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Eighth Day (of Eight Days) of Miracles: The Festival of Lights, called Chanukah

2011-12-28T00:21:00.000-08:00

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:57 PM, White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother wrote:

Relatives of the Rainbow,
Hanukkah ends with the eighth day today at morning's light (darkness ends). Remember eight is the sacred walk of holiness, the path to trusting love (eternity symbol) and it's embracing for each other. We shine our inner light, to find the river of fire, within each of us, we stand here (the ninth direction), between from rainbow colors outside and four rainbow colors inside.
Religions all over the the world share part of the story of Oneness, Jews happen to be the oldest of the flesh, where intelligence leads on the red road. They go towards heaven to shine like a star in heaven to find the blue road, returning once more into the bliss of faithful devotion. We must remember, all the world carries stories of the Oneness. As the ordained people (Jews on the eastern shore of the horizon), who teach us God's laws as we walk upon the earthly world. However there is only one true law, LOVE. This law rules and reigns above all others. Through the trusting of one's heart, we remember our soul within, that guides us, remembering that we are all relatives of the deep blue of heavenly stars. This is written in the prayer cloth with the blue strand of the fringes at each corner.

The festival of lights help us to remember miracles can live in each day if we have faith and trust in forgiveness and have hope for tomorrows dreaming. We leap into evolution with our hearts seeking brotherhood and only through the actions that gift to us miracles, can we find the true path of our hearts.
Today we pray and offer each relative praise in the hopes they find the blue road, the star that shines, the soul within once again. Here inside of you, lies the perfect revelation, eternal knowledge through the songs, we find our way, into everlasting life. Now more than ever it's imperative we attend to the salvation of our hopes and dreams to endure and find our path to eternal life, we know as our souls.

The blue road of the heavenly song leads us towards the perfect unity of waters (blue road of the soul) and fires (red road of the flesh). Here the sacred mix becomes smoke, clouds and an atmospheric embrace, we call home, the blue of Mother Earth, where the lights bring to us a garden of paradise. Here is the TREE of LIFE that extends upwards and downwards to bind us together.

Let us sing this day, forever pave the way to eternal love and guidance that can bring, to us hope and dreams that fill us with everything, it's the place we need to know our waves. Help our souls relieve, the song that helps us grieve and bring our tears to shine upon the world. And through our love this day, it will pave the way into ever more, the song of what we need.

We bow down to say, we love you all the ways, to shine of light from within that guides the plates, the platters to/of yesterday, they roll around to say, we return to lift the waves again. Let us move down the path, to where it's dark at last, the blue road of heavenly stars that shine from within.

White Buffalo Calf Woman sings (christal child, peace) and Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star shines, love that binds (lavender child, holiness). House of David, where the Beloved Children find passageway through the house of winds!

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ps. On Christmas day, we had gas to run our generator for four hours, but it ran for 10 hours. We thank Great Spirit Father River of the Blue for his great miracle. Each day, we shared a miracle. But with so little, we have so much and LOVE is what we beget, abundance of overflowing LOVE.

Last day of Chanukah
The last day of Chanukah marks the end of Chanukah, also known as Hanukkah or Festival of Lights. Chanukah is an eight-day Jewish observance that remembers the Jewish people's struggle for religious freedom.

Candles are lit during the Chanukah period. ©iStockphoto.com/Anyka
What do people do?
The last day of Chanukah is the eighth day of Chanukah. It is known as Zose Chanukah, Zos Chanukah or Zot Chanukah. It marks the day on which the great miracle of oil occurred, according to Jewish belief. It is a particularly special day because it encapsulates all of Chanukah.
Jewish communities worldwide celebrate Chanukah between the 25th day of the month of Kislev to the second day of the month of Tevet in the Hebrew calendar. Many Jewish people lighting a special Hanukkah menorah, a candelabrum with holders for eight candles, one for each day of celebration, plus a ninth, the shammash or “server”, used to light the others during Chanukah. One candle is lit on the first night, two on the second, three on the third, through to the eighth night when all are lit.

