Originally published in Journal of Jewish Studies 36:2. Eliezer Berkovits, Not In Heaven: The Nature and Function of Halakha. Ktav, New York, 1983, vii, 131 pp. $12.50. In this short but compelling book a distinguished Orthodox Rabbi and thinker courageously affirms the human role in the development of the Halakha, coming quite close in the process to…