{"id":498,"date":"2010-05-31T15:07:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T15:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/windowsanddoors\/2010\/05\/a-jewishbiblical-practice-for.html"},"modified":"2010-05-31T15:07:57","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T15:07:57","slug":"a-jewishbiblical-practice-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/windowsanddoors\/2010\/05\/a-jewishbiblical-practice-for.html","title":{"rendered":"A Jewish\/Biblical Practice for Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy<\/em>.  So go the words of Exodus 20:8, and in the rabbinic understanding of how to fulfill them, there is an important message that will help us make this Memorial Day a little more meaningful.  And having recently crossed the threshold of 1,000 dead service personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, that is an especially urgent need.<br \/>\nAccording to the sages, the biblical obligation to remember the Sabbath day in a way that makes it holy, requires action.  In the case of Shabbat, the Sabbath, that is classically understood as using words of prayer and blessing &#8211; specifically the Kiddush, or ritual over a cup of wine\/grape juice on both Friday night and during the day on Saturday.<br \/>\nI do not know if lifting a glass in memory of our nation&#8217;s military dead is the way to go &#8211; though I would certainly not be the first to suggest such a practice.  I do know that the basic insight here is worth integrating i.e. <strong>memory doesn&#8217;t just happen, it needs to be created<\/strong>.  Creating that memory is the order of the day and I wish us all success in fulfilling that sacred obligation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. So go the words of Exodus 20:8, and in the rabbinic understanding of how to fulfill them, there is an important message that will help us make this Memorial Day a little more meaningful. 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