{"id":39273,"date":"2011-12-29T10:59:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39273"},"modified":"2011-12-29T10:59:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T18:59:14","slug":"was-rabbi-yechiel-yaakov-weinberg-the-only-gadol-in-history-to-have-a-real-friendship-with-a-non-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=39273","title":{"rendered":"Was Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg The Only Gadol In History To Have A Real Friendship With A Non-Jew?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his first lecture on the Sridei Aish (Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg<\/a>) for Torah in Motion, Dr. Marc B. Shapiro says: Rabbi Weinberg was friends with Paul Kahle, a leading [non-Jewish] scholar of masoretic studies of the Targum. He was a great lover of Jews. When the Nazis came to power, he had to flee Germany. He was a great friend to Rabbi Weinberg.<\/p>\n

“Rabbi Weinberg is very unhappy about the attitude to non-Jews in [parts] of Jewish law and a lot of this is motivated by his friendship with Kahle. Rabbi Weinberg is the only posek (decider of Jewish law) who had a deep intimate friendship with a non-Jew.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In his first lecture on the Sridei Aish (Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg) for Torah in Motion, Dr. Marc B. Shapiro says: Rabbi Weinberg was friends with Paul Kahle, a leading [non-Jewish] scholar of masoretic studies of the Targum. He was … Continue reading →<\/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":[69,18],"tags":[5070,27989,3305,29808,28506,8890],"class_list":["post-39273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marc-b-shapiro","category-orthodoxy","tag-gadol","tag-intimate-friendship","tag-jewish-scholar","tag-marc-b-shapiro","tag-paul-kahle","tag-torah-in-motion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t