{"id":2504,"date":"2022-11-27T07:23:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T14:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2022-11-27T07:23:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T14:23:44","slug":"parsha-chayei-sarah-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2504","title":{"rendered":"Parsha \u201cChayei Sarah\u201d teaching from Shabbat Shalom Mesa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa fellowship for a two-part look at the final parsha specific to the life of Abraham, parsha &#8220;Chayei Sarah&#8221; (Genesis chapter 23 through 25:`8). It&#8217;s also what Mark calls THE &#8220;Common Law&#8221; parsha, because it details some of the singularly most fundamental concepts &#8211; by means of stories &#8211; that once, at least, formed the basis for all law in English-speaking countries, from &#8216;contract,&#8217; to &#8216;money,&#8217; to &#8216;power or attorney&#8217; (aka, what it REALLY means to &#8220;come in the name of&#8221;) to marriage. The was He specified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sequence again begins with the Erev Shabbat reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/SSM-11-18-22-Chayei-Sarah-teaching-podcast-xx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark suggests that this portion is a good example of why &#8220;torah&#8221; means FAR more than the typical translation to English of &#8220;law&#8221; &#8211; because HERE is &#8216;precedent&#8217; that serves as the basis for far more than just &#8220;statutes, judgments, and commandments.&#8221; It&#8217;s TEACHING, by example, by stories we can understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, most of the Whore Church tries to teach that &#8220;the Law has been <em>done away with.&#8221;<\/em> Funny, that&#8217;s what we see when it comes to just about everything that once mattered, too &#8211; from honest money, to integrity, to elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that is the key to this week&#8217;s midrash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Chayei Sarah: The Common Law Parsha &#8211; and &#8211; What does it mean to &#8220;Make Sure?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WT-CooH-11-19-22-Chayei-Sarah-what-does-MADE-SURE-mean-podcast-xxx.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The combined two-part podcast is <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hebrewnationonline.com\/mark-call-parsha-chayei-sarah-teaching-from-shabbat-shalom-mesa-4\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong> via Hebrew Nation Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Call of Shabbat Shalom Mesa&#8217;s 2022\/23 Torah cycle teachings for &#8216;the Common Law Parsha,&#8217; Chayei Sarah (Genesis chapter 23 through 25:8). <a href=\"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/?p=2504\">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":[5,1742,3,151,4,11,1739],"tags":[153,26,724,88,477,152,305,104,208,154,212,318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504"}],"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=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markniwot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}