{"id":24809,"date":"2010-10-16T20:16:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T04:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=24809"},"modified":"2010-10-16T20:20:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T04:20:03","slug":"spitting-on-yom-kippur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=24809","title":{"rendered":"Spitting On Yom Kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a March 10, 2009 lecture on Leviticus 19: 26-28, Dennis Prager said: When I was in yeshiva, a very very pious rabbi who on Yom Kippur was so careful not to drink that he would not even swallow his own saliva. He would spit it out. I remember thinking the man was an idiot. The thought of a guy spitting all Yom Kippur, what&#8217;s so pious about that? I would leave shul.<\/p>\n<p>The Shulchan Aruch says you should wake up every night after midnight and mourn the destruction of the temple. That&#8217;s a happy life. What a joyful life, you get up at 2 a.m. every day to cry.<\/p>\n<p>A great religion makes you happy to be alive. It increases your joy in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a March 10, 2009 lecture on Leviticus 19: 26-28, Dennis Prager said: When I was in yeshiva, a very very pious rabbi who on Yom Kippur was so careful not to drink that he would not even swallow his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=24809\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5769],"tags":[29761,2332,700,10346,12933],"class_list":["post-24809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-happiness","tag-dennis-prager","tag-leviticus-19","tag-rabbi","tag-saliva","tag-yom-kippur"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809","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=24809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24814,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24809\/revisions\/24814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}