{"id":12195,"date":"2009-10-23T17:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T01:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12195"},"modified":"2009-10-23T17:25:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T01:25:26","slug":"shake-this-and-youll-go-to-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12195","title":{"rendered":"Shake This And You&#8217;ll Go To Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Orthodox friend explains to me why he doesn&#8217;t trust converts or baalei teshuva (returnees to Judaism): &quot;Someone shows up to Canfield Elementary School with a <em><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lulav\">lulav<\/a><\/em> and says, shake this and you&#8217;ll go to Heaven. Suddenly the kid comes home and he wants to be Orthodox. You have another sucker into the Jewish fold. That&#8217;s Judaism. You want to get them while they&#8217;re young. At the core, it&#8217;s irrational to convert to Judaism, unless you&#8217;re leading an empty life and you want to remake yourself because you hate how you are.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Orthodox friend explains to me why he doesn&#8217;t trust converts or baalei teshuva (returnees to Judaism): &quot;Someone shows up to Canfield Elementary School with a lulav and says, shake this and you&#8217;ll go to Heaven. Suddenly the kid comes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=12195\">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":[18],"tags":[6547,29773,5664,722,19619],"class_list":["post-12195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodoxy","tag-converts","tag-judaism","tag-lulav","tag-quot","tag-returnees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195","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=12195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}