{"id":5892,"date":"2008-10-05T17:05:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T01:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5892"},"modified":"2008-10-05T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T01:05:37","slug":"can-you-convert-yourself-to-orthodox-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5892","title":{"rendered":"Can You Convert Yourself To Orthodox Judaism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seforim.traditiononline.org\/index.cfm\/2008\/8\/12\/Marc-B-Shapiro-A-Tale-of-Two-Lost-Archives\">Professor Marc B. Shapiro blogs<\/a>: :I refer to the Meiri&#8217;s position that <em id=\"ux9r649\">be-diavad<\/em> one can convert without a beit din. That is, following circumcision one can then accept the Torah and immerse all by oneself, and <em id=\"ux9r650\">ex post facto<\/em> it is a valid conversion.<a name=\"_ftnref35\" href=\"http:\/\/seforim.traditiononline.org\/index.cfm?&amp;startRow=5#_ftn35\" title=\"\" id=\"ux9r651\"><span id=\"ux9r652\" class=\"MsoFootnoteReference\"><span id=\"ux9r654\" class=\"MsoFootnoteReference\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\" id=\"ux9r655\"><font size=\"3\" id=\"eaoz41\">[35]&quot;<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Marc B. Shapiro blogs: :I refer to the Meiri&#8217;s position that be-diavad one can convert without a beit din. That is, following circumcision one can then accept the Torah and immerse all by oneself, and ex post facto it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=5892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[13308,29808,1132,3187,29981],"class_list":["post-5892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversion","tag-circumcision","tag-marc-b-shapiro","tag-orthodox-judaism","tag-professor-marc","tag-torah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5893,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5892\/revisions\/5893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}