{"id":35854,"date":"2014-04-09T22:08:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T22:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=35854"},"modified":"2016-09-20T14:22:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T14:22:45","slug":"shabbat-hagadol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/shabbat-hagadol\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabbat HaGadol: An Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-266x266 size-266x266 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Shabbat-HaGadol-e1461234408421.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Shabbat-HaGadol-e1461234408421.jpg 763w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/files\/Shabbat-HaGadol-e1461234408421-300x226.jpg 300w\" alt=\"Shabbat HaGadol\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" \/>Shabbat HaGadol, the Sabbath preceding Passover, derives its name (The Great Sabbath) from the importance of the approaching festival and from the Haftarah reading of the day that closes with an allusion to the &#8220;Coming of Elijah on the Great Day of the L-rd&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shabbat HaGadol, the Sabbath preceding Passover, derives its name (The Great Sabbath) from the importance of the approaching festival and from the Haftarah reading of the day that closes with an allusion to the &#8220;Coming of Elijah on the Great Day of the L-rd&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":38664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-passover"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - 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