#Temple built Kislev

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The Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year holidays are joyful events typically spent with family and friends. Astronauts and cosmonauts who find themselves in space during the holidays have found their own unique way to celebrate the occasions. In the early years of the space program, holidays spent in space occurred infrequently, most notably the flight of Apollo 8 around the Moon during Christmas 1968, making them more memorable. As missions became longer and more frequent, holidays in space became more common occasions. For the past 23 years, holidays spent aboard the International Space Station have become annual, if not entirely routine, events. Left: The famous Earthrise photograph, taken by the Apollo 8 crew in lunar orbit. Right: Video of the Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and William A. Anders reading from The Book of Genesis. As the first crew to spend Christmas in space, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, and William A. Anders, celebrated the holiday while circling the Moon in December 1968, the first humans to leave Earth orbit. They immortalized the event on Christmas Eve by taking turns reading the opening verses from the Bible’s Book of Genesis as they broadcast scenes of the Moon gliding by below. An estimated one billion people in 64 countries tuned in to their Christmas Eve broadcast. As they left lunar orbit, Lovell radioed back to Earth, where Christmas Eve had already turned to Christmas Day, “Please be informed there is a Santa Claus!” Left: Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald P. Carr, left, Edward G. Gibson, and William R. Pogue trim their homemade Christmas tree in December 1973. Right: Carr, Gibson, and Pogue hung their stockings aboard Skylab. During their 84-day record-setting mission aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 and 1974, Skylab 4 astronauts Gerald P. Carr, William R. Pogue, and Edward G. Gibson celebrated Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s in space – the first crew to spend Thanksgiving and New Year’s in orbit. They built a homemade Christmas tree from leftover food containers, used colored decals as decorations, and topped it with a cardboard cutout in the shape of a comet. Carr and Pogue spent seven hours on a Christmas Day spacewalk to change out film canisters and observe the passing Comet Kohoutek. Once back inside the station, they enjoyed a Christmas dinner complete with fruitcake, talked to their families, and opened presents. They even had orbital visitors of sorts, as Soviet cosmonauts Pyotr I. Klimuk and Valentin V. Lebedev orbited the planet aboard Soyuz 13 between Dec. 18 and 26, marking the first time that astronauts and cosmonauts were in space at the same time. Different orbits precluded any direct contact between the two crews. Aboard Salyut-6, Georgi M. Grechko, left, and Yuri V. Romanenko, toast to celebrate the new year in space, the first Russian cosmonauts to do so. Image credits: Courtesy of Roscosmos. In the more secular Soviet era, the New Year’s holiday had more significance than the Jan. 7 observance of Orthodox Christmas. The first cosmonauts to ring in a new year in orbit were Yuri V. Romanenko and Georgi M. Grechko, during their record-setting 96-day mission in 1977 and 1978, aboard the Salyut-6 space station. They toasted the new year during a TV broadcast with the ground. The exact nature of the beverage consumed for the occasion has not been passed down to posterity. Left: STS-61 mission specialist Jeffrey A. Hoffman with a dreidel during Hanukkah in December 1993. Right: Video of Hoffman describing how he celebrated Hanukkah aboard space shuttle Endeavour. The eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, celebrates the recapture of Jerusalem and rededication of the Second Temple in 164 B.C.E. It occurs in the month of Kislev in the Hebrew lunar calendar, which can fall between late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar. NASA astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman celebrated the first Hanukkah in space during the STS-61 Hubble Space Telescope first servicing mission in 1993. Hanukkah that year began on the evening of Dec. 9, after Hoffman completed his third spacewalk of the mission. He celebrated with a traveling menorah, unlit of course, and by spinning a dreidel. The STS-103 crew show off their Santa hats on the flight deck of space shuttle Discovery in 1999. The crew of another Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, STS-103, celebrated the first space shuttle Christmas in 1999 aboard Discovery. For Christmas dinner, Curtis L. Brown, Scott J. Kelly, Steven L. Smith, Jean-François A. Clervoy of the European Space Agency (ESA), John M. Grunsfeld, C. Michael Foale, and Claude Nicollier of ESA enjoyed duck foie gras on Mexican tortillas, cassoulet, and salted pork with lentils. Smith and Grunsfeld completed repairs on the telescope during a Christmas Eve spacewalk. Left: Roscosmos cosmonaut and Mir Expedition 17 flight engineer Elena V. Kondakova with a bottle of champagne to celebrate New Year’s Eve 1994. Right: Video of Kondakova demonstrating the behavior of champagne in weightlessness aboard Mir. Image credits: Courtesy of Roscosmos. Between 1987 and 1998, 12 Mir expedition crews spent their holidays aboard the ever-expanding orbital outpost. Two of the crews included NASA astronauts, John E. Blaha and David A. Wolf, aboard the Russian space station as part of the Shuttle-Mir Program.   Left: Video of Mir Expedition 22 flight engineer and NASA astronaut John E. Blaha’s 1996 Christmas message from Mir. Right: Mir Expedition 24 flight engineer and NASA astronaut David A. Wolf with his menorah and dreidel to celebrate Hanukkah in 1997.  The last two New Year’s Eve messages from Mir. Left: Mir 24 crew of Pavel V. Vinogradov, left, NASA astronaut David A. Wolf, and Anatoli Y. Solovyev in 1997. Right: Mir 26 crew of Sergei V. Avdeyev, left, and Gennadi I. Padalka in 1998. It was the third time Avdeyev rang in the new year in space. Image credits: Courtesy of Roscosmos. The arrival of Expedition 1 crew members William M. Shepherd of NASA and Yuri P. Gidzenko and Sergei K. Krikalev of Roscosmos aboard the International Space Station on Nov. 2, 2000, marked the beginning of a permanent human presence in space. The first to celebrate Christmas and ring in the new year aboard the fledgling orbiting laboratory, they began a tradition of reading a goodwill message to people back on Earth. Shepherd honored a naval tradition of writing a poem as the first entry of the new year in the ship’s log. Left: Video of Expedition 1 crew members Yuri P. Gidzenko of Roscosmos, left, NASA astronaut William M. Shepherd, and Sergei K. Krikalev of Roscosmos reading their Christmas message in December 2000 – this marked Krikalev’s third holiday season spent in orbit, the first two spent aboard Mir in 1988 and 1991. Right: The space station as it appeared in December 2000. Expedition 1 commander NASA astronaut William M. Shepherd’s poem, written for the New Year’s Day 2001 entry in the space station’s log, in keeping with naval tradition. Left: A brief video selection of how some expedition crews celebrated Christmas aboard the space station. Right: From 2019, the Christmas message from the Expedition 61 crew members. Enjoy the following selection of photographs and videos of international crews as they celebrated Hanukkah and Christmas, and rang in the new year over the past 22 years aboard the space station. Left: The Expedition 4 crew of Daniel W. Bursch of NASA, left, Yuri I. Onufriyenko of Roscosmos, and Carl E. Walz of NASA poses for its Christmas photo in 2001. Middle: NASA astronaut C. Michael Foale, left, and Aleksandr Y. Kaleri of Roscosmos of Expedition 8 celebrate Christmas in 2003. Right: The Expedition 10 crew of Salizhan S. Sharipov of Roscosmos, left, and NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao festooned for New Year’s Eve 2004. Left: Valeri I. Tokarev of Roscosmos, left, and NASA astronaut William S. McArthur of Expedition 12 pose with Christmas stockings in 2005. Middle: The Expedition 14 crew of Mikhail V. Tyurin of Roscosmos, left, and NASA astronauts Michael E. Lopez-Alegria and Sunita L. Williams pose wearing Santa hats for Christmas 2006. Right: The Expedition 16 crew of Yuri I. Malenchenko of Roscosmos, left, and NASA astronauts Peggy A. Whitson and Daniel M. Tani, with Christmas stockings and presents in 2007. Left: The Expedition 18 crew of E. Michael Fincke, left, and Sandra H. Magnus of NASA, and Yuri V. Lonchakov of Roscosmos enjoys its Christmas dinner in 2008. Middle: The five-member Expedition 22 crew of Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, left, Maksim V. Surayev and Oleg V. Kotov of Roscosmos, and Timothy J. Creamer and Jeffrey N. Williams of NASA around the Christmas dinner table in 2009. Right: The Expedition 26 crew of Oleg I. Skripochka of Roscosmos, left, Paolo A. Nespoli of the European Space Agency, Dmitri Y. Kondratyev of Roscosmos, Catherine G. “Cady” Coleman of NASA, Aleksandr Y. Kaleri of Roscosmos, and NASA’s Scott J. Kelly celebrates New Year’s Eve 2010. This marked Kaleri’s third holiday season spent in space. Left: The Expedition 30 crew of NASA astronaut Donald R. Pettit, left, Anatoli A. Ivanishin and Oleg D. Kononenko of Roscosmos, André Kuipers of the European Space Agency, NASA’s Daniel C. Burbank, and Anton N. Shkaplerov of Roscosmos pose for their Christmas photo in 2011. Middle: Christmas 2012 photograph of Expedition 34 crew members of NASA astronaut Thomas H. Marshburn, left, Roman Y. Romanenko, Oleg V. Novitski, and Yevgeni I. Tarelkin of Roscosmos, Kevin A. Ford of NASA, and Chris A. Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency. Right: For Christmas in 2013, the Expedition 42 crew left milk and cookies for Santa and hung their stockings using the Joint Airlock as a makeshift chimney. Left: Expedition 50 crew members Sergei N. Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, left, R. Shane Kimbrough of NASA, Andrei I. Borisenko and Oleg V. Novitski of Roscosmos, Peggy A. Whitson of NASA, and Thomas G. Pesquet of the European Space Agency celebrate New Year’s Eve in style in 2016. Middle: Expedition 54 crew member Mark T. Vande Hei of NASA strikes a pose as an Elf on the Shelf for Christmas 2017. Right: The Expedition 58 crew of David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, left, Anne C. McClain of NASA, and Oleg D. Kononenko of Roscosmos inspect their Christmas stockings for presents in 2018. Three scenes from the 2019 holiday season aboard the space station. Left: Expedition 61 flight engineer Jessica U. Meir of NASA shows off her Hanukkah-themed socks in the Cupola. Middle: Expedition 61 crew members Andrew R. Morgan, left, and Christina H. Koch of NASA, Luca S. Parmitano of the European Space Agency, and Meir share their Christmas messages. Right: Expedition 61 crew members Koch, left, Morgan, Oleg I. Skripochka of Roscosmos, Meir, Aleksandr A. Skvortsov of Roscosmos, and Parmitano ring in the new year with harmonicas. Three scenes from the 2020 holiday season aboard the space station. Left: Expedition 64 NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, left, Michael S. Hopkins, Kathleen H. Rubins, and Victor J. Glover and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) record Christmas greetings. Middle: Walker, left, Hopkins, Rubins, Glover, and Noguchi use an inflatable Earth globe as a substitute for the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball “drop” aboard the space station. Right: Expedition 64 crew members Sergei V. Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos, left, Hopkins, Walker, Sergei N. Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, Glover, Rubins, and Noguchi welcome in 2021 aboard the space station. Left: During Expedition 66 in 2021, NASA astronauts Mark T. Vande Hei, left, Raja J. Chari, Kayla S. Barron, and Thomas H. Marshburn, and Matthias J. Maurer of the European Space Agency in a still from a video in which they share their thoughts about the holiday season. Right: Barron showing off the presents she wrapped for her six crewmates. “It is a privilege to have the perspective of seeing so many countries,” said Expedition 66 Commander NASA astronaut Thomas H. Marshburn in a video sharing his thoughts about spending the New Year in space. “We can go from one side [of Earth] to another in just a few minutes and it truly gives us a feeling of unification for all human beings around the world.” “We get to see the sunrise many times a day, so thinking about the fact that people are waking up to a New Year each time we see that sunrise is pretty cool,” added NASA astronaut Raja J. Chari. In a social media post, ESA astronaut Matthias J. Maurer wrote about their New Year’s Eve dinner, and included a time lapse video of the festive meal. Left: Expedition 68 crew members Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, left, and NASA astronauts Francisco C. “Frank” Rubio, Josh A. Cassada, and Nicole A. Mann record a holiday greeting from the space station. Right: Expedition 68 crew members wear holiday garb. In 2022, Expedition 68 crew members NASA astronauts Nicole A. Mann, Josh A. Cassada, and Francisco C. “Frank” Rubio, and JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata recorded a holiday message for everyone on the ground. They shared some of their personal traditions for the holidays and provided a glimpse of how they spend the holidays aboard the space station.  Expedition 70 NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli’s felt menorah and dreidel that she used to celebrate Hanukkah. Expedition 70 flight engineer NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli’s husband and two little girls made a felt menorah for her to celebrate Hanukkah during her mission. Since astronauts can’t light real candles aboard the space station, Moghbeli pinned felt “lights” for each night of the eight-day holiday. A dreidel spun in weightlessness will continue spinning until it comes in contact with another object, but can’t land on any of its four faces.  Left: To celebrate New Year’s Day 2022, Shenzhou 13 astronauts Ye Guangfu, left, Zhai Zhigang, and Wang Yaping aboard the China Space Station Tiangong hold a live video call. Right: Wang, left, Zhai, and Ye celebrate the Chinese New Year of the Tiger aboard Tiangong. On Jan. 1, 2022, for the first time Chinese astronauts celebrated a New Year in space. The Shenzhou 13 crew of Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping, and Ye Guangfu arrived aboard the China Space Station Tiangong on Oct. 15, 2021, for a six-month mission. On New Year’s Day 2022, they hosted a live video call and interacted with college students at venues in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Macao. For the Feb. 1 start of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger, they decorated the space station and sent best wishes to people on the ground for a happy and prosperous new year. In January 2023, Shenzhou 15 astronauts Fei Junlong, left, Deng Qingming, and Zhang Lu send New Year’s greetings to Earth from the Tiangong China Space Station. We hope you enjoyed these stories, photographs, and videos from holiday celebrations in space. This year, a record-tying 10 people from five nations will celebrate the holidays and ring in the new year while serving aboard two space stations – the International Space Station and the Tiangong China Space Station. We wish them all and everyone here on Earth the very best during the holiday season and hope that 2024 will indeed be a Happy New Year!

