{"id":40629,"date":"2012-02-16T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40629"},"modified":"2012-02-16T06:35:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T14:35:35","slug":"the-rabbi-who-couldnt-read-hebrew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40629","title":{"rendered":"The Rabbi Who Couldn&#8217;t Read Hebrew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.learningmethods.com\/hebrew1.htm\">Here&#8217;s an interesting story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Raphael:  The problem I want to bring up revolves around being less skilled than I would like to be in something that is integral to my profession and I feel a great deal of shame and judgement about it. So this shame has tended in the past to prevent me from doing anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>I am a rabbi and I am not literate in Hebrew and one is expected to be able to access texts in Hebrew and Aramaic in its many variations. I didn\u2019t have much of a religious background in my family as I grew up. I managed to get through rabbinical school but, unlike most of the people there, I had not had the kind of education as a child that would lead to the level of work that is required of you in a rabbinical school, so I was behind from the onset. I did manage to do enough to complete the course work. But enough to complete the course work and feeling competent are two different things. And also if I started at this point I wouldn\u2019t even be qualified to begin\u2026<\/p>\n<p>David:  Just before you go any further, did you say that you didn\u2019t have the normal background that most others might have had going into a rabbinical school and yet you managed OK?<\/p>\n<p>Raphael:  I managed. It was painful and difficult.<\/p>\n<p>David:  So that sounds like a good thing that you managed without that background.<\/p>\n<p>Raphael:  Yes, absolutely that\u2019s a good thing that I succeeded at what I did. That\u2019s an incredible accomplishment and when I graduated I felt wonderful. However, it continues to be that what I never learned I still haven\u2019t learned and it continues to be a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting story: Raphael: The problem I want to bring up revolves around being less skilled than I would like to be in something that is integral to my profession and I feel a great deal of shame and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=40629\">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":[110],"tags":[5662,29018,700,5213,19486,29017],"class_list":["post-40629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rabbis","tag-aramaic","tag-interesting-story","tag-rabbi","tag-rabbinical-school","tag-religious-background","tag-two-different-things"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629","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=40629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}