{"id":1971,"date":"2019-07-14T06:52:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T12:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1971"},"modified":"2019-07-14T06:52:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T12:52:04","slug":"parsha-chukat-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1971","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cChukat&#8221;\u2013 teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a study of parsha &#8220;Chukat&#8221; (Bemidbar\/Numbers chapters 19 through 21), certainly one of the more &#8216;enigmatic&#8217; portions in the Torah, and, of couse, some parallels throughout both history and current events to show that the understanding is at least as important now as ever.<\/p>\n<p>The Erev Shabbat review, begins with a look at the title, &#8220;chukat,&#8221; and just what a &#8216;chuk&#8217; is in the first place. Perhaps it helps that the &#8216;red heiffer&#8217; described in chapter 19 is the &#8216;quintessential example&#8217; of the type.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s the related story of why Moshe is not allowed to enter the Promised Land that he suggests underlines the Rest of the Story:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2019\/SSM-7-12-19-Chukat.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SSM &#8220;Chukat&#8221; 2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternative link via Hebrew Nation Radio:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1971-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/13130118\/SSM-7-12-19-Chukat-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/13130118\/SSM-7-12-19-Chukat-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\">https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/13130118\/SSM-7-12-19-Chukat-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The Sabbath day message attempts to explore what the concept of a &#8216;chuk,&#8217; which basically boils down to &#8220;because I said so,&#8221; from Yahuah, has to do with power, corruption, and a world which seems hell-bent on trying to prove that &#8216;the Law&#8217; really HAS been &#8220;done away with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.waytozion.org\/teachings\/mark_call\/2019\/WT-CooH-7-13-19-Chukat.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;Chukat: &#8216;Because I say so!&#8217;, and why we seem to want to learn that the hard way.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternative link via Hebrew Nation Radio:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1971-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/13134608\/WT-CooH-7-13-19-Chukat-Because-I-said-SO-podcast-xx.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/13134608\/WT-CooH-7-13-19-Chukat-Because-I-said-SO-podcast-xx.mp3\">https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/13134608\/WT-CooH-7-13-19-Chukat-Because-I-said-SO-podcast-xx.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-chukat-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>combined podcast page<\/strong> <\/a>on Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2019 Torah cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Chukat&#8221; (Numbers chapters 19 through 21). <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=1971\">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":[5,151,11,12],"tags":[954,98,958,953,955,952,104,956,951,957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971"}],"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=1971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1972,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1971\/revisions\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}