{"id":1897,"date":"2017-07-16T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2017\/07\/16\/personalizing-the-blessing-of-the-children-on-shabbat"},"modified":"2018-06-12T12:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:35:30","slug":"personalizing-the-blessing-of-the-children-on-shabbat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2017\/07\/16\/personalizing-the-blessing-of-the-children-on-shabbat\/","title":{"rendered":"Personalizing the Blessing of the Children on Shabbat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/article\/blessing-your-child\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> shows how the ritual blessing over the children on Shabbat can be used as an opportunity to infuse spirituality and intention into the sometimes challenging and mundane experience of parenting.\u00a0After an anecdotal\u00a0introduction about her own transition into motherhood,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/author\/dasee-berkowitz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Dasee Berkowitz<\/a>\u00a0outlines\u00a0the reasons behind the traditional blessing and demonstrates how it can be personalized\u00a0to reflect one&#8217;s belief system and one&#8217;s children. Berkowitz, the Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/ayeka.org.il\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ayeka<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;Becoming a Soulful Parent&#8221; project, published this article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kveller.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kveller.com<\/a>, a\u00a0website for those who want to add a Jewish twist to their parenting.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article shows how the ritual blessing over the children on Shabbat can be used as an opportunity to infuse spirituality and intention into the sometimes challenging and mundane experience of parenting.\u00a0After an anecdotal\u00a0introduction about her own transition into motherhood,\u00a0Dasee Berkowitz\u00a0outlines\u00a0the reasons behind the traditional blessing and demonstrates how it can be personalized\u00a0to reflect one&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308],"tags":[314,318,345,346,347,254],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/"}],"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\/17\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}