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The rules and regulations found in Leviticus 15, for the most part, have to do with ritual purity and impurity, that comes about from various emissions from the bodies of men and women. However, two of the verses require sin offerings associated with the individual being \u201ccured\u201d of his\/her abnormal condition: \u201cThe priest shall offer them, the one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. Thus, the priest shall make expiation on his\/her behalf\u201d (v. 15, repeated in v. 30 for the female).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Are we to assume that disease or continual bodily emissions are divine punishments for some type of infraction, and thus should require a sin sacrifice and atonement on the part of the person who is now declared pure?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

According to the Talmud, sickness is one of the four categories of human situations that are mentioned in Psalm 107 (\u201cAll food was loathsome to them; they reached the gates of death\u201d):<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rav Yehuda said that Rav said: Four must offer thanks to God\u2026 They are: 1) seafarers, 2) those who walk in the desert, and 3) one who was ill and recovered, and 4) one who was incarcerated in prison and went out\u2026 (Berachot 54b)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And although the individuals so afflicted, according to the bible, may have been previously sinful, the Psalm does not mention their having to bring an obligatory sin offering. If anything, an optional thanksgiving offering should be brought for having been cured by God!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jonathan Sacks offers an understanding of ritual impurity that can be applied to the cases of the <\/span>zav<\/em> <\/span>and the <\/span>zava<\/span><\/em>\u2019s\u00a0<\/em> having to present a sin offering at the conclusion of their preclusion from the Tabernacle\/Temple. In his 2019 <\/span>essay for Parashat Tazria, \u201cThe Sacrifices of Childbirth<\/span><\/a>,\u201d Rabbi Sacks posits that:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u2026 from a human perspective, the experience of being in the domain of the holy was an experience of pure transcendence. God is eternal. God is spiritual. We and the universe are physical and whatever is physical is subject to birth, growth, decline, decay, and death. It is these things that must be excluded from the Sanctuary if we are to have the experience of standing in the presence of eternity. What therefore bars us from entering the holy is anything that reminds us or others of our mortality: the fact that we are born and will one day die...\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Since mortality has been an aspect of human existence from the time of the Creation, ritual impurity has been an existential aspect of humanity as well, indicated by the sin offering that is required before one can reenter the precincts associated with God. Therefore, the sin sacrifice can be understood in the situations of the cure from impurity, as indicating a general state of mankind, rather than a specific infraction committed by the one who was declared as \u201critually impure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cAnyone who touches their bedding shall wash his clothes, bathe in water, and remain unclean until evening\u201d (verse 5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

