{"id":37788,"date":"2011-11-01T19:16:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T03:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37788"},"modified":"2012-03-28T19:25:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T03:25:59","slug":"did-the-chofetz-chaim-go-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37788","title":{"rendered":"Did The Chofetz Chaim Go Too Far?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A secular Jew calls up and says he reads the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chofetz_Chaim\">Chofetz Chaim<\/a> every night and that the central point of Judaism is that you don&#8217;t be a shmuck.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Prager: &#8220;I agree. The <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chofetz_Chaim\">Chofetz Chaim<\/a> is a great saintly rabbi. While the stress on not gossiping is important, I believe he goes overboard. It means you can&#8217;t even talk to your wife about people you had dinner with. It suppresses real conversation with intimates to a terrible extent. He goes too far. He&#8217;s too pious for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A secular Jew calls up and says he reads the Chofetz Chaim every night and that the central point of Judaism is that you don&#8217;t be a shmuck. Dennis Prager: &#8220;I agree. The Chofetz Chaim is a great saintly rabbi. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=37788\">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":[4,29240,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-chofetz-chaim-2","category-orthodoxy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37788","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=37788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}