{"id":2352,"date":"2015-09-17T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T10:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2015-09-17T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T10:27:46","slug":"1819-sept-parsha-vayelech-shabbat-shuva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/1819-sept-parsha-vayelech-shabbat-shuva\/","title":{"rendered":"18\/19 Sept: Parsha Vayelech (Shabbat Shuva)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>Shabbat comes in at 6.54 pm; ends 7.53 pm<\/em><\/div>\n<div>________________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The commandment for Hakhel (Assembly) is found in Parsha Vayelech: \u201cHakhel, Assemble the people &#8211; the men and the women and the infants, and your convert who is in your town &#8211; in order for them to hear and in order for them to learn to fear God, and they will make sure to fulfill all the statements of this Torah\u201d.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Medieval commentator Rashi, asks why the children also came to Hakhel and answers with a quote from the Talmud (in Masechet Chagiga 3a): \u201cThe children bring merit to those who brought them\u201d. Modern rabbi, Natan Adler, rhetorically asks, why bother bringing the children if they will disturb the adults ? That is why, he answers, the Talmud explains that by bringing our children we will receive \u201cmerit\u201d\u00a0&#8211; which outweighs the loss of the adults being disturbed and not hearing every word perfectly.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In other words, sometimes you have to be a little bit less rigid in order to educate the children. This message especially rings true during the High Holidays. When a child is brought to shul and has the opportunity to listen to the Torah reading and hear the Shofar blowing\u00a0&#8211; a tremendous impression is made which can bring them closer to serving God and being part of the Jewish community.<\/div>\n<div><\/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 6.54 pm; ends 7.53 pm ________________________________________________________________________ The commandment for Hakhel (Assembly) is found in Parsha Vayelech: \u201cHakhel, Assemble the people &#8211; the men and the women [&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-2352","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\/2352","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=2352"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2352\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}