{"id":98877,"date":"2022-11-20T04:18:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T02:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98877"},"modified":"2022-11-20T04:18:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T02:18:05","slug":"basking-in-the-effects-of-my-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/basking-in-the-effects-of-my-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Basking in the Effects of My Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Basking in the Effects of My Efforts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Erev Pesach one year saw me especially absorbed in holiday preparations. I was submerged in cleaning agents and assiduously attacked every bit of chametz. When it came time to check for chametz, I spent hours at it. There was no doubt that not a crumb of chametz remained.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived home from the Beit Hakeneset on the Seder Night, my body was aching with exhaustion. I somehow managed to climb the five flights of stairs to my home.<\/p>\n<p><em>As I entered my house, I was greeted with the holiness of the holiday. I was overcome by a feeling of kedushah, the likes of which I had never experienced before. I then felt that all of my efforts were worthwhile, if only to feel, even for a few moments, the sweet satisfaction of a job well done and its sanctified results. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basking in the Effects of My Efforts Erev Pesach one year saw me especially absorbed in holiday preparations. I was submerged in cleaning agents and assiduously attacked every bit of chametz. When it came time to check for chametz, I spent hours at it. There was no doubt that not a crumb of chametz remained. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":26023,"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":[1093],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toil-in-torah-and-mitzvot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98877","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=98877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}