{"id":3014,"date":"2008-05-20T14:06:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T22:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2008-05-21T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T16:11:00","slug":"the-rabbi-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3014","title":{"rendered":"The Rabbi Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\nHe wants to see you in his office.<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll see you now.<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Do you mind dropping your trousers?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;I&#8217;ve never done a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/lifecycle\/Conversion\/IdeatoRealization\/RabbinicRequirements\/Circumcision.htm\">hatafat dam<\/a> before.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Here&#8217;s some tefillin. Good luck.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The (next) rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Who did your conversion?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Perhaps you should see Rabbi Weiss.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;This is the Luke Ford file.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Did you write this?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;This shows bad faith.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;I hear you&#8217;ve been writing pornography.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s all very academic but we can&#8217;t have that in our community.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;You&#8217;re going to have to choose.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Good luck.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The (next) rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;I just got a call from Rabbi Union.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;You can imagine how I feel.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;I paid for your tefillin with my own money.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;I brought you into my home for Passover.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;I&#8217;ve never heard of Luke Ford.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;I only knew you as Levi Avraham.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;You&#8217;re going to have to stay away from the community until you separate yourself from that stuff.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Good luck.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The (next) rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;We&#8217;ll have a meeting.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;There have been complaints about some of the terminology on your site.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Could you daven somewhere else?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The (next) rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;There would be an easier way for me to handle this.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;But I don&#8217;t want to do that.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;I&#8217;m only doing this because I believe in the possibility of spiritual transformation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;You&#8217;re going to have to learn some internal restraint.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;There is certain language that an Orthodox Jew does not use.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Why do you want to be Orthodox?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Don&#8217;t tell me now.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\n&quot;Think about it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The rabbi is back.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll see me now.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rabbi is back. He wants to see you in his office. The rabbi is back. He&#8217;ll see you now. 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