{"id":2127,"date":"2020-05-17T07:10:07","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2020-05-17T07:16:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T13:16:02","slug":"parsha-behar-bechukotai-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2127","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cBehar\u2013 Bechukotai\u201d\u2013 teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Double-Parsha \u201cBehar-Bechukotai\u201d (Leviticus chapter 25 through the end of the Book) begins with instructions that Yahuah gave to Moses &#8220;Behar Sinai,&#8221; or on Mount Sinai. They start with the &#8220;shemitta&#8221; year, or year of rest for the land on a seven-year cycle. And like so many other things that don&#8217;t SEEM to apply, now that we&#8217;re in exile after being kicked OUT of the land so many centuries ago, &#8220;for cause&#8221;, many of us have bought into the lie that all of such &#8220;old testament&#8221; stuff doesn&#8217;t matter anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is arguably one of the reasons why we are still IN exile!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there is far more, and it matters far more now than ever before in our history.<\/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\/16131702\/SSM-5-15-20-Behar-Bechukotai-teaching-podcast-x.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sabbath midrash picks up with a question that has been asked frequently concerning the curses of Leviticus chapter 26, and Deuteronomy 28: WHY does Yah go into so much more graphic detail about the CURSES for rebellion to Him than He does the blessings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The answer seems to be playing out RIGHT NOW, all around us, and perhaps as never before in history!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBehar-Bechukotai: Curses for CAUSE!\u201d<\/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\/16134846\/WT-CooH-5-16-20-Behar-Bechukotai-Curses-for-Cause-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part teaching is <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-behar-bechukotai-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double-Parsha \u201cBehar-Bechukotai\u201d (Leviticus chapter 25 through the end of the Book) begins with instructions that Yahuah gave to Moses &#8220;Behar Sinai,&#8221; or on Mount Sinai. They start with the &#8220;shemitta&#8221; year, or year of rest for the land on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2127\">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":[5,3,151,35,31,9,11],"tags":[510,231,38,1218,1191,443,142,1217,598,377,104,674,1220,597,1219,212,876,114,203,122,92,101,376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127"}],"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=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}