{"id":8872,"date":"2009-05-04T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T00:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2009-05-04T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T00:04:20","slug":"ovadia-yosefs-son-says-bachelors-over-20-must-leave-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8872","title":{"rendered":"Ovadia Yosef&#8217;s Son Says Bachelors Over 20 Must Leave Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/profiles\/profiles\/steven_weil.htm\">Rabbi Steven Weil<\/a> has a like-mind in the holy city.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what I could do to convince the rabbis of my sturdy heterosexual inclinations? Just because I am almost 43 and never married&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/articles\/0,7340,L-3709700,00.html\">YNETNEWS reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Ultra-orthodox bachelors over the age of 20 must move out of Jerusalem, Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, head of the Hazon Yaakov yeshiva and son of Shas&#8217; spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef ruled this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the rabbi, who publishes a weekly column on the Eretz Israel Shelanu leaflet, in the past it was customary to banish &quot;older&quot; single men from the capital as punishment for their refusal to marry and provide for a family.<\/p>\n<p>In recent generations, Sephardi rabbis decided to annul this regulation, but according to Rabbi Yosef it should be reinstated. &quot;Only a yeshiva student who studies Torah has an exceptional permission to postpone marriage, if he fears that marriage might distract him from his studies.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;But normally one must not delay marriage till after 20, and those who do had better leave Jerusalem and go study somewhere else,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Steven Weil has a like-mind in the holy city. I wonder what I could do to convince the rabbis of my sturdy heterosexual inclinations? Just because I am almost 43 and never married&#8230; YNETNEWS reports: Ultra-orthodox bachelors over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8872\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,193,29],"tags":[17469,17470,17471,8946,29836,5783],"class_list":["post-8872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dating","category-jerusalem","category-jews","tag-eretz-israel","tag-hazon","tag-inclinations","tag-rabbi-ovadia-yosef","tag-rabbis","tag-yeshiva-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872","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=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}