{"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&#8217; 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&#8217;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&#8217;t help but notice it. Whatever Moses will say in the verses that follow will be like rain&#8211;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&#8217;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&#8217;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}]}}