{"id":190,"date":"2013-09-24T14:34:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T18:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dschein.mighty-little-websites.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-12-03T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T16:11:00","slug":"ilan-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/ilan-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilan and the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sukkot is a holiday that is celebrated with a full moon. Our grandchildren built and decorated their sukkah before we arrived in town.\u00a0 We sang all the brachot <\/em>(blessings), drank wine, and ate challah in the sukkah.\u00a0 The entire time no one said anything about the moon.<\/p>\n

One of the children\u2019s stories did, though. It was a story about a little boy who was a bit frightened to sleep out in the sukkah with his sister.\u00a0 The story ends with the stars and the moon acting as natural night lights for the children.\u00a0 The imagery is beautiful.\u00a0 Toward the end of the evening I went out to get something from the car.\u00a0 Ilan came with me, and there in the sky was the moon, just peeking out from the top of the house next door.\u00a0 When it was time for me to leave, the moon was much higher.\u00a0 I shared this information with Ilan the next day.\u00a0 Then as luck would have it, Ilan, his Saba <\/em>(grandfather), and I had another great view of the moon.<\/p>\n

As we were leaving the next night, we saw the moon even higher up in the sky, as it was later in the night.\u00a0 The bottom of the moon was barely showing out of the covering of a dark cloud.\u00a0 Quickly, though, the cloud moved away so we could see the entire moon glowing brightly in the night sky. \u00a0Just as quickly, it was gone again, behind another cloud.<\/p>\n

I wonder what Ilan thinks is really happening.\u00a0 Does the moon move, or is it the clouds?\u00a0 I also wonder what he thinks about the relationship of the moon to Sukkot.\u00a0 To me it all parallel\u2019s Heschel\u2019s concept of radical amazement.\u00a0 There really is no need for any scientific explanation at this time of year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sukkot is a holiday that is celebrated with a full moon. Our grandchildren built and decorated their sukkah before we arrived in town.\u00a0 We sang all the brachot (blessings), drank wine, and ate challah in the sukkah.\u00a0 The entire time no one said anything about the moon. One of the children\u2019s stories did, though. It Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,19,20],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growing-wonder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}