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Chapter 17 can be split into two parts. The first is God\u2019s instruction to Elazar and Aaron concerning the incense shovels and incense, and the second is the test with Aaron and his staff. What is the message of these two events after the Korach rebellion? If Korach and his co-conspirators, including the 250 leaders were all killed either by the earthquake or by the fire, why is there a need for these two subsequent signs?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To answer this question, we first need to look at these two events. In the first, God tells Elazar to take the copper incense shovels used by the 250 leaders and beat them into the outer altar. The message here is that no one except for the priests should be allowed to offer up incense. As a postscript, God also has Aaron walk amongst the people with incense to save them from another plague. Event number one has echoes of the death of Aaron\u2019s own sons. The Torah uses the same word \u201c<\/span>zar<\/span><\/em> - foreign\u201d to discuss the incense here as it did for Aaron\u2019s sons. One of the interpretations as to why Aaron\u2019s sons were killed was that they undermined their father\u2019s leadership by bringing the foreign fire to burn the incense before Aaron had a chance to be involved. But their death occurred inside the Mishkan, out of the sight of the people. The people clearly did not learn the proper lesson as these 250 men met the same fate as they both also died by fire. This time, God has the reminder placed on the outer altar so that everyone can see and be reminded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Next, God has the 12 princes bring their staffs together with Aaron\u2019s staff. When Aaron\u2019s staff grows almond blossoms the next morning, it is brought inside the Mishkan as a lesson to those who murmur against him. These princes were not the ones to complain to Moses or Aaron. Why are they forced into this test? Why is Aaron\u2019s staff placed inside the Mishkan if it is supposed to be a symbol for those murmuring against him? It must be that this sign is not for the people like the copper shovels, but for the other Levites and priests. The other leaders are brought to this test to show that even these great individuals are not worthy of Aaron\u2019s special status; all the more so the regular priests and levites are not worthy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These two symbols- the shovels outside and the staff inside - are meant as a warning to those external threats and internal threats to Aaron.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cAny dispute for the sake of heaven will have enduring value, but every dispute not for the sake of Heaven will not have enduring value. What is an example of a dispute for the sake of heaven? The dispute between Hillel and Shammai. What is an example of one not for the sake of heaven? The dispute of Korach and all his company\u201d (Mishnah Avot 5: 21).<\/span>
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The rabbis did not conclude from the Korach rebellion that argument is wrong, that leaders are entitled to unquestioning obedience, that the supreme value in Judaism should be \u2013 as it is in some faiths \u2013 submission. To the contrary: argument is the lifeblood of Judaism, so long as it is rightly motivated and essentially constructive in its aims.<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>Judaism is a unique phenomenon: a civilization all of whose canonical texts are anthologies of argument. In Tanakh, the heroes of faith \u2013 Abraham, Moses, Jeremiah, Job \u2013 argue with God. Midrash is founded on the premise that there are \u201cseventy faces\u201d \u2013 seventy legitimate interpretations \u2013 of Torah. The Mishnah is largely constructed on the model of \u201cRabbi X says this, Rabbi Y says that.\u201d The Talmud, far from resolving these arguments, usually deepens them considerably. Argument in Judaism is a holy activity, the ongoing internal dialogue of the Jewish people as it reflects on the terms of its destiny and the demands of its faith.<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>What then made the argument of Korach and his co-conspirators different from that of the schools of Hillel and Shammai? \u00a0Rabbenu Yona offered a simple explanation. An argument for the sake of Heaven is one that is about truth. An argument not for the sake of Heaven is about power. The difference is immense. If I argue for the sake of truth, then if I win, I win. But if I lose, I also win, because being defeated by the truth is the only defeat that is also a victory. I am enlarged. I learn something I did not know before.<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>In a contest for power, if I lose, I lose. But if I win, I also lose, because in diminishing my opponents I have diminished myself. Moses could not have had a more decisive vindication than the miracle for which he asked and was granted: that the ground open up and swallow his opponents. Yet not only did this not end the argument, it diminished the respect in which Moses was held: \u201cThe next day the whole Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron. \u2018You have killed the Lord\u2019s people,\u2019 they said.\u201d (Num. 17:6). That Moses needed to resort to force was itself a sign that he had been dragged down to the level of the rebels. That is what happens when power, not truth, is at stake.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

From:\u00a0<\/span>When truth is sacrificed to power (Covenant & Conversation, <\/span>Korach <\/span>5775)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