During the discussion of the <\/span>zav<\/span><\/em>, someone who most likely had a bacterial infection of their genitals, the Torah introduces the concept of <\/span>midras<\/span><\/em>. In the complicated regime of <\/span>tum\u2019ah<\/em> <\/span>and <\/span>taharah<\/em> <\/span>- purity and impurity - certain things impart impurity in different ways to others. A main source of <\/span>tum\u2019ah<\/span><\/em> is to come in contact with another person or object thereby imparting a lower level of impurity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This gets much more complicated when dealing with dead bodies in structures and creepy animals. For a <\/span>zav<\/em> <\/span>or <\/span>zava<\/span>, <\/span><\/em>midras<\/em> <\/span>is a unique way of imparting impurity. A <\/span>midras<\/em> <\/span>is an object that is usually used for the purpose of someone resting or standing or riding on it. Rambam provides five examples: 1) sitting on the <\/span>midras<\/em> <\/span>e.g., like a chair of bench, 2) lying on the <\/span>midras<\/em> <\/span>like a rug, 3) leaning on the <\/span>midras<\/span><\/em>, 4) standing on the <\/span>midras<\/em> <\/span>like a mat, 5) hanging from the <\/span>midras<\/span><\/em>. Once the <\/span>zav<\/em> <\/span>or <\/span>zava<\/em> <\/span>imparts impurity to the <\/span>midras<\/em> <\/span>then it can then pass impurity to something else in seven ways- if the person touches the <\/span>midras<\/span><\/em>, carries the <\/span>midras<\/span><\/em>, sits on the <\/span>midras<\/span><\/em>, lies on the <\/span>midras<\/span><\/em>, leans on the <\/span>midras<\/span><\/em>, stands on the <\/span>midras<\/em> <\/span>or hangs from the <\/span>midras<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The <\/span>midras<\/em> <\/span>object is powerful enough to pass along impurity through multiple layers. For example, if a saddle became a <\/span>midras<\/em> <\/span>object because a <\/span>zav<\/em> <\/span>rode on it, and then someone else placed ten layers of blankets on top of the saddle before riding it, the second rider would still contract first level tum'ah<\/em>. The idea behind the <\/span>midras<\/em> <\/span>is unknown. Perhaps due to the physically as well as spiritually contagious nature of the <\/span>zav<\/em> <\/span>or <\/span>zava<\/span><\/em>, the Torah and subsequently the rabbis, wanted to create extra levels of protection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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There is a troubling irony in our modern treatment of the laws of impurity. On the whole, in the absence of the Temple, these laws are no longer relevant to everyday life. The one very important exception are the laws of <\/span>niddah<\/span><\/i>, menstrual impurity, which remain in effect, defining and challenging the most intimate aspects of people's lives to this day.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But here's the irony. If all of the laws of purity were still practiced, we probably wouldn't have any problem differentiating between them, and maintaining as distinct the unique laws of each type. As chapter 15 emphasizes, not all impurities are created equal.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But because <\/span>niddah<\/span><\/i> is the last vestige of purity law, it has, over time, folded within itself aspects of other, more demanding types of impurity. This is troubling in a practical sense, causing the time that a couple cannot be intimate to extend significantly every month, and in some cases, causing serious challenges to bearing children. It's also troubling philosophically, erasing a fundamental distinction between types of impurities that the Torah intends to make.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter 15 makes this crystal clear. Four paragraphs, four different situations, the first two of men, the second two of women. The first and last paragraphs speak of impurity caused by an abnormal emission. These very clearly contrast the middle two paragraphs, which speak of impurity caused by a normal emission. The difference is seen immediately in the amount of text devoted to the abnormal cases, 24 verses, as opposed to only 9 which deal with normal impurity. More fundamentally, abnormal impurity requires a 7-day time-out of purity, and then the bringing of sacrifices to achieve atonement. Normal impurity just takes time, and a good cleaning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As if to ensure that the banality of this impurity is not lost on the reader, the Torah finishes its treatment of the topic with a law which leaves out some very important information. If a man sleeps with a woman during her <\/span>niddah<\/span><\/i> impurity...he too becomes impure. No mention of what the Torah will explain in three more chapters, that this action is abominable, and punishable by karet, and defiles the land, etc, etc. Within the context of chapter 15, the point seems to be- sometimes people are impure. Occasional brushes with small tastes of death are a fact of life. This needs to be observed, respected, and moved on from in good time, and without too much pomp and circumstance. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In today's practice of <\/span>niddah<\/span><\/em>, we've lost the natural, low-key attitude the Torah presents us, and the price we pay is high.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Lev 15:19 \"When a woman has a discharge, her discharge being blood from her body, she shall remain in her impurity seven days; whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jewish tradition has mixed feelings about what it means to come into adulthood. On the one hand, there is a ceremony put together to celebrate when children become b'nai mitzvah as they are now legally adults.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On the other hand, when young men and women begin emitting bodily fluids that mark the formal beginning of their puberty they are said to be ritually impure. Discharge from boys leads to impurity till later that evening, discharge from girls leads to impurity for seven days.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Mikveh is necessary for all to wash themselves off.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To some extent, they are being reborn. They will re-enter the world as different beings. Should this moment of arrival be a point of dignity or of disgust?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In 2009 a book called 'My Little Red Book' was released. This was also a time when some parents were throwing their daughters \"period parties.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

