{"id":2604,"date":"2016-01-28T12:09:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T12:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2016-02-10T16:16:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T16:16:32","slug":"2223-january-parasha-yitro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/2223-january-parasha-yitro\/","title":{"rendered":"29\/30 January: Parasha Yitro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2890\" src=\"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/scroll-700x294.jpg\" alt=\"scroll\" width=\"224\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/scroll-700x294.jpg 700w, https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/scroll-768x323.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/scroll-1100x462.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/scroll-624x262.jpg 624w, https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/scroll.jpg 1594w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>Shabbat comes in 4.29pm; goes out 5.36pm<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In this week\u2019s parasha \u2014 Yitro \u2014 we read the ten commandments. \u00a0 The third commandment prohibits swearing in vain.\u00a0 What does it mean to swear in vain? \u00a0 The sages define this as:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0swearing to the truth of something that is obviously true and well known (e.g. that the sun is hot);<\/li>\n<li>swearing in denial of an obvious truth (e.g. that the moon is made of cheese);<\/li>\n<li>swearing to violate the Torah (e.g. that one will eat pork, an oath which is immediately void because we are considered to have taken a prior oath at Sinai to not eat pork; hence, the oath is in vain and a disrespectful and potentially harmful use of God&#8217;s name);<\/li>\n<li>swearing to do something that is impossible (e.g. to stay awake for a full week).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The common denominator of these types of vain oaths is that they all &#8220;cheapen&#8221; the use of G-d&#8217;s name and threaten the smooth functioning of society which relies on people keeping their word.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Shabbat Shalom,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in 4.29pm; goes out 5.36pm In this week\u2019s parasha \u2014 Yitro \u2014 we read the ten commandments. \u00a0 The third commandment prohibits swearing in vain.\u00a0 What does it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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-2604","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\/2604","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}