{"id":38149,"date":"2018-08-19T11:29:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T08:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=38149"},"modified":"2022-03-14T13:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T11:59:03","slug":"jacobs-evening-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/jacobs-evening-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob\u2019s Evening Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[363,411,437,354],"acf":{"old_id":"38149","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33923,"related_cahpter":"28","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Jacob signifies God\u2019s encounter with us \u2013 unplanned, unscheduled, unexpected; the vision, the voice, the call we can never know in advance but which leaves us transformed","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacob completed the cycle of [the three] daily prayers: Abraham instituted <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shacharit<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the morning prayer, Isaac <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">minchah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the afternoon prayer, and Jacob <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arvit<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the prayer of night-time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is, however, a difficulty with the idea that Jacob introduced the evening prayer. In a famous episode in the Talmud, Rabbi Joshua takes the view that, unlike <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shacharit<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">minchah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the evening prayer is not obligatory (though, as the commentators note, it has become obligatory through the acceptance of generations of Jews). Why, if it was instituted by Jacob, was it not held to carry the same obligation as the prayers of Abraham and Isaac? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jacob \u201cmet, encountered, came across\u201d God [<\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vayifga bamakom<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]. Jacob\u2019s prayer is very different. He does not initiate it. His thoughts are elsewhere \u2013 on Esau from whom he is escaping, and on Laban to whom he is travelling. It is unexpected. Jacob literally \u201cencounters\u201d God as we can sometimes encounter a familiar face among a crowd of strangers. This is a meeting brought about by God, not man. That is why Jacob\u2019s prayer could not be made the basis of a regular obligation. None of us knows when the presence of God will suddenly intrude into our lives. There is an element of the religious life that is beyond conscious control. It comes out of nowhere, when we are least expecting it. Jacob signifies God\u2019s encounter with us \u2013 unplanned, unscheduled, unexpected; the vision, the voice, the call we can never know in advance but which leaves us transformed. <\/span><\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"Jacob\u2019s Evening Prayer","main_caption":"Jacob signifies God\u2019s encounter with us \u2013 unplanned, unscheduled, unexpected; the vision, the voice, the call we can never know in advance but which leaves us transformed","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"old_create_date":"","links":false,"send_noty":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102981,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38149\/revisions\/102981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}