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KISLEV: Month of MIRACLES and HOPE Part 2 The Maccabees and the Month of Kislev (Hanukkah)

Why do Jews celebrate Hanukkah? This is a festivity not mentioned or ordained by God. Yet, it is an important festival, not just for the Jews, but for believers as well. For us, December 25 is the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus. However, the Jews celebrate HANUKKAH, known as “THE FEAST OF DEDICATION” or “THE FEAST OF LIGHTS”. This feast is mentioned in the Gospel of John 10:22-23; “And the Feast of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter. And Yahshua was walking in the sanctuary, in Solomon's Porch.” Verse 22 clearly states ‘the feast of Dedication’ and specifies, ‘it was winter.’

The story begins with the death of Alexander the Great. His four main generals divided the empire amongst themselves. One of them named Seleucis fought winning a region that included Israel. After his death Antiochus IV, a Syrian king with Greek blood, who considered himself divine, demanded to be addressed as “Antiochus Epiphanes”. He took control of the region and immediately persecuted the Jews. This persecution included placing a Hellenistic priest in the Jewish temple and preventing Jews from practicing their religion to the point of executing anyone who opposed him.

The Jews were outraged by Antiochus’ claim of being a deity, hence, they gave him a derogatory name; Antiochus Epimanes, translated as “Antiochus the Madman”. Antiochus’ agenda was to impose Greek culture, thereby prohibiting Jews religious and cultural practices.

Antiochus placed the statute of Zeus in the Temple in Jerusalem as well as demanding that similar statutes be placed in every village and every town. And, if this wasn’t enough, he demanded that they build altars and sacrifice pigs in them. This, specifically the desecration of the Jewish Temple, brought about ‘The Maccabean Revolt’.

There was an elderly priest* named Mattathias who lived in a small village named Modi’in (Ben Gurion Airport today), that refused to the demand of sacrificing pigs to Zeus. But another Jewish priest offered to do the sacrifice. It was at this point, that Mattathias, full of holy anger, took a sword, killed the priest and turn on the officers, killing them. Mattathias sons followed their father’s lead, drawing weapons and killing every soldier present.

Mattathias became the leader of the Maccabean revolt that day. He led a series of nightly assaults. Mattathias, being weary and fragile passed on to his son, Judah, the leadership of the revolt, before passing.

Judah learned the skills of his father, becoming an excellent leader and demonstrated his skills as a military tactician. He quickly earned the nickname “Maccabee”, a Hebrew derived name meaning “hammer”. During the following three years, the Maccabees, as they became known, lived in caves and wore down the Syrian army. The Maccabees became expert at surprise attacks, especially at night. Their guerrilla warfare tactics and nightly assaults, and above all, their faith, hope and trust in God, allowed them to take on their enemy in open combat. Their zeal drove them to victory.

Soon after their victory, they found the altar of the temple defiled and in much need of repair. The sacrifices of pigs, with the idol of Zeus inside the temple, was a gruesome and repulsive scene for the Jews. So they acted quickly in cleansing, tearing down the altar that had been desecrated and built a new one. On Kislev 25, in the year 165 B.C., they rededicated the temple. This event took place exactly three (3) years to the day of the first desecration by the Assyrians.

According to Jewish tradition, the Maccabees filled the temple lamps with oil. However, they only had enough oil for one day. Hanukkah is celebrated because of an awesome miracle that happened. That oil that was supposed to last one full day, lasted exactly eight days. The very amount of days the priests needed to specially prepare the oil for the temple lamps. This miracle does not appear in the books of the Maccabees. It is only recorded in the Talmud (Shabbat 21b) since the Talmud is based on oral traditions.

What is the significance of Hanukkah for us as believers? This is my answer; Hanukkah is a reminder to believers, to be separate and apart from the temptations of the world. 2 Peter 2:9 tells us the following; “But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood; a holy people, and a people for possession; that you should proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness to His precious light”. (This scripture is a repetition that Peter quoted out ofExodus 19:5 & 6). Just as the Maccabees resisted Antiochus’ assault in wanting to destroy the Jews beliefs and culture, so do we must stand firm against the wickedness and assaults of the Antiochus of this age. We need to remember that, although we are in this world, we are not of this world (John 17:11-16).

