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Wednesday 25 March 2015
First public seder on Pesach in a full 20 years
Thanks to the donation of a righteous Jew for whom it was important to
renew the tradition, the Israelites have succeeded in a short time in arranging a
public seder at the highest level including a magnificent meal, and
enlisting a cantorial choir to lead the seder and the holiday prayers
together with the synagogue rabbi Rabbi Yitzhak Bar-Ze'ev at the Great Synagogue of Tel Aviv.
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Vayikra after its opening word וַיִּקְרָא, which means and He called
For the Jews this Shabbat is the last of the Four Parashiot that have special Torah readings in preparation for Pesach (Passover), which is only two short weeks away!
For Jews and Christians it should be the most important day of the year. It is the most important Day of Remembrance installed by the Most High Divine Creator.
For the Jews this Sabbat marking the first of the month (Rosh Chodesh) head of the month of Nisan, is called Shabbat HaChodesh (החודש שבת Sabbath [of the] month), and a special reading is added from Exodus 12:1–20, which details the laws of Pesach (Passover).
Nissan was made the first month of the year because it is the month in which the Jewish people were
freed from slavery in Egypt, the house of bondage. Having such a month of beginning the Jews once again could say to each other "Happy New Year". In addition to wishing one another a Happy New Year in the seventh month of Tishrei for Jewish people (or January 1st for those who follow the Gregorian calendar), we can wish people Happy New Year again today!
The One True God completely forbade His people from pagan worship customs and especially the practice of human sacrifice:
This is a significant stumbling block to receiving salvation through Jeshua the Messiah for the Jewish People. However, the ancient prophet Isaiah revealed that long ago Elohim planned to lay all of our sins and iniquities upon the Messiah:
The blood of the Lamb of God (Jeshua) takes away the sins of those who believe in who he is, what he did, turn from their sin, and follow him.
Today there are still lots of Christians who do not want to accept who Jeshua really is and who made him into a god for who they bow down and of whom they make graven images to pray in front and to burn candles in front of it.
Lots of Christians do forget that God can not die and that God Himself declared that man nor death could do him a thing. But Jesus as a man of flesh and blood knew very well the danger of him exposing himself in the city of God, Jerusalem. Though Jesus knew that time had come and God wanted a turnover in history. For God it was time again to start a new beginning and to come to present the world with a New World with a New Covenant.
Jeshua, Jesus Christ, was this Kristos or Messiah long before Abraham promised to the world. Already in the garden of Eden, the Elohim promised to provide a solution for the sin of man. With Jeshua the world was given a new Adam. And this Adam had to present himself now as a spotless lamb to his heavenly Father.
It is Jeshua, who has set us free from the evil master of sin through his death and resurrection, we now have hope and have good prospects.
For Jews and Christians it should be the most important day of the year. It is the most important Day of Remembrance installed by the Most High Divine Creator.
For the Jews this Sabbat marking the first of the month (Rosh Chodesh) head of the month of Nisan, is called Shabbat HaChodesh (החודש שבת Sabbath [of the] month), and a special reading is added from Exodus 12:1–20, which details the laws of Pesach (Passover).
Nissan was made the first month of the year because it is the month in which the Jewish people were
freed from slavery in Egypt, the house of bondage. Having such a month of beginning the Jews once again could say to each other "Happy New Year". In addition to wishing one another a Happy New Year in the seventh month of Tishrei for Jewish people (or January 1st for those who follow the Gregorian calendar), we can wish people Happy New Year again today!
“God said to Moshe and Aharon in the Land of Egypt, ‘This month shall be for you the beginning of the months; it shall be for you the first of the months of the year.’” (Exodus 12:1–2)For Jews it is a new beginning but also for us Christians it should be. We have the liberation of God's People and can find them marching to the promised land. The land which is also promised to those who are willing to be a child of God honouring only One God.
The One True God completely forbade His people from pagan worship customs and especially the practice of human sacrifice:
Knowing that God detests human sacrifice, especially of a son or daughter at the hand of a parent, the Jewish people naturally assume that our God would never allow someone to die a substitutionary death the way animals do.“You must not worship the LORD your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.” (Deuteronomy 12:31)
This is a significant stumbling block to receiving salvation through Jeshua the Messiah for the Jewish People. However, the ancient prophet Isaiah revealed that long ago Elohim planned to lay all of our sins and iniquities upon the Messiah:
Jeshua’s sacrifice was meant to restore fellowship with our Father upon a person seeking to draw near to Him, sincerely repenting of their sins, and accepting the sacrifice as a free gift on their behalf.“But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.” (Isaiah 53:5–6)
The blood of the Lamb of God (Jeshua) takes away the sins of those who believe in who he is, what he did, turn from their sin, and follow him.
Today there are still lots of Christians who do not want to accept who Jeshua really is and who made him into a god for who they bow down and of whom they make graven images to pray in front and to burn candles in front of it.
Lots of Christians do forget that God can not die and that God Himself declared that man nor death could do him a thing. But Jesus as a man of flesh and blood knew very well the danger of him exposing himself in the city of God, Jerusalem. Though Jesus knew that time had come and God wanted a turnover in history. For God it was time again to start a new beginning and to come to present the world with a New World with a New Covenant.
