{"id":1121,"date":"2011-07-17T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/bblog2\/client\/index.cfm\/2011\/7\/17\/Parashat-Matot-Get-rid-of-that-which-causes-you-to-sin"},"modified":"2012-09-26T19:36:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T19:36:29","slug":"parashat-matot-get-rid-of-that-which-causes-you-to-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/parashat-matot-get-rid-of-that-which-causes-you-to-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Parashat Matot, Get rid of that which causes you to sin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Place some text here to wrap near image --><\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s reading from Parashat Matot (<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Bamidbar \/ Numbers 30:2-31:54<\/em><\/span>) the Lord commands the men of Yisrael saying<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u05e0\u05b0\u05e7\u05b9\u05dd \u05e0\u05b4\u05e7\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u05ea \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e0\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05b0\u05b9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05de\u05b5\u05d0\u05b5\u05ea \u05d4\u05b7\u05de\u05bc\u05b4\u05d3\u05b0\u05d9\u05b8\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd<\/em> <\/span>to assemble to make war against Midian to <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>\u201cavenge the children of Yisrael of the Midianites.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/span> The men went and made war with Midian, burning with fire their cities and killing the men but they kept the women and children alive and brought them before Moshe and Eleazar.\u00a0 Moshe was angry with the military officers for keeping the women alive because they were the ones who caused the people to sin against the Lord at Baal Peor on the counsel of Bilam.\u00a0 As a result, Moshe commands the people to kill the boys from the children and kill the women who have \u201cknown\u201d a man intimately through sexual relations.\u00a0 We are shown here that peace and rest with God is found in a life that is not under bondage to our own lusts and desires but in a life that is surrendered to God\u2019s will and purpose according to the Scriptures.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matsati.com\/2010-2011\/Parashat%20Matot%20_2010-2011_.pdf\"> Read More here. <\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week&rsquo;s reading from Parashat Matot (Bamidbar \/ Numbers 30:2-31:54) the Lord commands the men of Yisrael saying\u05e0\u05b0\u05e7\u05b9\u05dd \u05e0\u05b4\u05e7\u05b0\u05de\u05b7\u05ea \u05d1\u05bc\u05b0\u05e0\u05b5\u05d9 \u05d9\u05b4\u05e9\u05b0\u05b9\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0\u05b5\u05dc \u05de\u05b5\u05d0\u05b5\u05ea \u05d4\u05b7\u05de\u05bc\u05b4\u05d3\u05b0\u05d9\u05b8\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd to assemble to m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-weekly-parashah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matsati.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}