{"id":2304,"date":"2015-07-28T17:23:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2015-07-28T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:23:49","slug":"31-july1-august-parsha-vaetchanan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/31-july1-august-parsha-vaetchanan\/","title":{"rendered":"31 JULY\/1 AUGUST: PARSHA VAETCHANAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Shabbat comes in at 8:36 pm and goes out at 9:45 pm _<\/em>____________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Until this point in Moses&#8217;s first speech, he has described how the Israelites reached the border of Canaan.\u00a0 Now, he addresses the people&#8217;s future life inside Israel, and the laws they must obey in order to merit entry and residence in the Promised Land.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, Moses warns the people:\u00a0 \u201dYou shall not add anything to what I command you or take anything away from it&#8221; (Deut. 4:2), in several different ways.\u00a0 Some commentators explain it as a blanket prohibition against breaking any of the laws taught by Moses or adding new ones.<\/p>\n<p>The medieval French commentator known as Chizkuni applies this prohibition, \u00a0to add or subtract, to one specific issue:\u00a0 the exclusive worship of God.\u00a0 \u00a0According to this interpretation, Moses is warning the people not to repeat a mistake that had been made earlier when the Israelites were seduced into following pagan practices.<\/p>\n<p>Chizkuni teaches that &#8220;Do not add . . . or take anything away&#8221; means that one may not nullify one&#8217;s singular loyalty to God by worshipping additional gods.\u00a0 Therefore there may be cases where we can add to, or subtract from the law &#8211; but we must always believe that God is not just the most powerful deity, but the only God.<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat Shalom,<br \/>\nRabbi Arberman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in at 8:36 pm and goes out at 9:45 pm _____________________________________________________________________________ Until this point in Moses&#8217;s first speech, he has described how the Israelites reached the border of [&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-2304","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\/2304","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=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}