A special prayer is recited during the lighting and while the candles burn it is a time for songs and games, including the four-sided toy called dreidel. Other customs include gift-giving, especially to children, and decorating the home.
Public life
The last day of Chanukah is not a public holiday in Israel but it is the school holiday period. This event is also not a public holiday in countries such as Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Some Jewish schools in these countries and other countries have a vacation period that coincides with Chanukah.
Background
Chanukah commemorates the successful rebellion of the Jewish people against the Syrians in the Maccabean War of 162 BCE, but the military associations of this festival are played down. What is really being celebrated is the survival of Judaism. After the Jewish people's victory they ritually cleansed and rededicated the Temple, then re-lit the menorah or “perpetual lamp”; hence one of the other names for this celebration, the Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah means “dedication” in Hebrew).
The story is told that although there was only enough consecrated oil to keep the lamp burning for one day and it would take eight days to get more, the small bottle of oil miraculously lasted for the entire eight days. It is for this reason that Hanukkah is also known as the Feast of Lights.
Symbols
The eight-branched Chanukah menorah, or candle holder, is an important element that symbolizes the tradition of Chanukah. It relates well with why the holiday is called “the festival of lights”. The menorah is lit from the left side to the right and people say blessings when the menorah is lit. There are many different styles of the menorah – in many cases the ninth holder, known as the shammash (helper candle), is in the middle or to the left side.

The dreidel is a popular toy symbolizing the Chanukah period. It is a spinning top with a different Hebrew letter inscribed in each of its four sides – the four letters form an acronym meaning “a great miracle happened here”. Some popular songs associated with Chanukah in English-speaking countries include “Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel” and “Chanukah, Oh Chanukah”. Some songs in Israel include "Hanukkiah Li Yesh" ("I Have a Hanukkah Menora"), "Kad Katan" ("A Small Jug"), and "S'vivon Sov Sov Sov" ("Dreidel, Spin and Spin"). http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/jewish/last-day-chanukah

Eight Days of Chanukah with Lyrics -Hanukkah Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leemhE6_ayc

The Miracle of the Eighth Day
(A Hanukkah Sermon)
by Jan Vickery Knost

First Parish in Norwell
December 9, 2001
Text: "And they celebrated the rededication of the altar for eight days. And offered burnt offerings with joy and offered a sacrifice of deliverance and praise."
The Apocrypha, 1st Book of Macabees

The Jewish Festival of Hanukkah comes so near Christmas that people want to merge its meaning with the various festivals of light that occur around the same time in the Christian calendar. Notwithstanding the wish for ecumenism, it would be a mistake for us to do so. Truth to tell, the sun does sink lower in the skies each day as we approach the Solstice; it does prompt people to find ways to hope for the sun to return to its zenith. But to mix Hanukkah's celebration with the Solstice, Christmas or Ramadan would be to miss its true meaning.

Hanukkah is a celebration of religious freedom. It commemorates the renewal and the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the year 165 B.C.E.,. three years to the day after it had been profaned by the Syrian King, Antiochus Epiphanes. (IV) His purpose in desecrating that sacred altar was to insult the Jews and drive them into submission.

Let me relate the story again. Antiochus was known to his friends as "Zeus Manifest". He was a dictator. He wanted to bring Greek values to the Jews. He had already accomplished this in other parts of the world. Although he did not care about the religious practices of his peoples, he did insist that they worship the Greek god, Zeus. For the Jewish people he added other demands.

After waging war and finally conquering Jerusalem, Antiochus took firm control. First he sold the position of High Priest of the Temple to the highest bidder. When riots broke out the army was brought in to kill and plunder. The King then made the temple a place no Jew would enter by making it permissable for worshipers to sacrifice swine in praise of the Greek god, Zeus. They were also forced to eat that same meat forbidden by the Jewish Torah. Finally, Jews were forbidden to practice of circumcizing male children.

When the members of the Jewish community condemned the King's action as an abomination, he OUTLAWED the practice of Judaism, a crime punishable by death.

This is what happens when a tyrant does what he or she wishes. It's gone on down through history and it's not nice. On with our story.

In a town near Jerusalem, a Syrian officer demanded that the Jews there make the mandated sacrifice to Zeus. A village priest named Mattathais refused. He killed the officer and fled to the hills. Mattathais died an outcast in the same year of 165 B.C. But his son, Judas Maccabeus, (Who was nicknamed "The Hammer") gathered a band of rebels and began what history has come to call "The Maccabean Revolt". He defeated the general appointed by Antiochus and forced a treaty of peace. Then, on the 25th day of the month of Kislev (Which we know as the month of December), Judas rebuilt the altar of the Temple. He restored it with a Rededication and a Feast of Lights which we call......Hanukkah.

Ever since that time Jews the world over remember that occasion as a reminder of the privilege of being able to practice religious freedom. The Menorah (which holds the candles) is a symbol of the kindling of the light for eight days. And, as we have heard, the ninth candle commemorates the miracle that at the time that the celebration of eight days was ordered, only enough oil was on hand to burn for one night. Miraculously the oil lasted the entire eight days of commemoration, thus the eight blue and white candles.

