{"id":7199,"date":"2013-05-14T13:38:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=7199"},"modified":"2013-05-14T13:38:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T19:38:27","slug":"never-on-sundae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/never-on-sundae\/","title":{"rendered":"Never on sundae?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Editor:<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure you know that your conclusion that &#8220;Shavuot was always sundae&#8221; (See Shavuot poem, <a title=\"Shavuot Poem: Shavuot Sundae\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/shavuot-poem-shavuot-sundae\/\">&#8220;Shavuot Sundae&#8221;<\/a>) has profound historical and theological implications.<\/p>\n<p>That was exactly the dispute between the Tzaddukim (&#8220;Sadducees,&#8221; those who denied the validity of the Oral Torah tradition) and the Perushim (&#8220;Pharisees,&#8221; our ancestors): The Tzaddukim believed that Shavuot was always Sunday based on their misunderstanding of a verse in the Torah, and the Perushim rejected their opinion.<\/p>\n<p>What a profound poem! You&#8217;re extraordinarily talented!<\/p>\n<p>Chag Sameach,<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Cary Friedman<br \/>\nPassaic, NJ<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Never%20on%20sundae%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[2773,8790,8795,8788,2318,2317,8887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7201,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7199\/revisions\/7201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}