{"id":1297,"date":"2009-05-28T09:57:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T09:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/off-the-grid-torah-and-a-major-light-show\/"},"modified":"2009-05-28T09:57:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T09:57:21","slug":"off-the-grid-torah-and-a-major-light-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/off-the-grid-torah-and-a-major-light-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Grid &#8211; Torah and A Major Light Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef01156fb76852970c-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cheesecake\" border=\"0\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f053253ef01156fb76852970c\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/.a\/6a00d8341f053253ef01156fb76852970c-800wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Cheesecake\" \/><\/a> I&#39;ll be offline until Sunday celebrating a somewhat (and undeservedly) obscure Jewish holiday called Shavuot.*&#0160; It celebrates t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chabad.org\/library\/bible_cdo\/aid\/9880\" target=\"_blank\">he giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai<\/a> &#8211; a story I love not only for its religious importance but also because it sounds like such a wild light show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"coversenum\">16. <\/span><span class=\"coversetext\">It<br \/>\ncame to pass on the third day when it was morning, that<em> <strong>there were thunder<br \/>\nclaps and lightning flashes, and a thick cloud was upon the mountain, and a<br \/>\nvery powerful blast of a shofar, and the entire nation that was in the camp<br \/>\nshuddered.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><em><strong> &#0160; <\/strong><\/em><span class=\"coversenum\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a name=\"v1917\"><\/a><a name=\"v11727\"><\/a><span class=\"coversenum\">17.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"coversetext\">Moses brought the people out toward God from the<br \/>\ncamp, and they stood at the bottom of the mountain.<\/span> &#0160; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a name=\"v1918\"><\/a><a name=\"v11728\"><\/a><span class=\"coversenum\">18.<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"coversetext\">And<strong> <em>the entire Mount Sinai smoked because the<br \/>\nLord had descended upon it in fire, and its smoke ascended like the smoke of<br \/>\nthe kiln, and the entire mountain quaked violently<\/em><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/span><em> &#0160; <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You know I&#39;m not a Bible quoter but this is just so great and dramatic &#8211; isn&#39;t is?&#0160; Anyway I&#39;ll see you Sunday.&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>*OH and the cheesecake is up there because this is a holiday that is, traditionally, heavy with dairy meals.&#0160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;ll be offline until Sunday celebrating a somewhat (and undeservedly) obscure Jewish holiday called Shavuot.*&#0160; It celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai &#8211; a story I love not only for its religious importance but also because it sounds like such a wild light show. 16. It came to pass on the third &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/off-the-grid-torah-and-a-major-light-show\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Off the Grid &#8211; Torah and A Major Light Show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,127,98],"tags":[606,607,605,603,604,601,602],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-israel","category-religion","tag-cheesecake","tag-dairy","tag-lightning","tag-matan-torah","tag-mt-sinai","tag-shavuot","tag-torah"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-kV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}