{"id":3253,"date":"2016-02-25T14:58:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=3253"},"modified":"2016-02-26T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T08:00:03","slug":"2627-feb-parshat-ki-tissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/2627-feb-parshat-ki-tissa\/","title":{"rendered":"26\/27 Feb: Parshat Ki Tissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-852\" src=\"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/rabbipaulsml.jpg\" alt=\"rabbipaulsml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><em>Shabbat comes in 5.20pm: goes out 6.24pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In parshat Ki Tissa, Moses pleads to be able to see God &#8211; &#8220;Let me behold your presence!&#8221; but that request is denied, &#8220;for a human may not see Me and live.&#8221;\u00a0However God does promise that Moses will be able to see God&#8217;s &#8220;back.&#8221;\u00a0 So God places Moses &#8220;in a cleft of the rock&#8221; as God passes before him (33:21-23).<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, the Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, writes, &#8220;Our knowledge of God, of existence, of truth will always be incomplete.\u00a0 What we see, at best, is only God&#8217;s back, and that from the obstructed view afforded by a cleft in the rock.\u00a0 It is the same answer that God will give to Job.\u00a0 Our presumption exceeds our grasp.\u00a0 While Judaism enables us to enlarge our vision, it also reminds us of our limitations.<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat Shalom,<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in 5.20pm: goes out 6.24pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In parshat Ki Tissa, Moses pleads to be able to see God &#8211; &#8220;Let me behold your presence!&#8221; but that request is denied, [&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-3253","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\/3253","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=3253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3260,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3253\/revisions\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}