{"id":1870,"date":"2015-04-09T14:42:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2015-04-09T14:42:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T14:42:53","slug":"shabbat-11-april-2015-pesach-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/shabbat-11-april-2015-pesach-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbat 11 April 2015 \u2013 Pesach Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0Shabbat comes in at 7.34pm &amp; goes out at 8.40pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the 7th Day of Pesach we will be reading in the Torah about the crossing of the sea.\u00a0 So that points to one of the strangest passages in the haggadah, from the litany dayenu.\u00a0 &#8220;If God had only parted the sea for us, and not caused us to pass through on dry land, that would have been enough.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 Every year I read that passage and think &#8211; this makes no sense!\u00a0 What good is parting the sea if we do not pass through?\u00a0 What good is starting redemption if we do not finish it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Redemption is not something that takes place all at once, in one fell swoop. \u00a0 The lesson of dayenu is that redemption will not come all at once.\u00a0 It will happen in little steps, bit by bit and piece by piece.\u00a0 Today we see the sea opening up for us.\u00a0 Hopefully tomorrow we will experience actually crossing the sea.\u00a0 And then on the next day, perhaps we will enter the Promised Land.\u00a0 Meanwhile, let us joyously celebrate each small victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Chag Sameach<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Shabbat comes in at 7.34pm &amp; goes out at 8.40pm On the 7th Day of Pesach we will be reading in the Torah about the crossing of the sea.\u00a0 So [&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-1870","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\/1870","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=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}