We covered quite a bit about the fruit and palm branches yesterday, so I won’t spend a lot of time on this today. Whether or not the fruit and palm branches were intended to be used to build the sukkah or ceremoniously carried around deserves more study. There were many…
Perhaps the most distinctive of the Feast of Tabernacles is that you are to live in temporary dwellings, or literally “booths”. Sometimes this word is translated “tent” or “tabernacle”, but it is actually a broader category than that. Three things specially marked the Feast of Tabernacles: its joyous festivities, the…
“Why are you keeping a Jewish holiday?” she asked. “Weren’t those rituals done away?” For me, this is not an uncommon question to get asked whenever the subject of religion comes up. And, let’s face it that this is a lot more preferable than, “Oh, that’s the Old Testament!” as…
Most will be heading to one of the Feast of Tabernacles sites today, if you haven’t left already. I want to wish everyone a blessed and enjoyable Feast! At PhiloLogos.org, there is an interesting reference to the Feast of Tabernacles in the online book The Temple: Its Ministry and Services:…
I heard on the radio and read on Yahoo! News that the “Best-selling Bible to undergo revision”. It will replace the more controversial Today’s New International Version (TNIV). Languages are not solid objects, and words change their meanings over time, so it isn’t unusual for a translation to be revised….
Some things just need to be said, I guess. It apparently would seem odd to some to look forward to the Day of Atonement, but I did this year. The past year has been especially busy, and it seems every year it means more to me. I am happily looking…
Did anyone catch the news last July that Chancellor Angela Merkel gave out the first combat medals issued to German soldiers since WWII? The argument given in “New NATO as Germany Returns To World Military Stage” is that Germany has become comfortable real fast with being a global military power. …
You remember all the flap over “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright’s comments soon after Senator Obama started running for President of the US? Well, I have had to wonder if the reaction to his words were much the same as how ancient Judah treated the real prophet Jeremiah. He too was accused…
We should endeavor to remember that the Holocaust was real. The Holocaust shows the frightening ability for human beings to descend to the level of animals, a direct consequence of believing we were descended from animals instead of being a special creation in God’s eyes. Anita Singh of the Telegraph…
This seems an appropriate article for the day after the Day of Atonement. It appears that the Temple Institute has started building an altar. It will be a modern scaled-down version that can be transported to the temple once there is a temple to put it into. The IsraelNationalNews.com site…