{"id":98796,"date":"2022-11-20T03:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98796"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:50:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:50:27","slug":"handling-things-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/handling-things-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling Things Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Handling Things Right<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was once invited to a visit with the esteemed mother of the Moroccan king, may he be blessed. During the entire meeting, I was concerned over one matter: What would I do when she would want to shake my hand? She might be insulted if I refused, and take it as a personal offense. The matter might reach epic proportions and even affect relations between the royal house and the Jewish subjects.<\/p>\n<p>I offered a silent prayer to Hashem to help me at this fateful time. I kept my hands together throughout the visit. The woman accepted me pleasantly and even showed me honor. She never proffered her hand at all. I was struck by the irony of the situation. Instead of worrying how to refrain from insulting her honor, the woman sought ways to preserve my own.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"111\">\n<li>With an envoy of the king of Morocco, at the hilula of the Tzaddik, Rabbi Chaim Pinto Hagadol<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>I thanked Hashem for His help at this time. I felt a Heavenly handshake, assuring me that I was doing the right thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handling Things Right I was once invited to a visit with the esteemed mother of the Moroccan king, may he be blessed. During the entire meeting, I was concerned over one matter: What would I do when she would want to shake my hand? She might be insulted if I refused, and take it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":26137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1089],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heavenly-assistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}