{"id":13380,"date":"2019-11-21T12:52:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T10:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2019\/11\/21\/what-is-sigd"},"modified":"2019-11-21T16:36:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:36:06","slug":"what-is-sigd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2019\/11\/21\/what-is-sigd\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Sigd?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Nfspo6Zbyb8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short clip<\/a> (2:27) put out by <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBN News<\/a> introduces the ancient Ethiopian Jewish festival of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sigd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sigd<\/a>. A celebration of God&#8217;s giving the Torah to the Jewish people, Sigd has served as a symbol for Ethiopian Jews as they dreamed of returning to Jerusalem for hundreds &#8212; thousands &#8212; of years. What was there celebrated on mountaintops is now celebrated in Jerusalem at Armon HaNetziv, the Haas Promenade that overlooks the Temple Mount. Sigd is a day of prayer and fasting, followed by a festive meal at sundown. In 2008, it became recognized as a national holiday in Israel and has even become something of a political event, drawing notable politicians such as the Prime Minister and various ministry heads.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short clip (2:27) put out by CBN News introduces the ancient Ethiopian Jewish festival of Sigd. A celebration of God&#8217;s giving the Torah to the Jewish people, Sigd has served as a symbol for Ethiopian Jews as they dreamed of returning to Jerusalem for hundreds &#8212; thousands &#8212; of years. What was there celebrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":13381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[3754],"tags":[3756,3755],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=13380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13380\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13381\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=13380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=13380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=13380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}