'My Little Red Book' is a collection of short stories from women recalling their first periods: \"the accounts range from light-hearted (the editor got hers while water skiing in a yellow bathing suit) to heart-stopping (a first period discovered just as one girl was about to be strip-searched by the Nazis).\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The tension between this body-skeptical philosophy of Leviticus and the vision of universal human divinity from Genesis presents modern religious beings with a range of options for how to relate to our bodies. We have a choice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

'My Little Red Book' says that it is \"more than a collection of stories. It is a call for a change in attitude, for a new way of seeing periods. In a time when the taboo around menstruation seems to be one of the few left standing, it makes a difficult subject easier to talk about, and helps girls feel proud instead of embarrassed or ashamed.\" <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Amen to that.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The sidrot<\/em> of Tazria and Metsora contain laws which are among the most difficult to understand. They are about conditions of \u201cimpurity\u201d arising from the fact that we are physical beings, embodied souls.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Throughout history there have been two distinct and opposing ways of relating to this fact: hedonism (living for physical pleasure) and asceticism (relinquishing physical pleasure). The former worships the physical while denying the spiritual, the latter enthrones the spiritual at the cost of the physical.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Jewish way has always been different: to sanctify the physical \u2013 eating, drinking, sex and rest \u2013 making the life of the body a vehicle for the divine presence. The reason is simple. We believe with perfect faith that the God of redemption is also the God of creation. The physical world we inhabit is the one God made and pronounced \u201cvery good.\u201d To be a hedonist is to deny God. To be an ascetic is to deny the goodness of God\u2019s world. To be a Jew is to celebrate both creation and Creator. That is the principle that explains many otherwise incomprehensible features of Jewish life.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The principle essential to understanding the laws of ritual purity and impurity is that God is life. Judaism is a profound rejection of cults, ancient and modern, that glorify death. The great pyramids of Egypt were grandiose tombs. Arthur Koestler noted that without death \u201cthe cathedrals collapse, the pyramids vanish into the sand, the great organs become silent.\u201d The English metaphysical poets turned to it constantly as a theme.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It follows that kedushah<\/em> (holiness) \u2013 a point in time or space where we stand in the unmediated presence of God \u2013 involves a supreme consciousness of life. That is why the paradigm case of tumah<\/em> is contact with a corpse. Other cases of tumah<\/em> include diseases or bodily emissions that remind us of our mortality. God\u2019s domain is life. Therefore it may not be associated in any way with intimations of death. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is how Judah Halevi explains the purity laws in his work The Kuzari: \u201cA dead body represents the highest degree of loss of life, and a leprous limb is as if it were dead. It is the same with the loss of seed, because it had been endowed with living power, capable of engendering a human being. Its loss therefore forms a contrast to the living and breathing\u201d (Kuzari, II: 60).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The laws of purity apply exclusively to Israel, argues Halevi, precisely because Judaism is the supreme religion of life, and its adherents are therefore hyper-sensitive to even the most subtle distinctions between life and death.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From: The Scapegoat: Shame and Guilt (Covenant & Conversation, Acharei Mot \u2013 Kedoshim 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Leviticus 15 ends a section about bodily impurities that began with the messiness of birth (Leviticus 12), continued with flesh-eating diseases (Leviticus 13-14) and now concludes with a discussion of regular and irregular genital discharges. These chapters seem to be anything other than attractive, yet a surprising Midrash (Leviticus Rabbah 19:14) urges readers to discover their God-given beauty. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash first admits that even the rabbis of the Talmudic age dreaded having to give sermons on the Sabbaths when these \u201cugly\u201d chapters were read:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Shim\u02bfon b. R. Yitz\u1e25aq explained the verse \u201cHis head is finest gold, his locks are curled and black as a raven (ke\u02bforev<\/em>)\u201d (Song of Songs 5:11) as referring to portions of the Torah. Even though they seem as if they are ugly (kheurot<\/em>), as if they are too black to speak of in public \u2013 for example the laws of discharge and skin diseases\u2026<\/p>\r\n

