{"id":2191,"date":"2015-06-28T22:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T22:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2015-07-01T12:02:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T12:02:59","slug":"34-july-parsha-balak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/34-july-parsha-balak\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/4 July: Parsha Balak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>Shabbat comes in at 9.06 pm and goes out at 10.24pm<\/em><\/div>\n<div>________________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Balak, the leader of the Ammonites wants to curse the Israelites, so he offers the sorcerer Bilam boundless treasure to get the job done.\u00a0 The only trouble is, Bilam cannot just do whatever he pleases, he is bound by his relationship to God, and he is bound to the instructions he receives from God. \u00a0Three times, to Balak\u2019s chagrin, all Bilam can do is bless God\u2019s people.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bilam utters an interesting line which has taken on such importance that it is one of the first things we traditionally say upon entering a synagogue. \u201cMa Tovu Ohalecha Ya\u2019akov,\u201d \u201cHow fair are your tents, Ya\u2019akov.\u201d \u00a0 Rashi (11th century, Troyes) comments that Bilam found the tents noteworthy because \u201che saw their entrances not turned toward one another.\u201d In that final blessing, Bilam recognized what is not so hard to understand. We all know how important having personal space can be. We all know that taking space for ourselves is critical for maintaining our psycho-spiritual health.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We don\u2019t want our neighbours looking in on our private lives, so we grow our hedges high and we build our fences up, and there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, there is something profound about setting our neighbours up for success and not putting a stumbling block before the blind. By building our fences up, by turning our tent opening away from our neighbor\u2019s opening, we help maintain healthy social boundaries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It is not only important to know how to maintain our own boundaries, it is important not to pry into one another\u2019s lives. Beside literally looking into one another\u2019s homes, there are many ways in which we can invade each other\u2019s privacy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Shabbat Shalom,<\/div>\n<div>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in at 9.06 pm and goes out at 10.24pm ________________________________________________________________________ Balak, the leader of the Ammonites wants to curse the Israelites, so he offers the sorcerer Bilam boundless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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-2191","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\/2191","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}