{"id":2256,"date":"2021-04-25T07:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T13:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2256"},"modified":"2021-04-25T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T13:06:22","slug":"parsha-yitro-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2256","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cYitro\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part study of parsha Yitro (Exodus\/Shemot chapters 18 through 20). Among other things, this one famously includes the &#8216;marriage covenant at Sinai,&#8217; and thus the first &#8216;download&#8217; of the &#8216;Ten Debarim,&#8217; sayings, words, or\u2026commandments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it begins with the story of Moshe&#8217;s father-in-law, Yitro, (or &#8216;Jethro,&#8217; in the usual English rendering) who turns out to have some pretty good advice to impart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat overview lays out the story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/hebrewnation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/06134515\/SSM-2-5-21-Yitro-teaching-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Early in this story, Yitro tells his son-in-law that he is literally overburdening himself &#8212; now we&#8217;d say heading to &#8220;burnout,&#8221; and this is &#8220;lo tov,&#8221; NOT good. Interesting, though, this phrase is only used one other place in the Torah, Genesis 2:18, where it is &#8216;lo tov&#8217; that Adam should be alone. And here is Moses surrounded by people, yet managing to ACT like he has to do it all alone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somehow, there&#8217;s a very important message in there for us as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Yitro: What is &#8216;Lo Tov&#8217; today?&#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\/2021\/02\/06142113\/WT-CooH-2-6-21-Yitro-Avoid-being-Lo-Tov-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part teaching is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-yitro-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>, via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2021 Torah cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Yitro&#8221; (Exodus chapters 18 through 20). <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2256\">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\/2256"}],"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=2256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}