{"id":63933,"date":"2015-02-20T15:36:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T23:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63933"},"modified":"2015-02-20T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T23:36:20","slug":"how-flexible-is-jewish-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63933","title":{"rendered":"How Flexible Is Jewish Law?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.voiceofisrael.com\/flexible-jewish-law\/?auto=1\">Rabbi Ari Kahn tells Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Kahn: &#8220;I&#8217;m not a Cohen. Neither of this would have had leadership positions in the [Temple]. So how would that leave us feeling? Off to the side. Why should the Cohen do all the work, leaving us as spectators?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Gimpel sounds frantic throughout the program, trying to make his points through sheer number of words, trying to overwhelm his guest.<\/p>\n<p>Julia writes to me on FB: &#8220;You sound a bit like an outsider! I want to welcome you to the family!! Relax, Jews are the way of life, that is it.. We are not religious we are just all crazy!!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Ari Kahn tells Rabbi Jeremy Gimpel: Rabbi Kahn: &#8220;I&#8217;m not a Cohen. Neither of this would have had leadership positions in the [Temple]. So how would that leave us feeling? Off to the side. Why should the Cohen do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=63933\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14009,590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-ari-kahn","category-torah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63933","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=63933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63934,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63933\/revisions\/63934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}