{"id":68241,"date":"2015-05-03T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68241"},"modified":"2023-09-12T04:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T12:30:54","slug":"keep-your-eye-on-the-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68241","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Eye On The Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Sheryl Sandberg is single. Perhaps I&#8217;ll lean in.<\/p>\n<p>* We saw that our own attempts to scheme and manipulate did not work. We admitted that we were powerless. We were ready to ask for help.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Miliband\">Jew Ed Miliband<\/a>, perhaps the next Prime Minister of Great Britain, stepped over his own brother. I guess it worked for Jacob and Joseph and David etc. Baruch HaShem, he will make the UK a friendlier place for Africans and muslims.<\/p>\n<p>* In a rush, I dropped a can of orange soda the other day and it sprayed all over my room, making an enormous mess. I feel like it was a metaphor for my sins. I&#8217;ve yet to clean up every drop. The stains just keep spreading and turning up in unexpected places, like Ebola. I wish I could afford a Mexican.<\/p>\n<p>I resent cleaning my room. I should be concentrating upon my study of Torah.<\/p>\n<p>* I immersed myself in a friend&#8217;s Artscroll Gemara this morning. A Jew from birth asked me if I understood anything I was ostensibly studying. &#8220;Here and there,&#8221; I said. &#8220;I&#8217;m mainly looking for the racist bits.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At least I&#8217;m no longer just looking for the sex.<\/p>\n<p>Baby steps.<\/p>\n<p>Recovery means progress, not perfection.<\/p>\n<p>* A friend says: &#8220;BY THE WAY, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve noticed, you vampire, that I&#8217;m talking to you white-to-white here, with surplus trust between the lines&#8230; but now I&#8217;m aware that you&#8217;ll eventually use my trust for your own gain! But, because it&#8217;s a biological inclination, there&#8217;s nothing I can do about it! Unless of course your biology trumps your conversion and deep down you&#8217;re a truster too. Exciting!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;All men, being brothers, are equally capable of being Americans.&#8221; (Harvard&#8217;s Oscar Handlin in Commentary, 1954) What about Israel? Are all men equally capable of being Israelis?<\/p>\n<p>* 19th Century Reform leader David Einhorn opposed allowing gentiles to convert to Judaism because it would threaten the &#8220;racial purity&#8221; of Judaism.<\/p>\n<p>* A friend says: &#8220;My dad always described the Seventh-Day Adventism of his youth &#8220;a cult.&#8221; He retreated into Methodism. He always talks about getting his circumcision at age 9 with some shady Adventist doctor who held him down and used only a topical numbing agent or something&#8230; guess he fought them off and ran for it and for a couple weeks had a dangling half-taken foreskin.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Sheryl Sandberg is single. Perhaps I&#8217;ll lean in. * We saw that our own attempts to scheme and manipulate did not work. We admitted that we were powerless. We were ready to ask for help. * Jew Ed Miliband, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68241\">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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68241","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=68241"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151751,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68241\/revisions\/151751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}