{"id":10515,"date":"2009-09-07T17:11:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10515"},"modified":"2009-09-07T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T01:17:48","slug":"if-you-really-want-to-do-kindness-you-should-sleep-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10515","title":{"rendered":"‘If You Really Want To Do Kindness, You Should Sleep With Me’"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m getting ready for the Days of Awe<\/a> by listening to Torah talks by Rabbi Ari Kahn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a groovy lecture on the evolving shofar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Kahn: "Kindness is something we need to be careful about."<\/p>\n

"We’re told that Avraham’s son Ishmael represented a fake kind of chesed<\/em> (kindness). He tried to pass himself as the true son of Avraham but chazal<\/em> (rabbis of the Talmud) tell us that Ishmael would go around and try to pick up women.<\/p>\n

"The verse says he was full of laughter. The implication of laughter in the text is one of sexual impropriety, according to chazal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"Ishmael would use his father’s wonderful teachings of chesed<\/em> as a pick-up line. He’d go around to women and say, ‘Didn’t Avraham teach us about the wonders of chesed<\/em>? Well, if you really want to do chesed<\/em>, you should sleep with me.’<\/p>\n

"We believe in love your neighbor as yourself. We don’t believe in loving your neighbor’s spouse as yourself."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m getting ready for the Days of Awe by listening to Torah talks by Rabbi Ari Kahn. Here’s a groovy lecture on the evolving shofar. Rabbi Kahn: "Kindness is something we need to be careful about." "We’re told that Avraham’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14009],"tags":[12955,11020,16794,18811,18810,18812],"class_list":["post-10515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-ari-kahn","tag-days-of-awe","tag-rabbi-ari-kahn","tag-rabbi-kahn","tag-sexual-impropriety","tag-son-ishmael","tag-true-son"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t