Genesis 28:20-22 20-And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If Elohim will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21-So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall Yahweh be my Elohim: 22-And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be Elohim’s house: and of all that you shall give me I will surely give the tenth unto you."
Read More“Also called Feast of Lights, or Feast of the Maccabees, Hanukkah commemorates the rededication in 165 B.C.E. of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, which had been desecrated three years earlier by Syrian king Antiochus IV Epiphanes in his efforts to wipe out the Jewish religion."
Read More"The Kitzur Schulchan Aruch, which lists the essentials of the Halachah, says: ‘The precept relating to fringes is great because Scriptures weighed it and ascribed it to all the commandments, as it is said: ‘Look upon it and recall all the commandments of the Lord’ (verse 39)."
Read More“The word treif, used as the opposite of kosher, comes from the Hebrew word for torn. Literally, it refers to animals torn by wild beasts and dying without the benefit of proper slaughter. Traditionally, treif is extended to apply to anything that is unfit to be eaten by religious law.”
Read More“SHROVE TUESDAY is the day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Its name came from the old custom of confessing (being shriven) on that day. Shrove Tuesday is a time of rejoicing in many countries and communities. It is the last day of the carnival season of southern Europe, and corresponds to the Mardi Gras of the French and the Pancake Tuesday of the English.”
Read MoreThe first Passover is found in Exodus 12. The Israelites had been in slavery in Egypt for a long time. Using Moses as their leader, Yahweh was going to free them and develop His nation.
Read More“The Seder … In the course of time the Seder, or Hagaddah, as the ceremonial of Pesach night is called by the S’fardic Jews, became a religious institution, prescribed, with an exact set of written regulations.”
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