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Yo searchers, need help? August 2016

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Search term entries:

 

08/20/16 –

  • “origins o prophecy in israel vielled in obscurity discuss”
  • origins of prophecy in israel vielled in obscurity discuss?

Q&A: “Israel prophecy” – “veiled in obscurity”?

 

08/17/16 – “the origins of prophecy in israel is veiled in obscurity” – 

08/17/16 “can gentile pray jewish prayers” –

Anyone can pray and if one’s choice is to emulate the formal prayers of any prayerful group/sect/religion, one has freedom to do so provided one agrees with what is expressed, and a universal God is addressed instead of the name of a God that is not one you believe in.

 

Sample:  Sinaites do not say “amen” to prayers that end up “in Jesus name” when we find ourselves in Christian contexts (funeral rites, mass celebrations preceding investitures, etc.)

 

Gentiles can pray Jewish prayers if they agree that the One True God is the God of Israel who gave His Name as YHWH.  Even if a gentile does not agree, he can pray the ‘Jewish prayer’, that’s part of individual freedom of religion that Jews themselves respect. But, you must also respect their reasons for avoiding saying the Name of their God, and be satisfied with their substitutions “HaShem”, “G-d”, “L-rd”.

 

 Here’s the  Sinaite’s viewpoint on prayer:

 

08/13/16  – “shabbat shalom” – We have a Category that features the Sinaite’s Liturgy for every Sabbath of the year.  Our prayers are faith expressions, just like the Psalms of Ketuviim, which acknowledge everything we know about the Self-revealing God of Sinai whose name is YHWH.  Our liturgies are focused on praising, thanking and following the example of our only ‘Sabbath Role Model’, the true LORD OF THE SABBATH, the One Creator who, Himself, rested from His “work” on the 7th day, Saturday which is the true Sabbath before it was moved to Sunday by Christianity and Friday by Islam.  We pattern our liturgy after the Jewish Sabbath celebration, family oriented, home-based.  The basics are:  YHWH, Rest, Joy.

 

To save this searcher the trouble of scrolling through the SITEMAP, here’s the whole content:

A Sinaite’s Sabbath Liturgy

 

08/12/16 – “the five books of moses everett fox pdf”

And a bonus for this searcher as well as others interested,  please note that we have also acquired the other MUST READ/MUST HAVE book which we will soon be featuring, another excellent highly recommended translation w/commentary by Robert Alter:

08/09/16 – “jacob and his 12 sons” – 

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[A new month, new week, new day signals a new start on anything we’ve been wanting to do but have put off, such as dieting, exercising, failed resolutions of to-do or to-not-do.  We are half-way through year 2016, any success w/New Year Resolutions?  Actually the best time for change is always ‘the moment’ . . . why wait when you can do it NOW, right this hot minute when you’re motivated!  Who knows what the future has in store for us in an hour, tonight, tomorrow? Those who have experienced a 7.8 magnitude earthquake (that’s us, Sinaites on July 16, 1990) know full well how life can suddenly change in 24 seconds which is about the length of time our earthquake shook not only our present but had many consequences for our future . . . and now it’s all past.  So, learn from it, or so we should . . . but unfortunately, old habits are hard to break and even earthshaking experiences sometimes fail to make us turn around from a direction we have intended to change.  NOW is always a good time.

 

As usual, while waiting for search term entries, here’s trivia about the month of August.  Until we started this monthly aid for searchers, we never had any curiosity about the origin of calendar details.  Moderns take such things for granted, what is the point of knowing?  Just like we hardly question the source of religions we were born in or converted to, most of us don’t bother.  But why not?  Shouldn’t we? It doesn’t hurt to know and who knows when it might come in handy, particular if you land in a QUIZ show where right answers might win you the jackpot.   So, like it or not, here’s August!

August is the eighth month of the year, has 31 days, and is named after Augustus Caesar.

August is the eighth month of the year in our modern day Gregorian calendar.

Naming August – Augustus Caesar

August is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and its predecessor, the Julian calendar. The month of August was originally named Sextilis in Latin since it was the sixth month in the ancient Roman calendar. The name of the month was changed to August in honor of Augustus Caesar in 8 BCE.

  • Latin name – Augustus mensis – Month of Augustus
  • Latin – sextilis mensis – Sixth month
  • Anglo-Saxons – Weod Monath – Weed month

History of August

August was originally Sextilis, the sixth month in the Roman calendar and consisted of 31 days. It became the eighth month with a length of 29 days around 700 BCE when Januaryand February were added to the year. Julius Caesar added two days to the month around 45 BCE. It was later renamed to honor Augustus Caesar in 8 BCE.

Eighth Month in the Year

August is the eighth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendar and is 31 days long. It is considered the busiest time for tourism because it falls in the main school summer holiday period. It is the seasonal equivalent of February in the Northern hemisphere.

 

August does not start on the same day of the week as any other month in the year in common years, but ends on the same day of the week as November every year. During leap years, August starts on the same day as February and still ends on same day as November.

 

Augustus for ‘August’

After Julius’s grandnephew Augustus defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, and became emperor of Rome, the Roman Senate decided that he too should have a month named after him. The month Sextillus (sex = six) was chosen for Augustus, and the senate justified its actions in the following resolution:

 

Whereas the Emperor Augustus Caesar, in the month of Sextillis . . . thrice entered the city in triumph . . . and in the same month Egypt was brought under the authority of the Roman people, and in the same month an end was put to the civil wars; and whereas for these reasons the said month is, and has been, most fortunate to this empire, it is hereby decreed by the senate that the said month shall be called Augustus.

Not only did the Senate name a month after Augustus, but it decided that since Julius’s month, July, had 31 days, Augustus’s month should equal it: under the Julian calendar, the months alternated evenly between 30 and 31 days (with the exception of February), which made August 30 days long. So, instead of August having a mere 30 days, it was lengthened to 31, preventing anyone from claiming that Emperor Augustus was saddled with an inferior month.

To accommodate this change two other calendrical adjustments were necessary:

  • The extra day needed to inflate the importance of August was taken from February, which originally had 29 days (30 in a leap year), and was now reduced to 28 days (29 in a leap year).
  • Since the months evenly alternated between 30 and 31 days, adding the extra day to August meant that July, August, and September would all have 31 days. So to avoid three long months in a row, the lengths of the last four months were switched around, giving us 30 days in September, April, June, and November.

Among Roman rulers, only Julius and Augustus permanently had months named after them—though this wasn’t for lack of trying on the part of later emperors. For a time, May was changed to Claudius and the infamous Nero instituted Neronius for April. But these changes were ephemeral, and only Julius and Augustus have had two-millenia-worth of staying power.

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