{"id":1858,"date":"2021-04-10T20:42:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T03:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2021\/04\/10\/the-5-books-meander-week-25-shemini\/"},"modified":"2021-04-10T20:42:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T03:42:49","slug":"the-5-books-meander-week-25-shemini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2021\/04\/10\/the-5-books-meander-week-25-shemini\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Books Meander, Week 25: Shemini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What just happened:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis was a big one &#8212; the laws of kashrut (aka how to be kosher), including surprising news about bunnies and bats!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of possible note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The gestures, the rituals, the blood, the burning &#8212; I had never thought of it this way before, but today it really struck me how much these directions felt like spells and incantations, a pinch of this and a dash of that&#8230; And of course, follow them to the T if you want to avoid the fate of Nadab and Abihu. (Spoiler: you want to avoid the fate of Nadab and Abihu.)<\/li>\n<li>For a book filled with people who live in gray moral spaces, who are more human than paragons, the Torah sometimes draws awfully sharp lines. There&#8217;s the sacred and the profane. There are animals you can eat, and animals that are abominations. There aren&#8217;t many animals for example, that I wouldn&#8217;t recommend you eat, I&#8217;m mean they&#8217;re kind of gamey, but suit yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of kind of gamey, who knew bunnies aren&#8217;t kosher? Clearly not my beloved Aunt Ruth. Likewise, who knew that bats were birds? Total curveball, that.<\/li>\n<li>Curveballs aside, a wise fellow reader pointed out to me that all these rules, these details, create a life infused with reminders of the sacred. Which made me wonder what I might do to add a little more sacred to my day to day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What just happened: This was a big one &#8212; the laws of kashrut (aka how to be kosher), including surprising news about bunnies and bats! Of possible note: The gestures, the rituals, the blood, the burning &#8212; I had never thought of it this way before, but today it really struck me how much these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}