{"id":5643,"date":"2018-04-24T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T08:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/04\/24\/how-and-why-jewish-parents-bless-their-children-on-shabbat-2-3-3"},"modified":"2018-09-04T12:26:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T09:26:27","slug":"how-and-why-jewish-parents-bless-their-children-on-shabbat-2-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/04\/24\/how-and-why-jewish-parents-bless-their-children-on-shabbat-2-3-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Omer &amp; Shavuot: Self-Betterment and a Divine Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fY8YYJglB3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">short video<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixthandi.org\/about\/our-staff\/rabbi-shira-stutman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rabbi Shira Stutman<\/a> shares a profound explanation of Shavuot and the 49 day period of the Omer between Passover and Shavuot, with an emphasis on self-betterment\u00a0and the renewal of one&#8217;s relationship\u00a0with God. Rabbi Stutman is a Reconstructionist rabbi and the D<\/i><i>irector of Community Engagement at Sixth &amp; I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC. This video was produced by PBS as part of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Religion &amp; Ethics Newsweekly<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this short video, Rabbi Shira Stutman shares a profound explanation of Shavuot and the 49 day period of the Omer between Passover and Shavuot, with an emphasis on self-betterment\u00a0and the renewal of one&#8217;s relationship\u00a0with God. Rabbi Stutman is a Reconstructionist rabbi and the Director of Community Engagement at Sixth &amp; I Historic Synagogue in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/"}],"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=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5644\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}