{"id":84057,"date":"2016-01-01T08:44:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T16:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84057"},"modified":"2016-01-01T09:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T17:55:35","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84057","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arichaya.kirschenbaum\/posts\/10208672882166388?pnref=story\">Post<\/a>: The Lubavitcher Rebbe&#8217;s secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel, during the 70&#8217;s would often find himself in the Rebbe&#8217;s office.<br \/>\nOnce, he was in the office during the eve of the secular New Year. When the twelve o&#8217;clock arrived, the Rebbe looked at his watch and said in English &#8220;Happy New Year.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen Rabbi Mindel looked shocked at the Rebbe, the Rebbe responded: &#8220;It is an explicit verse (Tehillim 87:6): &#8220;The Lord counts in the script of the nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/unnamed.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84097\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/unnamed-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-84097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/unnamed-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/unnamed.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Post: The Lubavitcher Rebbe&#8217;s secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel, during the 70&#8217;s would often find himself in the Rebbe&#8217;s office. Once, he was in the office during the eve of the secular New Year. When the twelve o&#8217;clock arrived, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=84057\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chabad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84057","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=84057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84098,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84057\/revisions\/84098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}