{"id":658,"date":"2021-05-25T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=658"},"modified":"2021-05-25T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:48:07","slug":"the-rabbis-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/25\/the-rabbis-blessing\/","title":{"rendered":"THE RABBI&#8217;S BLESSING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Retold by: Doug Lipman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One day, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak entered the House of Study in Berdichev. At the pulpit was a guest preacher, one of the wandering maggidim who made their living speaking in one town after another.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Levi Yitzhak listened to the preacher enumerate the failings of the Jews, giving a vivid account of their sins and unworthiness.&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>When the sermon was over, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak lifted his eyes in prayer. &#8220;Master of the Universe,&#8221; he called, &#8220;please give this man money!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The parishioners next to Rabbi Levi Yitzhak looked at him in shock. Their rabbi was praising such a maggid? Their Levi Yitzhak, famous as the compassionate defender of the Jewish people?<br>Rabbi Levi Yitzhak continued his prayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Obviously, Almighty, this preacher needs the few coins he is given for these bitter sermons. I beg you, please give him some other source of income, so he will no longer need to chastise Your children!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retold by: Doug Lipman One day, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak entered the House of Study in Berdichev. At the pulpit was a guest preacher, one of [&#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\/658"}],"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=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}