{"id":18862,"date":"2010-05-11T19:28:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T03:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18862"},"modified":"2010-05-11T19:28:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T03:28:51","slug":"dancing-leads-to-kissing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=18862","title":{"rendered":"Dancing Leads To Kissing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jewish life has many ecstatic moments and this ecstasy often leads to inappropriate kissing.<\/p>\n

I remember there was this girl I liked. I dug her so much that I read a couple of books by her mom. <\/p>\n

I was really pleased when I saw her at a non-Orthodox Simchat Torah celebration. I didn’t get any IOIs (Indicators of Interest) from her so I didn’t hit on her. I just reveled in the holiness of the occasion and watched her dance around the room.<\/p>\n

And then this kid I know, he was about 22, was dancing in a line with her and he got all ecstatic and he just kissed her.<\/p>\n

She was appalled. I could see it immediately on her face. And people were looking at her and at him and wondering what happened.<\/p>\n

Well, what happened was he got swept away.<\/p>\n

This kid’s not a loser. He normally has the appropriate social graces. But he just got carried away.<\/p>\n

This has happened to me. I was really pleased at seeing David Suissa at the Happy Minyan one Shabbat and not only did I hug him — and I rarely hug guys — I found myself to my horror, bending over and kissing his cheek. <\/p>\n

I really don’t know why I did that. I don’t normally kiss guys on a Saturday. Certainly not in an Orthodox shul. But the Happy Minyan is a very happy place and I lost touch with what I was doing and suddenly I found myself kissing a bloke. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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