{"id":36361,"date":"2011-08-27T20:34:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T04:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36361"},"modified":"2011-08-27T20:34:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T04:34:31","slug":"rabbi-topps-drasha-on-divisiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36361","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Topp&#8217;s drasha on divisiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear: The rabbi at Beth Jacob of Beverly Hills did very well.<br \/>\nSkillfully navigated difficult terrain.<br \/>\nTook the wind out of the sails of the pro-Chazzan group using Rabbinic license \u2013 Halacha and precedent.<br \/>\nPointed out that we are a united shul and will stay that way.<br \/>\nDifferences need to be resolved through the democratic process (other than Halachik issues for which he takes responsibility).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear: The rabbi at Beth Jacob of Beverly Hills did very well. Skillfully navigated difficult terrain. Took the wind out of the sails of the pro-Chazzan group using Rabbinic license \u2013 Halacha and precedent. Pointed out that we are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=36361\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,16368],"tags":[29867,27608,5271,3190,671],"class_list":["post-36361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beth-jacob","category-r-kalman-topp","tag-beth-jacob","tag-divisiveness","tag-drasha","tag-halacha","tag-shul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36361","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=36361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36362,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36361\/revisions\/36362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}