{"id":1463,"date":"2017-04-24T01:39:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T01:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/shmini"},"modified":"2019-08-12T23:25:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T23:25:42","slug":"shmini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2017\/04\/24\/shmini\/","title":{"rendered":"Shmini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Shimini<\/em> and <em>Pesach<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">or; Freedom and <em>Matzah<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Pesach<\/em> is the holiday of freedom<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Freedom is constructed (cf. <em>Mishkan<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Pei<\/em>&#8211;<em>samech<\/em>&#8211;<em>chet<\/em>: The understanding (like the genetic code in an embryo) which brings about a paradigm (like a city wall) of construction (like a rope).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Mem-tzaddik-hei<\/em>: Bringing out potential (like a river into an ocean) for getting to a further goal (like bread from wheat&#8217;s fruits) to define a form (like the front of a building).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Pesach<\/em> is an understanding of freedom<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">But because we left Egypt in a hurry, the infinite is in a finite form, and history unfolds in time<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This relates to <em>Nadav<\/em> and <em>Avihu<\/em> since their offerings burned them\n<ul>\n<li>Cf. life is a series of offerings, each thing we do in freedom and we do for the infinite is an offering<\/li>\n<li>Cf. sometimes we are imperfect actors within our offerings, and this is seen by a world which is not harmoniously in sync (i.e. pleasingly), and yet these are offered too, and accepted, knowing that sometimes our service is &#8220;alien to us&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>This relates to the infinite being finite since we move towards infinite\/freedom, yet sometimes moving closer means being burned\/learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">~For 7 days we remembering being free<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shimini and Pesach or; Freedom and Matzah Pesach is the holiday of freedom Freedom is constructed (cf. Mishkan) Pei&#8211;samech&#8211;chet: The understanding (like the genetic code in an embryo) which brings about a paradigm (like a city wall) of construction (like a rope). Mem-tzaddik-hei: Bringing out potential (like a river into an ocean) for getting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,164,167,160,168],"tags":[180,176,219],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-gmail-drafts","category-judaism","category-kabbalah","category-torah-commentary","tag-180","tag-176","tag-219"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1409,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2017\/04\/24\/pesach\/","url_meta":{"origin":1463,"position":0},"title":"Pesach","author":"Pala","date":"April 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"{Part 1 - 10\/04\/2017} Channuka is like Pesach Channuka is the story of a defeated nation which manages to rebuild its army and rebel against its conquerors. 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