{"id":1664,"date":"2015-09-02T22:38:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1664"},"modified":"2015-09-02T22:38:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T22:38:22","slug":"vayikra-5761","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1664","title":{"rendered":"VaYikra (5761)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for VaYikra (5761)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This is the Torat Cohanim &#8212; the Torah of the Priests.\u00a0 How do we who are not priests, and even those who are, think about it today?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The root of Kar-ban is Ka-rov: to get close.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 To get close to God you have to give of yourself (Ch 2, v 2)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Judaism is a religion of action. Then it was bringing sacrifices<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Now it is doing the mitzvot.\u00a0 Getting on the path is the key here.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Of course, we may miss the mark.\u00a0 Then missing the mark was corrected by the sacrifices &#8212; and the prophets railed against empty sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Now it s doing the mitzvot, even if you do not do all of them.\u00a0 God does not want lip service or excuses (&#8216;I am non-practicing orthodox).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for VaYikra (5761) by Marc Mangel \u2022 This is the Torat Cohanim &#8212; the Torah of the Priests.\u00a0 How do we who are not priests, and even those who are, think about it today? \u2022 The root of Kar-ban is Ka-rov: to get close. \u2022 To get close to God you have to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1664\">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":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1664","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1664","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=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1664\/revisions\/1665"}],"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=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}