{"id":1141,"date":"2013-09-14T11:56:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2013-09-14T11:56:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T18:56:16","slug":"all-vows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/all-vows\/","title":{"rendered":"All Vows"},"content":{"rendered":"

"Avinu Malkeinu<\/em>, we have sinned against you! Avinu Malkeinu<\/em>, forgive us, bless us, grant us atonement!"<\/p>\n

"Why do you bother? You're not a child. You've studied the history of our world. You should know that there's no one to grant you atonement."<\/p>\n

"You don't know that! Science doesn't know everything. You can't prove that there's no Higher Power."<\/p>\n

"As you say. But if there is<\/em> a Higher Power, It clearly hasn't concerned Itself with the operation of the moral law."<\/p>\n

"In this world."<\/p>\n

"Yes, in this world. But surely it is this world that we must concerned with, for if there is a next world, we are too ignorant to speak of it."<\/p>\n

"That is why it is also a teaching of my people that this is also a time for us to forgive each other for the wrongs we have committed in the past year, as well as seeking reconciliation with haShem<\/em>."<\/p>\n

"And you anticipate the same thing being necessary next year?"<\/p>\n

"I don't understand. How could it not be necessary?"<\/p>\n

"'Knock, knock.'<\/a>"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

"Avinu Malkeinu, we have sinned against you! Avinu Malkeinu, forgive us, bless us, grant us atonement!" "Why do you bother? You're not a child. You've studied the history of our world. You should know that there's no one to grant … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}