We also need to remind ourselves that the greatest miracle that we have been given is, Yeshua, Jesus, who is the light of the world.

John 1:5; “and the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it”. Spoken by Jesus Himself, John 12:46; “I have come as a Light to the world, that everyone who believes in Me may not remain in the darkness”.

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7 Kislev - Herod - 4 BCE

On this day in the year 4 BCE, King Herod passed away.  Because Herod was a wicked king, this day was observed as a holiday.  Herod was the second son of Antipater who was an adviser to the Hasmonean King Hurkanus II.  Antipater was an Idumean, which was a people that were forcibly converted to Judaism by King Alexander Yanni.  Herod’s first political role was as Governor of the Galilee.  He was eventually appointed by the Roman Senate as the King of Judah.  He then proceeded to kill off any threat to his rule including the remnants of the Hasmoneans, members of his own family, and even his sons. 

Besides being a bloody murderer, Herod was also a great builder.  He rebuilt the Second Temple.  He built the mountain retreat of Masada, the port at Caesarea, and the building on top of the cave of the Patriarchs in Chevron to name a few.     

Knowing that he was not such a beloved ruler in his kingdom, he left in his will that on the day that he died, 300 Rabbis should be crucified.  That way, his death day would be a day of mourning.  The order was not carried out, and the day of his passing instead became a holiday.    

Rabbi Pinchas L. Landis

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Essential Judaism: History of Hanukkah

Until the advent of the Haskalah, the Jewish Enlightenment of the nineteenth century, and the first stirrings of acceptance by non-Jews of their Jewish neighbors, Hanukkah was a minor festival (in spite of its length of eight days). When Jews found themselves coexisting in relative peace with their Christian neighbors in post-World War II America and Europe, this mid-winter holiday (which begins on 25 Kislev) became a sort of Jewish counterpart to Christmas, if only as a marketing ploy, and took on a new importance. In Israel the holiday has taken on an added symbolism, becoming a celebration of Jewish military prowess and national rebirth.

That development is ironic, to say the least. Hanukkah is a celebration of the Maccabees, Jewish warriors who fought a lengthy civil war in defiance of hellenization, the first great assimilationist trend in Jewish history. Between 165 and 163 BCE the Maccabees struggled to recapture Jerusalem and to reclaim the Temple for the Jewish people. Even after they successfully liberated Jerusalem from its hellenized Syrian occupiers, the Maccabees, led by Judah Maccabee, would continue to fight for many more years, until they drove the Syrians from ancient Israel and reasserted Jewish sovereignty. 

During the Syrian occupation of Jerusalem, the Temple was defiled by pagan sacrifices, on direct orders from the Syrian ruler, Antiochus Epiphanes. Those actions were the direct outcome of the stated Syrian policy of hellenizing all of Palestine and eliminating the practice of the Jewish religion. When the Maccabees (literally, the Hammers) retook Jerusalem, they demolished the now polluted altar of the Temple and built a new one. They discarded the defiled ritual objects and replaced them.

They even found a small quantity of consecrated oil for use in the sacred lamps, but not nearly enough to use for the eight days of celebration and rededication. The priests needed to wait until new pure oil could be produced and delivered to the Temple for the rededication. Reluctantly, the story goes, the priests lit the oil for the first day’s worship. Miraculously, the next day there was enough for the second day’s services. And so it continued until the entire eight days of worship had been observed, with one day’s worth lasting the entire time. It is in honor of this miracle that Hanukkah is observed with the lighting of the festival candles over the eight days of the holiday.

Source: Essential Judaism: A Complete Guide to Beliefs, Customs, and Rituals, 1st ed. by George Robinson, pgs. 111-12. 

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Observing Holidays

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Note: I am a white British semirural goy and don’t know shit about Judaism. I’ve done what research I can but if I got things wrong you have to tell me or I won’t learn.

What was wrong with that section of the hallway?

John had immediately realised something was off when doing his rounds that morning, but a cursory check found nothing of concern. The walls and floor were intact and un-bugged, the street-facing window un-tampered with. After he’d given everyone their coffee and confirmed that each cup was to each individual’s specific preference, he’d quietly asked Alouette to have a look as well. She claimed to find nothing out of the ordinary, and he’d tried to trust her and leave it be.

But he couldn’t. It kept nagging at him. He kept going back to that part of the hall, that window. Something was different, and it was distracting him noticeably. Riley, Changming and even Davis asked if he was okay over the course of an hour after breakfast, if he wanted to talk about what was bothering him. It was irritating.

Breakfast had been different, too. It was the first time since he woke up here that Sampoorna hadn’t made potato pancakes regardless of what anyone else was cooking. She just had what Alouette had made like everyone else. Perhaps he should look into that, too, but it seemed less pressing.

Now John had at least narrowed it down to the window specifically that was wrong. He leaned a little closer, and noticed a faint outline in the light layer of dust that hadn’t been swept up yet today from the windowsill.

That was it. That was what it was-- something missing that had been there until today. He was certain that it was here last night, so why wasn’t it here this morning? It was always Sampoorna who did anything with it, so he’d have to ask her.

Speak of the devil. Her careful but heavy footfalls came to a stop behind him. “Are you well, John? You seem to be upset.”

“The candles are gone.” John said, and turned to see her surprised expression.

Then she squinted, turning her head to side-eye him. At 6′3, Sampoorna didn’t have to tilt her head all the way up to meet his eye, and he likewise didn’t have to strain his neck looking down, but there was still more than half a foot between them.

“Yes,” she said at length, an odd note in her voice that he couldn’t identify, “the final night of Hanukkah is come and gone, and so I have removed the Hanukkiah from the window until the next year’s Hanukkah begins.”

“Oh.”

Sampoorna was still looking at him strangely. “Even if you did not know the dates this year, surely you witnessed the light of all the candles lit as one last night?”

John nodded but didn’t know what that had to do with anything.

She took a step closer, challenging. “Why, then, are you so offset by its absence?”

He didn’t quite know how to answer. Clearly, he’d done something to upset her. Was he not supposed to mention the candles? “The... Hanukkiah has been there until today. I noticed something had changed but not what it was.”

After a long moment, Sampoorna relaxed and took his hand in both of hers, rubbing gently at his knuckles.

Smiling sadly, she said, “You need not fret, John. I know it is a hardship, to turn one’s mind and senses from times of war, but this place is safe. If ever you are uncertain, please never be afraid to ask us if it aids you. We will always be happy to assuage your fears until you can feel at peace in our home.”

Feeling awkward at the dramatic assurance, John nodded anyway. “When... when will Hanukkah next be?” The word was one he’d heard before, but it felt unfamiliar in his mouth.

Sampoorna’s hands stilled, and she started giving him that Look again.

When she didn’t speak, John felt the need to clarify. “Are the dates set or do they change each year?” Still, she was silent, his hand still in her grasp, and he tried to swallow the sudden anxiety. “I’m guessing it’s a holiday?”

That got a reaction-- outright shock. “You do not know of Hanukkah?”

Fighting the urge to shrink away in shame (she’d been so patient with him until now) he carefully took his hand back.

Sampoorna didn’t seem to notice. “Were you not taught in your childhood? By your parents, your friends, your school? You have known Jewish people amongst the military, surely!”

Frustratingly, the only answer he could give was, “I don’t know.”

Another beat of silence, then her fingers pressed to her lips. “No. No, you do not know.”

She took John’s hand again, and led him to their rec room. They didn’t call it that, but he always defaulted to it and no one seemed to mind. At Sampoorna’s urging, he sat down on the couch. She didn’t let his hand go, starting to knead it again, and he fought the urge to relax back into the cushions.

And she told him. She told him of King Antiochus III the Great, how he took over the place on Earth called Judea and claimed it a part of the Seleucid Empire of Syria in 200 BCE. She told him of the Second Temple, which stood atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 516 B.C. and 70 A.D., how it was looted and Judaism outlawed.  She told him of the shrine to Zeus erected there, and the order for pigs to be sacrificed at its alter, and why that was such a cruel premeditated attack against the Jewish people. She told him about the Jewish priest Mattathias, his five sons and the rebellion they led against the King. She told him that by 165 BCE, with Mattathias dead and his son Judah the Hammer leading them, the Jewish people had liberated and rededicated the Second Temple.

“They cleansed the temple and built a new altar, untainted, but they needed pure olive oil marked with the seal of the kohen gadol to light the menorah which needed to burn each and every night. They found a flask untouched within the temple, but only enough for one night. Yet, when lit, it burned for eight-- exactly the time needed to prepare new oil. It was deemed to be a miracle, and so each year upon the 25th night of Kislev, the ninth month of the Jewish calendar, Hanukkah begins. Give me your foot.”

Frowning, John was jolted out of the oddly relaxed focus he’d gained. “My foot?”

“I have done your hands, now give me your foot.”

Sampoorna wanted to rub his feet? Somehow that idea was stranger than his hands. Seeking to distract her, he asked, “Why are there nine candles on the Hanukkiah? Is one lit all the way through?”

