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Conversion Is Not About Halacha

August 20, 2015 by Nathan Lopes Cardozo 5 Comments

As the Israeli Chief Rabbinate and the new rabbinical initiative for an independent conversion court (which I fully support) are headed toward a major showdown, it is remarkable that neither side has considered a most crucial question: Is conversion even possible? This may sound like a rhetorical question, since the answer is in the affirmative. Yet it goes to the very core of the problem. And as long as we do not deal with it, all deliberations concerning this matter are more or less meaningless.

Filed Under: Contemporary Issues, Halacha Tagged With: conversion

Hearing and Seeing

December 14, 2006 by Nathan Lopes Cardozo Leave a Comment

Judaism possesses a profound understanding of the human condition, of our need to hear in the deed. Through the external observance of a mitzvah we may begin to grasp its exalted meaning, to hear its inner voice. Contemplation about the mitzvot without actually fulfilling them makes one deed-deaf. The profound meaning of a mitzvah may only be understood by experiencing it.

Filed Under: Jewish Thought and Philosophy Tagged With: aggadah, Halachah, mitzvot

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