{"id":1675,"date":"2015-09-03T18:53:16","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1675"},"modified":"2015-09-03T18:55:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:55:42","slug":"drash-cards-for-vayikra-5758","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1675","title":{"rendered":"Drash Cards for VaYikra (5758)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash<a class=\"rrpzuhdlb\" style=\"z-index: 2147483647;\" title=\"Click to Continue &gt; by CinemaPro1.2\" href=\"#49402384\"> Cards<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdncache-a.akamaihd.net\/items\/it\/img\/arrow-10x10.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> for VaYikra (5758)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There are two pieces to this book:\u00a0 the sacrifices (burnt, peace, sin, communal) and the holiness code. In ancient times, children began their<a class=\"rrpzuhdlb\" style=\"z-index: 2147483647;\" title=\"Click to Continue &gt; by CinemaPro1.2\" href=\"#32405866\"> study<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdncache-a.akamaihd.net\/items\/it\/img\/arrow-10x10.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> of the Torah with this book since its focus is purity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The whole theme is purification&#8211; the willingness to give up the material to transcend into a higher realm.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The word for sacrifice is Kar-ban with the same root as Ka-rove &#8212; closeness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The prophets who object to a sacrificial cult include Samuel, Amos, Hosea, Micha, Jeremiah, and the Psalmist.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Special to this week (in 1998) is what Heschel wrote &#8220;Emblazoned over the gates of the world is the escutcheon of the demons&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This week, a Jonesboro teacher died (the ultimate sacrifice) shielding a student in a car accident.\u00a0 After that accident, one bystander pulled two people out of the burning car while others watched.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The greatness of Judaism is our duality &#8212; that we exist between heaven and earth, from the base to the godlike.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The system of sacrifices creates the values to help us move along the continuum from the base to the godlike. That&#8217;s how we should read VaYikra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for VaYikra (5758) by Marc Mangel \u2022 There are two pieces to this book:\u00a0 the sacrifices (burnt, peace, sin, communal) and the holiness code. In ancient times, children began their study of the Torah with this book since its focus is purity. \u2022 The whole theme is purification&#8211; the willingness to give up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1675\">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-1675","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675","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=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1675\/revisions\/1677"}],"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=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}