{"id":1167,"date":"2014-09-01T08:18:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T14:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2014-09-01T08:21:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T14:21:24","slug":"torah-portion-shoftim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"Torah portion \u201cShoftim\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join Mark Call for two related, but different looks at this week\u2019s Torah portion, Shoftim, from Deuteronomy 16:18 through 21:9. This week\u2019s portion focuses on the concept of &#8220;Justice&#8221;, and provides some incredible insight, generally overlooked in today&#8217;s &#8220;post-Biblical&#8221; world.<\/p>\n<p>The first recording is the regular Erev Shabbat teaching, from the Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship, and is as usual an overview of the entire parsha:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SSM Shoftim 2014   \" href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2014\/SSM%208-29-14%20Shoftim.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">SSM Shoftim 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The much longer teaching from Shabbat concentrates on a major theme from the parsha in greater detail, and even more than usual this week in connections to the current \u201ctimes and seasons\u201d.\u00a0 The contrast between &lt;em&gt;&#8221;Justice, JUSTICE! you shall pursue,&#8221;&lt;\/em&gt; and the &#8220;Greater Babylon Metro Area&#8221; has never been more stark.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"TT CooH Shoftim 2014 - Justice, Justice - and calling evil &quot;good&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2014\/TT%20CooH%208-30-14%20Shoftim.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">TT CooH Shoftim 2014 &#8211; With no hint of &#8220;Justice, Justice&#8221; &#8211; no wonder some are scared<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call teaches Torah portion &#8220;Shoftim&#8221;   (Deuteronomy 16 through 21) &#8211; 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1167\">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":[5,34,35,9,11],"tags":[135,26,28,214,63,133,137,134,95,136,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167"}],"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=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}