{"id":299,"date":"2021-05-17T18:44:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T21:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=299"},"modified":"2021-05-17T18:44:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T21:44:48","slug":"non-jewish-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/17\/non-jewish-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"NON-JEWISH NEW YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(Courtesy: Jeff Spiegel )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A story is told about Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev who on the non-Jewish<br>new year came out of his study and wished everyone a good year and to be<br>inscribed in the book of happiness and health.<br><br>When asked his reason he responded that it was only on the non-Jewish new<br>year that the good decree written on Yom Kippur was signed, because Hashem<br>saw how the Jews studied on that day and had spent their own New Year in prayer<br>and reflection, while the non-Jews were drinking and involved in corruption.<br>This was brought before the heavenly tribunal by a defender angel silencing<br>the satan.<br><br>There are many such stories told of Hasidic masters who were privileged to<br>ascend on high to witness the spiritual battles in heaven in correspondence<br>to the physical battles in our world.<br><br>The Shabbas Zachor reminds us of how Moshe held his hands up<br>and the Jews were victorious while Joshua led the battle below. Moshe waged<br>the battle in the heavens while Joshua in the physical world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(Courtesy: Jeff Spiegel ) A story is told about Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev who on the non-Jewishnew year came out of his study and wished [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}