{"id":99230,"date":"2022-11-20T06:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99230"},"modified":"2022-11-22T22:50:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T20:50:18","slug":"a-portentous-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/a-portentous-read\/","title":{"rendered":"A Portentous Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Portentous Read<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One evening, before retiring, I perused a <em>sefer kodesh<\/em>, as is my custom, so that my sleep would be imbued with Torah thoughts. I opened to a section describing the <em>Navi<\/em>, Ido (<em>Melachim<\/em> I, 13). Pesukim 1-5 describe a miracle he did by the word of Hashem. Pesukim 7-24 relate Hashem\u2019s order to him not to eat, drink, or go home the way he had come. But he met a false prophet on the way who convinced him to eat. Since Ido transgressed Hashem\u2019s word, he was killed by a lion.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, a man called me up and told me that his wife had given birth to a baby boy eight days earlier. Today was the <em>brit<\/em>, but he could not decide on a name. He said he was wavering between two names. One of the names was Ido, which he was more inclined to give.<\/p>\n<p>I asked why he had chosen this name. He replied that he had been enamored of the good qualities of Ido Hanavi, who performed miracles. I liked what I heard and encouraged him to give that name.<\/p>\n<p><em>I felt that Hashem had led me to respond appropriately to this man by having me read about Ido Hanavi the night before<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Portentous Read One evening, before retiring, I perused a sefer kodesh, as is my custom, so that my sleep would be imbued with Torah thoughts. I opened to a section describing the Navi, Ido (Melachim I, 13). Pesukim 1-5 describe a miracle he did by the word of Hashem. Pesukim 7-24 relate Hashem\u2019s order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99803,"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":[1108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99230","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=99230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}