{"id":676,"date":"2021-05-25T17:53:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=676"},"modified":"2021-05-25T17:53:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T20:53:43","slug":"writing-on-shabat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/25\/writing-on-shabat\/","title":{"rendered":"WRITING ON SHABAT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s an inspiring story about Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev, the 18th century Chassidic leader. He was known as &#8220;the defense attorney of the Jewish people,&#8221; because he constantly beseeched God to deal kindly with His people.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>One year, Rosh Hashana fell out on Shabbat, and Rabbi Levi Yitzhak went to the front of the synagogue to lead the congregation in prayer.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Before beginning, he looked heavenward and said: &#8220;God, today is Shabbat. You taught us in Your holy Torah that Shabbat may only be broken in order to save a life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I demand that you keep the laws which You gave us. Since writing is a prohibited act on Shabbat, You have no right to record anybody in the Book of Death.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You may only break Shabbat to record all of mankind in the Book of Life!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an inspiring story about Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev, the 18th century Chassidic leader. He was known as &#8220;the defense attorney of the Jewish [&#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\/676"}],"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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}