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\u201cOn the eighth day you shall hold an <\/span>atzeret<\/em> <\/span>(assembly);<\/span> you shall not work at your occupations\u201d (verse 35). Is Shmini Atzeret a separate holiday or not? There are a few ways of answering this question.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

1) Number of sacrifices<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

For<\/strong>: The sacrifices of Sukkot start at 13 and go down by one every day until they are at seven. The 8<\/span>th<\/span> day is one sacrifice, so it follows the descending number.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Against<\/strong>:<\/b> Sukkot stops at 7, and the 8<\/span>th<\/span> day jumps to 1, showing it is a separate holiday. Homiletically Sukkot sacrifices number 70 corresponding to the 70 nations of the world. Shmini Atzeret is one sacrifice symbolizing the Israelites. This could signify that the day is separate from Sukkot, even if it is related.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2) The Name of the Holiday<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

For<\/strong>: The holiday seems to be introduced as a different day in verse 35. It is also called something different in Leviticus: \u201cOn the eighth day you shall observe an <\/span>atzeret<\/em> <\/span>and bring an offering by fire to God\u201d (Leviticus 23:36). No other day of Sukkot has a special name, yet here God says this day is an <\/span>azteret<\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Against<\/strong>: Later in Deuteronomy, the seventh day of Passover is also called <\/span>atzeret<\/span><\/em>: \u201cAfter eating unleavened bread six days, you shall hold an <\/span>atzeret<\/em> <\/span>for your God on the seventh day: you shall do no work\u201d (Devarim 16:8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

3) Historical:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

a- \u201cHe read from the scroll of the Teaching of God each day, from the first to the last day. They celebrated the festival seven days, and there was an <\/span>atzeret<\/em> <\/span>the eighth, as prescribed\u201d (Nechemia 8:18).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For<\/strong>: It says they celebrated the festival for seven days and then the 8<\/span>th<\/span> day is called something different.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Against<\/strong>: The \u201clast day\u201d is the 8<\/span>th<\/span> day.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

