{"id":716,"date":"2021-05-27T15:29:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=716"},"modified":"2021-05-27T15:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:29:51","slug":"the-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/the-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DEAL"},"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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(Adapted from the teachings of the Rebbe by Yanki Tauber)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>All that day, the holiest of the year, they had stood in the synagogue, fasting, repenting, beseeching the Almighty to grant them a year of life, health and happiness. Now, the \u2018\u2018gate closing\u2019\u2019 prayers had concluded, the shofar had been sounded, and the townspeople of Berditchev were breaking their fast with the festive post-Yom Kippur meal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev turned to his disciples and said: \u2018\u2018Let me tell you of a deal that was struck today with the Almighty in the women\u2019s section of the synagogue.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018\u2018Sarah Leah, a widow with a houseful of hungry tots, lifted her eyes heavenward and said: \u2018Father in Heaven! I know that I\u2019ve sinned. I\u2019ve gossiped, I\u2019ve neglected my prayers, I\u2019ve gotten angry. But You, G-d, did not do that great, either. Look how You\u2019ve treated a poor woman and her five little orphans: our goat stopped giving milk, the roof of our humble hut caved in, and the baby was ill all winter. But I\u2019ll tell you what. Let\u2019s make a deal\u2014I\u2019ll forgive You, You\u2019ll forgive me, and from now on we\u2019ll both do only good to each other&#8230;\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018\u2018Foolish woman,\u2019\u2019 concluded Rabbi Levi Yitzchak. \u2018\u2018Why did she let Him off so easily? She could have brought Moshiach!\u2019<\/strong><\/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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(Adapted from the teachings of the Rebbe by Yanki Tauber) All that day, the holiest of the year, they had stood in the synagogue, fasting, [&#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\/716"}],"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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}