{"id":99167,"date":"2022-11-20T05:52:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99167"},"modified":"2022-11-24T23:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:25:44","slug":"seeing-the-beauty-of-shabbat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/seeing-the-beauty-of-shabbat\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing the Beauty of Shabbat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seeing the Beauty of Shabbat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was in Mexico, Mr. Elie Kadi was my translator from the spoken Spanish to <em>lashon hakodesh<\/em>. This way, I was able to communicate with the people and help them out. A blind woman came with her mother and asked that I bless her with a complete recovery in the merit of my holy fathers. She begged to be able to see again.<\/p>\n<p>I told her she must begin keeping Shabbat. I said that her blindness came in the aftermath of desecrating this holy day. The mother began meddling, claiming that her daughter\u2019s sightlessness had nothing to do with <em>chillul Shabbat<\/em>. But I would not be swayed from my stance. I went so far as to say that her blindness began on a Shabbat.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was finally struck speechless. She pulled out a calendar and checked the dates. Sure enough, the day her daughter went blind was a Shabbat. It was the day she had flagrantly violated the sanctity of Shabbat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Both mother and daughter confessed to this terrible sin. They genuinely wished to correct their ways. I instructed them how to do teshuvah for desecrating Shabbat. After they accepted Shabbat appropriately, the daughter\u2019s eyesight was restored<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing the Beauty of Shabbat When I was in Mexico, Mr. Elie Kadi was my translator from the spoken Spanish to lashon hakodesh. This way, I was able to communicate with the people and help them out. A blind woman came with her mother and asked that I bless her with a complete recovery in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99725,"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-99167","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\/99167","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=99167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}