“It is,” Sampoorna answered agreeably, reaching down to grab his leg regardless, “the shamash is used to light the other candles each night, though I think some branches of Judaism do not use it for such.”

John considered resisting her attempts to manhandle him, but she was quite stubborn and he didn’t want to hurt her so sheepishly allowed it. His foot was rested on her thigh, and she perched on the arm of the couch on the other side so he didn’t have to bend his leg. This was really weird.

“The importance of the oil in this miracle also leads to fried foods being eaten through Hanukkah. Indeed, you partook of both latkes and sufganiyot when I offered them.”

Latkes and sufganiyot... one of those was definitely the potato pancakes, John realised, but he wasn’t sure about the other. He was about to ask when Sampoorna pressed her thumbs firmly into the ball of his foot and he had to clamp his mouth shut again so as not to make an embarrassing noise. He’d never thought that a little applied pressure could feel so good.

“There is more, of course.” Sampoorna smiled. “But I think you have enough information to process for today, yes? You let me talk for a very long time.”

Why wouldn’t he? He enjoyed learning it. But words were still out of his grasp for now, and she didn’t seem to be waiting for an answer. He could always do more research later and pass along any follow-up questions another time.

For now, he was sorely tempted to let his eyes slip shut and just... enjoy the foot rub, strange as it was.

“The house will be going through further change, though this will not be Jewish. Well, Mochou and Changming make dumplings on the Winter Solstice and then predict the weather on the New Year by the weather on that day, but the focus will be on Christmas as Riley and Fiona slowly take over the apartment. It is only I that truly abstains from the Christmas celebrations but I tend to spend that time with my brother’s family and so will not be in the way either. Do you celebrate Christmas, John?”

After a moment of deliberation, John opted to just shake his head. He’d research that later, too. There was so much he didn’t realise he needed to learn. Sampoorna had detailed a historical conflict that John didn’t know about and that just about set a fire under him...

... or, it would, when he wasn’t melting into the couch.

After a few minutes, he managed to get a hold of something to say. “Thank you.”

His eyes had closed, but he heard the warm smile in her voice. “You are welcome.”

[veale2006-blog]

HAPPY HANUKAH!!

Here is what I have learned about Christmas and why I celebrate Hanukkah.

Christmas was taken from a Canaanite ritual called “Child-mas” (baby sacrifice), where the babies which were born in December would be sacrificed on Easter, after the 40 days of weeping for Tammuz, the sun-god. His mother was the wife of Nimrod, who built the Babel Tower. Priests would impregnate virgins after eating ham, to commemorate the death of Tammuz on his 40th birthday by a wild boar. Chicken eggs would be dyed red with the blood of the babies. The three month old babies that were born in December from the Easter orgy would be sacrificed on an altar.

Constantine, the Roman emperor, wanted to create a state religion that would be “agreeable” to everyone,(some of the occult, some of Christianity) in order to unite his empire. At the Council of Nicaea, in 325 AD, the birthday of the sun gods (Ra, Mithra, Jupiter, Zeus, etc.) was chosen to be the day the “universal church” (Catholicism) would celebrate the birth of Yeshua. However, Jews and true Christians were banned from the Council, therefore the true dates of events, teachings, and customs were not carried over.

Yeshua was born on the first day of the moadim of Tabernacles, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month (Tishri), and runs for seven days. On the eighth day, which is called “the Last Great Day”, Yeshua was circumcised. It occurs in mid-September to mid-October, pending on when Passover occurs that year. The Gregorian date of the birth of Yeshua was September 26, 3 AD.

Adjacent to the holiday season is the actual Jewish feast of Hanukah, which is the only other feast (outside of the seven that Yehovah gave Israel) that Yeshua observed. It’s called the “Feast of Lights”, or “Feast of Dedication”, when Yeshua said “I am the Light of the World”.

It started when the Greeks had roasted a pig on the temple mount (in about 167 BC), and this caused the Maccabean Revolt, which brought about the defeat and independence from Greece. The commandments of God require eight days to rededicate Temple furniture, so those eight days are remembered each year that work was done to cleanse and re-dedicate the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which was on the 25th day of the ninth month (Kislev), which can occur anytime between late November and late December, pending on when Passover occurs. The quantity of oil that was obtained was expected to burn and last for only one day, lasted for eight days, so the feast is often called the "feast of lights".

Since Yeshua celebrated Hanukkah, and Christmas was not of God, I celebrate the Feast of Lights since it is adjacent to the holiday season. I celebrate the birth of Yeshua during the feast of Tabernacles, when Yeshua was born in a sukkah, not in a barn with animals.

Celebrate Yeshua "The Light of The World"!!!

Have a blessed New Year

May Yeshua the Messiah bless you,

Love, Debbie

[ruminativerabbi]

Sukkot 2018

There are some paradoxical things about Sukkot that flavor the specific way the holiday feels for most of us. For one, there’s its peculiar proximity to Yom Kippur. There is, of course, the famous tradition of going out to the backyard after the end of the fast to put a first nail into the sukkah that will be built over the next couple of days. But who really does that? And even if there are, as there surely must be, people who actually make a point of beginning to build their sukkot right after they break their fasts, the reality is that there isn’t ever really enough time to work at anything like a reasonably leisurely pace. Plus the handful of days between the two holidays are work days for most—and in years like this one when one of the four days (Yom Kippur falls on the tenth of Tishrei and Sukkot on the 15th) is Shabbat, then there’s even one day less than that to work. So there’s that.

And then there’s the seasonal thing. This paradox is mostly a diasporan affair: the rain-free sunny summer season is about to segue into the rainy season in Israel, but those of us who live in a temperate climate and for whom Sukkot signals the onset of autumn—in some sense always, but not always as dramatically as this year when Erev Sukkot is the second day after the autumnal equinox—for us, the joy that is supposed to attend the festival (and Sukkot is called exactly that in our prayerbook, z’man simchateinu, the season of our rejoicing) is tempered somewhat by the fact that the fall is suddenly upon us and with it the end of lush, verdant summer and the eventual onset of bitter-cold, snowy winter. It is that sense of autumn as the swing season that lends the magnificence of the fall colors their slightly wistful overtone, in fact: they are truly gorgeous…but the botanists among us know that those brilliant reds and yellows are merely harbingers of the annual death that frigid winter brings to the world of growing things. And, whether we are expert botanists or not, I think most of us bring that sense of things to our sukkot as well: they are surely gorgeous…but what they also are, are flimsy huts that a strong wind can easily knock over, and which provide almost no real protection against anything, including not against something as relatively benign as rain. So we are left with a kind of almost romantic ambivalence about Sukkot not at all too different from the way we look at autumn foliage: impressed by the great beauty of our gorgeous Shelter Rock sukkah, but also unsettled by the fleeting nature of that beauty and struck also by its impermanence, by its deeply ephemeral nature, and by the fact that, for once to speak literally, it truly is here today and gone tomorrow. Coming just a few days after Yizkor, how can that thought not remind us of ourselves? So that’s part of it too!

The first of my Sukkot paradoxes, the one about its position on the festival calendar, there’s not much to do about. But the second is the one that requires some attention: Sukkot is after all, the festival of our rejoicing. In old Jerusalem, it was the annual backdrop for the biggest of all annual extravaganzas which the public was invited into the Temple precincts to enjoy, a gala performance that included music, dance, juggling, and displays of acrobatic and pyrotechnical prowess. To find the joy, however, perhaps we need to look past the sukkah—with its autumnal overtones and recall that it isn’t the only symbol of Sukkot and that there are also the lulav and etrog to consider.

The famous “four species” were used in the ancient Temple in roughly the same way  that we use them, plus in some additional rituals that haven’t survived into our day. For most moderns, though, the specific symbolism behind the specific species in play—the palm frond, the myrtle twigs, the willow stalks, and the lemony etrog—is more than just a bit opaque. Yes, any shul-goer has heard a million sermons attempting to unpack the meaning of the four and their ritual juxtaposition on Sukkot—I’ve given more than a few of them myself—but the ultimate meaning feels elusive. That, however, is a peculiarly modern problem: the ancients seems easily to have found in the lulav and etrog a compelling symbol of release, restoration, and redemption. In other words, our forebears found in the lulav and etrog a kind of counterbalance to the melancholic ambience that even the most stunningly beautiful sukkah seems somehow to suggest.

When Judah Maccabee and his army liberated the Temple in 164 BCE, he decreed that the celebration marking his victory should take the form of a long procession of people carrying lulav and etrog to make of his success—later to be memorialized as the festival of Chanukah—into what he himself called “Sukkot in Kislev.” In other words, when the Temple was finally back into the traditionalists’ hands, the way they marked that victory was to mimic the missed opportunity properly to celebrate Sukkot and have a kind of a late-fall redo in the rainy Hebrew month of Kislev, which delayed version of Sukkot later morphed into a festival with its own name, Chanukah, and which lasts for eight days precisely to suggest its origin as a second Sukkot. (For Americans, that means that Chanukah is in some ways the Jewish equivalent of Thanksgiving, which holiday was also inspired by Sukkot.) To understand Judah’s interest in redoing Sukkot, though, moderns will need to know that the palm frond—the most visible and recognizable part of the lulav and etrog combination—was widely taken in ancient times as a symbol of military victory.

