{"id":55878,"date":"2016-10-04T15:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_full_text_of_rabbi_kenneth_bergers_1986_sermon_five_minutes_to_live\/"},"modified":"2016-10-04T15:30:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T15:30:18","slug":"the_full_text_of_rabbi_kenneth_bergers_1986_sermon_five_minutes_to_live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55878","title":{"rendered":"The full Text of Rabbi Kenneth Berger&#39;s 1986 Sermon: Five minutes to Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The scene still haunts me: It was perhaps the most awful moment of the past year. Against the pale blue sky on a crystal clear Florida day, the space shuttle challenger exploded before our very eyes. Seven brave astronauts, who just a few hours before were chatting with the press, schmoozing with proud relatives and friends, were suddenly gone.<\/p>\n<p>I bring this to your attention because life and death is a major theme of Yom Kippur. We read in our Mahzor<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who shall live, and who shall die?<br \/>\nWho shall attain the measure of man\u2019s days and who shall not?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Rosh Hashanah, it is inscribed and on Yom Kippur, it is sealed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rabbiedbernstein.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/five-minutes-to-live-rabbi-kenneth-berger-z22l-yom-kippur-sermon-sept-1986.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene still haunts me: It was perhaps the most awful moment of the past year. Against the pale blue sky on a crystal clear Florida day, the space shuttle challenger exploded before our very eyes. Seven brave astronauts, who<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55878\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,209,175,438,178,168,133,429,155,184,439,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-eschatology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-judaism","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}