{"id":1079,"date":"2014-03-03T19:11:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T02:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2014-03-03T19:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T02:13:34","slug":"torah-portion-pekudai-and-the-current-idolatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"Torah portion &#8220;Pekudai&#8221; &#8211; and the current idolatry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a pattern in the last part of the Book of Exodus which is particularly revealing, especially in light of the idolatry prevalent in <em>Amerika<\/em> today.\u00a0 And this teaching about the parallels revealed in the story of the construction of the mishkan, or tabernacle, is perhaps one of the most important and revealing that Mark Call has done.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss it:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mark Call - Parsha Pekudai - 1 March, 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/blog\/mark-call-parsha-pekudai-and-patterns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Call &#8211; Parsha Pekudai teaching &#8211;\u00a0 1 March, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The teaching audio is also archived at WayToZion.org.\u00a0 All of the audios for the year 2014 are here:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2014.htm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And this parsha is also available at this alternative direct link:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WayToZIon - Pekudai MC 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2014\/140301TT-Pekudei-MC.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">WTZ &#8211; Mark Call &#8216;Pekuda&#8217; &#8211; 1 March, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1079-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2014\/140301TT-Pekudei-MC.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2014\/140301TT-Pekudei-MC.mp3\">http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2014\/140301TT-Pekudei-MC.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, kudos to Rabbi David Forhman, of alephbeta.org,\u00a0 for his insight and introduction to the concept of the &#8220;atbash&#8221;.\u00a0 That &#8220;10 minute Parsha&#8221; recording is available here, and is quite good:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.aish.com\/tp\/i\/10minuteparsha\/A-Giant-Chiasm-In-Sefer-Shmot.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current &#8220;Greater Babylon Metro Area&#8221; &#8211; including, but certainly not limited to &#8211; the United States, has more in common with the idolatry of Egypt than most of its idolators might like to admit. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1079\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,34,35,31,9,11],"tags":[65,46,47,64,68,63,66,67,210,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}