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  1. Why is Abraham Complicit in Cruelty?<\/a> by Danya Ruttenberg. In this provocative take, combining midrash and developmental psychology Ruttenberg suggests that Abraham inherited a certain wounded style of parenting from his father, that despite his grand struggle for justice in other circumstances, does not inform his relationships with his sons.<\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Can We Heed the Call?<\/a> by Avidan Freedman. \"If I wish to remind God of the ability to listen to the cry of each person\u00a0ba'asher hu sham<\/em>\u00a0on Rosh Hashana, then I must be willing to challenge myself with this responsibility as well. When my child, my spouse, my loved one, is in pain, am I present for them, or do I feel compelled to cast them away as Hagar did, unable to empathize, unable to be with them in their suffering?\"<\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Sarah's Exiling<\/a>\u00a0by Jill Borodin. \"While the midrash associates the death of Sarah with the binding of Isaac, Sarah\u2019s disappearance from the text follows her call for the banishment of Hagar and Ishmael.\u00a0The chapter tells an intense tale of danger and destruction when we dehumanize and call for the exile of others...\"<\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The Haftarah (Samuel 1 & 2): See here <\/a>and here\u00a0<\/a> for compelling pieces on the birth of Samuel and Hannah and her prayer by (among others): Mijal Bitton, Rachel Sharansky Danziger, Yardaena Osband, David Wallach, Gary Rendsburg, Moshe Halbertal and Shai Secunda.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    Want a helpful overview of the whole chapter? 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","post_title":"Third Time\u2019s A Charm?","slug":"third-times-a-charm-2","old_id":"108189","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":78133,"post_title":"Josh Blechner","slug":"josh-blechner","old_id":"78133","first_name":"Josh ","last_name":"Blechner ","description":"Josh first finished the Tanach during Yeshiva in Mevaseret Zion. He and his daughter studied the Tanach again for her bat mitzvah. Josh has taught many classes on Tanach throughout the years and currently in the New Rochelle 929 group. When not studying for 929, Josh works as an in-house lawyer in New Jersey.","short_description":"Josh has taught many classes on Tanach throughout the years and currently in the New Rochelle 929 group, and is an in-house attorney in New Jersey. 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    \u201cDo not boil a kid in its mother\u2019s milk.\u201d This is the third time the Torah relays this exact commandment. The previous two were in Exodus (23:9, 34:26). The Torah repeats many laws, especially in Deuteronomy, but this law is unique in that it is repeated using the exact same phrase three times. The commentators draw several lessons from this triply repeated phrase.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    One approach is that each phrase forbids a certain action. One is <\/span>eating <\/span><\/i>milk and meat, one is <\/span>benefiting from <\/span><\/i>milk and meat, and the third is <\/span>cooking <\/span><\/i>milk and meat. Another is that each instance is meant to forbid a certain type of animal: 1) birds, 2) domesticated non-kosher animals, and 3) wild animals (Talmud, Chullin 113a).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    While in Exodus, the phrase is connected to the holidays and to first fruits, in Deuteronomy, it is connected to the rules of kashrut:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The choice first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother\u2019s milk\u201d (Ex. 23:20, likewise in Ex. 34-26).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    You shall not eat anything that has died a natural death; give it to the stranger in your community to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people consecrated to your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother\u2019s milk\u201d (Deut 14:14).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Ibn Ezra references heretical opinions that the first two prohibitions were referring to boiling fruit in milk. This interpretation is based on the context of the two references in Exodus and bringing first fruits. He questions the veracity of this opinion seeing as the phrase refers to a mother and milk, two things that fruit would not have. Ibn Ezra explains that chapter 14 is the correct context, but the reason it was placed in a different context in Exodus is because the first fruit season is also when livestock are born.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Sforno explains that it was a gentile practice to boil a goat in its mother milk to achieve the blessing for a flock to increase fertility rates. This could be why the phrase appears with first fruits as well. In that context, God warns against this idol worship-like practice which may have been performed during the \u201cfirst fruit\u201d season. Later, Moses includes the phrase within the animal prohibitions to place the prohibition in its proper context.