In Corona time many people got time to think about which way to go with their faith. Now more people feel the need to go back to the shul after all the lockdowns.
Tag: Pesach or Passover
A weekend for a celebration in a small circle with milky products
Since Shavuot is an ancient pilgrimage holiday, it is not surprising that its ritual focuses on the community. Nonetheless, there are a number of customs associated with personal practice. Chief among them is the eating of dairy products on Shavuot. Although the reasons for this custom are not completely clear, it has become traditional to eat milk and cheese products as part of the celebration of Shavuot.
2020 A Passover seder meeting limited to members of the family
Tonight let us remember the bad and the good that came over our people and be grateful for the way the Elohim is helping us day in day out.
In a time when we must remain in our place
Time of distress should never be an excuse to not follow the mitzvah of our God. As such now in a time of lockdown, being isolated we should still have a Memorial Meal.
One Passover tradition asking to provide the less fortunate with foods and help
One Passover tradition asks that if people can afford to, they provide those less fortunate with foods that are eaten during the holiday, like matzah, eggs, chicken or wine.
Even in Corona time You are called on to have the seder
Before the Israelites escaped Egypt they solemnly prepared themselves for their escape and had the seder in their closed circle, what we shall have to do in 2020 as well.
A Purim none of them would forget
At a borough of the German city Mönchengladbach, located in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, a group of American soldiers observed Purim in Goebbels' vacation home, Schloss Rheydt on March 8, 1945.
Count Your Blessings — Count The Omer
After celebrating the liberation from slavery we should take time to see the multiple blessings which the Bore has provided for His children.
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To remember
period between Passover & Shavuot = one of the most spiritually powerful times of the year.
to evaluate our lives and our actions > Sefirat HaOmer = period of ‘Counting the Omer’.
Beginning second day of Passover > Torah commands to count 49 days leading up to festival of Shavuot = celebration of our receiving Torah at Mount Sinai. [Lev 23:15] <= rabbinic tradition > purpose of count = spiritually bridge holidays of Passover and Shavuot.
counting of the Omer ends this year on May 19th, followed by Shavuot on May 20th.
escape from Egypt – physical freedom — time remaining to prepare ourselves to receive the Torah – Shavuot – spiritual freedom.
link between two festivals = agricultural => sacrifice called omer = a sheaf of barley offered in the Temple > beginning of harvest season. Fifty days later, on Shavuot > new wheat offering concluding celebration of grain harvest.
Counting the omer = for ethical self-analysis
Be grateful. Count your blessings. Treat others well. Make every day count. Be kind. Take a full accounting of yourself. Be generous. Use gentle speech. Be compassionate. Remind yourself how to be a better person.
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Preceding
In God’s abounding goodness able to grow and spreading kindness by counting the Omer
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Additional reading
- Two forms of Freedom
- To be chained by love for another one
- A world with or without religion
- Looking to the East and the West for Truth
- Being Religious and Spiritual 8 Spiritual, Mystic and not or well religious
- Background to look at things
- An anarchistic reading of the Bible—(1) Approaching the Bible
- Nature Is A Reflection Of God
- From nothingness to a growing group of followers of Jeshua 2 To Please God
- Christian fundamentalists feeding Into the Toxic Partisanship and driving countries into the Dark Ages… #1
- A New Perspective
- Trusting, Faith, Calling and Ascribing to Jehovah #10 Prayer #8 Condition
- Not trying to make the heathen live like Jews #2
- Self-development, self-control, meditation, beliefs and spirituality
- A Passover for unity in God’s community
- Actions to be a reflection of openness of heart
- Don’t Envy the World
- If we view the whole world through a lens that is bright
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Be grateful. Count your blessings. Treat others well. Make every day count. Be kind. Take a full accounting of yourself. Be generous. Use gentle speech. Be compassionate. Remind yourself how to be a better person.
Count the Omer…
We are now in the period between Passover and Shavuot, one of the most spiritually powerful times of the year. During this time, we are supposed to evaluate our lives and our actions. This period of time is known as the period of ‘Counting the Omer’. Beginning on the second day of Passover, the Torah commands us to count 49 days leading up to the festival of Shavuot, the celebration of our receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai. [Lev 23:15]
For those who have not been counting, today is the 12th day of the Omer. It also happens to be the 12th day of April, which makes counting the Omer particularly easy…
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Search for any remnant of chametz
Before going to the memorial meeting each of us should not only have cleansed his house, but also the inner being, having thrown away his "old leaven", our old being.
Why Fuss over a Little Leaven (Yeast)?
Let the coming chag not be polluted by old yeast, but that you observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread like the Most High wants us to remember the exodus of the Bnei Yisroel.
Egypt, Moshe and Those who never felt they belonged there
Along the Nile River the river’s annual flooding ensured reliable, rich soil for growing crops. Having people cultivating the lands around this rich water made that in ancient North-eastern Africa the Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BCE (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh [...]
At the Shabbat HaChodesh: readings about blood, liberation and purification
Against all the gods of Egypt and all the gods of the world the Elohim will execute judgments and by the blood of the Lamb He has sent liberation for many may come.
Immanuel Verbondskind - עמנואל קאָווענאַנט קינד 