{"id":2357,"date":"2015-09-24T09:43:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T09:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2015-09-24T09:43:40","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T09:43:40","slug":"2526-sept-parsha-haazinu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/2526-sept-parsha-haazinu\/","title":{"rendered":"25\/26 SEPT: PARSHA HAAZINU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\":1b9\" class=\"a3s\">\n<div>\n<div><em>Shabbat comes in 6.38 pm; goes out 7.37 pm<\/em><\/div>\n<div>____________________________________________________________________________________<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Moses' final words to us are poetry \u2014 the great poem that makes up most of this week\u2019s parsha, Ha\u2019azinu.. These words are so important that ordinary prose just won't work:\u00a0 God\u2019s words must \u201cfall upon us like rain, touch us like dew.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I can understand the comparison with rain. Rain is absolutely crucial for life.\u00a0 But always, whenever it rains, even a light drizzle,\u00a0 and no matter the spirit in which we accept it, we can't help but notice it. Whatever Moses will say in the verses that follow will be like rain--an attention grabbing teaching that we cannot and must not ignore.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But why does Moses say that his words are like the dew?\u00a0 Rashi explains that everyone rejoices in the dew but rain, though vital, can be annoying to someone on a journey, for example, or to a winemaker into whose vat the rain falls as he is pressing his grapes and spoils his yield.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Rain, like Torah, keeps us alive but \u2014 does not always fall. The dew, smaller and less obvious, is more constant. Both rain and dew are signs of God's mercy, which is at times obvious, at times less so.\u00a0 As we wrap up these days of teshuvah (repentance) I find it comforting to think of God's mercy like the gentle morning dew.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Shabbat Shalom,<\/div>\n<div>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in 6.38 pm; goes out 7.37 pm ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moses&#8217; final words to us are poetry \u2014 the great poem that makes up most of this week\u2019s parsha, Ha\u2019azinu.. [&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-2357","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\/2357","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=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}