{"id":5108,"date":"2016-05-16T09:15:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T08:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/uncategorized\/1314-may-parshat-kedoshim-hems-and-reform\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T12:45:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T11:45:25","slug":"67-may-parshat-acharei-mot-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/services\/this-shabbat\/67-may-parshat-acharei-mot-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"20\/21 May: Parshat Emor (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 8.39pm: goes out 9.54pm\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\">In Parshat Emor, we read about the prohibition against <b><i>desecrating God&#8217;s name<\/i><\/b>.\u00a0 In our earliest understanding of this commandment, we understood that major violations of moral law are desecrations of God\u2019s name.\u00a0 So, for example, we are commanded to give up our life rather than violate one of the three &#8220;cardinal&#8221; sins:\u00a0 murder, incest, and idolatry. \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;\">On the other side of things, <b><i>sanctification of God&#8217;s name<\/i><\/b> occurs when our observance of mitzvot enhances the respect for the Torah in the eyes of other people.\u00a0 When the Jewish community (or individuals) help out people in need, it sends a message about the kindness required by our God.\u00a0 Simple acts of common civility or incivility can have far-reaching ramifications, depending upon who is involved and who is watching.<\/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 8.39pm: goes out 9.54pm\u00a0 In Parshat Emor, we read about the prohibition against desecrating God&#8217;s name.\u00a0 In our earliest understanding of this commandment, we understood that major [&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-5108","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\/5108","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=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5111,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions\/5111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}