{"id":911,"date":"2014-12-30T21:29:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T21:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=911"},"modified":"2014-12-30T21:29:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T21:29:14","slug":"vayeishev-5761","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=911","title":{"rendered":"VaYeishev (5761)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Drash Cards for VaYeishev (5771)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by Marc Mangel<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Rosally Satlzman in A PORTION OF KINDNESS notes that this the story of &#8220;chesed gone wrong&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A father&#8217;s love for his son leads to overwhelming hatred and exile. \u00a0&#8220;A man&#8221; helps a lost boy and it leads to captivity. \u00a0Two brothers try to save the younger brother and that leads to slavery and a mourning father.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Our actions reverberate in history and we usually do not see the end results of them<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 But our acts of chesed improve\u00a0<strong>us<\/strong>\u00a0(through self control, generosity, etc) as much as the world<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Chesed involves 2 people: we can give somebody directions, as the man gave Joseph, but cannot guarantee that they&#8217;ll be followed &#8212; only that we tried.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In Ch 39, v 21 God gives Joseph the chesed of surviving in prison &#8212; and think of what Joseph does<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 And our practical lesson: When we make people appear favorable in the eyes of others (sometimes who are very demanding) we are doing great chesed<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Speaking good of others, especially in front of their superiors, is one of the easiest cheseds we can do.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 So this week, let&#8217;s be sure to shine the spotlight on others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drash Cards for VaYeishev (5771) by Marc Mangel &nbsp; \u2022 Rosally Satlzman in A PORTION OF KINDNESS notes that this the story of &#8220;chesed gone wrong&#8221; \u2022 A father&#8217;s love for his son leads to overwhelming hatred and exile. \u00a0&#8220;A man&#8221; helps a lost boy and it leads to captivity. \u00a0Two brothers try to save &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/?page_id=911\">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-911","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/marcmangel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/911\/revisions\/912"}],"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=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}