{"id":3810,"date":"2016-03-16T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T04:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/?p=3810"},"modified":"2019-03-26T08:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T13:42:29","slug":"mercy-jewish-perspective-by-rabbi-edward-elkin-march-15-2016-pt2-of-3-mar-15-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/news\/mercy-jewish-perspective-by-rabbi-edward-elkin-march-15-2016-pt2-of-3-mar-15-2016","title":{"rendered":"Mercy… A Jewish Perspective, by Rabbi Edward Elkin"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 15, 2016, the Scarboro Missions chapel was filled with a great variety of persons in attendance for the 2nd session of our 3-part Series on Christian, Jewish and Muslim perspectives on MERCY<\/b> (https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/news\/mercy-jewish-christian-muslim-dialogue<\/a> ). Rabbi Edward Elkin <\/b> (Spiritual leader of ‘First Narayever Congregation’ in downtown Toronto) presented a dynamic Jewish perspective on MERCY using several key Biblical and Rabbinic Texts. This series is part of the church’s Dec. 2015 to Nov.2016 celebration of the Jubilee Year of MERCY.<\/p>\n

A 1-sheet handout<\/a> was distributed at the start of the presentation.  Read the full text version (9 pages)<\/a> of Rabbi Elkin’s presentation.<\/p>\n

\"Speaker<\/a>

Speaker Rabbi Edward Elkin with event coordinator, Sr. Lucy Thorson of the SFM Interfaith Dept.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Partial<\/a>

Partial view of the audience, some in discussion as suggested by Sr. Lucy<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Rabbi<\/a>

Rabbi Elkin holding the Golden Rule Poster presented by Sr. Lucy<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Thanking<\/a>

Thanking the speaker is Barbara Boraks, Director of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue of Toronto<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Question\/comment<\/a>

Question\/comment from Fr. Damian MacPherson, Director of Ecumenical & Interfaith Affairs of the Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Some<\/a>

Some attendees shown with the speaker, Rabbi Edward Elkin & Sr. Lucy Thorson at centre. Also at right is Hector Acero of the SFM Interfaith Dept.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On March 15, 2016, the Scarboro Missions chapel was filled with a great variety of persons in attendance for the 2nd session of our 3-part Series on Christian, Jewish and Muslim perspectives on MERCY (https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/news\/mercy-jewish-christian-muslim-dialogue ). Rabbi Edward Elkin (Spiritual leader of ‘First Narayever Congregation’ in downtown Toronto) presented a dynamic Jewish perspective on MERCY […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7338,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3810\/revisions\/7338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scarboromissions.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}