{"id":513,"date":"2012-01-09T17:35:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metzion.org\/?p=513"},"modified":"2012-01-09T17:36:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T15:36:29","slug":"shemot-say-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/09\/shemot-say-my-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Shemot &#8211; &#8220;Say My Name&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shemot begins with Rashi telling us that even though Jacob and his children were each named at the end of Bereishit, God names them again here to let us know how much he loved them. Thus, the second book of the Bible, which tells the story of the birth and redemption of the People of Israel, often referred to as Exodus &#8211; we call Shemot, Names.<\/p>\n<p>Within a dozen verses, the idyllic establishing paragraph makes way for the harsh reality of slavery. The new oppressor and regime are introduced by saying that they didn<\/p>\n<div class='shareinpost'><ul class=\"socialwrap row\"><li class=\"icon_text\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Recommend this post : Shemot &#8211; &#8220;Say My Name&#8221; on Facebook'  href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmetzion.org%2Findex.php%2F2012%2F01%2F09%2Fshemot-say-my-name%2F&amp;t=Shemot+%E2%80%93+%E2%80%9CSay+My+Name%E2%80%9D'  ><img  src='https:\/\/metzion.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='16' width='16'  class='image-16' alt='facebook'  style='background: transparent url(https:\/\/metzion.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/16\/sprite-feb-16.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:16px;width:16px;background-position:-204px 0px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">Recommend on Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"icon_text\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Tweet this post : Shemot &#8211; &#8220;Say My Name&#8221; on Twitter'  href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FzxCz3C&amp;text= via+%40TelAvivIS\"  ><img  src='https:\/\/metzion.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='16' width='16'  class='image-16' alt='twitter'  style='background: transparent url(https:\/\/metzion.org\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/default\/16\/sprite-feb-16.png) no-repeat;padding:0;margin:0;height:16px;width:16px;background-position:-1105px 0px'   \/> <span class=\"head\">Tweet about it<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"clean\"><\/div> <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shemot begins with Rashi telling us that even though Jacob and his children were each named at the end of Bereishit, God names them again here to let us know how much he loved them. Thus, the second book of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/09\/shemot-say-my-name\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-torah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metzion.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}