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json similarity index 99% rename from "cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json" rename to cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json index 47951ab9aee..b1650d3b13d 100644 --- "a/cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json" +++ b/cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json @@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ "3_Chapter, 9_Paragraph": "__________
ELIEZER BERKOVITS is chairman of the philosophy department of the Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois." }, "meta": "Chapter-Paragraph", - "work": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It" -} \ No newline at end of file + "work": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It" +} diff --git "a/cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.json" b/cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.json similarity index 99% rename from "cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.json" rename to cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.json index 47951ab9aee..b1650d3b13d 100644 --- "a/cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.json" +++ b/cltk-flat/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.json @@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ "3_Chapter, 9_Paragraph": "__________
ELIEZER BERKOVITS is chairman of the philosophy department of the Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois." }, "meta": "Chapter-Paragraph", - "work": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It" -} \ No newline at end of file + "work": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It" +} diff --git "a/cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json" b/cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json similarity index 99% rename from "cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json" rename to cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json index 1f25d4036e5..9618f9fe6e0 100644 --- "a/cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json" +++ b/cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json @@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ } }, "meta": "Chapter-Paragraph", - "work": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It" -} \ No newline at end of file + "work": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It" +} diff --git "a/cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.json" b/cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.json similarity index 99% rename from "cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.json" rename to cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.json index 1f25d4036e5..9618f9fe6e0 100644 --- "a/cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.json" +++ b/cltk-full/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.json @@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ } }, "meta": "Chapter-Paragraph", - "work": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It" -} \ No newline at end of file + "work": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It" +} diff --git "a/json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json" b/json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json similarity index 99% rename from "json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json" rename to json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json index 8e941383a2d..ea5219b170b 100644 --- "a/json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json" +++ b/json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.json @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ { "language": "en", - "title": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It", + "title": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It", "versionSource": "https://www.nli.org.il/he/journals/NNL_ALEPH997007800684005171/NLI", - "versionTitle": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\" - What Is It: Judaism 23 (Fall 1974): 467-78", + "versionTitle": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah' - What Is It: Judaism 23 (Fall 1974): 467-78", "status": "locked", "license": "CC-BY-NC", "digitizedBySefaria": true, @@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ "Chapter", "Paragraph" ] -} \ No newline at end of file +} diff --git "a/json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.json" b/json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.json similarity index 99% rename from "json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.json" rename to json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.json index 1d1b771d465..0fd97b41038 100644 --- "a/json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.json" +++ b/json/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.json @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ { - "title": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It", + "title": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It", "language": "en", "versionTitle": "merged", - "versionSource": "https://www.sefaria.org/Conversion_\"According_to_Halakhah\";_What_Is_It", + "versionSource": "https://www.sefaria.org/Conversion_'According_to_Halakhah';_What_Is_It", "text": [ [ "OUR CONCERN HERE IS NOT WITH THE POLITICAL issues, struggles, and bickerings that are usually associated with the title of this essay. Strictly speaking, our chief interest here is not even with the question of conversion. What we intend to discuss is the meaning of the term, al pi halakhah, according