{"id":1684,"date":"2015-09-03T19:10:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1684"},"modified":"2015-09-06T12:59:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T12:59:47","slug":"vayikra-5758","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1684","title":{"rendered":"VaYikra (5758)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for VaYikra (5758)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The whole theme is purification&#8211; the willingness to give up the material to transcend into a higher realm.<\/li>\n<li>The word for sacrifice is Kar-ban with the same root as Ka-rove &#8212; closeness<\/li>\n<li>The prophets who object to a sacrificial cult include Samuel, Amos, Hosea, Micha, Jeremiah, and the Psalmist.<\/li>\n<li>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;<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The greatness of Judaism is our duality &#8212; that we exist between heaven and earth, from the base to the godlike.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for VaYikra (5758) by Marc Mangel 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. The whole theme is purification&#8211; the willingness to give up the material &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1684\">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-1684","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1684","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=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1684\/revisions\/1688"}],"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=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}