What is done on each day of Sukkot? What is forbidden during Sukkot? Each year, right around the time many Americans are peeping fall foliage, clutching spiced lattes and flocking to pumpkin patches, Jewish people around the world are observing the holiday of Sukkot, the harvest holiday comme...
Sukkot is followed immediately by Simchat Torah. My short prayer: May that day – now tainted by the pogrom of October 7 – be restored to one of unadulterated, pure joy for the Jewish people in a world that can finally be trusted. The writer is director of the Jewish Outreach Cen...
most Jewish communities in the Diaspora observe two days of Yom Tov, followed by making the final but separate Shmini Atzeret festival into two days as well, with the second day being referred to as Simchat Torah (in Israel these two ...
Cheesy Pumpkin Quinoa Stuffed Peppers Check of the Vegan and Gluten Free version of these Cheesy Pumpkin Quinoa Stuffed Peppers here! This ... Pumpkin and Kale Stew New posts will now be on Mondays- happy Monday! Does it seem like there is a different Jewish holiday ...Enter...
What are the Jewish holidays?Judaism:Of the three biggest religions, Judaism is the oldest and goes with the first five books of the Bible, called the Torah. The basic similarity between Judaism and the other major faiths, is the belief in one just and merciful God. That all men and ...
What is Sukkot? What is Shabbat Hagadol? What is a shofar? What are the major divisions of Judaism? What is the dreidel? What is a Jewish Confirmation? What religion do Jewish people practice? What are the Jewish holidays? What is Simchat Torah?
(Revelation 7:3) These ‘servants of God’ are twelve thousand Jewish male virgins chosen from each of the twelve tribes of Israel — 144,000 in all. They are sealed in a miraculous manner, by the direct intervention of God, in exactly the same way Church Age believers are, through the...
(I suppose you could find a way to derive Thanksgiving from the Jewish festival of Sukkoth (Tabernacles), though it wouldn’t fall on the fourth Thursday in November and it wouldn’t involve eating Turkey or watching football.) Moreover, if you really believe that Christians can only do ...
The Adamic language, according to Jewish tradition (as recorded in the midrashim) and some Christians, is the language spoken by Adam (and possibly Eve) in the Garden of Eden. Does Jesus speak English? Jesus may not have spoken Englishbut he was certainly quite a linguist. In 2014 in Jeru...
So I might post some things here, while I figure out what else I might do with them. As we get ready to observe the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, the Day of Atonement, I wanted to share a piece I wrote a few years ago on the Book of Jonah. Gmar Hatimah Tovah! May ...