b- \u201cAt that time Solomon kept the Feast for seven days\u2014all Israel with him\u2014a great assemblage from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of Egypt.\u00a0 On the eighth day they held an <\/span>atzeret<\/span><\/em>; they observed the dedication of the altar seven days, and the Feast seven days\u201d (II Chronicles 7:7).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For<\/strong>: It says Solomon had the feast seven days, and then the eighth day is called something different.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Against<\/strong>:\u00a0 It is still called the 8<\/span>th<\/span> day.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This ambiguity makes its way into halachic questions. Does one eat in the sukkah on Shmini Atzeret? Many people have the custom to eat in the sukkah without a blessing, but others will specifically not eat in the sukkah on Shmini Atzeret. 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What does Judaism sound like? The cantor\u2019s melancholy voice as she sings Kol Nidre? The upbeat tune of Mi Chamocha? The excited chatter at a bar mitzvah oneg? The silence at brunch as everyone tucks into their bagels and lox?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These sounds may be familiar to many Jewish communities today. But what about the sounds of the past? What did it sound like, when the Israelites crossed the Sea of Reeds? What was the noise, as the burning bush crackled and spoke to Moses? Was Sarah\u2019s laugh more of a giggle than a chortle? What was the tone of Rebecca\u2019s voice as she convinced Jacob to impersonate his twin brother Esau? How did the boisterous antics of Jacob\u2019s sons reverberate as they played and fought with each other?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Torah does not come with sound effects. We have no way of knowing many of these sounds. Yet there are some sounds in the Torah that we still hear today. The Torah tells us that the first day of the seventh month shall be a sacred occasion, a day of no work. It is also a day \u2018when the horn is sounded\u2019 (Numbers 29:1). A sacred day that we still observe today \u2013 Rosh HaShanah, the beginning of our year.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The shofar blast is an evocative, sparse, beautiful sound. The shofar\u2019s haunting, poignant, primal cry cuts through the modern noises of cell phones buzzing, traffic passing and televisions blaring. This simple sound fills a room, stopping us in our tracks.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Before the ritual sounding of the shofar, we say: \u201cBlessed are you, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the universe, who hallows us with mitzvot, commanding us to hear the sound of the Shofar.\u201d We are not commanded to blow the shofar, but to hear it. In the shofar, we hear a cry from the past. A cry for the future, for the new year to come. In the shofar blast, we hear a sound from the Torah. We hear the same sound our ancestors heard. We may not know what Sarah\u2019s laugh sounded like, or Rebecca\u2019s voice, but in the shofar blast, we hear our Torah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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He taught at the Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem), The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Schechter Institute for Judaic Studies in Jerusalem, and at the Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheba, Israel. During 1993 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Yale University, and during 1996 he was the Stroum Professor of Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle. During 2005, Bregman served as the Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University and was awarded a Teaching Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also has served as Forchheimer Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the author of The Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: Studies in the Evolution of the Versions (Gorgias Press, 2003). 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Our chapter details the sacrifices to be offered from Rosh HaShanah through the Eighth Day of Sukkot, Shemini Atzeret, (29:1-39). The Rabbinic Sages wondered why it should be that the number of bullocks offered on each of the seven days of the Sukkot Holiday should decrease from thirteen to seven, ending with one bullock sacrificed on the additional eighth day. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Numbers Rabbah 29:25 and parallels) addresses this question in a typically creative way: What was His reason for reducing the number of sacrifices each day? [God here is behaving like a human host of an overnight guest since His children are dwelling outside of their homes during the Sukkot holiday]. The Torah teaches you normal human behavior (derekh eretz) from the sacrifices. When a man stays overnight, on the first evening his host entertains him generously and gives him fatted foul to eat, on the second evening meat, on the third fish, on the fourth vegetables, and so he continually reduces the quality of what he offers until, when he wishes his guest to leave, he gives him beans. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is the meaning of the word \u201cyou\u201d in the verse \u201cOn the eighth day, you shall have a solemn assembly\u2026\u201d (29:35)? God meant to suggest that the holidays are happy events for you. A star-worshipper asked Rabbi Akiba: Why do you celebrate holidays? Did not the Holy One, blessed be He, say to you: \u201cYour new moons and your festive seasons My soul hates\u201d (Isaiah I:14)? Rabbi Akiba answered: If God had said: My new moons and My festive seasons My soul hates, you might have had a point. But God specifically said to us: \u00a0Your new moons and your festive seasons. This refers only to those few festivals that some evil kings of Israel have declared on their own recognizance (see for example I Kings 12:32-33). But the New Moons and Festivals that you ask about will never be abolished, because they have been declared for us by the Holy One, blessed be He, as it says: \u201cThese are the festive seasons of the Lord\u201d (Leviticus 23:4). And God Himself says: \u201cThese are My festive seasons\u201d (Leviticus 23:2). And so it was that \u201cMoses declared unto the children of Israel the festive seasons of the Lord\u201d (Leviticus 23:44). And it is these festive seasons that will never be abolished, of which it is said: \u201cThey are established for ever and ever. They are done in truth and uprightness\u201d (Psalms 111:8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Can we start by admitting that it is simply weird to launch a new year in the middle of the year? New Years, as the name implies, should mark the start of a new year, the conclusion of an old one. That\u2019s why in the Western Calendar, new year comes at the end of December and is celebrated on the first of January. A New Year celebration should rightfully come when the new year launches.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But not in the Torah it doesn\u2019t. In fact, the Torah explicitly states that the new year begins in the middle of the year: \u201cIn the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a sacred occasion \u2026 You shall observe it as a day when the horn is sounded (Num29:1).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

That can\u2019t be an oversight or a mistake, so what deeper truth is the Torah trying to tell us?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Some realities are such because they correspond to facts in the objective world: hot and cold, temperatures and distances, these measure things outside of our opinions or subjective takes. But calendars generally institutionalize social convention. The duration of a year corresponds (roughly) to the time it takes our planet to circle the Sun. But when that cycle should be considered finished and when it starts anew is a designation that every society gets to determine on its own. It is a socially-established convention, not a reality outside of us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So perhaps the Torah is asking us to attend to when we establish practices based on objective truth, and when we impose a sense of order and predictability by our social designations and conventions. It\u2019s not that one is good and the other bad; both are needed in their own settings. But recalling that the calendar is the social construct of the Jewish people, a way of marking covenantal moments that lend significance and meaning to our meanderings through time is what converts the empty tic-toc of chronos into the meaning generating process of mo\u2019adim and chagim, set times and festivals. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

