{"id":14408,"date":"2026-01-09T22:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14408"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:34:16","slug":"wood-and-stone","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/wood-and-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"855. Wood and Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cShe wept for her father and her mother for one month.\u201d Rabbi Eliezer: truly her father and mother. Rabbi Akiva\u2014this is idol-worship, as was said, \u201cThey tell the tree, \u2018You are my father,\u2019 and to the stone, \u2018You gave birth to us\u2019\u201d (<em>Yevamot<\/em>&nbsp;48b).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTree\u201d means ideas. 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