{"id":1754,"date":"2015-09-25T00:57:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1754"},"modified":"2015-09-25T00:57:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T00:57:56","slug":"shemini-5760","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1754","title":{"rendered":"Shemini (5760)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crash\u00a0Cards for Shemini (5760)<\/strong><\/p>\n

by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n

\u2022 The parsha covers sacrifices on the 8th day, the death of Nadav and Avihu, the laws of Kashurt. \u00a0Today I want to discuss aspects of mourning — one of our oldest traditions.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ch 10, v 6: Do not rend your clothes. \u00a0This goes back to Reuven finding the pit empty (Genesis 37:2).<\/p>\n

\u2022 Keriah — the rending of a garment — is still done today, or represented by wearing a black ribbon.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Maurie Lamm writes “Tradition calls upon us to tear\u00a0our\u00a0<\/em><\/span>garments\u00a0<\/em>, to put the mark of the broken heart on\u00a0our<\/i> own clothing — not to vent our feelings on a meaningless and impersonal strip of cloth pinned on us by a stranger.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ch 10, v 4 deals with the second half of mourning. \u00a0“Let your brethren, the whole house of Israel bewail” — this is the beginning of letting the community share in grief, let it flow out<\/p>\n

\u2022 In KADDISH, Leon Wieseltier writes that Rashi at age 30 stands up and rebels against a universal custom by saying Kaddish during a festival and changed the tradition. \u00a0“He destroyed an old tradition and created a new tradition” and then writes “If we create a new tradition upon whom we might rely for transmission?” and that “A tradition that is completely transparent is one that is completely over”<\/p>\n

\u2022 A bit of gematria. \u00a0Our mourning periods are 3 days, 7 days, 30 days, and 12 months? 3+7 =10, 10+30 =40, 40 +12 = 52, 5+2 =7.<\/p>\n

\u2022Thank you for the cards and letters after my father’s death. They helped a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crash\u00a0Cards for Shemini (5760) by Marc Mangel \u2022 The parsha covers sacrifices on the 8th day, the death of Nadav and Avihu, the laws of Kashurt. \u00a0Today I want to discuss aspects of mourning — one of our oldest traditions. \u2022 Ch 10, v 6: Do not rend your clothes. \u00a0This goes back to Reuven … Continue reading →<\/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-1754","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1754","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=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1754\/revisions\/1755"}],"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=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}