{"id":572,"date":"2021-05-24T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=572"},"modified":"2021-05-24T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T18:15:02","slug":"pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/24\/pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"PURSUIT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>(Courtesy Doug Lipman)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rabbi Levi Yitzhak walked down the main street of Berdichev, greeting all who passed him. To some he gave compliments; to some he offered blessings; of some he asked questions, then stopped to listen to their answers.<br><br>As the rabbi slowly made his way through the stream of people, one of his congregants strode through the crowd, elbows pumping with determination. Passing Levi Yitzhak, he murmured, &#8220;Sholom Aleichem, Rabbi.&#8221;<br>Suddenly, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak shouted at him, &#8220;Stop! Where are you going?&#8221;<br><br>The man turned to face his rebbe. &#8220;I am pursuing my living, Rabbi,&#8221; he growled. &#8220;Please let me continue.&#8221;<br>Rabbi Levi Yitzhak smiled. &#8220;How do you know,&#8221; he said, &#8220;that your living is not behind you, trying to catch up?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Courtesy Doug Lipman) Rabbi Levi Yitzhak walked down the main street of Berdichev, greeting all who passed him. To some he gave compliments; to some [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}