{"id":65376,"date":"2015-03-08T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65376"},"modified":"2015-03-08T18:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T02:24:50","slug":"have-faith-in-god-and-stay-in-kollel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65376","title":{"rendered":"Have Faith In God And Stay In Kollel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.yutorah.org\/lectures\/lecture.cfm\/822762\/Rabbi_Aaron_Rakeffet-Rothkoff\/Responsa_Literature_#\">Rabbi Rakeffet says<\/a>: &#8220;We should all pray that our aunts and uncles drop dead and leave us an inheritance so we can stay in kollel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;No hashgacha [kosher supervision] can be 24\/7. We are much better off when we deal with goyim [for kashrut supervision]. The OU has only gotten into trouble with Jews.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which group in America, on average, is more honest: Jews or goyim? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He never found himself here. American rabbis are used to being in the spotlight and they come to Israel&#8230; You have to come and accept the reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A person who needs the spotlight to feel happy is a narcissist and will not be happy anywhere. <\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;I&#8217;m a talmid of the Rav and Torah is the only value I have in my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Rakeffet says: &#8220;We should all pray that our aunts and uncles drop dead and leave us an inheritance so we can stay in kollel.&#8221; * &#8220;No hashgacha [kosher supervision] can be 24\/7. We are much better off when we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65376\">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":[19764],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-aaron-rakeffet-rothkoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65376","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=65376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65381,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65376\/revisions\/65381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}