{"id":188344,"date":"2010-10-17T20:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/17\/and-sarah-laughed\/"},"modified":"2010-10-17T20:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T01:58:00","slug":"and-sarah-laughed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/17\/and-sarah-laughed\/","title":{"rendered":"And Sarah Laughed*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2013165249_torah15m.html\">woman scribed Torah written in modern times has been completed<\/a>.  At the siyum (completion ceremony), my brother <a href=\"http:\/\/theinnerwalls.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/womens-torah-completed.html\">sounded the shofar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cool.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Parshas Vayera in Genesis:  <sup>9<\/sup> They said to him, &#8220;Where is your wife Sarah?&#8221; And he replied, &#8220;There, in the tent.&#8221;  <sup>10<\/sup> Then one said, &#8220;I will return to you next year, and your  wife Sarah shall have a son!&#8221; Sarah was listening at the entrance of the  tent, which was behind him.  <sup>11<\/sup> Now Abraham and Sarah were old, advanced in years; Sarah had stopped having the periods of women.  <sup>12<\/sup> <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">And Sarah laughed<\/span> to herself, saying, &#8220;Now that I am withered, am I to have enjoyment\u2014with my husband so old?&#8221;  <sup>13<\/sup> Then the Lord said to Abraham, &#8220;Why did Sarah laugh, saying, &#8216;Shall I in truth bear a child, old as I am?&#8217;  <sup>14<\/sup> Is anything too wondrous for the Lord? I will return to you at the time next year, and Sarah shall have a son.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first woman scribed Torah written in modern times has been completed. At the siyum (completion ceremony), my brother sounded the shofar. Cool. *Parshas Vayera in Genesis: 9 They said to him, &#8220;Where is your wife Sarah?&#8221; And he replied, &#8220;There, in the tent.&#8221; 10 Then one said, &#8220;I will return to you next year, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188344"}],"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=188344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}