{"id":3955,"date":"2016-03-16T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/uncategorized\/1819-march-parshat-vayikra\/"},"modified":"2016-03-17T08:02:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T08:02:26","slug":"1819-march-parshat-vayikra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/1819-march-parshat-vayikra\/","title":{"rendered":"18\/19 March: Parshat Vayikra"},"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 5.55pm: goes out 6.59pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">The laws concerning sacrifices always seem dry or not pertinent to today\u2019s world.\u00a0 Yet the rabbis always find lessons in them that are eternal. \u00a0 Take the \u201dshelamim,\u201d\u00a0 peace-offering or offering of well-being \u2014 it teaches a lesson that actually is important for me with regards to my children. \u00a0 My three lovely children frequently invoke the phrase:\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s not fair, why do you give to him (or her) and not me!?\u201d\u00a0 I try to be clear that everyone gets something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; min-height: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">Unlike the burnt offering which was completely consumed on the altar, the peace-offering was a sacred meal, shared by donors and priests. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; min-height: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">Rashi explains the origin of the term for peace-offering (\u201cshelamim\") \"it has the spiritual capacity for increasing peace in the world\u2026 and they are called shlamim because through them there is \"peace\" and harmony for the altar, the priests, and the owners since all three receive a portion of the offering.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat Shalom,<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in 5.55pm: goes out 6.59pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The laws concerning sacrifices always seem dry or not pertinent to today\u2019s world.\u00a0 Yet the rabbis always find lessons in them that are [&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-3955","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\/3955","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=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}