{"id":828,"date":"2021-06-03T18:10:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=828"},"modified":"2021-06-03T18:10:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T21:10:44","slug":"as-long-as-the-candle-remains-alight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/03\/as-long-as-the-candle-remains-alight\/","title":{"rendered":"AS LONG AS THE CANDLE REMAINS ALIGHT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is told that above the modest apartment of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev lived a shoemaker. Late one night, when Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was about to close his Talmud and sleep, he could hear his neighbor still at work, humming and hammering. The sage walked upstairs: &#8220;Aren&#8217;t you tired? It&#8217;s past midnight, and we must be at morning services in a little less than six hours.&#8221;<br><br>&#8220;Yes,&#8221; said the shoemaker, as he pointed to the candlelight by which he was working. &#8220;But as long as the candle remains alight, there is still time to mend.&#8221;<br><br>Rabbi Levi Yitzhak began to weep. &#8220;How truly do you teach, my master,&#8221; he said to the shoemaker. &#8220;As long as the candle of our soul remains alight with life, there is still time for each of us to mend ourselves, and the world\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is told that above the modest apartment of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev lived a shoemaker. Late one night, when Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was [&#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\/828"}],"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=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}