{"id":4656,"date":"2016-04-12T14:31:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T13:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/uncategorized\/89-april-parshat-tazria-2\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T11:14:04","slug":"89-april-parshat-tazria-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/89-april-parshat-tazria-2\/","title":{"rendered":"15\/16 April: Parshat Metzora"},"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 7.43pm: goes out 8.49pm\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This week&#8217;s portion centers on the cure for tz&#8217;raat.\u00a0\u00a0The disease had a spiritual cause and curing it was a spiritual act.\u00a0 That is why the priests took on a major role in any healing.\u00a0 The Torah appears to be saying that disease may have a physical cause but there is also a spiritual dimension.<\/p>\n<p>Medication and surgery treat the physical aspects of disease.\u00a0 But they ignore an equally important aspect of healing &#8211; the spiritual dimension.\u00a0 At shul we say a prayers for those who are ill.\u00a0 Judaism emphasizes the importance of bikur holim &#8211; visiting the sick.\u00a0 The Talmud teaches that someone who visits a sick person will take away 1\/60 of the illness.\u00a0 (Nedarim 39b)\u00a0\u00a0 Even modern science admits the importance of a positive attitude in healing the body.<\/p>\n<p>Humans are more than machines.\u00a0 Perhaps the Torah, by emphasizing the role of the priest in healing, is teaching us the importance of the spirit, not just the body, in a cure.<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat Shalom,<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in 7.43pm: goes out 8.49pm\u00a0 This week&#8217;s portion centers on the cure for tz&#8217;raat.\u00a0\u00a0The disease had a spiritual cause and curing it was a spiritual act.\u00a0 That is [&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-4656","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\/4656","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=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4682,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}