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    Our<\/span> chapter<\/span><\/a> begins with Moses\u2019 warning the assembled Israelites:<\/span> You are children of the Lord. You shall not gash yourselves or shave the front of your heads because of the dead<\/span><\/a>. In<\/span> Leviticus<\/span><\/a>, this prohibition is directed to the priestly descendants of Aaron. Forbidding gashing oneself or shaving the front of the head as a sign of mourning reflects such signs of grief practiced by the<\/span> Philistines<\/span><\/a> (see also<\/span> Ibn Ezra<\/span><\/a>). To this day, such physical expressions of grief are practiced by Shiite Muslims in the annual<\/span> Ashura<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Curiously, the anatomical point <\/span>beyn \u2018eynekha<\/em> <\/span>(literally \u201cbetween your eyes\u201d, i.e. the forehead) is referred to as a positive \"sign\" (<\/span>Biblical <\/span>\"<\/span><\/i>totafot<\/span>\"<\/span><\/i><\/a>,<\/span> rabbinic \"tefillin\"<\/span><\/a>)<\/span> earlier in<\/span> Deuteronomy<\/span><\/a> and previously in<\/span> Exodus<\/span><\/a>. The seemingly incongruous references to the human \u201cforehead\u201d as \u201ctearing the hair as a sign of mourning\u201d and the placement of the <\/span>tefillin shel rosh <\/span><\/em>(\u201chead-phylactery\u201d) have been the subject of comment from<\/span> medieval<\/span><\/a> to<\/span> modern<\/span><\/a> times. Even more incongruous are the references to the<\/span> \"bald spot on the forehead<\/span><\/a> in the discussion of the symptoms but also the signs of recovery from<\/span> tzaraat<\/span><\/a> <\/em>(\u201cleprosy\u201d) particularly in<\/span> Leviticus<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    There are numerous<\/span> references<\/span><\/a> to<\/span> baldness<\/span><\/a> in Scripture, many of which refer to mourning or expressions of grief. For example,<\/span> For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\n

    According to Jewish legend<\/span><\/a>, the name \u201cKorah\u201d, who lead a<\/span> rebellion<\/span><\/a> against Moses, is related to the Biblical word for \u201cbaldness\u201d, k<\/em><\/span>orhah<\/span><\/em>. <\/span><\/i>Moreover, the prophet Elisha was jeered by boys who cried out<\/span> \"Go away, Baldy! Go away, Baldy!<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> with tragic consequences<\/span><\/a>. Rabbi Akiva is referred to as<\/span> \"this bald one\" (ha-kereah ha-zeh<\/em><\/span><\/a>, which may be related to his son, Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korchah (i.e. \u201cson of the bald one\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Leaving the front and top of the head bald, with hair remaining only behind in a kind of \u201cpony-tail\u201d or cue is mentioned in the<\/span> Talmud<\/span><\/a> in a curious<\/span> legend<\/span><\/a> about King David. He is said to have had four hundred youths in his camp, all sons of beautiful women (i.e., born to women captured in war, who were therefore gentiles). All these youths had their hair cut in the <\/span>komei<\/span><\/em> [i.e. pagan Greek] style or in a gentile hairstyle [<\/span>belorit<\/span><\/em>] leaving hair only on the back of their heads. All of them rode in golden carts at the head of the troops in David\u2019s army\u2026These four hundred youths did not actually fight in the battles, but rather they would go forth in front of the troops in order to frighten everyone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    To return to the beginning of our chapter,<\/span> we are told<\/span><\/a> that Rabbi Meir would say: Beloved are Israel, for they are called the Children of God, as it says<\/span> You are children of the Lord.<\/span><\/a> Beloved are Israel, for they were given a precious tool (<\/span>keli hemdah<\/span><\/em>), with which the world was created. As<\/span> Scripture says<\/span><\/a>: \u201cFor I have given you a good gift. Do not forsake My Torah.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    Chapter 14 opens with a stunning declaration, one that appears only once in the Torah. \u201cYou are the children of the Lord your God.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Despite that it feels like this statement belongs alongside the Shma as a unique statement of Jewish belief and faith, it is used to introduce a section of the Torah that creates space and difference between the practices of the children of Israel and those of the other nations of the world. You, and you alone are children of God and as such, you need to behave differently than everyone else. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Others see this statement as an attempt to comfort a mourner. The second part of the verse prohibits cutting oneself in anguish after a loved one dies. \u00a0The Sforno explains why this is prohibited: \u201c It is not proper for you to show extreme concern and pain for the death of a relative, when a more honorable and distinguished relative still remains ,in whom there is hope for (ultimate good). Therefore, since you are children of God, Who is your eternal Father, it is unseemly that you should worry and mourn excessively over the death of anyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I found this both difficult and uplifting. Difficult as it is very challenging to control our emotions in accordance with this interpretation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    On the other hand, it is uplifting as it asks us to aspire to such a close relationship with God that we find comfort in God\u2019s presence in our lives even as we are experiencing our most painful losses. