{"id":1874,"date":"2021-04-19T18:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T01:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2021\/04\/19\/the-5-books-meander-week-25-tazria\/"},"modified":"2021-04-19T18:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T01:29:22","slug":"the-5-books-meander-week-25-tazria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2021\/04\/19\/the-5-books-meander-week-25-tazria\/","title":{"rendered":"The 5 Books Meander, Week 25: Tazria&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What just happened:<\/strong><br \/>\nSome sections are easier to relate to than others. And then there was this week&#8217;s parsha. Two years ago there wouldn&#8217;t have been much to work with here. This year it read like a practical and super relevant how-to guide for people learning to live together, when living together means living with disease.<\/p>\n<p>Since the first person figured out how to have a neighbor and not eat them, we&#8217;ve been trying to make this live-together-thing work. We&#8217;ve had better centuries and we&#8217;ve had worse ones. But show me another mammal that can live in 30-story buildings packed with neighbors above, below, on all sides, millions of souls going up and down elevators, shopping, making a nice brisket, and mostly not killing each other. <\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t say poodles. Poodles are terrible at making brisket.<\/p>\n<p>So what can we learn from Leviticus&#8217; advice on living with leprosy, and perhaps more importantly, living with lepers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Of possible note:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Torah asks us to trust the Levites. Interestingly, they aren&#8217;t making religious judgments. They&#8217;re just&#8230; being trustworthy. Worthy of trust. Because having trusted leadership is not optional when people start getting sick.<\/li>\n<li>It turns out that quarantining is a helpful option. Good to know.<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t burn the sick or blame the sick. And we don&#8217;t pretend the sick aren&#8217;t really that sick. If we think someone&#8217;s sick, we keep them away from the herd, to keep the herd whole.<\/li>\n<li>And we ask the sick to do their part too &#8212; to the small things they can to stop or slow the spread. Because the basic idea is, we&#8217;re all in this together. And if we stay calm and kind, if we have trusted leaders, if each do our part, maybe we&#8217;ll all get through this together too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What just happened: Some sections are easier to relate to than others. And then there was this week&#8217;s parsha. Two years ago there wouldn&#8217;t have been much to work with here. This year it read like a practical and super relevant how-to guide for people learning to live together, when living together means living with [&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-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","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=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}