{"id":26943,"date":"2021-01-28T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/?post_type=news&#038;p=26943"},"modified":"2021-01-28T15:09:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T15:09:10","slug":"ono-ethiopian-scholar-explains-why-you-dont-go-on-a-date-without-getting-a-picture-first-2","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/news\/ono-ethiopian-scholar-explains-why-you-dont-go-on-a-date-without-getting-a-picture-first-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ono Ethiopian Scholar Explains Why You Don\u2019t Go on a Date Without Getting A Picture First"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure id=\"attachment_26942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26942\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/01\/Sharon-Shalom-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"188\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rabbi Sharon Shalom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rabbi Sharon Shalom, the Director of the International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry at Ono Academic College published a commentary on the weekly Torah portion, Va\u2019era, in the magazine \u201cShabbaton\u201d.\u00a0 Among other issues, he addresses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why did God reveal his true name to the Israelites enslaved in Egypt and not to the forefathers?<\/li>\n<li>What is the source of the custom that husbands and brides to be don\u2019t see each other the week before their wedding?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it a good idea to see a picture of a potential partner before going out on the first date?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rabbi Shalom plumbs the depths of the wisdom of the Ethiopian Jewish tradition, and in particular the advice he received from his mother, uncle and grandmother, of sainted memory, to answer these questions.\u00a0 Rabbi Shalom concludes by quoting the response given by Prof. Tova Hartman, the Dean of the School of Humanities at Ono Academic College, to the question, \u201cWhy did God stop speaking to us?\u00a0 Prof. Hartman answered, \u201cGod did not stop talking to us. We are the ones who stopped listening to Him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The full article can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/shabaton1.co.il\/?p=17747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/shabaton1.co.il\/?p=17747<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Sharon Shalom, the Director of the International Center for the Study of Ethiopian Jewry at Ono Academic College published a commentary on the weekly Torah portion, Va\u2019era, in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":138,"template":"","class_list":["post-26943","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/26943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ono.ac.il\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}