{"id":113,"date":"2010-12-21T03:30:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T03:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2010-12-22T03:04:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T03:04:13","slug":"reading-all-of-psalms-in-one-sitting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Reading All of Psalms in One Sitting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_114\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Psalm103.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114\" title=\"Psalm103\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Psalm103-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Psalm103-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Psalm103.png 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Psalm 103 Handwritten in English - click to read <\/p><\/div>\n<p>In approximately September 2010, I had been out of work a few  months, and was about to start a new job (after a previous job had  fallen through), and a friend was still out of work.\u00a0 I had heard of  people reading the entire book of Psalms when in need, so one Erev  Shabbat we started, read the whole thing out-loud (99% in English, with Psalm 92 [Song for the Shabbat] and 145 [Ashrei] in Hebrew]),  alternating one chapter each.\u00a0 From what I remember it took from about  6:30 or 7pm till 1am (so about 6 hours total).\u00a0 Anyway, it was an interesting, and I would say motivating and  inspirational experience, leaving you with the feeling that God is in  control.<\/p>\n<p>My job moved along smoothly (and moved to the next  contract immediately after that one), and I wish I could say my friend got a  job the next week; it took several months, but he did eventually get a  job with better pay and benefits.<\/p>\n<p>So no guarantees &#8211; but you might consider trying it sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In approximately September 2010, I had been out of work a few months, and was about to start a new job (after a previous job had fallen through), and a friend was still out of work.\u00a0 I had heard of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/?p=113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[95,37],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psalms-proverbs","tag-psalms-proverbs","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrhebrew.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}