{"id":252,"date":"2005-01-27T10:56:57","date_gmt":"2005-01-27T18:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2005-01-27T11:07:27","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T19:07:27","slug":"bar-mitzvah-invitations-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Bar Mitzvah invitations II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to popular demand (well, one comment from <a href=\"http:\/\/lesserweevils.blogspot.com\/\">Talmida<\/a>), I&#8217;ve uploaded larger, non-animated images of the <a href=\"http:\/\/smontagu.org\/images\/invitation01.png\">front<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/smontagu.org\/images\/invitation02.png\">inside<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/smontagu.org\/images\/invitation03.png\">back<\/a> of the invitations.<\/p>\n<p>The graphics are all taken from &#8220;carpet pages&#8221; from 14th century illuminated Biblical manuscripts. The quotation on the inside is from the Babylonian Talmud, Hhullin 89a:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Rabbi Meir said, &#8220;Why is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?p=221\">Tekhelet<\/a> different from all other colours?  Because Tekhelet is like the sea, and the sea is like the sky, and the sky is like sapphire, and sapphire is like [God&#8217;s] Glorious Throne.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More will be heard of this theme in my <span lang=\"he\">\u05d3\u05d1\u05e8 \u05ea\u05d5\u05e8\u05d4<\/span> at the Bar Mitzvah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to popular demand (well, one comment from Talmida), I&#8217;ve uploaded larger, non-animated images of the front, inside and back of the invitations. The graphics are all taken from &#8220;carpet pages&#8221; from 14th century illuminated Biblical manuscripts. The quotation on the inside is from the Babylonian Talmud, Hhullin 89a: Rabbi Meir said, &#8220;Why is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}