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Shmini Atzeret <\/strong>(outside of Israel):<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Torah Reading<\/em>: Deuteronomy chapters 14<\/a>, 15<\/a>, 16<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Haftarah<\/em>: I Kings 8<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Simchat Torah:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Torah Reading<\/em>: Vezot Habrachah,\u00a0 Deuteronomy chapters 33<\/a> and 34<\/a>,\u00a0 and Bereshit chapter 1<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Haftarah<\/em> - Joshua chapter 1<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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This future covenant is not something new. Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik points out that Abimelech had Abraham swear on behalf of his children and grandchildren in Genesis 21:23. People of the ancient world knew the importance of the commitment of future generations. This chain of passing along the covenant in the form of the tradition is immortalized in the opening Mishnah of Avot (Ethics of the Fathers): \u201cMoses received the Torah at Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua, Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets to the Men of the Great Assembly.\u201d This practice continues to this day with halachic authority. For example, the fact that communities outside of Israel still keep two days of holiday despite the calendar being set is based on a phrase in the Talmud that \u201c<\/span>minhag avotenu b\u2019yadaynu<\/span><\/em>\u201d that we continue to uphold the customs of our forefathers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This covenant of the future is also a way for future generations to reach back and connect with their past. By being bound by the Israelites, modern day Jews still have a connection to words of the Torah. It was also an incentive for past generations to ensure the continuation of the tradition, knowing that their children and grandchildren are still bound by God\u2019s covenant. This reach forward and reach back provides an unwavering foundation that keeps the Torah and God\u2019s covenant alive and secure.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter is largely concerned with God telling the Children of Israel what will befall them if they stray from the brit (covenant) which, it is emphasized, includes everyone, both those who were present on that day and those who were not. If the Children of Israel uphold our covenant with God and perform the mitzvot in accordance with it, all will be well\u2014we will prosper and be blessed. However, if we fail to do so, much tragedy will befall us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

I am particularly drawn to the emphasis placed on the brit (covenant) including everyone. This tends to be understood as affirming that our covenant was collectively received across generations\u2014all future generations being bound by it. In fact, many who choose Judaism through conversion point to this idea as an affirmation that their neshamot (souls) too, were at Sinai. That deep longing and spiritual yearning which compels so many people to choose Judaism is rooted there.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Blessedly, we live in a time in which klal Yisrael<\/em> comprises individuals who come from a variety of backgrounds, life experiences and perspectives. Finding a way for all to feel a sense of spiritual home in our communities can be a daunting and sometimes uncomfortable endeavor. When we expand our minds, hearts and souls to experiences and perspectives we might not have considered, we are being given the incredible opportunity to deepen and enrich our thinking. When we take the lead and warmly embrace Jews from all backgrounds into our communities, the Torah we find within them is that much deeper, more resonant and spiritually alive.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Thank God we are living in a time in which we are receiving a plethora of chiddushim<\/em> (novel ideas) from voices and perspectives that have historically been marginalized. Women, Jews with disabilities, Jews of color and members of the LGBTQIA community. In my own life and experience, I find myself feeling such hakarat hatov<\/em>\u2014tremendous gratitude\u2014for the Torah I am learning from the teachers I most admire, many of whose voices have historically not been heard.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The brit<\/em> we all entered into included those who stood there on that day and those across time, space and generations, who did not. May we never cease striving to build communities and spaces in which the Torah from all can find a home and be heard.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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My journey into Jewish identity begins five hundred years ago in Spain, in a place called Calatayud, in the study of the rabbi of the town, Rabbi Isaac ben Moses Arama\u2026 Moses, at the end of his life, renews the covenant of Sinai, some forty years later, with the members of the new generation:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cAll of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God...I am making this covenant with its oath, not only with you who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God but also with those who are not here with us today\u201d (29:14).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The words are familiar, but a question has occurred to him. Good! This is the way he usually starts a sermon. But as he searches for an answer, he finds himself becoming more enmeshed in perplexity. With a tremor he realizes that this is no ordinary question, for it threatens to unravel his entire life\u2019s work, and indeed his very identity. Eventually he finds an answer and delivers the sermon. But the question has not gone away. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The question, as he eventually formulated it, was this: Moses states that he is making the covenant not only with those who were there but also with those who were not there. To whom was he referring as not having been there? Clearly he did not mean members of the nation at that time. They were all there, as the text makes emphatically clear. Nor was he referring to the previous generation. They had already accepted the covenant at Mount Sinai. He meant, as Rashi explains, <\/span>those who are not yet born<\/span><\/em> - the generations to come. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Hence the vital importance of this text. It is the very basis of Jewish destiny, the collective immortality of the people of Israel. The covenant will be eternal. It will bind all future generations. Jews will be born into its obligations. They will be, in the talmudic phrase, <\/span>mushba ve-omed mi-Sinai<\/span><\/em>, \u201calready forsworn at Sinai.\u201d There is no need for assent, consent or confirmation. Converts excepted, Jews do not become Jews. They are Jews by birth. Jewish identity, then, is not only a faith, but a fate. It is not an identity we assume, but one into which we are born. That is the proper understanding of the passage as Jewish tradition, and Arama himself, had always read it.<\/span>