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After Korach\u2019s dramatic and failed rebellion against Moses and Aaron, God tells Moses to collect the staffs of all the tribal leaders and to write the name of each leader on his particular staff. Moses is then instructed to place all the of staffs in the<\/span> Ohel Moed<\/span><\/em>, the Tent of Meeting. God explains that the man whose staff miraculously blooms is the person whom God has chosen to lead the nation. The next day, the staff of Aaron from the tribe of Levi had grown almond blossoms thus indicating that Aaron was God\u2019s chosen leader.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Of all the ways that God could have distinguished Aaron\u2019s staff from the others - gilding it in gold, transforming it into a crown, etc- why did God specifically choose that it sprout almond blossoms?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Shlomo Zalman HaKohen Kook (c.1844-1929) offers an interesting and relevant interpretation. He explains that an almond is a fruit that grows in one of two ways; it either starts off sweet and turns bitter or it starts off bitter and ends up sweet. This also reflects two different approaches toward <\/span>machloket<\/span><\/em> (disagreement). There are those who view <\/span>machloket<\/span><\/i> as a \u201csweet\u201d opportunity to prove they\u2019re superior and sow discord, which leads to lasting bitterness and anger. On the other hand, there are those who view machloket as a bitter starting point that can ultimately end in compromise and mutual respect if all parties are willing to put in the necessary effort to resolve the dispute.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the aftermath of the bitter power struggle launched by Korach, God teaches the tribal leaders and the nation that those engaging with <\/span>machloket<\/span><\/em> should do so with an eye toward achieving the genuinely sweet outcome of peace and progress rather than being proven right. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This message is true in all eras but it particularly resonates in today\u2019s climate. If we keep this story of the almond blossom in mind, perhaps it will help us build an environment of civil discourse, respect, and peace.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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For the third time in the Korach story, Moses' situation is dire, as Israelis would say, \u201con the face\u201d <\/span>al hapanim<\/span><\/i>. Literally. But the last time God declared his intentions to wipe out the entire congregation, Moses could fall on his face, but still have something to say. \"Will You be angry with the entire congregation on the account of one man's sin?\" <\/span><\/p>\r\n

This time, Moses couldn't make that claim. It really was the entire congregation at fault, and they insisted on blaming Moses and Aaron, despite all of the miracles, for the deadly consequences of their own rebellion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So what does a true leader of the Jewish people do when God tells him to remove himself from a sinful, ungrateful, unworthy people?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Moses' response ought to make every Jewish leader think long and hard about the dynamics of his relationship to God's law, on the one hand, and to the Jewish people, on the other.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"Go, <\/span>quickly<\/b>, <\/i>to the congregation<\/em><\/b>,<\/em> and atone for them.\"<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The text repeatedly emphasizes how Aaron's actions take the exact opposite direction of God's command\u05e5 He goes <\/span>\"into the midst<\/span> of the congregation\" and stands on the frontlines, \"between the living and the dead,\" essentially doing battle against God's decree, while having every justification to let the people suffer their punishment.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is the only kind of leader that God chooses: one who makes unconditional commitment to the Jewish people\u00a0 their ultimate value. 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In one of the most troubling and violent tales of the Torah, God\u2019s strikes down the uprising of Korach and his followers against Moses, Aaron, Miriam, and their leadership. While Korach uses the language of radical democracy and equality, his assault on the wisdom, effectiveness, and experience of Moses is troubling, not only to the reader, but apparently also to God, who opens the earth and swallows Korach and his band whole. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But that\u2019s not all! After the earth closes over them, God tells Moses to remove the fire pans of the rebels and to \u201clet them be made into hammered sheets and plating for the altar (3).\u201d How astonishing that the very implements used to rebel against Moses (and God) attain a sanctity even as they fail. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In a perverse way, Korach gets what he was seeking \u2013 a permanent place in the holiest spot on earth.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The lesson seems to be that we are, each of us, the result of our entire histories \u2013 the good, the tragic, the mistakes, the generosity and the malice. Everything we have done becomes a part of who we now are. It may be our choice how the past comes with us into the future, either as the launchpad for lessons learned and errors renounced, or as mistakes waiting to ambush us yet again as we repeat them tomorrow. But come with us, they will. All of them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The altar of our lives is plated with the beaten copper of our experiences, joyous and sad. The ways we have lifted each other up, and they ways we have held each other down \u2013 all are beaten into the path of who we are becoming and how we got here in the first place.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