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The sages, sensing the \u201cvalue\u201d of this statement insisted on interpreting the phrase as a stand alone statement with the high stakes theological meaning that we would expect. In a passage that may also offer insight into Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Meir\u2019s view of parenthood, the Talmud in Masechet Kiddushin records this debate. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u201cYou are the sons to the Lord your God,\u201d indicates that when you act like sons and cleave to the Holy One, Blessed be He, you are called sons, but when you do not act like sons you are not called sons. This is the statement of Rabbi Yehuda.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And Rabbi Meir says: \u2018Either way you are still called sons\u2026\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    These two views are reflected when we declare Avinu, Malkeinu - our Father, our King. The father figure is forgiving, but the king is demanding and unforgiving.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Yet, there is still hope that Rabbi Yehuda\u2019s view can be overcome. 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    \u201cYou are children of the Lord your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave the front of your heads for the dead, for you are a people holy to the Lord your God. Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be His treasured possession\u201d (Deut. 14:1-2).<\/span>
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    \r\n<\/span>These words have had a considerable history within Judaism. The first inspired the famous statement of Rabbi Akiva: \u201cBeloved is man because he was created in the image [of God]. Beloved are Israel for they are called children of the All-present\u201d (Avot 3:14). The phrase, \u201cDo not cut yourselves\u201d, was imaginatively applied by the sages to divisions within the community (Yevamot 14a). A single town should not have two or more religious courts giving different rulings.<\/span>
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    \r\n<\/span>The plain sense of these two verses, though, is about behaviour at a time of bereavement. We are commanded not to engage in excessive rituals of grief. To lose a close member of one\u2019s family is a shattering experience. It is as if something of ourselves had died too. Not to grieve is wrong, inhuman: Judaism does not command Stoic indifference in the face of death. But to give way to wild expressions of sorrow \u2013 lacerating one\u2019s flesh, tearing out one\u2019s hair \u2013 is also wrong. It is, the Torah suggests, not fitting to a holy people; it is the kind of behaviour associated with idolatrous cults.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Halakhah, Jewish law, strives to create a balance between too much and too little grief. Hence the various stages of bereavement: aninut (the period between the death and burial), shiva (the week of mourning), sheloshim (thirty days in the case of other relatives) and shanah (a year, in the case of parents). Judaism ordains a precisely calibrated sequence of grief, from the initial, numbing moment of loss itself, to the funeral and the return home, to the period of being comforted by friends and members of the community, to a more extended time during which one does not engage in activities associated with joy.<\/span>
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    \r\n<\/span>The more we learn about the psychology of bereavement and the stages through which we must pass before loss is healed, so the wisdom of Judaism\u2019s ancient laws and customs has become ever more clear.<\/span><\/p>\r\n


    \r\nFrom:<\/span>The Limits of Grief (Covenant & Conversation, Re\u2019eh 5777)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\r\n

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    If you\u2019ve made it to this chapter, you may be experiencing d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. That\u2019s because you read almost exactly the same thing in Leviticus 11! Just like Leviticus 11, Deuteronomy 14 contains a list of animals that may not be eaten. Even the wording is almost identical.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But there is a key difference between the two chapters: Leviticus 11 comes within a larger unit of chapters on ritual purity, and its discussion of prohibited animals fits into that context. The term used to describe prohibited animals, \u201cunclean,\u201d is also used to describe things that cause ritual impurity, such as dead bodies, semen, menstrual blood, and leprosy. And in fact, Leviticus 11 follows up its main discussion of dietary prohibitions with a discussion of the ritual impurity caused by touching certain animals or carrying their carcasses. Its precise use of language also relates to this topic: the term \u201cunclean\u201d refers only to animals that cause ritual impurity from touching (such as pigs), whereas those that may not be eaten but <\/span>don\u2019t <\/span><\/i>cause ritual impurity (such as shellfish) are called \u201cabomination.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Deuteronomy 14 also uses \u201cunclean\u201d to describe animals that may not be eaten, and there is one reference to touching carcasses in verse 8. But the other connections to ritual impurity are absent. There is no discussion of ritual impurity caused by touching or carrying the carcasses of animals. And there is no terminological distinction between animals that cause ritual impurity and those that don\u2019t\u2014they are all \u201cunclean.