{"id":4209,"date":"2009-10-08T12:57:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/08\/a-prayer-on-hoshana-rabbah-for-jonathan-pollard\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T12:57:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T10:57:05","slug":"a-prayer-on-hoshana-rabbah-for-jonathan-pollard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/08\/a-prayer-on-hoshana-rabbah-for-jonathan-pollard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer on Hoshana Rabbah for Jonathan Pollard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/JonathanPollardAnotherPose.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>We learn that on Hoshana Rabbah, Hashem&#8217;s decrees upon all individuals, upon the Jewish people, and indeed on everyone in the entire world are finalized, as Rabbi Artscroll puts it, &#8216;delivered&#8217; (Succot Machzor, page 645). Many Kehillot stay up all of Hoshana Rabbah night praying, saying Tehillim, learning in hopes that the finalized, &#8216;delivered&#8217; decree upon us individually and upon Am Yehudi collectively, be for Tov in all things in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>At such an auspicious time, may all of us have our brother Jonathan Pollard &#8212; Yehonatan Ben Malka prominently in our hearts, thoughts, prayers and in mind in our actions &#8212; that Hashem see to his release and return to his brethren in this year &#8212; soon than later.<\/p>\n<p>And may our hearts yearn that Hashem see sufficient merit in all of us to justify Jonathan&#8217;s liberation and return to us &#8212; achshav, chik chuk, miyad, etmol!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We learn that on Hoshana Rabbah, Hashem&#8217;s decrees upon all individuals, upon the Jewish people, and indeed on everyone in the entire world are finalized, as Rabbi Artscroll puts it, &#8216;delivered&#8217; (Succot Machzor, page 645). Many Kehillot stay up all of Hoshana Rabbah night praying, saying Tehillim, learning in hopes that the finalized, &#8216;delivered&#8217; decree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}