{"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&#8221;) &#8220;it has the spiritual capacity for increasing peace in the world\u2026 and they are called shlamim because through them there is &#8220;peace&#8221; 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}]}}