{"id":2267,"date":"2016-01-20T01:38:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T01:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2267"},"modified":"2016-01-20T01:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T01:38:55","slug":"pekudei-5765","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2267","title":{"rendered":"Pekudei (5765)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for Pekudei (5765)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 All the commentators seek to explain &#8216;Pekudei&#8217; = account<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The simple explanation: Leaders are responsible to account for how they spend public funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rav Shlomo Yosef Levin notes that we usually read together VaYakel\/Pekudei &#8212; Gather\/Account.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Pekudei calls on us to count every detail separately and symbolizes the value of the individual.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022In\u00a0<em>Duties of the Heart<\/em> , Ibn Ben Bachya writes in Section 8 &#8216;Gate of Self Accounting&#8217; : Self accounting is earnest deliberation on one&#8217;s religious and secular concerns, in the privacy of one&#8217;s thoughts, to discover what one has accomplished and yet to accomplish of his obligations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Each and every one of us is obligated to make a personal accounting and Ibn Bachya gives 30 ways to do it!<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The benefit of such accounting is the effect on our spirit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Self accounting is obligatory for each of us and after the accounting appropriate action should follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for Pekudei (5765) by Marc Mangel \u2022 All the commentators seek to explain &#8216;Pekudei&#8217; = account \u2022 The simple explanation: Leaders are responsible to account for how they spend public funds. \u2022 Rav Shlomo Yosef Levin notes that we usually read together VaYakel\/Pekudei &#8212; Gather\/Account. \u2022 Pekudei calls on us to count every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=2267\">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-2267","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2267","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=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2267\/revisions\/2268"}],"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=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}