{"id":56422,"date":"2014-08-14T07:51:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56422"},"modified":"2023-09-19T04:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T12:04:41","slug":"rabbi-talks-about-losing-his-job-for-surfing-for-porn-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56422","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Talks About Losing His Job For Surfing For Porn At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rabbi said he acted out for 25 years until he found <A HREF=\"http:\/\/sa.org\">Sexaholics Anonymous<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Alan: &#8220;I&#8217;m from New York&#8230; The internet saved my life because it got me fired. I was a rabbi. At the time, it seemed like a really good idea for a rabbi in my field to go on the company computer and surf porn. My hierarchy didn&#8217;t think the same way I did. They said you can&#8217;t come back next week. I said, wow, the gig is up. Twenty five years of acting out is up. I couldn&#8217;t even save my morning prayers. The rabbi who caught me said I should continue in my rabbinic work. Nobody will hear about this from my mouth. That happened. I lost a six figure job but I didn&#8217;t lose a day of work&#8230; I was looking through the phone book to act out and I saw Sexaholics Anonymous and I thought, wow, this would be a great place to act out, and I called the line.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The internet is a gift of God. I am able to connect with people worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a problem with Peeping Tomism and I had a problem with looking into windows. I couldn&#8217;t look at phone books for a long time. I&#8217;d look up escorts. For a long time, I couldn&#8217;t have internet in my house.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rabbi said he acted out for 25 years until he found Sexaholics Anonymous. Alan: &#8220;I&#8217;m from New York&#8230; The internet saved my life because it got me fired. I was a rabbi. At the time, it seemed like a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56422\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[26369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56422","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=56422"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152288,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56422\/revisions\/152288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}