After the destruction of Jerusalem and the razing of the Temple, one of the first decrees issued by Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai was that the lulav, which to that point had only been in use on the first day of the holiday other than in the Temple itself (where it was waved and used on every day of the festival), was to be used everywhere on every day of the chag, thus subtly suggesting to all that there are different kinds of victory and that, for all the Romans had successfully won the war, the Jews could still snatch victory from the jaws of defeat…by remaining faithful to the covenant, by making Jewish life flourish even in Roman Judaea, and by using the symbolism of the lulav to inspire themselves to further both those goals.

Just sixty years later, when Bar Kokhba led the final Jewish revolt against Roman rule in the 130s, he made sure that his soldiers were all outfitted with a lulav to use on Sukkot, as well as with an etrog, and the requisite myrtle twigs and willow branches. Amazingly, his letter to one Judah ben Menashe ordering that enough sets be brought on the backs of two donkeys (that would be a lot of lulavs!) to his men stationed at Ein Gedi has survived and was published in 1971 by Yigal Yadin. (If you are reading this online, click here to read the full letter.) And to make his point even clearer—the point that the prospect for military victory was ideationally embedded in the concept of allegiance to the Torah through the specific commandment to take up the four species, and particularly the lulav on Sukkot—he had the largest of the coins he had minted, something called a silver tetradrachm, display a picture of the (now ruined) Temple on one side (surrounded by the words “For the Redemption of Zion” in ancient Hebrew script) and…the lulav and etrog on the other. The symbolism, unfamiliar to us, would have been crystal clear to Bar Kokhba’s audience.

And so we are left, we moderns, to seek equilibrium in the contemplation of our upcoming festival’s two major symbols. From the sukkah, we are meant to learn to appreciate the fragility of life and its ephemeral nature, and to accept the challenges that inhere in its awful brevity. From the lulav and etrog—and particularly from the experience of waving them in shul and circumambulating the sanctuary while the cantor prays for the redemption of the world—we are meant to learn that there are different kinds of victory in the world…and that although the military version is the most widely sought after out there in the big world around us, there is also the spiritual version that beckons and reminds us, as we approach Sukkot especially, that each of us has the ability to alter the course of history for the better. Bar Kokhba, of course, failed militarily in his revolt against Rome. But all these years later—almost two full millennia—the Romans who opposed him are long forgotten while his name remains treasured by all who value the struggle for freedom from the yoke of oppression. So who really won? Perhaps that would be a good thing to ponder as we shake our lulavim this year and wonder what we could possibly do ourselves…to be remembered two millennia from now for the bravery we display and the good we do!

[dfroza]

A new body

that is eternal in its True nature is what has been promised to us, to those who “believe...” in the True illumination of the Son.

and we have this promise documented and conserved in the writing of Scripture, inspired by the Spirit of our Creator.

Today’s reading from the New Testament is from Paul’s ancient Letter of 2nd Corinthians:

[Chapter 5]

We are convinced that even if these bodies we live in are folded up at death like tents, we will still have a God-built home that no human hands have built, which will last forever in the heavenly realm. We inwardly sigh as we live in these physical “tents,” longing to put on a new body for our life in heaven, in the belief that once we put on our new “clothing” we won’t find ourselves “naked.” So, while living in this “tent,” we groan under its burden, not because we want to die but because we want these new bodies. We crave for all that is mortal to be swallowed up by eternal life. And this is no empty hope, for God himself is the one who has prepared us for this wonderful destiny. And to confirm this promise, he has given us the Holy Spirit, like an engagement ring, as a guarantee.

That’s why we’re always full of courage. Even while we’re at home in the body, we’re homesick to be with the Master—for we live by faith, not by what we see with our eyes. We live with a joyful confidence, yet at the same time we take delight in the thought of leaving our bodies behind to be at home with the Lord. So whether we live or die we make it our life’s passion to live our lives pleasing to him. For one day we will all be openly revealed before Christ on his throne so that each of us will be duly recompensed for our actions done in life, whether good or worthless.

Since we are those who stand in holy awe of the Lord, we make it our passion to persuade others to turn to him. We know that our lives are transparent before the God who knows us fully, and I hope that we are also well known to your consciences. Again, we are not taking an opportunity to brag, but giving you information that will enable you to be proud of us, and to answer those who esteem outward appearances while overlooking what is in the heart.

If we are out of our minds in a blissful, divine ecstasy, it is for God, but if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit. For it is Christ’s love that fuels our passion and motivates us, because we are absolutely convinced that he has given his life for all of us. This means all died with him, so that those who live should no longer live self-absorbed lives but lives that are poured out for him—the one who died for us and now lives again. So then, from now on, we have a new perspective that refuses to evaluate people merely by their outward appearances. For that’s how we once viewed the Anointed One, but no longer do we see him with limited human insight.

Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an entirely new creation. All that is related to the old order has vanished. Behold, everything is fresh and new. And God has made all things new, and reconciled us to himself, and given us the ministry of reconciling others to God. In other words, it was through the Anointed One that God was shepherding the world, not even keeping records of their transgressions, and he has entrusted to us the ministry of opening the door of reconciliation to God. We are ambassadors of the Anointed One who carry the message of Christ to the world, as though God were tenderly pleading with them directly through our lips. So we tenderly plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Turn back to God and be reconciled to him.” For God made the only one who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we who did not know righteousness might become the righteousness of God through our union with him.

The Letter of 2nd Corinthians, Chapter 5 (The Passion Translation)

Today’s paired chapter of the Testaments is the 3rd chapter of First Kings that describes a dream Solomon had:

Solomon arranged a marriage contract with Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He married Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her to the City of David until he had completed building his royal palace and God’s Temple and the wall around Jerusalem. Meanwhile, the people were worshiping at local shrines because at that time no temple had yet been built to the Name of God. Solomon loved God and continued to live in the God-honoring ways of David his father, except that he also worshiped at the local shrines, offering sacrifices and burning incense.

The king went to Gibeon, the most prestigious of the local shrines, to worship. He sacrificed a thousand Whole-Burnt-Offerings on that altar. That night, there in Gibeon, God appeared to Solomon in a dream: God said, “What can I give you? Ask.”

Solomon said, “You were extravagantly generous in love with David my father, and he lived faithfully in your presence, his relationships were just and his heart right. And you have persisted in this great and generous love by giving him—and this very day!—a son to sit on his throne.

“And now here I am: God, my God, you have made me, your servant, ruler of the kingdom in place of David my father. I’m too young for this, a mere child! I don’t know the ropes, hardly know the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of this job. And here I am, set down in the middle of the people you’ve chosen, a great people—far too many to ever count.

“Here’s what I want: Give me a God-listening heart so I can lead your people well, discerning the difference between good and evil. For who on their own is capable of leading your glorious people?”

God, the Master, was delighted with Solomon’s response. And God said to him, “Because you have asked for this and haven’t grasped after a long life, or riches, or the doom of your enemies, but you have asked for the ability to lead and govern well, I’ll give you what you’ve asked for—I’m giving you a wise and mature heart. There’s never been one like you before; and there’ll be no one after. As a bonus, I’m giving you both the wealth and glory you didn’t ask for—there’s not a king anywhere who will come up to your mark. And if you stay on course, keeping your eye on the life-map and the God-signs as your father David did, I’ll also give you a long life.”

Solomon woke up—what a dream! He returned to Jerusalem, took his place before the Chest of the Covenant of God, and worshiped by sacrificing Whole-Burnt-Offerings and Peace-Offerings. Then he laid out a banquet for everyone in his service.

The very next thing, two prostitutes showed up before the king. The one woman said, “My master, this woman and I live in the same house. While we were living together, I had a baby. Three days after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone—there wasn’t anyone else in the house except for the two of us. The infant son of this woman died one night when she rolled over on him in her sleep. She got up in the middle of the night and took my son—I was sound asleep, mind you!—and put him at her breast and put her dead son at my breast. When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, here was this dead baby! But when I looked at him in the morning light, I saw immediately that he wasn’t my baby.”

“Not so!” said the other woman. “The living one’s mine; the dead one’s yours.”

The first woman countered, “No! Your son’s the dead one; mine’s the living one.”

They went back and forth this way in front of the king.

The king said, “What are we to do? This woman says, ‘The living son is mine and the dead one is yours,’ and this woman says, ‘No, the dead one’s yours and the living one’s mine.’”

After a moment the king said, “Bring me a sword.” They brought the sword to the king.

Then he said, “Cut the living baby in two—give half to one and half to the other.”

The real mother of the living baby was overcome with emotion for her son and said, “Oh no, master! Give her the whole baby alive; don’t kill him!”

But the other one said, “If I can’t have him, you can’t have him—cut away!”

The king gave his decision: “Give the living baby to the first woman. Nobody is going to kill this baby. She is the real mother.”

The word got around—everyone in Israel heard of the king’s judgment. They were all in awe of the king, realizing that it was God’s wisdom that enabled him to judge truly.