Now here's what Paul Harvey calls "the rest of the story". The last days of the festival have special importance. In a book titled Jewish Days, Francine Klagsbrun gives us an insight that is a wonderful theme. Hanukkah came to be a festival that was of special importance to women.

Some Jews dedicate the eighth day of Hanukkah to a figure in the story named Judith. Legend has it that she had more courage than all the men in her town. An Apocryphal story apparently written during the Maccabean era - but set in a time centuries earlier - involved the Assyrians. King Nebuchadnezzar sent his general to conquer Judea.

Of course the Jews resisted. So he lays seige to the town. And just when the people are about to surrender, Judith steps forward. She goes to the enemy camp. There she beguiles the general into believing that she can pray to Yahweh and help the general and his troops to subdue Judea. She stays three days, leaving each night to pray. This makes the guards accustomed to her departures.

On the fourth day, the general invites her to a banquet. Since he plans to seduce her, he dismisses his servants. When he is finally drunk and asleep, Judith takes his sword . . . and hacks off his head. With the head in a sack she returns to her home and when the Assyrian army finds its general decapitated, it flees in confusion. Israel wins a great victory and Judith leads the people in dancing and singing praise to Yahweh for defeating the enemy "at the hands of a woman." (Judith 16:6)

The second admirable Biblical theme is about Hannah, daughter of Mattathias and sister of Maccabeus. The Syrians decreed that all Jewish brides must spend their wedding nights with local rulers who raped and shamed them. In rebellion at her wedding feast, Hannah stripped naked before all the guests. When her brother sought to kill her for her wantonness, she demanded that they take up arms against the Syrians to save the honor of all Jewish women. According to the legend, it was Hannah's action which sparked the Maccabean Revolt.

Finally, there is the story of Miriam. It is hard to believe that she is remembered because it was Miriam who encouraged her seven sons to die for their faith. Seven sons. But die they did when they refused to eat pork. Antiochus's men tortured and killed each one of them for this. It is written that when the youngest son's turn came, the King urged his mother, Miriam, to persuade the boy to save himself. Instead she pressed him to follow his brothers' example. Kissing him she whispered, "Say to Father Abraham, `Do not pride yourself on having built an altar and offered up your son Isaac. Our mother built seven altars and offered up seven sons in one day. Yours was only a test but hers was real." With her sons gone, Miriam died, as well. In the Apocryphal Book of Maccabees she is blessed as one "who deserves to be remembered with special honor."

These are only a few themes that are linked with the season of Hanukkah. We need to remember that the faith journey that brought liberal religion to the fore had its roots not only in the Protestant Christian tradition, but in the Judaic tradition, too. So when we celebrate and guard religious freedom we need to remember how Hanukkah serves to remind us of others who fought for it two thousand years before us. So, too, with our sisters and brothers of the Counter-Reformation which began in the 1500's.

So you see, it is not difficult to appreciate some of the more positive elements emerging out of the Judaic tradition. Art, music, poetry, literature, drama and sacrifice were themes lived again and again by our spiritual neighbors of the past.

Today we are free to doubt; to question; to argue; to resist. We recognize no ecclesiastical hierarchy that tells us to do or believe this or that regarding our religious faith. And if we look into Scripture we can find similar parallels written in an effort to describe and to understand the religious aspect of the human condition.

There is no doubt that the troubled times we are in give us no measure of quiet when the Middle East seethes with hatred, vengeance and retaliation. It is not unlike the time when sincere but misguided Christians went to the Holy Land during the Crusades in order to rid the world of the pestilence that threatened Christianity's authority. The politics of the day notwithstanding, I would urge you to accentuate the positive about the season of Hanukkah. Permit it to be another way of remembering how our spiritual mothers and fathers won religious freedom in New England in that time of theocratic autocracy in this free land. Let us remember. Let us remember - with gratitude.

I would close this venture with some lines of poetry written by my friend and colleague, the Rev. Anthony F. Perrino:

I am the Hanukkah-Christmas Spirit
That comes with the month of December:
A winter-solstice spell, perhaps,
When people forget to remember--

The drab realities of fact,
The cherished hurt of ancient wrongs,
The lonely comfort of being deaf
To human sighs and angels' songs.

Suddenly, they lose their minds
To heart's demands and beauty's grace;
And deeds extravagant with love
Give glory to the commonplace.

Amen.
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2011-12-21T03:32:00.000-08:00

Greetings Chabad Hasidism and Relatives of the Lights,
Man is learning to be kind, but gifting is not one of their strong suit. This is the House of David, White Buffalo Calf Woman your Twin Deer Mother and Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star your Father Red Hand.