Yet by ever so slightly playing with the Hebrew word for the ugly non-kosher bird, raven \u2013 \u2018<\/em><\/span>orev<\/span><\/em> \u2013 so that reads as <\/span>\u2018arev<\/span><\/em> \u2013 pleasant, the Midrash argues that what humans perceive as ugly is actually pleasant to God:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Holy One blessed is He said: \u201cThey are pleasing (<\/span>\u02bfarevot<\/span><\/em>) to me.\u201d This is what is said: \u201cThen the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem shall be pleasing (<\/span>\u02bfarvah<\/span><\/em>) to the Lord\u201d (Malachi 2.15).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash demonstrates this from the chiastic arrangement of Leviticus 15 \u00a0- A] irregular male discharges, B] regular male discharges, B\u2019] regular female discharges, and A\u2019] irregular female discharges - which instead of condensing the rules of male and female irregular discharges into a more compact text, unhurriedly, almost lovingly, lingers over the messy details:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You should know that this really is the case, since the biblical portion dealing with male and female gonorrheans were not said [by God] as one, rather this one by itself and that one by itself: \u201cWhen any man has a discharge issuing from his member\u201d (Leviticus 15:2); \u201cWhen a woman has had a [irregular] discharge of blood\u201d (Leviticus 15:25). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The message of this Midrash is crucial for Torah study, and for life. Even those things which appear ugly and devoid of beauty, in fact pulsate with divine splendor. 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Following upon the previous parasha<\/em>, Metsora\u2019 <\/em>deals with bringing a healed leper back into the camp. It begins with God telling Moses: \u201cThis shall be the ritual for a leper at the time that he is to be cleaned\" (Lev. 14: 2). The priest shall go outside the camp, and begin the rite of purification. Interestingly, there are no instructions in either parasha<\/em> for curing the afflicted. The priests were only told how to diagnose the disease and distance the sufferers from the camp so that they would not defile the surroundings of the Tabernacle. The only recourse for the unclean was to atone and pray to God to cure them.<\/p>\r\n

Once free of the disease, there was a complicated two-part ritual before they were allowed to re-enter the camp. First, the priest took two clean birds; he killed one and mixed its blood with fresh water; he dipped the other bird into the diluted blood and let it go, whereupon it flew away. The sufferer then washed himself and his clothes, shaved his head, and then sat outside his tent for seven days. On the eighth day he was allowed to re-enter the camp, at which time he brought four types of offerings to the Tabernacle, thereby fulfilling the second part of the ritual. Why did the rite have two distinct parts? What was the significance of the two birds?<\/p>\r\n

In his painting, Avner Moriah visualizes the first part of this purification ritual. In the background, we see yellow hills typical of the desert environs of the Israelite camp. A round-topped tent on the left suggests the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the area of the encampment. Although the Bible does not specify that it was the High Priest who performed the purification ceremony, it does refer to \u201cthe\u201d priest. The artist interprets this as an allusion to the High Priest, holding two birds, wearing his ritual garments: the tunic; the robe of the ephod with its hem of pomegranates and bells; the breastplate of judgment with its precious stones; and the miter.<\/p>\r\n

The image is rendered in a style called \u201cconceptual,\u201d rather than \u201coptical,\u201d which was common in the ancient world, for portraying an important figure engaged in a significant act. Thus he appears in a perspective that combines a profile view of the head, legs, and arms with a frontal view of the eye, shoulders, and chest.<\/p>\r\n

