{"id":1728,"date":"2015-02-16T13:57:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2015-02-19T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T12:51:14","slug":"shabbat-20-february-2015-parasha-terumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/shabbat-20-february-2015-parasha-terumah\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbat 20 February 2015 &#8211; Parasha Terumah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Shabbat comes in at 5.09pm &amp; goes out Saturday 6.13pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Liz and Richard Specterman invite the communit<a href=\"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/rabbipaulsml.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-852 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/rabbipaulsml.jpg\" alt=\"rabbipaulsml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>y to join them for the baby blessing of their daughter, Hannah. \u00a0Mazal Tov to the family. \u00a0This will be at 39 Bessborough Road, Harrow.<\/p>\n<p>Chanan Shuall is sponsoring a kiddush for the occasion of his 70th birthday at Hatch End Masorti Synagogue at the Girl Guide Headquarters in Hatch End.<\/p>\n<p>In Parshat Terumah, the Torah describes the building of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) for the Israelites in the desert.\u00a0 It also describes a table upon which twelve loaves of bread, or, \u201clehem hapanim\u201d were to be placed. \u00a0 While the usual translation is \u201cshowbreads,\u201d it also has been translated as bread of the Presence, or more literally as bread of the faces.<\/p>\n<p>The Hassidic Rebbe Avraham Mordechai of Gur liked the \u201cbread of the faces\u201d translation and explained that each person who looked at the bread could see an image of his or her own face.\u00a0 A pious, kind and faithful person would see the bread as being fresh and warm. A cynical, mean and skeptical person would see the bread as being stale and cold. The \u201clehem hapanim\u201d reflected the face\u2014and the inner being\u2014of the observer. \u00a0The experience of the bread varied according to the personality of the person who observed it.<\/p>\n<p>T<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">his idea is also found in a teaching of the Kotsker Rebbe who commented on the verse in Exodus: \u201cAnd when they [Israelites] came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they [i.e. the waters] were bitter.\u201d <\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">The plain meaning of the text is that the Israelites couldn\u2019t drink the water because it was too bitter.<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Kotsker Rebbe, though, interpreted the verse as follows: \u201cAnd when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for <b style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><i>they<\/i><\/b><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">\u2014the Israelites\u2014were bitter.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">\u00a0 <\/span>They were in such a foul and bitter mood, everything seemed wrong, even the water tasted bitter.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of my favourite lessons, even as I struggle to employ it \u2014\u00a0a positive world view allows us to experience life in a positive way. \u00a0 The bread we eat, the water we drink, our lives\u2026are dependent upon our interpretation.<\/p>\n<div><strong><em>Shabbat Shalom<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><em>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in at 5.09pm &amp; goes out Saturday 6.13pm Liz and Richard Specterman invite the community to join them for the baby blessing of their daughter, Hannah. \u00a0Mazal Tov [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-shabbat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}