WE gift to the world every day, but there is no one in the world who can answer questions like we can. We are the living prophecy, the world has been waiting for. We carry the arc of the covenant, the rainbow promise and back this up with mathematical calculations that prove all we share. And it's the Jews who share inherit this knowledge when it is given to those of pure hearts, those true to the Covenant. I (White Buffalo Calf Woman, christal child, only one color of the rainbow clan) am here to answer all the questions people ask. We gift everything away for free, but only need people to ask their questions. We are here to share, but the value of gifting is not noticed by those who think value is something you pay for. We know the greatest gifts are freely given. The difference between us, is that you pay for even the Jews to help out around there, instead of them giving freely. WE are sorry that you are not recognized for your great attributions, but suffering is what we do/dew/cling to, when we share love with the world.

The prophecies are coming true, yet few look for answers in these trying times. The red calf and the white calves are born, yet people do not look for those who come to cleave to the Oneness of God.

Recently we received Jewish hate crimes, because we live on the streets with the Star of David shown on our Motorhome, helping all we can who come our way, locally on foot traffic (knock on our door) and world wide via the internet (knock on our email). We gather on the hoops (elliptical orbital path, relativity) with Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy. We went to the local Jewish center and this is how I was treated.

First and foremost the building was locked and we had to go through an armed guard to get in. The building was a newly built Housing Complex that houses many Jews and their families. We even met a man who was a former neighbor. Who he himself, would not gift an old TV antennae, when we were neighbors many years ago, he wanted $40.00 for it. Holiness David refused for that price we could have gotten one brand new, but he did not know how to give-a-way. So instead he put it in the trash instead of giving it away to his neighbor, the real JEW, the House of David. He had a Jewish Name, and thought he was a Jew, but in fact he was not Jewish at all, not even by lineage or any other way, as many claim to be, the ordained JEWs. Yet he had a job at the new Jewish center. When I was there, I was seeking help locally regarding the hate crimes we were receiving. What people did, about nine or so of them, is when they walked by me, asked me if I had been helped, then walked away. But the person who I was waiting for, just left me there to wait. In other words, I was given lip service and not one person actually helped me. In fact, I didn't see one actual Jew (12 sun lineage present). All had paid jobs. All who were there, were there only for a pay check or paid a fee to be there for housing. No one actually cared about each other.

I had to pray, cry and walk away (because none clung to us with love), from still more suffering even with so much abundance around, because the sadness overwhelmed them. I had to purify the entire arena milieu (protected even by guards,who had not a clue how to protect space, through prayers). Jews are still not forgiving, nor are they really helping each other out in times of need. Today, Holiness David found an article about a world class violinist who spent a few hours playing a 3 million dollar violin freely to the Washington D.C. Metro Subway station. Not one person stopped to listen to him (except children who were dragged away) and he received $32.00 in his open container of donations. Yet he recently played for $100.00 a seat, for a great venue. When he gave it away, it had no value to the people. But when he sold his gifts, he made millions. This is the unfortunate times we live in.

From 2004 to this year 2011 we received four thousand dollars in donations (most given to us by Grandmother Comfort in the Wind and her family, we are able to have some food this year), and that's way below poverty in USA and especially the San Francisco Bay Area (anyone try living on this in the USA, you simply can't). We have little or no food, clothes, water, heat, electricity or safety (police even gift to us hate and discrimination, which is against the law, but little has changed), even when there is a large Jewish Center with great abundance only one block away. We don't even have candles for the Menorah. But because Jews tend to break every law conceivable (they have not forgiven), we know they are not sharing the hearts of man or bringing the laws of God to mankind, but instead walk in separation, rather than in unity. We the House of David (beloved children of the rainbow) celebrate the miracle each and every day. Our abundance relies on LOVE, the LAW.

Chabad says they use only 2% for administrative fees, but from what kind of budget. There is so much hidden. Much forgiveness is needed to be shared together for each other. We will spend another Holiday without fuel, clothing, maybe not even lights (electricity) or even food, because giving away is not the nature of man, but is the nature of heaven. Heaven is on it's way, in a big wave and prophecy is alive, to those who listen to all that lies upon our hearts, our feelings that enlighten us or doom us. We bow to the world and pray the humble hearts will hear our call, for it's time, for true brotherhood to reign.

