{"id":1866,"date":"2015-10-08T18:17:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1866"},"modified":"2015-10-08T18:17:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:17:17","slug":"acherei-mot-5762","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1866","title":{"rendered":"Acherei Mot (5762)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for\u00a0Adherei Mot (5762)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ch 16 is about the ritual for Yom Kippur and Ch 17 about that for slaughter. \u00a0We may ask, why are these together.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 One answer is that they guide us in how to lead a holy life. And in Ch 19, v1 the plural is used &#8212; holiness is a communal process<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What does a holy life mean? \u00a0Appropriate social and sexual behavior: having appropriate dressing and eating.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 And in ch 19, v18 we read &#8220;Love your neighbor as yourself&#8221;, one of the great rules of Judaism.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Reuven Bulka asks, what is the message from the emphasis on blood? Blood is not inherently repulsive, so the message is that blood is prohibited not because of repulsiveness but because the Torah says so. \u00a0He writes &#8220;Ultimate religious expression is manifested not by one who cannot eat pork or blood or shrimp but by one who can but won&#8217;t&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for\u00a0Adherei Mot (5762) by Marc Mangel \u2022 Ch 16 is about the ritual for Yom Kippur and Ch 17 about that for slaughter. \u00a0We may ask, why are these together. \u2022 One answer is that they guide us in how to lead a holy life. And in Ch 19, v1 the plural is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=1866\">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-1866","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1866","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=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1867,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1866\/revisions\/1867"}],"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=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}