“Blessed is the Eternal Power Who inspires our people to kindle the lights of Shabbat. Blessed is the Source of Life and Light.” Lord YHWH, we join observant Israel in welcoming Your Queen of Days with the traditional kindling of the Sabbath lights which begins the celebration of Your weekly Sabbath, truly […]
Read moreKINDLE THE SABBATH LIGHTS [Tune: “Remember the Sabbath” from the Seventh Day Adventist, tune heard on TV/Revised Lyrics and added Stanzas] 1. Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy, honor the day: Yahuwah commands us to love Him wholly, and we obey; That we may know Him and learn His sacred ways, Keeping the Sabbath […]
Read more[First posted on September 26,2012. Who better than the Rabbis best explain the feasts of Israel, and particularly Yom Kippur which is observed sundown Oct. 12 to sundown Oct. 13 this year of 5777/2016. We checked all the Jewish websites on our links and decided the best teaching article to feature here is that of Chief Rabbi […]
Read more[First posted inv2013. The instructions for the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) are found in this chapter. For an informative discussion of this most important holiday of the Jewish year, please go to http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday4.htm except remember that Jews today observe this commanded feast without a Temple and therefore without the animal sacrificial offerings. The original […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. This is from Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History, by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. What is strange to us gentiles who stand to gain from an informative book like this, is the fact that the book was actually intended for Jews who are— […]
Read more[We thank a visitor who clicked this post that has been buried in our 700+ list of articles. This was first posted in 2012; reposted 2014 & 2015 so why not revisit every year hereafter, since YHWH’s Truth does not change although our knowledge and understanding of it should. In fact that is what we consider […]
Read more[Etched in our minds is a saying sourced to our nation’s national hero, Dr. Jose P. Rizal: “Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinangalingan ay hindi makakarating sa paroroonan.” Translation: “He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.” Sinai 6000 core community cannot be […]
Read more[First posted September 2014, reposted 2015 and this year, October 13, 2016 is the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. The “book of life” is mentioned in the AMIDAH, the ‘standing prayer’ in the Siddur or the prayer book of Judaism. I quoted it at the end of the post: God is […]
Read more[This was first posted in 2012 and reposted in time for the biblical fall festivals every year. It is intended to be read simultaneously with the sequel if you are interested in following the Sinaites’ journey through the specific quest for what is for the Jew and what is for the Gentile, according to the Torah. […]
Read more[First posted in 2012. This is from Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know about the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History, by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. What is strange to us gentiles who stand to gain from an informative book like this, is the fact that the book was actually intended for Jews who are— […]
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