{"id":1145,"date":"2015-04-14T00:14:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T00:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1145"},"modified":"2015-04-14T00:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T00:14:16","slug":"ve-etchanan-5773","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1145","title":{"rendered":"Ve-etchanan (5773)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for Ve-etchanan (5773)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We have 7 weeks until Rosh HaShanah<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We had 7 weeks from Pesach to Shavuot &#8212; giving us a check-in on escaping our slaveries. \u00a0We identified them on Shabat HaGadol, used chol HaMoed to commit to become free recognizing that change takes time<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What if we are not there yet? \u00a0Today&#8217;s HaTorah answers us: \u00a0&#8220;Comfort, take comfort&#8221; &#8212; and keep working<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Where do we take comfort? In the Torah &#8212; the guide book, the light on how to make changes<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In the mitzvot &#8212; acts that change the physical (e.g. candles, tefillin, parchment) into holy items<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In Teshuvah &#8212; &#8220;Return&#8221; which sanctifies the whole past life &#8212; escape from our slavery<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It is 7 weeks until Rosh HaShannah &#8212; we still have time to move forward and change. \u00a0In that we can take comfort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for Ve-etchanan (5773) by Marc Mangel \u2022 We have 7 weeks until Rosh HaShanah \u2022 We had 7 weeks from Pesach to Shavuot &#8212; giving us a check-in on escaping our slaveries. \u00a0We identified them on Shabat HaGadol, used chol HaMoed to commit to become free recognizing that change takes time \u2022 What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1145\">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-1145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1145","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=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1146,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1145\/revisions\/1146"}],"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=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}