Chabad gives away knowledge freely and abundantly and thus, you find yourself, without in times of need. These times will continue, because prophecy is living and coming forth. The whole break down of money is about to be shown to the world. Yet, we all deny our own hearts as well as the prophecies and we do not heal our very neighbors, whom we have been waiting for a millennium; brotherhood. This is the House of David (beloved children of the rainbow clan, the house of winds stand), who gift away, all knowledge freely to those who come to receive. Yet few can receive all knowledge when it's given freely and without a fee. We sing the songs that live in the winds, know answers that only the ark of the covenant can share, for the next phase of evolution.

I share this letter with you today, to show you, there is a new way, brotherhood. But learning to shift from money to the golden coin of brotherhood and the great give-a-way, is not known as of yet. I even wonder if anyone will read this email, two persons will, but it will be shuffled away, instead of passed on. However I will be posting this as a blog and it will be shared world wide with others who can receive. How do I know these answers, because I asked and received the answers. I read all the book of life/s, for each being seen or unseen and this frightens people, when they have so much to hide from (their sins). I am a christal child (White Buffalo Calf Woman), the house of David, who brings the greatest gifts freely to the world (the arc/ark of the covenant), which the Jews will someday, carry and teach the world over.

Here is what we can offer, answers for those who ask at Chabad.Org. Interpretations to ceremonies, traditions and meanings to all that is known. For what is sown, has been lost in translations and in here-say (heresy). We know that you have tried to share, what knowledge there is around our times to the people world wide who are able to receive from you. This can help you, as more and more come because of this living prophecy. But it's up to you to cling to true brotherhood. We will await to hear from our relatives.

Here is an example of a blog posted, Happy Hanukkah 2011.
http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-hanukkah-2011.html

WE have interpreted the meaning of the Dridel and the Menorah. This is part of the blog posting.

White Buffalo Calf Woman interprets
(the menorah seven lights of the oil lamp and channukiah for the nine candle candelabrum)
7 seven days of light (a realm, violet, mountain top, all around), then one day sown, the eight 8th day, holiness/wakan (lavender, gate into paradise, love), when there was a storm and yet (faith and love led us through), the 9 ninth candle is known (magenta), where the light shows is blown (blowing, sowing, the greatest light show), the rainbow bridge is grown (all the rainbow clan flowing). We bless the sacred nine directions, we bow to the horn (ring free brotherhood and all the trees of life). Let our voices be known. We are one family, one beloved rite (here/hear we stand), one house of Judah (house of winds), that lead the entire house (all of the beloved leaves on the united tree of life).

(note: In commemoration of this event Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days and a candle is lit on the hanukkiyah on each of those days. One candle is lit the first night, two the second, and so on, until the final night when all the candles are lit. Each of the eight candles is lit with a “helper” candle known as the shamash. The shamash is lit first, is used to light the other candles, and then is returned to the ninth candle spot, which is set apart from the others. "Here I stand uniting heaven with earth, through dance and song, the great caretaker, the magenta color/child, the rainbow bridge dances along. "Shammes" (in Yiddish) or "Shamash" (in Hebrew) Here is the helper who grinds the song and dance, to bring us towards the lights of the realm." White Buffalo Calf Woman sings Rainbow clan cleaves to the covenant upon this land, let the lights shine a miracle is real, for God-brotherhood does heal.)

We have added the Chabad.Org Holiday Alert at the bottom of the blog post to assist in spreading the word of Judaism. But it will take a dedicated person of the soul, who wants profound change to occur in the world. What we say, carries great weight around the world. What God gifts is abundantly sure. It is already written in our hearts. If we continue to deny prophecy, the lights of the menorah will carry no meaning to the entire world. The story only speaks of eight candles, yet, there are nine candles. We trust our hearts, but don't understand the meaning of our own heart. The Ninth candle represents the flowing of the rainbow colors that are showing, where we stand upon that hill, we praise God's coming, abundance that falls down and bows to God's ONENESS. We are brotherhood and it's upon us all.

We gift love and help spread the word of the coming of the dawning, BROTHERHOOD, between ALL NATIONS. We suffer for LOVE, the only law that matters.

your devoted servants,
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Father Red Hand (Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star, lavender child)
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White Buffalo Calf Woman interprets G-d.
G-d (g utterance, ah heavenly -arriving soon-, d transmission). Jews know, heaven has yet to arrive, but prophecy helps them realize, the heaven reigns and sustains, where waves will heal all our pains.

The house of winds, where David reigns comes home to sheen upon the window panes, to envision with hope is not 'no dope' (ridiculed), but true to the dreaming (much rope, tided together, the sacred vines of the Jews), that leads and wheels, one circle that heals. Welcome to the arc/ark of the covenant, the rainbow promise, we of one land, Mother Earth stands.

hanukkah

The Prophet Daniel wrote very clearly about the rise and fall of kingdoms and their relation to Israel. He spoke of men by name, hundreds of years before their birth, before their kingdoms even existed. He also told of the events that bring us the Festival of Hanukkah (lights or rainbow colors), the "Miracle of Lights".

