{"id":1264,"date":"2021-07-20T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saltshakers.com\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2021-07-20T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:16:19","slug":"yeshua-explored-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/saltshakers.church\/?p=1264","title":{"rendered":"Yeshua Explored"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>July 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3>Mercy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How should we treat each other?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there\u2019s the other aspect of&nbsp;<em>chesed (lovingkindness)<\/em>, the little meaning, addressing the relationship between man and man. This is the popular usage of chesed within the Jewish community, fuelled by the Jewish Publication Society (JPS) translation of the word as&nbsp;<em>mercy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This manifests as acts of kindness and charity, something that is very much a feature of Jewish society. These are not the acts of charity, such as giving to the poor, that are considered a duty. These are known as\u00a0<em>tzedakah<\/em>, a religious obligation. Rather, chesed represents acts of kindness and charity that go above and beyond the expected and can be directed to anyone, even the rich and the undeserving. Subsequently many Jewish charitable initiatives make use of the word \u2018chesed\u2019 in their titles. How about Biblical examples? A good place to start is the Sermon on the Mount:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierchristianradio.com\/Blogs2\/Yeshua-Explored\/Mercy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE FOR FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 2021 Mercy How should we treat each other?\u00a0 Then there\u2019s the other aspect of&nbsp;chesed (lovingkindness), the little meaning, addressing the relationship between man and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yeshua Explored - SALTSHAKERS creativity in action<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/saltshakers.church\/?p=1264\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yeshua Explored - 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