{"id":23500,"date":"2010-09-12T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T04:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23500"},"modified":"2010-09-12T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T04:25:30","slug":"dennis-pragers-autobiography-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23500","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager’s Autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his 2008 lecture on Leviticus 19, Dennis Prager said: I am writing my autobiography<\/a>. Tentatively, it’s about my three journeys — as a man, as an American and as a Jew. I’m writing the Jew part right now. <\/p>\n

Part of the reason I have such a powerful association with the Sabbath was that it was the only family time we had. That was the time we ate together — Friday night and Sabbath afternoon.<\/p>\n

From my sophomore year of high school, I did not eat at home [at night during the week]. I went my own way in life.<\/p>\n

When I would make a family, I had only one image — the family at the Shabbat table because that was our only family time. <\/p>\n

To this day, when I visit my family in New Jersey, we’re together on Shabbat. We’re not together on a Monday. We’re busy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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