{"id":1707,"date":"2018-08-19T07:41:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T13:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2018-08-21T18:57:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T00:57:33","slug":"parsha-shoftim-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cShoftim\u201d\u2013 teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for this week&#8217;s teaching of &#8220;Shoftim,&#8221; (Deuteronomy 16:18 through 21:9), which seems to literally encapsulate most of what is ABSOLUTELY WRONG with the western world today!<\/p>\n<p>The Erev Shabbat overview of course begins with the commandment to select righteous (in other words, Torah-obedient) judges, or &#8216;shoftim&#8217;, to the end that &#8220;justice, JUSTICE!&#8221; you shall pursue.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have been following what passes for &#8220;just-us&#8221; nowadays will recognize just how far we have fallen. And the rest of the parsha truly brings that home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2018\/SSM-8-17-18-Shoftim.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SSM &#8220;Shoftim&#8221; 2018 <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternative link via Hebrew Nation Radio:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/SSM-8-17-18-Shoftim-Justice-Justice-and-the-converse-teaching-only-podcast-xx.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via HNR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Sabbath Day teaching is perhaps even more NOT &#8216;politically-correct&#8217; than last week, to the extent that Mark demonstrates how the command in the last verse in the parsha, literally the one-line summary, is to &#8220;&lt;em&gt;do what is RIGHT in the eyes of YHVH&lt;\/em&gt;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not only has &#8216;the world&#8217; now gone beyond merely what the Book of Shoftim (Joshua) suggests is a Big Problem, &#8220;every man did that which was right in HIS OWN EYES,&#8221; but the opposite extreme now has become an overt attempt to &#8220;do that which is downright EVIL in the eyes of Him they so clearly hate!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The title again lays out the premise:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2018\/WT-CooH-8-18-18-Shoftim.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Shoftim: The Definition of PC is &#8216;do that which is &lt;em&gt;Evil&lt;\/em&gt; in His eyes!&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/WT-CooH-8-18-18-Shoftim-World-Upside-Down-That-which-is-RIGHT-in-the-Eyes-of-YHVH-NOT-PC-podcast-xxx.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HNR link to &#8220;Shoftim: NOT what is Evil in eyes of YHVH&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The combined part 1 and 2 files for both sections are up here, and available for download and off-line listening via Hebrew Nation Radio is <a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-shoftim-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2018 Torah-cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Shoftim&#8221;  (Deuteronomy 16:18 &#8211; 21:9). <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1707\">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":[5,69,4,35,11],"tags":[133,104,208,680,679,274,212,681],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707"}],"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=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}