to halakhah. We shall use the problem of conversion in the State of Israel, which has embroiled us so long and generated so much bitterness among Jews, as an example to illustrate the fundamental problem of halakhah in our days.", @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ ], "versions": [ [ - "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\" - What Is It: Judaism 23 (Fall 1974): 467-78", + "Conversion 'According to Halakhah' - What Is It: Judaism 23 (Fall 1974): 467-78", "https://www.nli.org.il/he/journals/NNL_ALEPH997007800684005171/NLI" ] ], @@ -53,4 +53,4 @@ "Chapter", "Paragraph" ] -} \ No newline at end of file +} diff --git "a/schemas/Conversion_\"According_to_Halakhah\";_What_Is_It.json" b/schemas/Conversion_'According_to_Halakhah';_What_Is_It.json similarity index 86% rename from "schemas/Conversion_\"According_to_Halakhah\";_What_Is_It.json" rename to schemas/Conversion_'According_to_Halakhah';_What_Is_It.json index ab9072d6d9b..4f80fe63764 100644 --- "a/schemas/Conversion_\"According_to_Halakhah\";_What_Is_It.json" +++ b/schemas/Conversion_'According_to_Halakhah';_What_Is_It.json @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ { - "title": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It", + "title": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It", "categories": [ "Jewish Thought", "Modern", @@ -23,18 +23,18 @@ "text": "גיור 'כהלכתו' - מהו?" }, { - "text": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It", + "text": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It", "lang": "en", "primary": true } ], - "title": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It", + "title": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It", "heTitle": "גיור 'כהלכתו' - מהו?", "heSectionNames": [ "פרק", "פסקה" ], - "key": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It" + "key": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It" }, "authors": [ { @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ "era": "CO", "heTitle": "גיור 'כהלכתו' - מהו?", "titleVariants": [ - "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It" + "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It" ], "heTitleVariants": [ "גיור 'כהלכתו' - מהו?" @@ -76,4 +76,4 @@ "en": "Skokie, Illinois", "he": "סקוקי" } -} \ No newline at end of file +} diff --git a/table_of_contents.json b/table_of_contents.json index 02aa815c66f..2d119b712b6 100644 --- a/table_of_contents.json +++ b/table_of_contents.json @@ -114081,7 +114081,7 @@ "enShortDesc": "Argument for Jewish unity as a critical variable in deciding how to formulate Orthodox conversion policy.", "heShortDesc": "", "heTitle": "גיור 'כהלכתו' - מהו?", - "title": "Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It" + "title": "Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It" }, { "categories": [ diff --git "a/txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.txt" b/txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.txt similarity index 99% rename from "txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.txt" rename to txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.txt index 5bfe06d4742..21ec3d4e04f 100644 --- "a/txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.txt" +++ b/txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/Conversion According to Halakhah - What Is It Judaism 23 Fall 1974 467-78.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ -Conversion "According to Halakhah"; What Is It +Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It גיור 'כהלכתו' - מהו? -Conversion "According to Halakhah" - What Is It: Judaism 23 (Fall 1974): 467-78 +Conversion 'According to Halakhah' - What Is It: Judaism 23 (Fall 1974): 467-78 https://www.nli.org.il/he/journals/NNL_ALEPH997007800684005171/NLI -Conversion "According to Halakhah"; What Is It +Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It @@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ It was part of the spiritual tragedy of the Galut that exactly what halak Today, however, we are faced with unprecedented new challenges and problems, problems of a true halakhic nature, which require solutions in the true halakhic spirit. This is true in the free societies in which Jews live, but it is compellingly manifest in the State of Israel. When some leading rabbinical authorities there maintain that halakhah can solve all of the problems that may be raised for Judaism in a modern state they are right and they are wrong. They are right, for halakhah in its original strength could solve all such problems. Yet, they are wrong. Halakhah, in its present strait-jacketed state, cannot fulfill that function. This is certainly no plea for reform. We believe that many of our inherited moulds are leaking and cannot meaningfully contain the life that has fallen to the lot of our generation. What is needed, first of all, is to retrace our steps. To return to the original halakhah, to rediscover it, and, having rediscovered it, to restore it to its original function. If only the problem were thoroughly understood, it would liberate us from the stultifying burden of this “Karaite halakhah.” We would then see that in this generation we have been called upon, as it were, by another bat kol to accept the responsibility to make use of whatever is still left of the Oral Torah in its textual solidification. It would be the beginning that would lead us back to the original source and strength of halakhah. It would be the beginning of its restoration to its original vitality and dignity, for the sake of which God concluded