{"id":1864,"date":"2015-03-24T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2015-03-24T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T13:59:34","slug":"shabbat-28-march-2015-parasha-tzav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/shabbat-28-march-2015-parasha-tzav\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbat 28 March 2015 \u2013 Parasha Tzav"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Shabbat comes in at 6.11pm &amp; goes out at 7.14pm<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><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><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Mazal tov <\/em>to Mosaic Reform members Margaret &amp; Michael Abrahams on their Golden Wedding Anniversary.\u00a0 Their children, Joel &amp; Carolyn and Naomi &amp; Barry, together with their grandchildren are delighted to invite congregants to join them for <em>Kiddush at Bessborough Road\u00a0<\/em>to celebrate this special occasion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>I have recently started reaching out to old friends on Facebook.\u00a0 I try to write to one person per week that I miss from High School, college, camp. \u00a0 I know there are \u201cstatus updates\u201d\u00a0 that they see, but it is just not the same as a personal letter. I regret that many of my relationships have fallen victim to our geographical divide (Israel-US). \u00a0 But I am reminded that the Torah teaches us about ways to build and maintain relationships with our loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>In Parshat Tzav, the Torah gives us a directive for keeping alive the flame of the alter: \u201cFire shall be <strong>kept burning<\/strong> upon the altar continually; it shall <strong>not go out.<\/strong>\u201d (Lev 6:6). \u00a0 \u00a0 The first mitzvah is in the affirmative: to keep the flame continuously lit. \u00a0 This is a command that stands on its own; whether or not there is a sacrifice to be offered, the fire must remain lit.\u00a0 The second mitzvah is in given in the negative. It isolates the final clause of the verse, \u201c[the flame] shall not go out\u201d (Lev. 6:6).<\/p>\n<p>The alter was very important to the Israelites. It was the only place for people to tangibly relate to God \u2014 to express their gratitude to Go and to bring sacrifices to expiate their sins.\u00a0 \u00a0 The ever-burning fire is a symbol of the fact that God never stops listening. \u00a0 And that the Jewish people are dedicated to remaining in conversation with God through our study and practice of mitzvot.<\/p>\n<p>In order to build deep and lasting relationships, we must both make sure to make ourselves available for the other, and make efforts to be in touch with them.\u00a0 I\u2019m really happy now when I write to an old friend \u2014 to catch up, and to let them know that I think and care about them.\u00a0 It takes a bit of work to keep the fire lit, but I am determined to not let the flame go out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shabbat Shalom,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rabbi Paul Arberman\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in at 6.11pm &amp; goes out at 7.14pm Mazal tov to Mosaic Reform members Margaret &amp; Michael Abrahams on their Golden Wedding Anniversary.\u00a0 Their children, Joel &amp; Carolyn [&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-1864","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\/1864","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=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}