The Book of 1st Kings, Chapter 3 (The Message)

my personal reading of the Scriptures for monday, november 16 of 2020 with a paired chapter from each Testament of the Bible, along with Today’s Psalms and Proverbs

A post by John Parsons about the new moon that marks a new month on the Jewish calendar:

Rosh Chodesh marks the start of a new month in the Jewish calendar. The Jewish sages metaphorically considered the lunar cycle to be a picture of ongoing "sacrifice and restoration." The renewal of the moon (i.e., the first crescent) was regarded as a kind of "rebirth" that issued from the previous service of the month (i.e., the moon's "self-diminution," or waning to complete darkness). On the Biblical calendar the month of Kislev (כִּסְלֵו) is the ninth month of the year (counting from the first month of Nisan), which this year begins Monday, November 16th (after sundown) and lasts two days....

The month of Kislev is one of the "darkest" months of the year, with the days progressively getting shorter and the nights getting longer. Indeed, the Winter Solstice often occurs during the last week of Kislev, and therefore the week of Chanukah (which straddles the months of Kislev and Tevet) often contains the longest night of the year. It is no wonder that, among other things, Chanukah represents an appropriate time to kindle the lights of faith - and to remember the Light of the World in the Messiah’s advent to earth...

Chodesh Tov to you all, chaverim. Remember that the Divine Light shines like a fire and yet does not destroy or consume. The light of God does not necessarily take away the darkness but always overcomes it and shines within it: “The darkness and the light are both alike unto Thee” (Psalm 139:12; John 1:5). May this month be one of blessing and the Presence of the Divine Light of Yeshua within your hearts (John 8:12). [Hebrew for Christians]

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Today’s message from the Institute for Creation Research

November 16, 2020

Business Structure: Servants

“Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God.” (Colossians 3:22)

Most of the world accepted slavery as ordinary social strata for much of recorded history. Slavery was certainly normal during the time of Roman domination and therefore public routine when the apostle Paul wrote to the Colossian church.

The most common term (and the term most often used by the apostles) is doulos, a bondslave, purchased by an owner and viewed as property under the legal system of Rome. Many of the biblical instructions are given to the doulos of a household or business enterprise.

The English word “employee” of today is essentially the same as the servant of biblical times. The “master” of today purchases service with wages rather than buying the life of the “servant” from a slave broker. The biblical instructions to employees are just as valid today as they were to the doulos of Bible times.

“Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ; not with eyeservice, as menpleasers” (Ephesians 6:5-6).

“Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour” (1 Timothy 6:1).

“Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward” (1 Peter 2:18).

All similar commands insist that a godly doulos should give the same effort and same quality to his employer as he would to the Lord Jesus. “But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness” (Romans 6:17-18). HMM II

[yhebrew]

Is 27 AD the year Jesus died? Noach married 1229; Sons born 1231, 1233, 1234. Flood 100 years later 1333 - 1334. What happens next? Tetrad 2032-2033...

New Patterns to think about. When is the next Tetrad? They are God's signals to us. Man can know the season of return.

Daniel’s day of blessing is 1335.  Is the year of blessing 35?   It would be year one after the Shemittah year 34 AD.  Was Yeshua 33-34 when he died?  Noah got off the ark in 1334 and made it to 1335 after Adom.  These might be a good case for the year 34 AD….but there is more… Jubilees Chapters 5, 6 are worth the study if you want to look at Patterns of Return. What did the calendar look like…

[theplattexperiment-blog]

Pray for: The world Reading: Nehemiah 1-4 Nehemiah’s Prayer 1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnantthat had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem. 3 They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.” 4 When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven. 5 Then I said: “Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of lovewith those who love him and keep his commandments, 6 let your ear be attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you.7 We have acted very wickedly toward you. We have not obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses. 8 “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, 9 but if you return to me and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’ 10 “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand. 11 Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him favor in the presence of this man.” I was cupbearer to the king. Artaxerxes Sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem 2 In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before, 2 so the king asked me, “Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart.” I was very much afraid, 3 but I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?” 4 The king said to me, “What is it you want?” Then I prayed to the God of heaven, 5 and I answered the king, “If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in his sight, let him send me to the city in Judah where my ancestors are buried so that I can rebuild it.” 6 Then the king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked me, “How long will your journey take, and when will you get back?” It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time. 7 I also said to him, “If it pleases the king, may I have letters to the governors of Trans-Euphrates,so that they will provide me safe-conduct until I arrive in Judah? 8 And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the royal park, so he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel by the temple and for the city wall and for the residence I will occupy?” And because the gracious hand of my God was on me, the king granted my requests. 9 So I went to the governors of Trans-Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent army officers and cavalry with me. 10 When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were very much disturbed that someone had come to promote the welfare of the Israelites. Nehemiah Inspects Jerusalem’s Walls 11 I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days 12 I set out during the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on. 13 By night I went out through the Valley Gatetoward the Jackal[a] Well and the Dung Gate,examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire. 14 Then I moved on toward the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool,but there was not enough room for my mount to get through; 15 so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate. 16 The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the priests or nobles or officials or any others who would be doing the work. 17 Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.” 18 I also told them about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me. They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work. 19 But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. “What is this you are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?” 20 I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no sharein Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.” Builders of the Wall 3 Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests went to work and rebuilt the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and set its doors in place, building as far as the Tower of the Hundred, which they dedicated, and as far as the Tower of Hananel.2 The men of Jericho built the adjoining section, and Zakkur son of Imri built next to them. 3 The Fish Gate was rebuilt by the sons of Hassenaah. They laid its beams and put its doors and bolts and bars in place. 4 Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired the next section. Next to him Meshullam son of Berekiah, the son of Meshezabel, made repairs, and next to him Zadok son of Baana also made repairs. 5 The next section was repaired by the men of Tekoa,but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.[b] 6 The Jeshanah[c] Gate was repaired by Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah. They laid its beams and put its doors with their bolts and bars in place. 7 Next to them, repairs were made by men from Gibeon and Mizpah—Melatiah of Gibeon and Jadon of Meronoth—places under the authority of the governor of Trans-Euphrates. 8 Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the goldsmiths, repaired the next section; and Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, made repairs next to that. They restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall. 9 Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem, repaired the next section. 10 Adjoining this, Jedaiah son of Harumaph made repairs opposite his house, and Hattush son of Hashabneiah made repairs next to him. 11 Malkijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of Pahath-Moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens. 12 Shallum son of Hallohesh, ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem, repaired the next section with the help of his daughters. 13 The Valley Gate was repaired by Hanun and the residents of Zanoah. They rebuilt it and put its doors with their bolts and bars in place. They also repaired a thousand cubits[d] of the wall as far as the Dung Gate. 14 The Dung Gate was repaired by Malkijah son of Rekab, ruler of the district of Beth Hakkerem.He rebuilt it and put its doors with their bolts and bars in place. 15 The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Kol-Hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofing it over and putting its doors and bolts and bars in place. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Siloam,[e] by the King’s Garden, as far as the steps going down from the City of David. 16 Beyond him, Nehemiah son of Azbuk, ruler of a half-district of Beth Zur, made repairs up to a point opposite the tombs[f] of David, as far as the artificial pool and the House of the Heroes. 17 Next to him, the repairs were made by the Levites under Rehum son of Bani. Beside him, Hashabiah, ruler of half the district of Keilah,carried out repairs for his district. 18 Next to him, the repairs were made by their fellow Levites under Binnui[g] son of Henadad, ruler of the other half-district of Keilah. 19 Next to him, Ezer son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, repaired another section, from a point facing the ascent to the armory as far as the angle of the wall. 20 Next to him, Baruch son of Zabbai zealously repaired another section, from the angle to the entrance of the house of Eliashib the high priest. 21 Next to him, Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired another section, from the entrance of Eliashib’s house to the end of it. 22 The repairs next to him were made by the priests from the surrounding region. 23 Beyond them, Benjamin and Hasshub made repairs in front of their house; and next to them, Azariah son of Maaseiah, the son of Ananiah, made repairs beside his house. 24 Next to him, Binnuison of Henadad repaired another section, from Azariah’s house to the angle and the corner,25 and Palal son of Uzai worked opposite the angle and the tower projecting from the upper palace near the court of the guard. Next to him, Pedaiah son of Parosh 26 and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs up to a point opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower. 27 Next to them, the men of Tekoa repaired another section, from the great projecting tower to the wall of Ophel. 28 Above the Horse Gate, the priests made repairs, each in front of his own house. 29 Next to them, Zadok son of Immer made repairs opposite his house. Next to him, Shemaiah son of Shekaniah, the guard at the East Gate, made repairs. 30 Next to him, Hananiah son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another section. Next to them, Meshullam son of Berekiah made repairs opposite his living quarters. 31 Next to him, Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the room above the corner; 32 and between the room above the corner and the Sheep Gatethe goldsmiths and merchants made repairs. Opposition to the Rebuilding 4 [h]When Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became angry and was greatly incensed. He ridiculed the Jews, 2 and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble—burned as they are?” 3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, “What they are building—even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!” 4 Hear us, our God, for we are despised. Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity. 5 Do not cover up their guilt or blot out their sins from your sight, for they have thrown insults in the face of[i]the builders. 6 So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart. 7 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites and the people of Ashdod heard that the repairs to Jerusalem’s walls had gone ahead and that the gaps were being closed, they were very angry. 8 They all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and stir up trouble against it. 9 But we prayed to our God and posted a guard day and night to meet this threat. 10 Meanwhile, the people in Judah said, “The strength of the laborers is giving out, and there is so much rubble that we cannot rebuild the wall.” 11 Also our enemies said, “Before they know it or see us, we will be right there among them and will kill them and put an end to the work.” 12 Then the Jews who lived near them came and told us ten times over, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.” 13 Therefore I stationed some of the people behind the lowest points of the wall at the exposed places, posting them by families, with their swords, spears and bows. 14 After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your families, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.” 15 When our enemies heard that we were aware of their plot and that God had frustrated it, we all returned to the wall, each to our own work. 16 From that day on, half of my men did the work, while the other half were equipped with spears, shields, bows and armor. The officers posted themselves behind all the people of Judah 17 who were building the wall. Those who carried materials did their work with one hand and held a weapon in the other, 18 and each of the builders wore his sword at his side as he worked. But the man who sounded the trumpet stayed with me. 19 Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, “The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall. 20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us!” 21 So we continued the work with half the men holding spears, from the first light of dawn till the stars came out. 22 At that time I also said to the people, “Have every man and his helper stay inside Jerusalem at night, so they can serve us as guards by night and as workers by day.”23 Neither I nor my brothers nor my men nor the guards with me took off our clothes; each had his weapon, even when he went for water.[j]