Jeshua, Jesus Christ, was this Kristos or Messiah long before Abraham promised to the world. Already in the garden of Eden, the Elohim promised to provide a solution for the sin of man. With Jeshua the world was given a new Adam. And this Adam had to present himself now as a spotless lamb to his heavenly Father.
It is Jeshua, who has set us free from the evil master of sin through his death and resurrection, we now have hope and have good prospects.
Christians and alcohol
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| العربية: مجموعة مشروبات كحولية. Català: Diverses begudes alcohòliques. Cymraeg: Rhai diodydd alcoholig traddodiadol. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
In the United States it might be a real problem those alcoholic drinks and people not able to keep measures. For Americans being it an important question for our time having millions and millions of Americans been brutalized and devastated by the abuse of alcohol, it should not give them the right to damn the alcoholic drank.
Drunkenness has been of all time. People got also drunk in the Bible. There was such a thing as “strong drink” beginning in ancient times. Having some American pastors telling their flock that the wine that Jesus made was almost non-alcoholic is far-fetched.
Those preachers also forget that Jesus liberated the people. Since his offering and God accepting Jesus as spotless lamb as a ransom for the sins of man “Everything is permissible” in such a way that everybody has to remember that not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible”—but not everything is constructive.
1Co 10:18-32 KJ2000 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? (19) What do I say then? that the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? (20) But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with demons. (21) You cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: you cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons. (22) Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? (23) All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. (24) Let no man seek his own, but every man another's good. (25) Whatsoever is sold in the meat market, that eat, asking no question for conscience’s sake: (26) For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. (27) If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and you be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience’s sake. (28) But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience’s sake: for the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof: (29) Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience? (30) For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks? (31) Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God. (32) Give none offense, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:Read more about it:
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Teaching permittion to kill infidels
An exercise book for 11th graders in Jombang, East Java contained notions based on the radical Wahhabi school of thought (which
is dominant in Saudi Arabia). In it the students could find that it would be all right to kill “People who
worship anything other than Allah" because they "are infidels and it is permitted to
kill them.” (Page 78)
It was good that soon the Indonesia’s Minister of Education and Culture Anies Rasyid Baswedan came to know what was in the book and gave the order to pull all the copies of the textbook. She announced an investigation into the case. The government’s quick response prevented it from being distributed to the country’s schools.
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It was good that soon the Indonesia’s Minister of Education and Culture Anies Rasyid Baswedan came to know what was in the book and gave the order to pull all the copies of the textbook. She announced an investigation into the case. The government’s quick response prevented it from being distributed to the country’s schools.
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Lacking legitimacy in the eyes of his people
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| United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at their trilateral meeting at the David Citadel Hotel, Jerusalem. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
With the threat of Islamic terrorism hanging over the Middle East, Mortimer B. Zuckerman for US News & World Report
reads Netanyahu's comments as doubt that a Palestinian state
established this very day would work, because "today the leader of the
Palestinians, Mahmoud Abbas, 'lacks legitimacy in the eyes of his
people.'"
"They key word is 'today,'" Zuckerman writes.
"Today is when the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, has taken
territory in neighboring Syria. Today is when Iran, whose regime swears
to destroy Israel, has surrounded the Jewish state with allies in Gaza
and Lebanon, not to mention revolutionary guards on the Golan Heights.
"Today is when Iraq is allying with Iran, which holds its sway over Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. Today is when President Obama is nearing an Iranian nuclear deal that could put Israel at fundamental risk of destruction, much to the advantage of its regional Islamist enemies."
Without a legitimate leader administrating the people of the PA,
and with a partner that refuses peace and celebrates campaigns—both
terrorist and political—against Israel, Netanyahu was not refuting his
two-state stance, he was making an observation of today's climate where it would be impossible to set up a viable Palestinian state.
Netanyahu Election Tactics Spark Apology and Rebuke
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| Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during
his election campaign this March have drawn criticism from
internationals insisting on a two-state solution—one Jewish state and
one Palestinian.
Netanyahu, whose party won the most seats in Israel’s March 17
election, has been accused of backtracking on support for a "two-state"
approach to peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority after
revealing his concern that it is not possible to form a Palestinian
state today.
"I think that anyone who goes about establishing a Palestinian state today and vacating territory is giving attack territory to extremist Islam, to be used against the state of Israel. … Whoever ignores this is putting his head in the sand,"
Netanyahu said during his campaign.
Since Netanyahu's June 14, 2009, Bar-Ilan speech, when he
announced his vision of peace as "two free peoples living side by side,"
Netanyahu has supported a two-state solution in talks with PA
negotiators and internationals.
In an interview with MSNBC on Thursday, Netanyahu said, “I
never retracted my speech at Bar-Ilan University six years ago calling
for a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes a Jewish state.”
“What has changed is the reality,” he explained. “[Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] the Palestinian leader refuses to recognize the Jewish state and has made a pact with Hamas that calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, and every territory that is vacated today in the Middle East is taken up by Islamist forces. We want that to change so that we can realize a vision of real, sustained peace. I don’t want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but for that, circumstances have to change.” (Times of Israel)
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