this covenant of mutuality with Israel. What is needed is not less study of Torah, but better study of Torah. What is needed is at least one Talmud research institute that would be dedicated to this task of rediscovery of halakhah and—at first—its intellectual restoration. What is needed is not less dedication to halakhah, but more faith in halakhah. Where there is greater faith, greater boldness is justified. As in the past, because it was a time to act for God, shackles had to be placed on the Oral Torah in violation of God’s command, so now the hour has come when the need to act for God places upon us the responsibility to free the Oral Torah from its shackles in obedience to God’s original command. There are risks involved in such an undertaking. Because of it we need, not less, but more yi’rat shammayim (fear of God). But, possibly, most of all, we need to join much more ahavat Yisrael to our ahavat ha-torah, by far more love of all Israel to illuminate our love of Torah. And pray to God for His guidance. -__________
ELIEZER BERKOVITS is chairman of the philosophy department of the Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois. \ No newline at end of file +__________
ELIEZER BERKOVITS is chairman of the philosophy department of the Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois. diff --git "a/txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.txt" b/txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.txt similarity index 99% rename from "txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.txt" rename to txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.txt index 95373e747d4..dce33736010 100644 --- "a/txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion \"According to Halakhah\"; What Is It/English/merged.txt" +++ b/txt/Jewish Thought/Modern/Eliezer Berkovits/Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It/English/merged.txt @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -Conversion "According to Halakhah"; What Is It +Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It גיור 'כהלכתו' - מהו? merged -https://www.sefaria.org/Conversion_"According_to_Halakhah";_What_Is_It +https://www.sefaria.org/Conversion_'According_to_Halakhah';_What_Is_It This file contains merged sections from the following text versions: --Conversion "According to Halakhah" - What Is It: Judaism 23 (Fall 1974): 467-78 +-Conversion 'According to Halakhah' - What Is It: Judaism 23 (Fall 1974): 467-78 -https://www.nli.org.il/he/journals/NNL_ALEPH997007800684005171/NLI -Conversion "According to Halakhah"; What Is It +Conversion 'According to Halakhah'; What Is It @@ -44,4 +44,4 @@ It was part of the spiritual tragedy of the Galut that exactly what halak Today, however, we are faced with unprecedented new challenges and problems, problems of a true halakhic nature, which require solutions in the true halakhic spirit. This is true in the free societies in which Jews live, but it is compellingly manifest in the State of Israel. When some leading rabbinical authorities there maintain that halakhah can solve all of the problems that may be raised for Judaism in a modern state they are right and they are wrong. They are right, for halakhah in its original strength could solve all such problems. Yet, they are wrong. Halakhah, in its present strait-jacketed state, cannot fulfill that function. This is certainly no plea for reform. We believe that many of our inherited moulds are leaking and cannot meaningfully contain the life that has fallen to the lot of our generation. What is needed, first of all, is to retrace our steps. To return to the original halakhah, to rediscover it, and, having rediscovered it, to restore it to its original function. If only the problem were thoroughly understood, it would liberate us from the stultifying burden of this “Karaite halakhah.” We would then see that in this generation we have been called upon, as it were, by another bat kol to accept the responsibility to make use of whatever is still left of the Oral Torah in its textual solidification. It would be the beginning that would lead us back to the original source and strength of halakhah. It would be the beginning of its restoration to its original vitality and dignity, for the sake of which God concluded this covenant of mutuality with Israel. What is needed is not less study of Torah, but better study of Torah. What is needed is at least one Talmud research institute that would be dedicated to this task of rediscovery of halakhah and—at first—its intellectual restoration. What is needed is not less dedication to halakhah, but more faith in halakhah. Where there is greater faith, greater boldness is justified. As in the past, because it was a time to act for God, shackles had to be placed on the Oral Torah in violation of God’s command, so now the hour has come when the need to act for God places upon us the responsibility to free the Oral Torah from its shackles in obedience to God’s original command. There are risks involved in such an undertaking. Because of it we need, not less, but more yi’rat shammayim (fear of God). But, possibly, most of all, we need to join much more ahavat Yisrael to our ahavat ha-torah, by far more love of all Israel to illuminate our love of Torah. And pray to God for His guidance. -__________
ELIEZER BERKOVITS is chairman of the philosophy department of the Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois. \ No newline at end of file +__________
ELIEZER BERKOVITS is chairman of the philosophy department of the Hebrew Theological College, Skokie, Illinois.