{"id":2123,"date":"2020-05-10T10:50:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T16:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2020-05-10T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T16:50:44","slug":"2123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cKedoshim &#8211; Emor\u201d\u2013 teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One more week, Mark combines a somewhat different than traditional pairing of Torah portions in the annual sequence, but, after all, the Biblical-scale global economic and social[ist] upheaval certainly marks &#8220;interesting times&#8221; that fit as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parsha &#8220;Kedoshim&#8221; (Leviticus chapters 19 and 20) is literally about what that word means. &#8220;Y&#8217;all be &#8216;holy&#8217;, in the southern plural conjugation of the word into English, is outlined by the specifics. And the following parsha, &#8220;Emor&#8221; (Leviticus chapters 21 through 24) takes the next logical step, by outlining how those who are specifically, by birth and avocation, set apart to Yahuah, are held to a still-higher standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat overview covers the specifics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/10093626\/SSM-5-2-20-Kedoshim-Emor-double-parsha-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption><strong>SSM Kedoshim-Emor combined 5-8-20<\/strong><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath midrash begins with the fundamental question: &#8220;What is &#8216;holiness&#8217;?&#8221; Given the Big Lie that most of us have been exposed to for far too long, from denial of what the Book actually says in the form of everyting from &#8220;over-spiritualization&#8221; to outright obfuscation, maybe it&#8217;s not surprising that the word &#8216;holy&#8217; has become a riddle.<br><strong>&#8220;Kedoshim &#8211; Emor: Why being SET APART to Yahuah has NEVER Been More Vital!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/10092322\/WT-CooH-5-8-20-Kedoshim-Emor-Time-to-Be-Set-Apart-to-YHVH-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part teaching is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-kedoshim-emor-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via the Hebrew Nation Radio page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more week, Mark combines a somewhat different than traditional pairing of Torah portions in the annual sequence, but, after all, the Biblical-scale global economic and social[ist] upheaval certainly marks &#8220;interesting times&#8221; that fit as well. Parsha &#8220;Kedoshim&#8221; (Leviticus chapters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2123\">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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123"}],"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=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2125,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}