{"id":213,"date":"2017-03-27T15:42:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/?p=213"},"modified":"2017-03-27T15:44:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:44:59","slug":"blessing-ilanot-on-rosh-chodesh-nissan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/?p=213","title":{"rendered":"Blessing Ilanot on Rosh Chodesh Nissan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks\u00a0the new Hebrew calendar month of Nissan. We at the<strong> Ilanot Project<\/strong> are especially happy this time of year, as according to\u00a0kabbalistic custom, this is the time to go outside, find some lovely fruit trees (=ilanot), and to bless &#8217;em. The HIDA\u00a0(R.\u00a0<span>Haim Yosef David Azulai) urged all who recite the blessing to do so with great devotion, and to bear in mind the unique opportunity of this propitious occasion to rescue human souls who have reincarnated\u00a0in the vegetable kingdom.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The HIDA&#8217;s comments and liturgy for the occasion may be found in the <em>Siddur ha-HIDA<\/em>, JM 2004, pp. 625-626.<\/p>\n<p>The image of the botanical sefirotic tree is\u00a0from <em>Seder ha-Ilan<\/em> (MS Jerusalem NLI 2964), to be released in a critical edition with facsimile by the Ilanot Project in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-216 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ilanot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1245\" height=\"832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ilanot.jpg 1245w, https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ilanot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ilanot-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ilanot-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks\u00a0the new Hebrew calendar month of Nissan. We at the Ilanot Project are especially happy this time of year, as according to\u00a0kabbalistic custom, this is the time to go outside, find some lovely fruit trees (=ilanot), and to bless &#8217;em. The HIDA\u00a0(R.\u00a0Haim Yosef David Azulai) urged all who recite the blessing to do so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/?p=213\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blessing Ilanot on Rosh Chodesh Nissan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilanot.haifa.ac.il\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}