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    When texts this similar appear in the Bible, scholars naturally assume some sort of historical connection. Either the author(s) of Deuteronomy 14 copied and modified the text from Leviticus or the reverse\u2014or perhaps the authors of the two chapters drew on a third text that we no longer have. In terms of its language, our passage seems to fit the Leviticus context better. But there are also reasons to think that the parts of Leviticus 11 on ritual purity were added at a later stage.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What we can say is that in presenting the dietary laws in a context unrelated to ritual purity, Deuteronomy is bringing them closer to what they are today: a set of rules about what Jews may or may not eat, unrelated to temple-based laws of purity and purification. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    \"The following you may not eat: the eagle, the vulture and the desert-buzzard.\"<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>(Deuteronomy 14:12)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The vulture sweeps down<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>On the carrion of a young gazelle.<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>It pokes its beak into the carcass,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Tearing out kidneys,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Intestines and heart.<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>With its talons, the vulture<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Carries off the red-stained, dripping flesh to its nest. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I shudder.<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>I, like a vulture,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Sweep down upon the warm body of the Torah;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>With my beak,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>I ruthlessly rip out<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>A passage, a verse, a word<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>To chew and digest at my leisure. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But a vulture \u2014 a true vulture \u2014<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Has the common decency<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>I lack<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>To attack<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Only a cadaver;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>I cut into the living, breathing lungs,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>The blood-drenched liver<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Of the Torah<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>And vivisect;<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Then watch the Torah recover<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>And miraculously grow whole<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Only to undergo once more<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>The ordeal, the torture I inflict<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>When I torment her, when I sink in my talons<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Yet again. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    And so I pray:<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>Not to be a bird of prey,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>But a bird of prayer<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>With healing wings,<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>And whose songs give voice<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>To the silent, panting, living Torah<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>As she breaks her chains<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>And rises<\/span>
    \r\n<\/span>From the rock.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    1. A holy people<\/em>. That\u2019s the foundation - see verses 2 and 21.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. Third time\u2019s a charm<\/em>. The commandment not to cook a kid in its mother\u2019s milk, cited here in verse 21, has already appeared in Ex. 23 and Ex. 34.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. What makes you feel good.<\/em> What is it that you want, that you desire? There are (culinary) suggestions in verse 26. The main thing is \u201crejoice with your household\u201d (before God) and of course - don\u2019t forget to include in your celebrations those that don\u2019t have (verse 27).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    4. The levite - poor by definition.<\/em> That\u2019s how it is when there\u2019s no portion, and only one Temple (verses 27, 29).<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    5. Giving and blessing<\/em>. A direct consequence. If you give of the fruit of your hands you shall be blessed \u201cin all the enterprises you undertake\u201d (verse 29).<\/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: Deuteronomy 14","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":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"14","chapter_main_number":"167","date":"20260420","wall_id":"167"},"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\/50477"}],"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=50477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}