{"id":1878,"date":"2015-04-22T12:30:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T12:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2015-06-03T09:19:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T09:19:05","slug":"shabbat-25-april-2015-parashat-tazria-metzora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/shabbat-25-april-2015-parashat-tazria-metzora\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbat 25 April 2015 &#8211; Parasha Tazria &#8211; Metzora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Shabbat comes in at 7.58pm &amp; goes out at 9.06pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mazal tov to Mosaic Reform member Jane Prentice on her 60<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.\u00a0 Jane is delighted to invite congregants to Kiddush after the service to celebrate this occasion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In parshat Tazria-Metzora we read: \u201cIf a man has se\u2019at, or sapa\u2019hat, or baheret on the skin of his flesh, and it forms a lesion of tzara\u2019at on the skin of his flesh, he shall be brought to Aharon the kohen, or to one of his sons, the kohanim\u201d (Vayikra 13:2).<\/p>\n<p>One could look at this parashah and decide that it is simply one of the more \u2018practical\u2019 ones, dealing with medical issues and meant to serve as a reference.\u00a0 The rabbis of the Talmud took a slightly different approach. \u00a0 They connect the tzara\u2019at\/disease to slander.<\/p>\n<p>How many times have we stood idly by while we heard someone speak untruths about another, let alone contributed to the talk ourselves?<\/p>\n<p>The rabbis of the Talmud deplored gossip and slanderous speech.\u00a0 In fact, they ranked it as equal to the \u201cbig three;\u201d the three absolute worst deeds a person could do.\u00a0 The big three are the ones that a person should die rather than commit: idolatry, incest and murder.\u00a0 They say that, \u201c\u2026talk\u2026kills three people: the one who says it, the one who accepts it, and the one about whom it is told\u201d (15b). \u00a0 The rabbis make such a big deal out of slander and gossip because everyone is lessened by hurtful speech.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shabbat Shalom,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in at 7.58pm &amp; goes out at 9.06pm Mazal tov to Mosaic Reform member Jane Prentice on her 60th birthday.\u00a0 Jane is delighted to invite congregants to Kiddush [&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-1878","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\/1878","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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}