{"id":2450,"date":"2022-07-10T07:14:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T13:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2022-07-16T20:21:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T02:21:15","slug":"parsha-korach-numbers-ch-16-thru-18-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cChukat\u201d (Numbers ch 19 thru 22:1) teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The parsha this week may be one of the most &#8216;appropriately named&#8217; in the Torah, because &#8216;chukat&#8217; may be translated as &#8220;statute,&#8221; but it REALLY means, &#8220;do this because I say so!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at parsha &#8216;Chukat&#8217; (Numbers chapters 19 through 22:1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Erev Shabbat reading and outline of the parsha includes some of the most significant &#8220;life and death&#8221; issues in the Torah. Which is more than ironic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/SSM-7-8-22-Chukat-teaching-podcast-x.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nor only ia best way to understand the concept of a &#8216;chuq&#8217; to &#8220;do this because I say so,&#8221; but as Mark outlines in the Sabbath Day teaching, that is precisely the underlying theme to the entire parsha. And that is precisely why life and death are, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Chukat: the Real? or the Snake-on-a-Stick?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WT-CooH-7-9-22-Chukat-ze-BidenFuhrer-and-the-Snake-on-a-Stick-podcast-xxxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part podcast is <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/parsha-chukat-numbers-ch-19-thru-221-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/parsha-chukat-numbers-ch-19-thru-221-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2022 Torah-cycle teachings for parsha &#8220;Chukat&#8221; (Numbers 19:1-22:1) and related Scripture (John chapter 3, II Kings 18).<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2450\">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":[5,11,12],"tags":[1726,28,98,88,63,104,1725,630,951,1727,212,318,92,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"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=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2453,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}