{"id":1905,"date":"2017-07-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2017\/07\/10\/shabbat-blessings-for-pets"},"modified":"2018-06-12T12:46:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T09:46:11","slug":"shabbat-blessings-for-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2017\/07\/10\/shabbat-blessings-for-pets\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbat Blessings for Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This <a href=\"https:\/\/ritualwell.org\/ritual\/blessing-animals-friday-night\">post<\/a> presents blessings that animal-lovers can use for their pet dogs and cats on Shabbat in English and transliterated Hebrew.\u00a0<\/em><em>The blessings draw upon Jewish concepts associated with these animals. For example, the blessing for dogs is a play on words, taking the name \u201cCaleb,\u201d which sounds like the Hebrew for \u201cdog&#8221; and also means \u201clike a heart.\u201d This custom was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/ritualwell.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ritualwell.org<\/a>, a project of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College that recognizes the power of ritual and provides a platform for creating new Jewish practices.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Shabbat Blessings for Pets<\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"region-content\">These blessings were written to be used on\u00a0<cite title=\"Lit. Evening Jewish holidays begin in the evening. Hence, Erev Shabbat is the eve of the Sabbath. \">Erev<\/cite>\u00a0<cite title=\"Shabbat is the Sabbath day, the Day of Rest, and is observed from Friday night through Saturday night. Is set aside from the rest of the week both in honor of the fact that God rested on the seventh day after creating the world. On Shabbat, many Jews observe prohibitions from various activities designated as work.\u00a0Shabbat is traditionally observed with festive meals, wine, challah, prayers, the reading and studying of Torah, conjugal relations, family time, and time with friends. \">Shabbat<\/cite>.\u00a0 Their timing is meant to parallel the blessing of children.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"region-content\"><strong>Blessings for Cats<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"region-content\"><em>Yesimkha E-lohim ka-aryot ha-sadeh<\/em><br \/>\nMay God make you like the lions of the veldt.<br \/>\n[by Rabbi Ya\u2019akov Adler]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"region-content\"><em>Yesimkha E-lohim ki-yehuda ha-aryeh<\/em><br \/>\nMay God make you like the lion of Judah.<br \/>\n[by Rabbi Anna Rosenfield]<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"region-content\"><strong>Blessing for Dogs<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span id=\"region-content\"><em>Yesimkha E-lohim ke-kalev ha-ne-eman<\/em><br \/>\nMay God make you like Caleb, the loyal one.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post presents blessings that animal-lovers can use for their pet dogs and cats on Shabbat in English and transliterated Hebrew.\u00a0The blessings draw upon Jewish concepts associated with these animals. For example, the blessing for dogs is a play on words, taking the name \u201cCaleb,\u201d which sounds like the Hebrew for \u201cdog&#8221; and also means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[308],"tags":[355,255,233,356,357,256,293,358],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/"}],"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\/14\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}