{"id":1493,"date":"2017-05-07T08:47:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T14:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2017-05-07T08:47:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T14:47:49","slug":"acharei-mot-kedoshim-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAcharei Mot \/ Kedoshim\u201d\u2013 teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa examines another double Torah portion, <em>Acharei Mot<\/em> and then <em>Kedoshim<\/em>, Leviticus chapters 16 through 20.<\/p>\n<p>AND yet AGAIN, we find another segment in Scripture that we have probably been TOLD is boring, obsolete, irrelevant, and \u2013 especially \u2013 \u201cdone away with,\u201d and again is focused explicitly on the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n<p>This week the Erev Shabbat overview start with what happened \u201cafter the death\u201d (\u2018acharie mot\u2019) of the two sons of Aaron, from the story of the two goats of Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement (yes, it still matters!) to a lot of commandments that the modern world certainly ignores, and we can see both why, and what the consequences are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2017\/SSM-5-5-17-Acharei-Mot-Kedoshim.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SSM Acharei Mot \/ Kedoshim 2017 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sabbath Day teaching this week <em>again<\/em> demonstrates that Torah really IS a matter of \u201cLife and Death.\u201d This time the \u201cview from 10,000 feet\u201d shows us why Mark contends this \u201cdouble-portion\u201d is literally a look right into why the world is in the shape it is:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2017\/WT-CooH-5-6-17.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u201cThe Heart of Darkness\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2017 teachings on the combined parsha &#8220;Acharei Mot &#8211; Kedoshim&#8221; (Leviticus\/Vayikra chapters 16 through 20) and Ezekiel 22. <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,69,151,4,74,11,12],"tags":[368,26,28,369,63,75,104,208,18,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"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=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}