{"id":13855,"date":"2020-02-05T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2020\/02\/05\/a-tu-bshvat-tale-honi-the-circle-maker\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T18:02:10","slug":"a-tu-bshvat-tale-honi-the-circle-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2020\/02\/05\/a-tu-bshvat-tale-honi-the-circle-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"A Talmudic Tu B&#8217;Shvat Tale: Honi the Circle Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"embed\"><iframe width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hRfV7XrGfBo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>This clever, animated video (03:37) presents a modern retelling of the Talmudic tale of Honi the Circle Maker, a 1st century BCE Jewish sage who teaches us about the power of prayer, the importance of rain, and the connection between humanity and nature through generations. Due to its environmental themes, this story is often associated with Tu B&#8217;Shvat, the Jewish New Year for the trees.\u00a0<\/em><em>T<\/em><em>his video was produced by\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bimbam.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BimBam,<\/a>\u00a0an educational organization that creates accessible digital media about Judaism.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This clever, animated video (03:37) presents a modern retelling of the Talmudic tale of Honi the Circle Maker, a 1st century BCE Jewish sage who teaches us about the power of prayer, the importance of rain, and the connection between humanity and nature through generations. Due to its environmental themes, this story is often associated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":13860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[3770],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/"}],"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\/87\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=13855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13860\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=13855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=13855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=13855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}