We construct the meaning of times passage, we and God. New Year in the seventh month? As good a time as any! 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Sukkot is often trumpeted, especially in more modern circles, as the festival of Jewish universalism. This idea is most grounded in chapter 29, with the 70 cows sacrificed over the course of the holiday explained by the Midrash as a symbol of the 70 nations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But is this a false imposition of modern values? The midrashic explanation for the descending order of the cows is that it represents the 70 nations being lessened and eliminated. Sounds less universalistic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This tension, though, didn't start with modern values, it exists amongst the Midrashic texts themselves. For example, another Midrash describes the Jewish people's complaint that, although they bring these sacrifices to atone for the nations of the world, their hatred for the Jewish people remains (perhaps they only read the previous Midrash).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

These contradictions could reflect different perspectives among the rabbis on our relationship to the nations of the world. But it's interesting to note that Rashi, at least, brings both traditions in the very same breath. Is there a way to harmonize these ideas?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rav Kook suggests a fascinating and typically prescient idea. Long before the era of post-nationalism and globalization, Rav Kook (Ein Aya, Shabbat, Chapter 2, Section 7) suggests that as the world progresses and evolves towards greater recognition of God, differences between nations will be reduced. This is the meaning of the nations 'being lessened and eliminated'- not that they will be destroyed by war, but that nationalism will have less strong a hold on the human imagination, that similarities between people will gradually overcome their differences. Post-nationalist ideologies are correct about the dangers of nationalism; the 20th century was soaked in its blood, and the movement away from these excesses is positive.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But total erasure of national identity is no less dangerous than its excessive expression. The number of cows is not reduced to zero, or even to one. 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One of the highlights of the prayer services on holidays is the Hallel prayer. Consisting of 6 paragraphs of psalms (113-118) the joyous prayer is sung ecstatically. But like many things in life, not all \u201cHallels\u201d are the same. On certain holidays, such as the first day of Passover, and the seven days of sukkot, we recite all six paragraphs. On other holidays, such as Rosh Chodesh and the second through the seventh day of Passover, we recite a truncated version of Hallel, skipping two paragraphs in the middle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Jewish day school we were taught a lovely lesson: we recite the shortened Hallel \u00a0beginning on the second day of Passover because our cups cannot runneth over while the Egyptians were drowning in the Sea. The idea originates with a Midrash following the miracle of the splitting of the sea. The angels, upon hearing Moses leading the people in song to thank God for their unexpected salvation, approach God to sing. Before the angels begin God says \u201cthe creations of my hands are drowning in the sea, and you want to sing?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Similar to the custom of removing of drops of wine from our cups when naming the ten plagues during the Passover seder, (which my proper German born grandmother did with a spoon rather than her finger) the Hallel distinction illustrates that our joy must be tempered by the suffering of others, even our former jailers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Years later I was surprised, even disappointed to learn that the distinction is actually based upon a technicality. Turning to the list of sacrifices in our chapter the Talmud explains that we sing the apocopated version of Hallel on Passover because each day we offered the same number of bulls, whereas on Sukkot a different number of bulls are offered each day. On the first day 13 bulls are offered, on the second 12, 11 on the third\u2026The varied sacrifices allude to the idea that each day of Sukkot is slightly different, and thus deserve the singing of the complete Hallel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The two explanations, while seemingly unrelated do have a connection. In total there are 70 bulls offered on sukkot (13+12+11+10+9+8+7=70) corresponding to Biblical idea of 70 nations. The descending number, the rabbis teach, indicates the lessening of the nations. However, unlike the drowning of the Egyptians, the diminishing of the nations doesn\u2019t foretell their destruction, but rather leads into to the 8<\/span>th<\/span> day when only one bull is offered. The one bull represents the messianic period when the differences that divide people will be eliminated. This vision of the entire world standing together as one, united by our common goals, dreams, and missions, rather than the need to drown our enemies, certainly merits the singing of the entire Hallel (and for that matter many other joyous songs).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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On the meaning of the shofar of Rosh HaShana there are two radically different interpretations. The first is that of Rabbi Abahu in the Talmud: \u201cThe Holy One, blessed be He, said: Blow before Me a ram\u2019s horn that I may remember for you the binding of Isaac, son of Abraham, and I shall account it to you as if you had bound yourself before Me\u201d (<\/span>Rosh HaShana<\/span><\/i> 16a). The shofar recalls the ram, caught in a thicket by its horns, sacrificed in Isaac\u2019s place. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this view the shofar is a cry from earth to heaven, from us to God. It represents Jewish faithfulness and sacrifice. For millennia Jews suffered for their faith yet, for the most part, they did not abandon it. The shofar, Rabbi Abahu is suggesting, is a way of saying, \u201cMaster of the Universe, we may have faults and failings, but we stayed true to You and to our covenant with You. We come before You with a history that began with Abraham and Isaac\u2019s <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>lonely ordeal. Forgive us for the sake of our ancestors\u2019 suffering, loyally and willingly endured.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Maimonides gives the opposite interpretation: \u201cEven though the blowing of the shofar on Rosh HaShana is a scriptural decree, nonetheless it contains an allusion, as if to say: Wake, sleepers, from your sleep, and slumberers wake from your slumbers. Examine your deeds and turn in <\/span>teshuva<\/span><\/i>. Remember your Creator, you who forget the truth in the vanities of time, spending the year in vanity and emptiness that neither helps nor saves. Look to your souls and improve your ways and deeds\u201d (Maimonides, Laws of Repentance 3:4). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

