{"id":1068,"date":"2015-03-06T01:59:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1068"},"modified":"2015-03-06T01:59:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:59:44","slug":"pesach-5772","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1068","title":{"rendered":"Pesach (5772)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for Pesach (5772)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Saturday Night Live sent Victoria Jackson to Times Square on Rosh HaShannah in the early 1990s and she wondered &#8216;where&#8217;s the ball&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We don&#8217;t do new year resolutions, but spend Yom Kippur on spiritual and personal improvement.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Then comes Pesach about 185 days after Yom Kippur. Time for a check-in<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We should ask: How have we done with your Yom Kippur resolutions? \u00a0What are our Egypts? How do we get the rest of the spiritual and emotional leaven out of our lives?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Most likely we have not done as well as we had desired. What should we do now?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In 1957, the Rebbe wrote &#8220;There is no room for hopelessness in Jewish life and no Jew should ever be given up as a lost cause&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This applies to us too &#8212; as we climb to the next Rosh HaShannah and Yom Kippur let&#8217;s do it with renewed vigor for our goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for Pesach (5772) by Marc Mangel \u2022 Saturday Night Live sent Victoria Jackson to Times Square on Rosh HaShannah in the early 1990s and she wondered &#8216;where&#8217;s the ball&#8217;? \u2022 We don&#8217;t do new year resolutions, but spend Yom Kippur on spiritual and personal improvement. \u2022 Then comes Pesach about 185 days after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1068\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1068","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}