This week our meeting in the prison Chapel room was a bit of a challenge. With some of the men being transferred to another facility, we are now down to just four guys, and they are not always regular in attendance. How many of them will come today, and how long will we be allowed to continue?
I pulled up to the correctional facility this morning with great anticipation. The first week was a chance to regroup with the guys, find out who was still interested in having a service, and see what resources were available for us there. But I wasn’t prepared for what I would find this week.
After more than 16 months absence, today was my first time back inside the correctional facility since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Mid-March, 2020, was the last time we had been able to meet.
Sukkot begins on the fifteenth day of Tishrei, Saturday, September 30, 2023, and is celebrated for seven days. Shemini Atzeret is on Saturday, October 7, 2023.
The next two months, Av and Elul, are significant as we approach the Fall Feasts. I challenge to read through the four Gospels, the accounts of the life of Yeshua the Messiah, in each of these two months leading up to the Fall Feasts.
When the patriarch Jacob awoke to find he was married to the wrong sister, he was told, “It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the firstborn.” Sometimes what people view as acceptable in relationships is largely a cultural issue.
The Stone Edition Chumash
by Rabbi Nosson Scherman
Why would followers of Yeshua be interested in this work written primarily for the Jewish community that does not believe Yeshua is the promised Messiah?
Even when we pause on the Sabbath, most of the time we are still thinking, planning, making lists and checking them twice, and waiting for the Sabbath to end.
Here are the Gregorian dates for the Biblical Feasts in 2022.
Feast dates are based on the Jewish (Hillel) calendar.
All observances except Passover begin the prior evening.
How does someone keep the Sabbath? We are instructed to “remember the Sabbath day” (Exodus 12:8) and to “observe the Sabbath day” (Deuteronomy 5:12). So how do we keep this commandment? What should we do?