My guess is that Moses must have sighed when he heard this command. After all, he must have reasoned, who hasn\u2019t acted in ways that we later regret? In behavior that harmed ourselves or the ones we love? And each time we approach the very altar of our heart, the innermost, sacred space, we will find ourselves face to face with the entirely of our past.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Just as God does with each one of us. In love, knowing our secrets already. 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Despite the fiery end to the abortive rebellion by Korah and his company (chapter 16), the murmuring against Moses and Aaron continues in our chapter (Numbers 17:6). God is now so enraged that He sends a plague to consume the unmanageable congregation of Israelites. But Moses manages to halt the carnage, after 14,700 of the insurgents have died, by burning incense to make atonement for the people (verses 10-15). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In an attempt to stave off further murmuring, God devises a sophisticated plan that ends when Aaron\u2019s Staff miraculously \u201cbudded, and put forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and bore ripe almonds\u201d (verses 16-23). God then tells Moses: \u201cPut Aaron\u2019s staff back before the Ark of the Testimony, to be kept as a reminder to potential rebels, so that their mutterings against Me may cease, lest they die\u201d (verse 25). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Hebrew word mishmeret<\/em>, literally \u201ca preserved remembrance\u201d, suggested to the sages that Aaron\u2019s Staff not only continued to endure well into the future, but also had a prior existence. The Talmud (Bavli, Pesahim 54a) lists Aaron\u2019s Staff among those things created at the very end of the process of Creation (\u201cat twilight before the beginning of the first Shabbat\u201d). The Midrash (Numbers Rabbah 18:23 and parallels) continues the early history of Aaron\u2019s Staff by identifying it with the staff with which Jacob crossed the Jordan (Genesis 32:11), the staff which Judah gave to Tamar as a sign of his pledge (Genesis 38:18), the staff that became a serpent when Moses flung it down at the Burning Bush (Exodus 4:2-4), Aaron\u2019s staff that turned into a serpent and swallowed the serpents of Pharaoh\u2019s magicians (Exodus 7:9-12) and the same staff that Moses then used to bring down the plagues on Egypt (Exodus 7:13-17:9). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

After Aaron\u2019s Staff is placed in the Ark of the Covenant (verses 25-26), it continues to make its appearance throughout the rest of Israelite history. For as the Midrash goes on to record, David took the same staff in his hand when he was about to face Goliath (I Samuel 17:40), and it continued to serve as the royal scepter of every king of Israel until it was hidden away when the Temple was destroyed. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

But Aaron\u2019s staff will return to serve as the scepter of the Messianic King, as it says, \u201cThe staff of Your strength the LORD will send forth from Zion\u2026(Psalms 110:2).
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image:\u00a0Aaron's Rod Budding,\u00a0 illustration from the 1728\u00a0Figures de la Bible<\/em>, illustrated by Gerard Hoet (1648-1733), and others, published by P. de Hondt in The Hague in 1728; image courtesy Bizzell Bible Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries -\u00a0
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\"But the next day, all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against
\r\nMoses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the Lord.<\/span>\" (Numbers 17:6)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It really is a shame<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Video cameras didn't exist<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Three thousand years ago.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Aaron's sons would have filmed<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The exodus on Passover night,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The splitting of the Red Sea,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The manna, the quail,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The water gushing out of the sun-parched rock. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Documentary proof.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But rumors say<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>That in the middle of the desert<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Where the earth swallowed Korah<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>There is a fissure,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>And when you place your ear to the crack<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>On nights of the full moon,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>You can hear him whisper,<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"<\/span>Moses spoke the truth<\/span> \u2014<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Moses and his Torah are the truth<\/span> \u2014 \"<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

It's a shame they don't make<\/span>
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\u201cStanding By and Bystanding\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Tamar Grimm: When should one take action??<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","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":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Numbers 17","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Click to get links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","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":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Numbers","chapter":"17","chapter_main_number":"134","date":"20260304","wall_id":"134"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":12,"id":"106999","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 17 ","post_title":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 17","slug":"points-to-ponder-numbers-17","old_id":"106999","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":false,"related_cahpter":"134","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. What stopped the plague?<\/em> \u201cAaron took it, as Moses had ordered, and ran to the midst of the congregation, where the plague had begun among the people. He put on the incense and made expiation for the people; he stood between the dead and the living until the plague was checked\u201d (verses 12-13). Why did this action stop the plague - was it the atoning power of the incense? Aaron\u2019s status? Or perhaps it was by virtue of the prayer that Moses and Aaron prayed in verse 10?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Memory supports.<\/em> Two items, loaded with memories, were preserved in order to keep alive those memories. The copper firepans of the rebels who were destroyed, became the outer layer of the altar (verses 1-5). Aaron\u2019s staff which flowered miraculously demonstrating that he was God\u2019s chosen, was put \u201cbefore the Pact, to be kept as a lesson to rebels\u201d (verse 25). Both of these memorabilia are preserved in the Temple - in the courtyard and in the holy of holies.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Courage - or chutzpah?<\/em> After the earth which opened up and swallowed Korah and his company, and the fire that came down from the sky and burned up all those offering incense, to blame Moses and Aaron as the ones \u201cwho put to death the people of God\u201d - if that courage, or chutzpah?<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. A wonder within a wonder.<\/em> Aaron\u2019s flowering staff (verse 23) is like a miracle squared. A dry stick that returns to life, and in one night goes through the entire natural cycle, from flower to fruit, which in nature takes almost half a year for an almond. <\/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: Numbers 17","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":"Numbers","chapter":"17","chapter_main_number":"134","date":"20260304","wall_id":"134"},"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\/47290"}],"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=47290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}