{"id":98859,"date":"2022-11-20T04:12:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T02:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98859"},"modified":"2022-11-20T04:12:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T02:12:38","slug":"accepted-at-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/accepted-at-sinai\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepted at Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Accepted at Sinai<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man related that his friend wished to marry in a Reform synagogue. Obviously, such a marriage would not be conducted according to halachah, and as such, is not recognized by Judaism. The man therefore requested that I speak with his friend and convince him to conduct a kosher Jewish wedding, as has been the custom from time immemorial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know your friend and he does not know me,\u201d I countered. \u201cWhat makes you think he will listen to me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are a rabbi with spiritual authority. He will surely obey your words!\u201d he said, unequivocally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut what if he doesn\u2019t?\u201d I said, obstinately.<\/p>\n<p>But the man was certain my words would have effect. \u201cThe Rav is an important Torah figure. I have no doubt that your words will enter his heart and he will do as you instruct.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing his words, I thought, \u201cPraiseworthy is this nation.\u201d This man was sure that his friend would obey a <em>talmid chacham<\/em> whom he had never met before.<\/p>\n<p>Every Jewish <em>neshamah<\/em> stood at Har Sinai and heard Hashem\u2019s voice speak amidst the fire. Each one accepted the Torah together with the rest of Am Yisrael. The <em>neshamah<\/em> living within this Jew would certainly accept the directives of the Torah Sages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accepted at Sinai A man related that his friend wished to marry in a Reform synagogue. Obviously, such a marriage would not be conducted according to halachah, and as such, is not recognized by Judaism. The man therefore requested that I speak with his friend and convince him to conduct a kosher Jewish wedding, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27562,"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":[1092],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-am-yisrael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98859","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=98859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}