{"id":1692,"date":"2015-09-09T00:40:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T00:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1692"},"modified":"2017-04-20T16:43:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T16:43:21","slug":"pesach-5761","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1692","title":{"rendered":"Pesach (5761)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash\u00a0Cards for Pesach (5761)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Mussar response to the enlightenment was to seek the ethical\/self-improvement aspects of Torah observance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 There is a chain from Israel Salanter to the Alter of Kelm to Yehudah Lieb Chatman who teach that we should examine not our deeds by our intentions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Salanter said &#8220;It is easier to go through the entire Talmud than to change a single trait&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Yehudah Leib Chatman notes that the four sons are NOT four personalities. \u00a0Rather we are a mix of traits &#8212; one minute wise, one minute wicked, one simple and one unable to ask<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Wise means that we are ready to take on a mitzva<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Wicked means that we conclude the mitzva\u00a0is not relevant to my life<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Simple that we do not understand the purpose of the mitzva<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Don&#8217;t even know how to ask means that we don&#8217;t know there is a relevant mitzva<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We thus have a new way to read about the four sons in a way that is meaningful for all of us. \u00a0And we should aim to change the mixture of the four traits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash\u00a0Cards for Pesach (5761) by Marc Mangel \u2022 The Mussar response to the enlightenment was to seek the ethical\/self-improvement aspects of Torah observance. \u2022 There is a chain from Israel Salanter to the Alter of Kelm to Yehudah Lieb Chatman who teach that we should examine not our deeds by our intentions. \u2022 Salanter said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1692\">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-1692","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692","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=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692\/revisions\/2613"}],"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=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}