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Happy Hanukkah 2011

2011-12-19T17:53:00.000-08:00

Happy Hanukkah,
Here we flow in the open window, where we envision all that is great in the snow. Here we flow, here we grow where the seed opens all the doors. Here we sow, great big toes, walking tall and forth. Growing wild, with a smile, having faith God knows which door (crystal child). And we find all that slime, only needs a blessing with wine (jubilation), fill my eyes and my soul to be (dream) happy and to grow.

White Buffalo Calf Woman sows, the heavenly open doors. Here we stand, the rainbow clan, leaning on love in the wind. And my soul beckons all the toes, House of David (beloved) grows, overflows. Here our love waits for thee, those who bow with the heart of liberty!

Holiness (King) David Running Eagle shines upon the Shooting Star, lead us home upon the throne, where we are kingsmen each and every one. If we bow and we praise, then the promise will show her (soul) rays. And we become the raging suns, who come forth upon the new land.

King David (root of David is the house of Judah): Judah, your brothers shall praise you (those who share together, breaking bread); your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies (my brother come on in, thine is the glory forever and ever); your father's suns shall bow down to you (for thine is the kingdom of God, the utterance of the heavenly transmission, where the sacred bow brings us all together, as the rainbow clan, the arc/ark of the covenant, the rainbow promise). Judah is a lion's whelp (littlest is the wisest soul); from the prey/pray my son you have gone up (ascended now to descend one again to find the soul in the midst). He couches, he lies down as a lion and as a lion, who dares rouse him up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the rulers staff from between his feet until Shiloh (messianic title where the land is divided equally among all brothers of all nations) comes and to him shall be thee obedience of the peoples (one law, the law of love that binds heaven to earth). He ties his foal to the vine (we are bonded together by vines, all relatives of the rainbow, the foal is representative of the soul, Jew is an intermittent signal and Sioux is a constant signal, together there is language and sharing at the horizon, we are kinsmen of the rainbow clan), and his donkey colt to the choice vine (wiser than the soul, the eldest is ever bold, the branch that reaches out, a returning back to the soul, into the darkness and heavenly stars, those who bow touch all the children of the rainbow); he washes his garments in wine and his robes in the blood of grapes (this is violet, or faith, grapes are the fruit of the intertwining vines, through faith our spirits return to flight of our souls). His eyes are dull from wine (one need not see but sea, the envisioning of dreams, let our hearts flow), his teeth white from milk (calcium allows a flux of intersection of passing by in unity, harmony in movement, here our smiles are shown, because inside the bones are perfect cavities, where red blood cells are born, the crystalline stars who offer life, the oxygen that was transferred twice, an exchange was known and born, a gift, life, hooray to the kingdom of God's rays).

elders of the rainbow on the hoops of the universe,
Grandfather Holy Spirit (white/star child), Grandmother Comfort in the Wind (gray child),
White Buffalo Calf Woman (christal child) and Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star (lavender child)
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Grandmother Comfort in the Wind sings last night in our dreams...speaking to all the children,
"When you get lost" in the hoops of the universe, sing this;

    Separate hooves for separate grooves.
    Bring them home in the storm.
    We are bound to where is sound.
    Make my heart go all around!

The promise of the rainbow, the arc/ark of the covenant
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those of many nations, the beloved children of the rainbow, there is where we stand united as ONE land, blowing through the house of winds, the House of David stands, the beloved clansmen.

White Buffalo Calf Woman interprets
7 seven days of light (a realm, violet, mountain top, all around), then one day sown, the eight 8th day, holiness/wakan (lavender, gate into paradise, love), when there was a storm and yet (faith and love led us through), the 9 ninth candle is known (magenta), where the light shows is blown (blowing, sowing, the greatest light show), the rainbow bridge is grown (all the rainbow clan flowing). We bless the sacred nine directions, we bow to the horn (ring free brotherhood and all the trees of life). Let our voices be known. We are one family, one beloved rite (here/hear we stand), one house of Judah (house of winds), that lead the entire house (all of the beloved leaves on the united tree of life).

Oh Chanukah Oh Chanukah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uil5PSmfgcY

twindeermother We bless the sacred nine directions, the arc/ark of the covenant, the bowing of the sacred family the rainbow clan. Thank you relatives for sharing this song, our hearts feel the waves of sin gone by, but still we forge forth with faith, once again, it's time to sing! We bow, we bless the sacred nine directions, for all of mankind, the rainbow clan!

