{"id":2545,"date":"2008-03-25T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2008-03-25T10:02:04","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T18:02:04","slug":"thoughts-on-this-weeks-torah-portion-shemini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts On This Week&#8217;s Torah Portion &#8211; Shemini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohrtorahstone.org.il\/parsha\/5763\/shemini63.htm\">Rabbi Shlomo Riskin&#8217;s commentary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ramban, the strange fire offering by Aaron&#8217;s sons Nadav and Avihu is that they wanted a relationship with G-d without judgment. They just wanted it to be all love and no relationship and community can be run that way. There always has to be accountability and consequences. We can&#8217;t look for unconditional love. We have to earn our way.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/archives\/updates\/080325.htm\">I&#8217;ve made a video explicating these mystical thoughts<\/a>. Feel free to share it at your place of worship and within your faith community and also at G-d&#8217;s house.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Shlomo Riskin&#8217;s commentary. According to the Ramban, the strange fire offering by Aaron&#8217;s sons Nadav and Avihu is that they wanted a relationship with G-d without judgment. They just wanted it to be all love and no relationship and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2545\">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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-torah"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545","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=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}