{"id":10749,"date":"2023-11-07T21:43:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/?p=10749"},"modified":"2024-06-06T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:30:11","slug":"holy-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/2023\/11\/07\/holy-work\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Holy Work’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Hebrew, we have a term called “Avodat Kodesh,” which literally means ‘Holy Work,’ but actually refers to an unpleasant or tedious job done for a higher cause, one that very few are ready to take upon themselves. Occasionally, we at the TMSP are told that we are doing such a job. However, today we hosted some unusual guests at the sifting site who are, without a doubt, performing such a task, and since October 7th, they have been working day and night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This group of about 40 <\/a>soldiers comprises the surveying unit of the IDF rabbinate, who are currently engaged in scanning the massacre areas near the Gaza Strip for the remains of missing victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group took a day off to visit our sifting facility and learn about our methodology and techniques for identifying tiny bones. It was an honor to host these special individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Hebrew, we have a term called “Avodat Kodesh,” which literally means ‘Holy Work,’ but actually refers to an unpleasant or tedious job done for a higher cause, one that very few are ready to take upon themselves. Occasionally, we at the TMSP are told that we are doing such a job. However, today we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[487,486,497],"class_list":["post-10749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-visitors","tag-special-guests","tag-swords-of-iron","tag-tmsp-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/kodesh-fi.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10754,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10749\/revisions\/10754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmsifting.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}