{"id":4902,"date":"2016-05-02T09:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?p=4902"},"modified":"2016-05-05T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T07:47:20","slug":"67-may-parshat-acharei-mot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/67-may-parshat-acharei-mot\/","title":{"rendered":"6\/7 May: Parshat Acharei Mot (HEMS and Reform)"},"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 8.17pm: goes out 9.29pm\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In Chapter 16 of Leviticus, in\u00a0Parshat Acharei Mot, the Torah explains the rites of purification that were to take place annually on Yom Kippur and that part of the purification ritual on Yom Kippur included fasting.<\/p>\n<p>The Torah states that in the &#8220;seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall practice self-denial (&#8216;t&#8217;anu et nafshoteichem&#8217;) and you shall do no manner of work&#8221;.\u00a0 Some translations explain the Hebrew &#8220;t&#8217;anu et nafshoteichem&#8221; as &#8220;you shall afflict your souls&#8221;.\u00a0 This implies that abstaining from food, drink, and other pleasures on Yom Kippur is a way to punish ourselves for having sinned.\u00a0 I would suggest that a better translation is: \u201dTo practice self-denial&#8221; \u2014 which has a different implication.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the Yom Kippur abstentions is to demonstrate that we can exercise control over our instincts.\u00a0 Animals do not have this power; their instincts control them.\u00a0 So although we may have sinned, and thereby diminished our dignity, we\u00a0 have the capacity to rein in our appetite \u2014 to control and redirect our energies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shabbat shalom,<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Paul Arberman<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat comes in 8.17pm: goes out 9.29pm\u00a0 In Chapter 16 of Leviticus, in\u00a0Parshat Acharei Mot, the Torah explains the rites of purification that were to take place annually on Yom [&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-4902","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\/4902","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=4902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4902\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}