{"id":5103,"date":"2016-05-11T12:12:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/uncategorized\/67-may-parshat-acharei-mot-hems-and-reform\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T13:04:12","slug":"67-may-parshat-acharei-mot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/67-may-parshat-acharei-mot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"13\/14 May: Parshat Kedoshim (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 8.29pm: goes out 9.42pm\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">Of all passages in the Torah, Parshat Kedoshim ranks as one of the most important. \u00a0 The major theme of Kedoshim is holiness.\u00a0 Modern Jews all too often associate the concept of holiness with a realm far removed from daily life.\u00a0 However, in simple terms, it is how we are supposed to be behave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">So in our parsha it states, \u201cYou shall not place a stumbling block before the blind.\u2019 It is given a broad range of interpretations in the Talmud and in later Jewish literature.\u00a0 Almost all Jewish scholars understood that the expression \u201cthe blind\u201d is not to be interpreted literally.\u00a0 A person can be \u201cblind\u201d if s\/he is ignorant of a particular situation.\u00a0 In other words, it means: Do not purposefully trip someone up. \u00a0 Do not take advantage of someone not knowing something.\u00a0 It is part of being holy.<\/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>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 8.29pm: goes out 9.42pm\u00a0 Of all passages in the Torah, Parshat Kedoshim ranks as one of the most important. \u00a0 The major theme of Kedoshim is holiness.\u00a0 [&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-5103","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\/5103","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=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5141,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/5141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}