{"id":99163,"date":"2022-11-20T05:51:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99163"},"modified":"2022-11-20T05:51:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:51:46","slug":"unresponsive-to-the-deafening-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/unresponsive-to-the-deafening-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Unresponsive to the Deafening Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Unresponsive to the Deafening Call<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I once gave a sermon regarding the significance and singularity of Shabbat. I quoted various sources to support my words and developed the subject from different angles. I spoke about the holiness of Shabbat and the benefits of studying Torah on this day.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the course of my speech, one man kept jumping up and challenging whatever I said. He argued about each detail I related regarding the sanctity of this day. He had a hard time understanding what is so special about Shabbat.<\/p>\n<p>Time and again, I tried to explain the concept to him. I attempted to convince him of the advantages of Shabbat observance. But I had the feeling that my words were falling on deaf ears.<\/p>\n<p>Time went by. I finally found out that this man was a gentile. Although his father was Jewish, his mother was not. Now I realized why I could not impress upon him the importance of Shabbat.<\/p>\n<p><em>A gentile can never understand the depth and virtues of Shabbat. He does not have the tools with which to contain its potency. I had felt that I was talking to deaf ears, because I was. These were not ears that heard Hashem\u2019s voice at Har Sinai, declaring, \u201cSafeguard the day of Shabbat to sanctify it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unresponsive to the Deafening Call I once gave a sermon regarding the significance and singularity of Shabbat. I quoted various sources to support my words and developed the subject from different angles. I spoke about the holiness of Shabbat and the benefits of studying Torah on this day. Throughout the course of my speech, one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":28027,"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":[1105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shabbat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99163","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=99163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}