The formal image of the High Priest holding the two white birds signifies two relevant points. First, the idea of repentance and atonement as prerequisites for curing leprosy is reminiscent of the Day of Atonement, wherein the High Priest brings two goats, one for a purification offering and one to be sent away as a scapegoat. 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When the Israelites enter the land, new conditions hold.\u00a0 The ailment of \u201ctzara\u2019at<\/em>\u201d some kind of transmittable skin condition is able to be transmitted to houses. We learn that \u201cWhen you arrive in the land of Canaan that I give you as a possession and I will place the plague of \u2018tza\u2019ra\u2019at<\/em>\u2019 upon a house in the land that you possess\u201d (Leviticus 14:34)\u00a0 Though this affliction had been able to be transmitted by humans before, it is only now, once the Israelites enter the land that it can be in their houses.<\/p>\r\n

As we have seen in the recounting of how to be cured from \u2018tzara\u2019at<\/em>\u2019 in earlier chapters of Leviticus, this plague is not just a disease, it is a reminder of a spiritual lack, of something in a person\u2019s attitude that needs adjustment.\u00a0 Now that the Israelites will be possessing the land, the description of the affliction here seems to be suggesting that their relationship to their houses has to change as well.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The Talmud, in Yoma 11b, discusses this verse and says that there is an unhealthy sense of possession when a person thinks a home is his alone and that he need not lend things to others when asked.\u00a0 The measure-for-measure punishment meted out to this stingy individual is that he must remove all belongings from the house (Leviticus 14:36) so that all in the community are able to see what is in this person\u2019s possession.\u00a0 The level of responsibility, both to the land itself and to care for one another has changed now that the land belongs to the Israelites.\u00a0 To truly possess it, they must acknowledge that it is not<\/em> solely theirs, but has been given to them by God, who wishes them to continue to distribute the gifts which have been bestowed upon them. When a person shares their possessions, their house will not be afflicted with this plague.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Paired with this portion this year is the Haftarah for the Sabbath before Passover, from Malachi 3:4-24 which ends with the injunction that \u201che will return the heart of the parents to children and the heart of children to their parents\u201d (3:24).\u00a0 The sense the Haftarah conveys, that in order for teaching to be passed along there must be a reconciliation and an understanding between the generations, is the same sense of solidarity that sharing items from your home with others conveys. \u00a0To be in the land, to have some kind of permanence and to be able to transmit anything, whether a house or a teaching, one needs to have the empathy with others that will lead to both sharing of possessions and reconciliation between 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\"When a man has an emission of semen, he shall immerse all his flesh in water and remain impure until the evening.\" (Leviticus 15:16)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I'm not the man the Torah wanted me<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>to be, the man my father's prayer book thought<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I should become. You see how shadows caught<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>me when I tried to wear a mask, You see<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>they brought a Mirror of Integrity<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>and made me see myself. They also brought<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>me books they wrote in Shadowese which taught<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>me tenets of eventide theology.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The shadows showed me that before I pray<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>I need to face the truth about myself.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Although I may not be the person who<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>recites my father's prayers, although I may<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>be someone else, upon my closet shelf<\/span>
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  1. Purification math.<\/em> 7 + 1. That\u2019s the formula for the purification of men and women who experience emissions, similar to the purification of the <\/span>metzora<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>from the previous chapter. And to go back further, also in the dedication of the Mishkan (chs. 8,9) there were seven days of ordination + the eighth day.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The Mishkan.<\/em> If you asked yourself why that purification is so important, you can find a reason in verse 31: \u201cYou shall put the Israelites on guard against their uncleanness, lest they die through their uncleanness by defiling My Tabernacle which is among them.\u201d The presence of the Mishkan in the camp requires purity.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Offerings, sin and otherwise<\/em>. The sacrifices that people undergoing purification bring express the need for cleansing, and the need to renew the possibility to draw close once again to the sacred after the distancing that occurred as a result of the physical impurity. <\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Leviticus 15","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Leviticus","chapter":"15","chapter_main_number":"105","date":"20260122","wall_id":"105"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/44942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}