{"id":1790,"date":"2018-07-16T17:09:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/07\/16\/the-priestly-blessing-at-the-western-wall"},"modified":"2018-07-16T17:09:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:09:02","slug":"the-priestly-blessing-at-the-western-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/07\/16\/the-priestly-blessing-at-the-western-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Priestly Blessing at the Western Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/wOlUJ3yPdQI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short video<\/a> shows tens of thousands of worshippers gathered together at the Western Wall for the Birkat Kohanim, the Priestly Blessing, when Kohanim chant\u00a0three consecutive verses of the Torah, one word at a time, in a special recitation dating back to the First Temple period. The ceremony, during which the Kohanim bless the people of Israel, has become a tradition during Passover and Sukkot since the Western Wall came under Israeli control following the Israeli victory during the Six Day War in 1967. It is in commemoration of the Biblical obligation to visit the Temple on the three annual pilgrimage festivals: Passover, Shavuot, and Sukkot. The Hebrew and English words of the blessing are shown on screen.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"vjs_video_3\" class=\"video-js vjs-controls-enabled vjs-workinghover vjs-v7 bc-player-17afba39-9902-4343-a46b-498c3530b08e_default bc-player-17afba39-9902-4343-a46b-498c3530b08e_default-index-0 vjs-mouse vjs-vpaid-controls-disabled vjs-ima3-html5 vjs-playlist-enabled vjs-plugins-ready vjs-contextmenu vjs-contextmenu-ui vjs-player-info vjs-errors vjs-ad-controls vjs-quality-menu vjs-has-started vjs-paused hola_playlist_video hola_playlist_active_ppanels vjs-user-active not-hover\" lang=\"en-ca\" role=\"region\" data-embed=\"default\" data-player=\"17afba39-9902-4343-a46b-498c3530b08e\" data-account=\"590066524001\" data-video-id=\"5397024456001\" aria-label=\"Video Player\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"hola_playlist hola_playlist_panel hola_top_element\">\n<div class=\"hola_playlist_main\">\n<div class=\"hola_playlist_tile hola_playlist_vtile hola_playlist_play\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short video shows tens of thousands of worshippers gathered together at the Western Wall for the Birkat Kohanim, the Priestly Blessing, when Kohanim chant\u00a0three consecutive verses of the Torah, one word at a time, in a special recitation dating back to the First Temple period. The ceremony, during which the Kohanim bless the people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[2610,236],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/"}],"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\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12231,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/12231\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1791\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}