{"id":186883,"date":"2013-09-06T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/06\/deep-thought-151\/"},"modified":"2013-09-06T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T20:46:00","slug":"deep-thought-151","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/06\/deep-thought-151\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">When a person commits a sin and does not turn in repentance, when that person forgets the sin, the Holy One remembers it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">When a person fulfills a commandment by doing a good deed, the Holy One remembers it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">When a person commits a sin and later turns in repentance, remembering the sin, the Holy One grants atonement, and forgets the sin.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">When a person fulfills a commandment and ius constantly filled with self-praise because of it, the Holy One forgets it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 110%; font-variant: small-caps;\">What a person forgets, God Remembers; what a person remembers, God forgets.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2014Rebbe Shmelke of Nikolsberg<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a note included in the margins of our Machzor<sup>*<\/sup>, and was pointed out during Rosh Hashanah services today by the Rabbi.<\/p>\n<p>It needs to be shared.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">A specialized version of a Jewish prayer book that is intended specifically for Jewish High Holidays services.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machzor\">Link<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a person commits a sin and does not turn in repentance, when that person forgets the sin, the Holy One remembers it.When a person fulfills a commandment by doing a good deed, the Holy One remembers it.When a person commits a sin and later turns in repentance, remembering the sin, the Holy One grants &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[961,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deep-thoughts","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}