{"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. 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