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As a lawyer, I have always delighted in Talmudic argument. The rabbinic legal system is essentially a common law system. The rabbis use specific case studies to consider open questions of the application of law, and then that case law becomes honored judicial precedent, which is then further debated for generations to come.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The rabbinic construction and reconstruction of law is beautiful not just for the contours and strata of its arguments, but also for the depth of discourse around the underlying values at stake: Who are we as a Jewish People? What are our priorities? How do we walk a just and good path, especially when the world is constantly changing and the way forward is often unclear? How do we develop our own intuition about how we <\/span>ourselves<\/span><\/i> are changing, and how do we apply that knowledge to guide the generations to come?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

As Jews, our engagement in this rabbinic conversation can be a meaningful and constitutive piece of our own assent to <\/span>brit<\/span><\/i> with God, who explicitly enters into covenant not just with those who physically stood at Sinai, but also \u201cwith those who are not with us here today.\u201d As God announces in Deuteronomy 29:14: \u201cI make this covenant, with its sanctions, not with you alone, but both with those who are standing here with us this day before the Lord our God, and with those who are not with us here this day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The medieval French commentator, Rashi, explains that this assertion by God must be a reference to future generations, since it was already made clear a few verses earlier that all the Israelites alive at the time were part of the covenant: \u201cYou stand this day, <\/span>all of you<\/span><\/i>, before the Lord your God.\u201d (Deuteronomy 29:9)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although we were not physically present at Sinai, our study of Torah and rabbinic teachings is one way in which we can participate in ongoing revelation and relationship with God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(Cover illustration:\u00a0Mass-revelation at Mount Sinai, Providence Lithograph Company, 1907, Wikipedia \"Biblical Mount Sinai\").<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":41499,"alt":"","title":"ex10-sinai","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai.jpg","width":1536,"height":864,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-300x169.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-768x432.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-1024x576.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai.jpg","2048x2048-width":1536,"2048x2048-height":864,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-1200x675.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":675,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-747x420.jpg","home_baner-width":747,"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":"","tile_main_caption":"Ongoing Revelation, Relationship, Involvement","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Turns out you didn\u2019t have to be there...","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":41499,"alt":"","title":"ex10-sinai","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai.jpg","width":1536,"height":864,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-300x169.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":169,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-768x432.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-1024x576.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":576,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai.jpg","2048x2048-width":1536,"2048x2048-height":864,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-1200x675.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":675,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/ex10-sinai-747x420.jpg","home_baner-width":747,"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":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"29","chapter_main_number":"182","date":"20260511","wall_id":"182"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"395","name":"Covenant","old_id":"795"},{"term_id":"627","name":"Talmud","old_id":"1027"},{"term_id":"645","name":"Sinai","old_id":"1045"}]},{"order":8,"id":"52014","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Extraordinary Clothing \u2013 Then and Now ","post_title":"Extraordinary Clothing \u2013 Then And Now","slug":"extraordinary-clothing-then-and-now","old_id":"52014","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. 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In the first part of our chapter, Moses recounts the trials, the signs and the great wonders that the Israelites assembled before him have seen (29:1-16). Among these wonders Moses specifically mentions: \u201cI led you through the wilderness forty years. The clothes on your back did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet\u201d (verse 4). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Midrash (Deuteronomy Rabbah 7:11) elaborates on the extraordinary clothing of the Israelites who participated in the Exodus from Egypt and the years of Wandering in the Desert of Sinai: Rabbi Yose ben Hanina said: The clothes they wore did not get old, but those packed in their baggage did get old. Rabbi Eleazar, the son of Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai asked Rabbi Shimon ben Yose, his father-in-law: Were the clothes that the Israelites wore in the desert made of leather, that they did not wear out? Rabbi Shimon ben Yose answered? No. Their clothes were those given to them by the ministering angels at the Giving of the Law at Mount Sinai, and this is why the heavenly clothes on their backs never wore out. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai asked further: But did the Israelites not outgrow their clothes in forty years?! Rabbi Shimon ben Yose replied: Do not be so surprised, for when a snail grows, its shell grows with it. Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai then asked: Did their clothes not need washing? Rabbi Shimon ben Yose replied: The pillar of cloud that accompanied the Israelites scrubbed their clothes clean. Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai then asked: But since the cloud consisted of fire, were clothes cleaned in this way not burnt? Rabbi Shimon ben Yose replied: Don\u2019t be so surprised, for asbestos withstands fire and that is how it is cleaned. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai asked: But, did not pests breed in the same clothes worn for forty years?! Rabbi Shimon ben Yose replied: The Israelites who died in the Desert, worms did not multiply in their bodies. So, how much the more so would pests not have breed in their clothing while they were alive. Finally, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai asked: But, did the Israelites not themselves smell badly because of perspiring in the same clothes for forty years?! Rabbi Shimon ben Yose replied: The Israelites made pleasurable use of sweet-scented grass that grew around the wells from which they drank, as it says: \u201cThe scent of your robes is like the scent of Lebanon \u2026 You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water\u201d (Song of Songs 4:11-15). <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Indeed, in our day, fire-resistant fabric has been developed for use by those exposed to fire in their vocations. And several start-ups have developed clothes that they claim need no washing for up to 100 days of continuous use. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cThe hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever, so that we may do all the words of this Torah.\u201d \u00a0(Deuteronomy 29:28)<\/span>
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Scenes in dreams from a previous reincarnation;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Snippets and splinters of the soul\u2019s transmigration;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Shadows whispering a secret intimation:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A little boy alone in a room with damp, gray walls;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> Soldiers outside, running, shouting in German;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> The window painted over; winter; no heating;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> The boy shivers: \u201cWhere is my mother?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Skeptics declare: mere flecks of imagination.<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Yet the soul affirms: glimpses of revelation<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Raised from wells of unfathomed inspiration:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

An old woman bent over a stove, cooking;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> In the pot: a brownish porridge or broth;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> On the table: plain wooden bowls and mugs;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> The old woman, sighing, stirs the soup.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Quiet voices call out in trepidation,<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Trying to overcome their separation;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Faint echoes begging for interpretation:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A father walking down a hill, his hand<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> Holding his little daughter\u2019s hand; she falls;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> The father picks her up and speaks to her<\/span>
\r\n<\/span> In an unknown language \u2014 yet understood.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

Shadows whispering a secret intimation;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Scenes in dreams from a previous reincarnation;<\/span>
\r\n<\/span>Snippets and splinters of the soul\u2019s 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\u201cSelective Memory: Devarim and the Creation of a Communal Narrative\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Jenna Englender: How does Deuteronomy comment on previous Biblical narratives? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cReceiving the Torah, Accepting the Torah: The Thousand-Year Gap?\u201d<\/span><\/a> by Zahava Stadler: What does it mean to genuinely accept the Torah?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Spiritual blindness.<\/em> Verse 3 points out a certain conceptual deafness or blindness, that perhaps is designed to explain why the generation that left Egypt and was witness to great miracles, still could have been so faithless and sinful.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Social structure.<\/em> The pyramid of biblical society - in verses 9-10.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Willfulness (<\/span>shrerut lev<\/span><\/em>). <\/em>This phrase appears for the first time in Tanach in verse 18, and with it a quite from the sort of person who acts that way: \u201cWhen such a one hears the words of these sanctions, he may fancy himself immune, thinking, \u2018I shall be safe, though I follow my own willful heart.\u2019\u201d By the way, Jeremiah the prophet (in another 255 chapters) is especially fond of this phrase, and uses it no less than eight times in his prophecy to castigate the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Sheer poetry<\/em>. In the words of the covenant are two expressions that are more poetry than legalese. The negative element that can lead to desecrating the covenant and ruining everything is described as \u201ca stock sprouting poison weed and wormwood\u201d (verse 17). And their negative influence is described as \u201cthe utter ruin of moist and dry alike\u201d (verse 18). See commentators for insight into those phrases.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. The hidden and the revealed<\/em>. These belong to two separate realms. What is in people\u2019s hearts is between them and God, but what is public will be dealt with in public institutions: \u201cConcealed acts concern the LORD our God; but with overt acts, it is for us and our children ever to apply all the provisions of this Teaching\u201d (verse 28).<\/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 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":"Deuteronomy","chapter":"29","chapter_main_number":"182","date":"20260511","wall_id":"182"},"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\/51779"}],"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=51779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}