In this alternate view the shofar is not a cry from earth to heaven, but a call from heaven to earth, God\u2019s call to us to return to Him. Both views are true. In the tekia<\/em>, the powerful clarion, we hear God\u2019s call to us. In the <\/span>terua<\/span><\/em>, the broken tones of weeping, we hear our ancestors\u2019 tears.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

On Rosh HaShana the primary sound is the <\/span>terua<\/span><\/em>, for that is how the Torah names the day. It is \u201cthe day of the <\/span>terua<\/span><\/em>\u201d (Num. 29:1) or \u201cthe remembrance of the <\/span>terua<\/span><\/em>\u201d (Lev. 23:24). On the basis of Judges 5:28, the sages understood terua <\/em>to be the sound of weeping, as the mother of Sisera wept when her son failed to return from battle.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Excerpted from the Koren Rosh Hashanah Mahzor<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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\"And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sacred convocation; you shall do no manner of servile work; it is a day when the shofar is blown.\" (Numbers 29:1)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The play will soon begin \u2014 <\/span>eleven<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>ten<\/span><\/i>,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Nine<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>eight<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>seven<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>six <\/span><\/i>\u2014 soon the chatter dies,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Quite soon you'll stand upon the stage, all eyes<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>On you alone. You read the script again<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>In hope you won't forget its wording when<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The spotlight shines \u2014 <\/span>five<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>four<\/span><\/i> \u2014 it is unwise <\/span>
\r\n<\/span>To worry, but your costume can't disguise<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Your trembling, so you say a prayer, amen. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

A shofar blows. \u00a0The curtains rise. \u00a0Within<\/span>
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\r\n<\/span>And moon, the day, the night, are actors in<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>The drama of your life \u2014 <\/span>three<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>two<\/span><\/i> \u2014 you know<\/span>
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\u201cThe Shofar: Cry and Wakeup Call\u201d<\/span><\/a> by David Polsky: Why do we blow the ram\u2019s horn on Rosh Hashanah?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cDays of Awe: Should we be Afraid?\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Brian Michelson: How should we approach the season of atonement?<\/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 29","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":"29","chapter_main_number":"146","date":"20260322","wall_id":"146"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":13,"id":"107476","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 29 ","post_title":"Points To Ponder: Numbers 29","slug":"points-to-ponder-numbers-29","old_id":"107476","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":false,"related_cahpter":"146","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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  1. Audio reminder.<\/em> In Lev 23 (only 33 chapters ago), the 1st of the seventh month is called \u201ca sacred occasion commemorated with loud blasts.\u201d The shofar blast is the way God is reminded of us, the way to be in God\u2019s presence, to create a space for connection.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Afflicting the soul<\/em>. Afflicting the soul on Yom Kippur is experienced through the body: fasting and other prohibitions of the day reduce the pleasures of the body.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The arithmetic of the holiday<\/em>. The number of sacrificial bulls over the course of the seven days of the holiday adds up to 70, which is a particularly strong number (the product of two other \u201cperfect\u201d numbers - 7 and 10).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The numbers tell the tale<\/em>. Note the changing numbers of bulls for each holiday (see the previous chapter as well). When is it only one? Two? And when is it 70? What is the significance and the connection to the meaning of the holiday? See the commentators. <\/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 29","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":"29","chapter_main_number":"146","date":"20260322","wall_id":"146"},"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\/48548"}],"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=48548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}