THE DREIDL SONG with Lyrics- I Had A Little Dreidl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQL55Y2v5Ng

White Buffalo Calf Woman Interprets, Jew, house of david /Sioux, house of lakota

I had a dreidl and made it out of sand and when I tried to spin it, it crumbled out of my hand.
- (sand is the times of the hourglass, the crystalline stones of many splendid colors, not contained, but blowing in the winds, diversity)

I had a dreidl and made it out of air and when I tried to spin it, it simply wasn't even there.
- (air is where the souls linger together, our spirits are not to be cast out, but sown together, the seeds of brotherhood, we can't grasp it, but we can breath it together, breathren one land of God's kingdom)

I had a dreidl and made it out of mud and when I tried to spin it, it stained my Mother's rug.
- (mud is water and clay, often flowing away, washing away of our sins, we are many splendid hues of the Rainbow Mother, each child, each rainbow color, she knows all the stains and forgives us within, where we walk, the rug/rungs/intertwined of our lives)

I had a dreidl and made it out of stone and when I tried to spin it, it nearly broke my bones.
- (stone is the crystalline sun, the child who gifts lessons, in order to find your great treasures, but these are not easy to receive and learn and takes a great measure of love to overcome, because we suffer to know of love)

I had a dreidl and made it out of tin and when I tried to spin it, it simply wouldn't spin.
- (tin is a crystalline metal that cracks easily, but also with stands the elements that flow or glow through, it does not spin, but holds close to standing still, to protect each other, brothers and sisters who share and dare to bee a living dream)

I had a dreidl and made it out of clay and when I tried to spin it, Oh dreidl I shall play.
- (clay is red, where the law is love on the red road, where rainbow colors spin together over the rainbow bridge, to learn about love, through lessons, the dreidl spins, because we are binded/vine together through the rainbow colors, the arc of the covenant, the place our sins begin to be cleansed, to find/seek and shine the inner light of the soul, the heart of wisdom that shows, greatness in walking on our toes, guidance. Torah comes from the word Horo'ah which means guidance for life!)

How to Play Dreidel
A simple game shows significance of Hebrew miracle
By Sarah James

The dreidel is a four sided spinning top with Hebrew letters painted on each side. In places outside of Israel, the letters mean "A Great Miracle Happened There". In Israel the letters mean, "A Great Miracle Happened Here".

The game of Dreidel was popular during the rule of Antiochus, before the Maccabees' revolt. Because Antiochus persecuted the Jews for practicing their religion, Jews would gather in secret to study the Torah and pray. If soldiers were nearby, the Jews would hide their scrolls and pretend to be playing Dreidel.
How to play Dreidel

To play, each player receives a given number of candy or coins. These are used as game pieces. Before the dreidel is spun, players must deposit a fixed amount of their game pieces into the "kupah" or kitty. They players then spin the dreidel and depending on which letters it falls on, one of four events takes place:

    Nun: No win / no lose
    Gimmel: Take all from the "kupah"
    Heh: Take half from the "kupah"
    Peh or Shin: Lose what you've put into the "kupah"

The game continues until all of the players have lost their pieces, or all decided to stop.
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Holiday---Celebration-Recipes/Hanukkah-Recipes/How-to-Play-Dreidel

White Buffalo Calf Woman interprets
Below Light over Darkness means: Pureness over impureness, because heavenly is dark and earthly is light, together Heaven and Earth are known. We bless the sacred nine directions, a light from within. Through the light we sow, we grow and find our souls buried deep within the earth, the golden treasure is known! Follow the end of the Rainbow.
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On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Chabad.org wrote:

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Kislev 23, 5772 · December 19, 2011

Chanukah (Hanukkah)

Light Over Darkness

Chanukah this year is Tuesday evening December 20 - Wednesday, December 28.

Chanukah -- the eight-day festival of light that begins on the eve of the 25th of the Jewish month of Kislev -- celebrates the triumph of light over darkness, of purity over adulteration, of spirituality over materiality.
More than twenty-one centuries ago, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who sought to forcefully Hellenize the people of Israel. Against all odds, a small band of faithful Jews defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land, reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the service of G-d.
When they sought to light the Temple's menorah (the seven branched candelabrum), they found only a single cruse of olive oil that had escaped contamination by the Greeks; miraculously, the one-day supply burned for eight days, until new oil could be prepared under conditions of ritual purity.
To commemorate and publicize these miracles, the sages instituted the festival of Chanukah. At the heart of the festival is the nightly menorah (candelabrum) lighting: a single flame on the first night, two on the second evening, and so on till the eighth night of Chanukah, when all eight lights are kindled.
On Chanukah we also add the Hallel and Al HaNissim in our daily prayers to offer praise and thanksgiving to G-d for "delivering the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few... the wicked into the hands of the righteous."

