Prayers for Shavuot – Prayer for Shavuot – Shavuot, the God-commanded observance runs from sunset June 11 until nightfall on June 13. Shavuot began as an ancient grain harvest festival, but since biblical times it is the remembrance of the giving of the Torah (first five books of the Hebrew Bible) on Mount Sinai. These books are instructions, teachings, and law given from God to the Hebrews on how to
Conflict – Conflict upon Conflict – Conflict; it is in war with the threat of annihilation and face-to-face encounters with evil that people’s hearts fail. Such is the situation in Israel. We are aware of the suffering. Fifty-one suicides are on record of people who had direct experience with the attack in October. Either they are civilians or soldiers who were attacked and survived or they lost someone
Cycles of the Moon – Passover / Pesach – Passover (Pesach) April 22-30 The cycles of the moon and the sun are the basis for the Jewish calendar. The fourteenth day of the month of Nissan is the beginning of The Feast of Unleavened Bread, the 7-day Passover (Pesach) holiday (8 days in the Diaspora). The yearly celebration by the Jewish people commemorates the anniversary of their ancestors’