{"id":49455,"date":"2013-06-30T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=49455"},"modified":"2013-06-30T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T14:31:08","slug":"when-did-you-last-hear-a-rabbi-berate-his-congregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=49455","title":{"rendered":"When Did You Last Hear A Rabbi Berate His Congregation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never heard a rabbi <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.opposingviews.com\/i\/religion\/christianity\/pastor-jim-standridge-yells-insults-church-members-video\">berate his congregation<\/a>. I know it happened in the past but it is rare these days.<\/p>\n<p>Marc Shapiro replies to my question: &#8220;[It is] not very common today, but in traditional societies it certainly happened. They would scream at them and tell them to repent, that sort of thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another Orthodox rabbi says to me: &#8220;Nope, always the opposite, how wonderful they are&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another Orthodox rabbi says to me: &#8220;No, it is prohibited to embarrass someone.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never heard a rabbi berate his congregation. I know it happened in the past but it is rare these days. Marc Shapiro replies to my question: &#8220;[It is] not very common today, but in traditional societies it certainly happened. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=49455\">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":[35,69,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-marc-b-shapiro","category-rabbis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49455","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=49455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49456,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49455\/revisions\/49456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}