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VERSE OF THE DAY Romans 13:6 (New International Version) This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing.

Dream of Bill Larkin (7 Years Ago) La Palma Destruction Falling into the Sea – liveactioneating.com/2021/09/17/watch-vision-of-tsunami-in-east-coast-florida-new-jersey-underwater-bill-larkin-on-youtube/

High Watch Times

Nov 5th – We see from the 2015 Economist Magazine Cover 11.3 & 11.5 (Nov 3rd came to pass, as we see that the first Abomination Shots given to 5-11 Year Olds. We’ll see what happens on Nov. 5th)

Nov 10th – Possible Abomination of Desolation related to Daniel 9 & Jeremiah 52 Study by Leeland Jones – liveactioneating.com/2021/11/02/jeremiah-52-key-to-daniel-9-dont-speak-news-by-leeland-jones/

Nov 14th – Laudato Si (7 Year Covenant with Many to Begin) – ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/laudato-si-action-platform-launch-pushed-back-mid-november

Nov 18th-19th (Kislev 15) – when the Blood Moon occurs and the Abomination of Desolation according to the Book of Maccabees in 168 BCE.

10 Days is referenced when the actual event took place in those days when Antiochus Epiphanes erected a Statue of zeus, but put his own face in it, then 10 days later he offered a pig as a sacrifice in the altar, then placed the Blood in the Holy Temple of Israel and poured it over the Torah Scrolls and converted the Temple to a shrine of zeus.

Nov 29th - This is 10 days from Nov 19th, brings us to Nov 29th, which is 4 years from the True Birth of Israel. Nov 29th, 1947 and the Parable of the Fig Tree.

Readings Torah – Genesis 18:1-22:24 Haftarahs – 2 Kings 4:1-37 Brit Chadashah – Luke 17:26-37, Romans 9:6-9, Galatians 4:21-31, Heb. 6:13-2011:13-19, James 2:14-24, 2 Peter 2:4-10

G‑d reveals Himself to Abraham three days after the first Jew’s circumcision at age ninety-nine; but Abraham rushes off to prepare a meal for three guests who appear in the desert heat. One of the three—who are angels disguised as men—announces that, in exactly one year, the barren Sarah will give birth to a son. Sarah laughs.

Abraham pleads with G‑d to spare the wicked city of Sodom. Two of the three disguised angels arrive in the doomed city, where Abraham’s nephew Lot extends his hospitality to them and protects them from the evil intentions of a Sodomite mob. The two guests reveal that they have come to overturn the place, and to save Lot and his family. Lot’s wife turns into a pillar of salt when she disobeys the command not to look back at the burning city as they flee.

Great Flood Begins (2105 BCE)

The rains began to fall on the 17th of Cheshvan of the year 1656 from creation (2105), flooding the earth and rising above the highest mountains. Only Noah and his family survived, in the ark built to that end by Divine command, and a pair of each animal species, who entered with him into the ark.

The following is a chronology of the Flood, as indicated by the dates and time periods given in the Torah’s account and calculated by Rashi:

Cheshvan 17: Noah enters ark; rains begin. Kislev 27: Forty days of rain end; begin 150 days of water’s swelling and churning, during which the water reaches a height of 15 cubits above the mountain peaks. Sivan 1: Water calms and begins to subside at the rate of one cubit every four days. Sivan 17: The bottom of the ark, submerged 11 cubits beneath the surface, touches down on the top of Mount Ararat. Av 1: The mountain peaks break the water’s surface. Elul 10:Forty days after the mountain peaks becom visible, Noah opens the ark’s window and dispatches a raven. Elul 17: Noah sends the dove for the first time. Elul 23: The dove is sent a second time, and returns with an olive leaf in its beak. Tishrei 1: Dove’s third mission. Water completely drained. Cheshvan 27: Ground fully dried. Noah exits ark. (This chronology follows the opinion of the Talmudic sage Rabbi Eliezer; according to Rabbi Joshua’s interpretation, the Flood began on Iyar 17, and all above dates should be moved ahead six months.) Total time that Noah spent in the ark: 365 days (one solar year; one year and 11 days on the lunar calendar).

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VERSE OF THE DAY Ephesians 1:18 (New International Version) I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people,

Dream of Bill Larkin (7 Years Ago) La Palma Destruction Falling into the Sea – liveactioneating.com/2021/09/17/watch-vision-of-tsunami-in-east-coast-florida-new-jersey-underwater-bill-larkin-on-youtube/

High Watch Times

Nov 2nd – Nov 3rd – Chesvan 27 (Ground fully dried. Noah exits ark.) + CDC Approves Abomination Shot for 5-11 Year Olds

Nov 14th - Laudato Si (7 Year Covenant with Many to Begin) - ncronline.org/news/earthbeat/laudato-si-action-platform-launch-pushed-back-mid-november

Readings Torah – Genesis 18:1-22:24 Haftarahs – 2 Kings 4:1-37 Brit Chadashah – Luke 17:26-37, Romans 9:6-9, Galatians 4:21-31, Heb. 6:13-2011:13-19, James 2:14-24, 2 Peter 2:4-10

G‑d reveals Himself to Abraham three days after the first Jew’s circumcision at age ninety-nine; but Abraham rushes off to prepare a meal for three guests who appear in the desert heat. One of the three—who are angels disguised as men—announces that, in exactly one year, the barren Sarah will give birth to a son. Sarah laughs.

Abraham pleads with G‑d to spare the wicked city of Sodom. Two of the three disguised angels arrive in the doomed city, where Abraham’s nephew Lot extends his hospitality to them and protects them from the evil intentions of a Sodomite mob. The two guests reveal that they have come to overturn the place, and to save Lot and his family. Lot’s wife turns into a pillar of salt when she disobeys the command not to look back at the burning city as they flee.

Great Flood Begins (2105 BCE)

The rains began to fall on the 17th of Cheshvan of the year 1656 from creation (2105), flooding the earth and rising above the highest mountains. Only Noah and his family survived, in the ark built to that end by Divine command, and a pair of each animal species, who entered with him into the ark.

The following is a chronology of the Flood, as indicated by the dates and time periods given in the Torah’s account and calculated by Rashi:

Cheshvan 17: Noah enters ark; rains begin. Kislev 27: Forty days of rain end; begin 150 days of water’s swelling and churning, during which the water reaches a height of 15 cubits above the mountain peaks. Sivan 1: Water calms and begins to subside at the rate of one cubit every four days. Sivan 17: The bottom of the ark, submerged 11 cubits beneath the surface, touches down on the top of Mount Ararat. Av 1: The mountain peaks break the water’s surface. Elul 10:Forty days after the mountain peaks becom visible, Noah opens the ark’s window and dispatches a raven. Elul 17: Noah sends the dove for the first time. Elul 23: The dove is sent a second time, and returns with an olive leaf in its beak. Tishrei 1: Dove’s third mission. Water completely drained. Cheshvan 27: Ground fully dried. Noah exits ark. (This chronology follows the opinion of the Talmudic sage Rabbi Eliezer; according to Rabbi Joshua’s interpretation, the Flood began on Iyar 17, and all above dates should be moved ahead six months.) Total time that Noah spent in the ark: 365 days (one solar year; one year and 11 days on the lunar calendar).

Prepare for the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Please repent, carry your cross daily and accept the free gift of Jesus Christ’s death on the cross for payment for your sins.

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John 8 New International Version 8 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.

But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.

9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

11 “No one, sir,” she said.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

Great Flood Begins (2105 BCE) The rains began to fall on the 17th of Cheshvan of the year 1656 from creation (2105), flooding the earth and rising above the highest mountains. Only Noah and his family survived, in the ark built to that end by Divine command, and a pair of each animal species, who entered with him into the ark.

