Category: Jewish Holidays
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Broken Child At The Seder
I cry when people don’t see me. It has to get pretty bad for me to let someone see the tears. I have places that I cry and times that I cry. It’s my business, I won’t talk about it with you any more than I do with others, however rarely. No there isn’t a…
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Passover, the Last Prophecy, and the Day of Reckoning
Today (April 9, 2022) is Shabbat HaGadol, “The Great Sabbath.” On the Jewish calendar it represents the last Sabbath we spent in Egypt before the great miracle of our salvation (Passover 2022 starts on Friday, April 15). The events foretold by the Torah portion are also great, in the sense of being “awesome,” or awe-inspiring.…
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The Second Circumcision, COVID-19, and the Messiah
Today is the first day of Passover. As part of the Torah reading we learn what God told Joshua after the mourning period for Moses had passed and the Jewish people were preparing to conquer Israel. Joshua 5:2: “…the LORD said to Joshua, ‘Make flint knives and proceed with a second circumcision of the Israelites.’”…
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April 11, 2020: The Significance Of 17 Nissan, 5789 (Sabbath Chol Hamoed Passover)
Today is 17 Nissan 5780 or 11 April 2020 In Hebrew the date looks like this. י״ז ניסן תש״פ The Hebrew letters look like this when you say them, and here is the gematria* Tof ת 400 Shin שׁ 300 Pei פ 80 Total 780 (*we leave off the 5,000 part as a way to…
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April 9, 2020: One Little Goat
Happy Passover 2020.Very brief thread about one portion of the reading from last night—“Chad Gadya” (at the end) The Passover Seder (“Seder” means “order,” like we do things in order) involves reading a book called a “Haggadah” (a “telling.”) There are different “tellings” for some of our different holidays. A lot of Jewish people collect…
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Purim: A Conspiracy Theory (March 16, 2019)
1) Today in synagogue we read a conspiracy theory. 2) The conspiracy was real. This week Jews celebrate Purim to commemorate this. 3) The conspiracy started when a wicked man named Haman devised a secret plot against the Jews. https://mic.com/articles/170587/what-is-purim-the-history-and-meaning-of-the-jewish-holiday … 4) Haman was angry that the Jew Mordechai refused to bow down to him…
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Passover & The Need To Disengage From Evil
This week in synagogue we read about the first Passover. There is an extended discussion describing how God saved the Jewish people. The thing to remember is that the Jews were not just slaves. They were slaves who really, really, really got into the Egyptian lifestyle. They were also essentially domestic violence victims, caught in…
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Passover: Spiritual “Spring Cleaning” (April 13, 2019)
1) If anyone is interested I am starting a Bible Study thread with some learnings from today’s Torah portion and the speeches in synagogue, which were very good. And some other stuff. 2) I am not trying to compete with all the digs going on but just want to capture some good stuff discussed, heard…
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