{"id":487,"date":"2014-04-08T00:36:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T00:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=487"},"modified":"2014-04-08T00:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T00:36:19","slug":"metzora-5774-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=487","title":{"rendered":"Metzora 5774 (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for Metzora 5774<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 We are 29 weeks since last Yom Kippur; 26 weeks to next YK<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Metzora comes as perfect reminder that we are 1\/2 way through our program of self-improvement started last YK. Two messages<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The message of Ch 14, v 1-20: \u00a0It is a multistep plan and requires specific sacrifices.<\/p>\n<div>\u2022 The message for us. Do not say &#8220;Tomorrow, I will be XX&#8221;. Rather say &#8220;Tomorrow, I will start a procedure that will be me where I want to be as a better person&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Second message in Ch 14, v 21-32: &#8220;If a person is poor and cannot afford sacrifices&#8221; &#8212; not released from the obligations, but given a discount.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 For example fowl instead of lambs; and if one cannot afford turtledoves then pigeons are okay. 1\/10 of an ephah of flower instead of 3\/10<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Message for us: &#8220;I dont have time&#8221;; &#8220;I cannot afford&#8221; etc are lame.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2022Determine what you can do and do it. For example, don&#8217;t have time to daven 3x per day, do shachrit. Don&#8217;t have time for shachrit, put on tefillin. Don&#8217;t have time for tefillin, say &#8220;Modeh ani&#8221; on wakng. \u00a0Don&#8217;t have time for &#8220;Modeh ani&#8221;, rethink your life!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Not a morning person? Say the bedtime shma. \u00a0Can&#8217;t afford an atheletic club membership to help you get into shape? The outside is free.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 The message of metzora is very powerful for us today.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for Metzora 5774 by Marc Mangel \u2022 We are 29 weeks since last Yom Kippur; 26 weeks to next YK \u2022 Metzora comes as perfect reminder that we are 1\/2 way through our program of self-improvement started last YK. Two messages \u2022 The message of Ch 14, v 1-20: \u00a0It is a multistep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=487\">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":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-487","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/487\/revisions\/488"}],"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=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}