{"id":9190,"date":"2009-06-21T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T03:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2009-06-25T01:25:33","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T09:25:33","slug":"did-the-rambam-abandon-his-principles-as-quickly-as-i-abandoned-my-morals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9190","title":{"rendered":"Did The Rambam Abandon His Principles As Quickly As I Abandoned My Morals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maimonides\">Rambam<\/a> produced his 13 essential principles of the Jewish faith when he was a young man.<\/p>\n<p>And then he never mentioned them again.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shlomo_Goren\">Rabbi Shlomo Goren<\/a> held that the Rambam abandoned his 13 essential principles.<\/p>\n<p>If he did, then he has my empathy.<\/p>\n<p>When I started listening to Dennis Prager and R. Yitzchock Adlerstein on KABC radio in 1988-1989, I was so inspired that I started telling everyone that I was determined to live my life for God. And then I started meeting girls and making compromises and oy, the shame&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rambam produced his 13 essential principles of the Jewish faith when he was a young man. And then he never mentioned them again. That&#8217;s why Rabbi Shlomo Goren held that the Rambam abandoned his 13 essential principles. If he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=9190\">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":[31],"tags":[18054,29761,1543,10097,3402,2943],"class_list":["post-9190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism","tag-compromises","tag-dennis-prager","tag-morals","tag-principles-of-the-jewish-faith","tag-rabbi-shlomo","tag-rambam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190","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=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}