{"id":98822,"date":"2022-11-20T03:59:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98822"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:59:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:59:08","slug":"furnished-in-jewish-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/furnished-in-jewish-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Furnished in Jewish Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Furnished in Jewish Style<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I once visited a wealthy individual in Brazil. His house was furnished in grand style, equipped with every modern appliance on the market. His sitting room was spacious, with a massive library standing proudly against one wall. I asked my host to lend me a Sefer Tehillim. He searched all over. In the entire edifice, he could not find one Tehillim. Woe to such shame!<\/p>\n<p>How could a person furnish a home with every conceivable luxury, including chandeliers of pure crystal, air-conditioning systems, beautiful furniture, electronic appliances, etc., yet not make sure to have a basic <em>sefer kodesh<\/em> like a Tehillim?!<\/p>\n<p><em>I rebuked the man for this and explained that a siddur and a Tehillim are basic articles in every Jewish home. They are what connect us with our Creator and should therefore be the first and foremost furnishings of our homes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"114\">\n<li>In Yeshivat Ponevezh, together with the Roshei Hayeshiva<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furnished in Jewish Style I once visited a wealthy individual in Brazil. His house was furnished in grand style, equipped with every modern appliance on the market. His sitting room was spacious, with a massive library standing proudly against one wall. I asked my host to lend me a Sefer Tehillim. He searched all over. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27578,"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":[1090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98822","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=98822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}