{"id":20145,"date":"2010-06-14T16:32:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T00:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=20145"},"modified":"2011-05-19T20:18:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T04:18:47","slug":"live-torah-talk-at-7-pm-pst-with-rabbi-rabbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=20145","title":{"rendered":"Live Torah Talk With Rabbi Rabbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Torah portion is <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chukat\">Chukkat<\/a> (Number 19 &#8211; 22).<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Rabbs says a major rav gave him a <em>cheter<\/em> (permission) to go f*** himself. <\/p>\n<p>We delve.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FdVcRGSzYwE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FdVcRGSzYwE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ljI-JOoUsZg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ljI-JOoUsZg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LIhB16NPJEo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LIhB16NPJEo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JkZRJ7ow1-o&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JkZRJ7ow1-o&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qFomfKGJXh0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qFomfKGJXh0&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mxmT5VjI618&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mxmT5VjI618&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_jwXDYNcoJc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_jwXDYNcoJc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chukat\">From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><b>Chukat<\/b>, <b>Hukath<\/b>, or <b>Chukkas<\/b> (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hebrew_language\" title=\"Hebrew  language\">Hebrew<\/a>: <span dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"he\" lang=\"he\"><b>???<\/b><\/span>?,  \ufffddecree,\ufffd \ufffd the ninth word, and the first distinctive word, in the  parshah) is the 39th <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Weekly_Torah_portion\" title=\"Weekly  Torah portion\">weekly Torah portion<\/a> (<i>parshah<\/i>) in the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Judaism\" title=\"Judaism\">Jewish<\/a>  cycle of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Torah_reading\" title=\"Torah reading\">Torah reading<\/a> and the sixth in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Book_of_Numbers\" title=\"Book of  Numbers\">book of Numbers<\/a>. It constitutes <a href=\"http:\/\/bibref.hebtools.com\/?book=%20Numbers&amp;verse=19:1%E2%80%9322:1&amp;src=HE\" class=\"external text\" rel=\"nofollow\">Numbers 19:1\ufffd22:1<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jew\" title=\"Jew\" class=\"mw-redirect\">Jews<\/a>  in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jewish_diaspora\" title=\"Jewish diaspora\">Diaspora<\/a> generally read it in late June or  July.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunisolar_calendar\" title=\"Lunisolar calendar\">lunisolar<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hebrew_calendar\" title=\"Hebrew  calendar\">Hebrew calendar<\/a> contains up to 55 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Week\" title=\"Week\">weeks<\/a>, the  exact number varying among years. In most years (for example, 2010,  2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017), parshah Chukat is read  separately. In some years (for example, 2009), parshah Chukat is  combined with the subsequent parshah, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balak\" title=\"Balak\">Balak<\/a>, to  help achieve the needed number of weekly readings.<\/p>\n<p>Jews also read the first part of the parshah, <a href=\"http:\/\/bibref.hebtools.com\/?book=%20Numbers&amp;verse=19:1%E2%80%9322,&amp;src=HE\" class=\"external text\" rel=\"nofollow\">Numbers 19:1\ufffd22,<\/a> in addition  to the regular weekly Torah portion, on the Sabbath after <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purim\" title=\"Purim\">Purim<\/a>,  called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special_Sabbaths\" title=\"Special Sabbaths\" class=\"mw-redirect\">Shabbat Parah<\/a>. On  Shabbat Parah, a reader chants the regular weekly Torah portion first,  and then a reader chants the chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Red_heifer\" title=\"Red heifer\" class=\"mw-redirect\">red cow<\/a> (<i>parah adumah<\/i>). Shabbat Parah  occurs shortly before <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Passover\" title=\"Passover\">Passover<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bibref.hebtools.com\/?book=%20Numbers&amp;verse=19:1%E2%80%9322&amp;src=HE\" class=\"external text\" rel=\"nofollow\">Numbers 19:1\ufffd22<\/a> sets out the  procedure by which the Israelites could purify themselves from the  contamination caused by a corpse, and so prepare for the pilgrimage  festival of Passover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Torah portion is Chukkat (Number 19 &#8211; 22). Rabbi Rabbs says a major rav gave him a cheter (permission) to go f*** himself. We delve. From Wikipedia: Chukat, Hukath, or Chukkas (Hebrew: ????, \ufffddecree,\ufffd \ufffd the ninth word, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=20145\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[22569,22568,22567,11662,11803,2041],"class_list":["post-20145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-torah","tag-distinctive-word","tag-pilgrimage-festival","tag-shabbat-parah","tag-torah-reading","tag-weekly-torah-portion","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32849,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20145\/revisions\/32849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}