{"id":21155,"date":"2010-07-15T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T21:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21155"},"modified":"2020-07-23T10:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T18:21:47","slug":"live-torah-talk-with-joey-kurtzman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=21155","title":{"rendered":"Torah Talk With Joey Kurtzman"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week’s Torah portion is Deuteronomy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joey and I started Torah talk in August of 2008<\/a>, the same month I took my first Alexander Technique<\/a> lesson. <\/p>\n

Luke: “You were recently on a spiritual journey to India?”<\/p>\n

Joey: “My wife and I had just agreed to get divorced. One guy said to me, ‘India? You just got divorced. You should go to Brazil.’ He probably had a point.<\/p>\n

“It was avodah zora (idol worship) non-stop. I started with a group of Catholics in India and did some of the worst avodah zora. I went to a Catholic compound in the jungle outside Mumbai. I spent a week there, some of the worst avodah zora a young Jew has done.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t get the wafer because I didn’t deserve it. I attended mass. I did kinda a confession.”<\/p>\n

Luke: “That must’ve taken a long time.”<\/p>\n

Joey: “I had a lot to get off my chest.<\/p>\n

“Also, the songs. The songs were begging Jesus to bathe us in his blood. I’d never seen this kind of hardcore… I was begging strangers. You get on your knees and you beg strangers for forgiveness.<\/p>\n

“I did 24 days of silent meditation.”<\/p>\n

Luke: “I can see you’ve totally changed.”<\/p>\n

Joey: “Probably the wrong time to do it. I spent the whole time thinking evil thoughts of my ex-wife, which she didn’t deserve.<\/p>\n

“I went to a mountain where they worship fire. If you want to worship idols, India is as good as it gets.”<\/p>\n

For health reasons, Joey has a Diet 7-Up, cherry-flavored with antioxidants.<\/p>\n

Joey: “The Catholics in India were philo-semitic. I remember listening to one of the preachers talk about his visit to Israel, how the people were wonderful and the Arabs were rotten.”<\/p>\n

Luke: “It’s always great to be alone when you are miserable.”<\/p>\n

“Here, open your drink. Let me hold your Torah so it doesn’t get covered with cherry-flavored Diet 7Up with antioxidants.”<\/p>\n

Joey: “I’ve traveled a lot in my life. I don’t think traveling really changes you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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