{"id":78382,"date":"2015-11-02T07:27:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T15:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78382"},"modified":"2023-09-09T07:37:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T15:37:16","slug":"conversion-attachment-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78382","title":{"rendered":"Conversion, Attachment &#038; Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, most converts to Orthodox Judaism are unconsciously trying to fill a hole in their soul, fill up a deep sense of emptiness stemming from a lack of attachment (aka an unhappy childhood) and that without deep inner work, the conversion is not going to be successful (i.e., they won&#8217;t create the happy loving home they crave).<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what percentage of converts to Orthodox Judaism could be called a success?<\/p>\n<p>If I were doing conversions to Orthodox Judaism, I would demand that would-be converts enter a 12-step program of their choice and only come back to me once they&#8217;ve worked all twelve steps. <\/p>\n<p>Addiction and connection are opposites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, most converts to Orthodox Judaism are unconsciously trying to fill a hole in their soul, fill up a deep sense of emptiness stemming from a lack of attachment (aka an unhappy childhood) and that without deep inner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78382\">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":[26369,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-conversion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78382","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=78382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151408,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78382\/revisions\/151408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}