The following is a chronology of the Flood, as indicated by the dates and time periods given in the Torah's account and calculated by Rashi: Cheshvan 17: Noah enters ark; rains begin. Kislev 27: Forty days of rain end; begin 150 days of water's swelling and churning, during which the water reaches a height of 15 cubits above the mountain peaks. Sivan 1: Water calms and begins to subside at the rate of one cubit every four days. Sivan 17: The bottom of the ark, submerged 11 cubits beneath the surface, touches down on the top of Mount Ararat. Av 1: The mountain peaks break the water's surface. Elul 10:Forty days after the mountain peaks becom visible, Noah opens the ark's window and dispatches a raven. Elul 17: Noah sends the dove for the first time. Elul 23: The dove is sent a second time, and returns with an olive leaf in its beak. Tishrei 1: Dove's third mission. Water completely drained. Cheshvan 27: Ground fully dried. Noah exits ark. (This chronology follows the opinion of the Talmudic sage Rabbi Eliezer; according to Rabbi Joshua's interpretation, the Flood began on Iyar 17, and all above dates should be moved ahead six months.) Total time that Noah spent in the ark: 365 days (one solar year; one year and 11 days on the lunar calendar).

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HAPPY HANUKKAH!!!

Here is what I have learned about Christmas and why I celebrate Hanukkah.

December 11, 2020- December 18, 2020

Christmas was taken from a Canaanite ritual called “Child-mas” (baby sacrifice), where the babies which were born in December would be sacrificed on Easter, after the 40 days of weeping for Tammuz, the sun-god. His mother was the wife of Nimrod, who built the Babel Tower. Priests would impregnate virgins after eating ham, to commemorate the death of Tammuz on his 40th birthday by a wild boar. Chicken eggs would be dyed red with the blood of the babies. The three month old babies that were born in December from the Easter orgy would be sacrificed on an altar.

Constantine, the Roman emperor, wanted to create a state religion that would be “agreeable” to everyone,(some of the occult, some of Christianity) in order to unite his empire. At the Council of Nicaea, in 325 AD, the birthday of the sun gods (Ra, Mithra, Jupiter, Zeus, etc.) was chosen to be the day the “universal church” (Catholicism) would celebrate the birth of Yeshua. However, Jews and true Christians were banned from the Council, therefore the true dates of events, teachings, and customs were not carried over.

Yeshua was born on the first day of the moadim of Tabernacles, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month (Tishri), and runs for seven days. On the eighth day, which is called “the Last Great Day”, Yeshua was circumcised. It occurs in mid-September to mid-October, pending on when Passover occurs that year. The Gregorian date of the birth of Yeshua was September 26, 3 AD.  

Adjacent to the holiday season is the actual Jewish feast of Hanukah, which is the only other feast (outside of the seven that Yehovah gave Israel) that Yeshua observed. It’s called the “Feast of Lights”, or “Feast of Dedication”, when Yeshua said “I am the Light of the World”.  

It started when the Greeks had roasted a pig on the temple mount (in about 167 BC), and this caused the Maccabean Revolt, which brought about the defeat and independence from Greece. The commandments of God require eight days to rededicate Temple furniture, so those eight days are remembered each year that work was done to cleanse and re-dedicate the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which was on the 25th day of the ninth month (Kislev), which can occur anytime between late November and late December, pending on when Passover occurs. The quantity of oil that was obtained was expected to burn and last for only one day, lasted for eight days, so the feast is often called the "feast of lights".

Since Yeshua celebrated Hanukkah, and Christmas was not of God, I celebrate the Feast of Lights since it is adjacent to the holiday season. I celebrate the birth of Yeshua during the feast of Tabernacles, when Yeshua was born in a sukkah, not in a barn with animals.

Celebrate Yeshua "The Light of The World"!!!

Have a blessed New Year May Yeshua the Messiah bless you, Love, Debbie

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HAPPY HANUKKAH!!!

Here is what I have learned about Christmas and why I celebrate Hanukkah.

December 21, 2019 (HANUKKAH BEGINS ON DECEMBER 22ND-30TH)

Christmas was taken from a Canaanite ritual called “Child-mas” (baby sacrifice), where the babies which were born in December would be sacrificed on Easter, after the 40 days of weeping for Tammuz, the sun-god. His mother was the wife of Nimrod, who built the Babel Tower. Priests would impregnate virgins after eating ham, to commemorate the death of Tammuz on his 40th birthday by a wild boar. Chicken eggs would be dyed red with the blood of the babies. The three month old babies that were born in December from the Easter orgy would be sacrificed on an altar.

Constantine, the Roman emperor, wanted to create a state religion that would be “agreeable” to everyone,(some of the occult, some of Christianity) in order to unite his empire. At the Council of Nicaea, in 325 AD, the birthday of the sun gods (Ra, Mithra, Jupiter, Zeus, etc.) was chosen to be the day the “universal church” (Catholicism) would celebrate the birth of Yeshua. However, Jews and true Christians were banned from the Council, therefore the true dates of events,teachings, and customs were not carried over.

Yeshua was born on the first day of the moadim of Tabernacles, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month (Tishri), and runs for seven days. On the eighth day, which is called “the Last Great Day”, Yeshua was circumcised. It occurs in mid-September to mid-October, pending on when Passover occurs that year. The Gregorian date of the birth of Yeshua was September 26, 3 AD.  

Adjacent to the holiday season is the actual Jewish feast of Hanukkah, which is the only other feast (outside of the seven that Yehovah gave Israel) that Yeshua observed. It’s called the “Feast of Lights”, or “Feast of Dedication”, when Yeshua said “I am the Light of the World”.

It started when the Greeks had roasted a pig on the temple mount (in about 167 BC), and this caused the Maccabean Revolt, which brought about the defeat and independence from Greece. The commandments of God require eight days to rededicate Temple furniture, so those eight days are remembered each year that work was done to cleanse and re-dedicate the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which was on the 25th day of the ninth month (Kislev), which can occur anytime between late November and late December, pending on when Passover occurs. The quantity of oil that was obtained was expected to burn and last for only one day, lasted for eight days, so the feast is often called the "feast of lights".

Since Yeshua celebrated Hanukkah, and Christmas was not of God, I celebrate the Feast of Lights since it is adjacent to the holiday season. I celebrate the birth of Yeshua during the feast of Tabernacles, when Yeshua was born in a sukkah, not in a barn with animals.

Celebrate Yeshua "The Light Of The World"!!!

Have a blessed New Year May Yeshua the Messiah bless you, Love, Debbie

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HAPPY HANUKKAH!!!

Here is what I have learned about Christmas and why I celebrate Hanukkah.

December 2, 2018 Christmas was taken from a Canaanite ritual called “Child-mas” (baby sacrifice), where the babies which were born in December would be sacrificed on Easter, after the 40 days of weeping for Tammuz, the sun-god. His mother was the wife of Nimrod, who built the Babel Tower. Priests would impregnate virgins after eating ham, to commemorate the death of Tammuz on his 40th birthday by a wild boar. Chicken eggs would be dyed red with the blood of the babies. The three month old babies that were born in December from the Easter orgy would be sacrificed on an altar.

Constantine, the Roman emperor, wanted to create a state religion that would be “agreeable” to everyone,(some of the occult, some of Christianity) in order to unite his empire. At the Council of Nicaea, in 325 AD, the birthday of the sun gods (Ra, Mithra, Jupiter, Zeus, etc.) was chosen to be the day the “universal church” (Catholicism) would celebrate the birth of Yeshua. However, Jews and true Christians were banned from the Council, therefore the true dates of events,teachings, and customs were not carried over.

Yeshua was born on the first day of the moadim of Tabernacles, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month (Tishri), and runs for seven days. On the eighth day, which is called “the Last Great Day”, Yeshua was circumcised. It occurs in mid-September to mid-October, pending on when Passover occurs that year. The Gregorian date of the birth of Yeshua was September 26, 3 AD.  

Adjacent to the holiday season is the actual Jewish feast of Hanukah, which is the only other feast (outside of the seven that Yehovah gave Israel) that Yeshua observed. It’s called the “Feast of Lights”, or “Feast of Dedication”, when Yeshua said “I am the Light of the World”.

It started when the Greeks had roasted a pig on the temple mount (in about 167 BC), and this caused the Maccabean Revolt, which brought about the defeat and independence from Greece. The commandments of God require eight days to rededicate Temple furniture, so those eight days are remembered each year that work was done to cleanse and re-dedicate the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, which was on the 25th day of the ninth month (Kislev), which can occur anytime between late November and late December, pending on when Passover occurs. The quantity of oil that was obtained was expected to burn and last for only one day, lasted for eight days, so the feast is often called the "feast of lights".

Since Yeshua celebrated Hanukah, and Christmas was not of God, I celebrate the Feast of Lights since it is adjacent to the holiday season. I celebrate the birth of Yeshua during the feast of Tabernacles, when Yeshua was born in a sukkah, not in a barn with animals.

Celebrate Yeshua "The Light Of The World"!!!

Have a blessed New Year May Yeshua the Messiah bless you, Love, Debbie