Chanukah customs include eating foods fried in oil -- latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiot (doughnuts); playing with the dreidel (a spinning top on which are inscribed the Hebrew letters nun, gimmel, hei and shin, an acronym for Nes Gadol Hayah Sham, "a great miracle happened there"); and the giving of Chanukah gelt, gifts of money, to children.

Click here for a comprehensive "How To" guide for the observances and customs of Chanukah

Click here to visit www.Chanukah.org

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May I Find Shalom (Peace) in the Stars Shabbat Sukkot 5771

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Sukkot Prayer of the Temporary Dwellings, "We are the Water Dwelling, where we thirst for the book of knowledge (Book of Life), the House of the Heart, the well of eternal light!"

Yee shall dwell in booths for seven days-Leviticus 23:42 "Let me sing and I will know the Mishnah משנה (oral tradition from the heart) the reverberation of God's breath (flight). I shall sing my voice like a trumpet. I shall praise glory in prayer. I shall know I am embraced within heaven's arms!" Isaiah 12:3 " And you shall draw waters with joy from the wells of salvation".

Starting beating the Sacred Holy Drum, Holiness David Running Eagle

Let me find the stars at night. Let me live a productive life. Let me be a shining star. The day I return home. Let me fill my world with love. Let me show, I'm a pure dove (peace in my heart). Let (me) give my life a way, serving God in every way.

Hear my call. My heart does swell. Hear my call. I am so very near (waves of tears find the shore). And when I find you did go, my heart pitter patter knows. I feel the soul, inside of you, my star does shine, to greet you too.

Let me find the stars at night. Let me remember all this plight. Let me love them anyway. Let me forgive all they didn't pray. I will fill the stars with my love. I will find a hall, god's delightful call. I will feel my heart again. Let us look into the wind.

Hear my call. My savior (relative in the wind) come hold my hand. Relative (swelling heart) hold my hand, I will understand. Give all (tears a river does flow, breathing out, a wind, a gush a know) the tears of God inside, they drop like rivers, stars above.

Hear my name, when the wind, comes near you. feel my heart in the sacred blue. And when I look up in the stars at night (tears rolling down, rolling ,journey over the hills-cheeks we do flow, I sniff, the bridge-nose knows, remembering the trails of tears behind over waves of light to the other side-realm, now we are in heaven) my heart is longing to feel just right.

I look up at you ♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ (space time) ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ stars in the blue ♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ (space time) ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ I know you are out there too!

(silently) ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ Tears a water fall, my heart feels, I'm about to fall, but you catch me. You are there to help me be set free. I'm on a path to heaven's road, to begin again, with my soul. I will unite in thee. I will bring liberty.

Wiping the tears away, I am relieved!

End beating the Sacred Holy Drum, Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star.

Our Blessed "Sukkot, day 6 blessed as a thorn, day 7 mountain horn, day 8 eagle born, day 9 I have flown". Thank you for the love of God (G_d: utterance transmission, G_ah_d: utterance of heavenly transmission, God: Voice of the Oneness, the Rainbow Clan.

Interpretation:
Blessed as a thorn, day 6 (Indigo, Sentry): Life is always full of surprises, sometimes up and sometimes down, but it's a journey, we do explore. We begin to bless the world, to join the crystalline stone river. This is done with fire and water blessings, daily to wash your holy temple. Now reflect upon your soul, the arrow, will help you grow, realize heaven's road. The perfect blessing, crystalline form, protection is known, the warrior is home.

Mountain horn, day 7 (Violet, Outside Gatekeeper): When we are able to speak our voice, pierce the hearts of others with love, and purify the path towards the light and the dark of the growing tree of life, within self and relatives. The voice of Oneness does grow (produce pressure), the strength of a mustard seed, blossoms dreams. Stand upright like a mountain, do good in scriptural ways, the magic of elixirs, just transcends today.

Eagle born, day 8 (Lavender, Garden Gate): This is the path of unity between the soul (song) and the flesh (dance), heaven and earth, macrocosm (big) and microcosm (small) pools of reflection, relative and perspective. This is one who unites, dances fire of joy upon the heart. Love overfloweth, rivers galore, walking into the garden of paradise. Protection is already known. Transcendence come grown. I am the perfect lamb, I belong to you, I unite with love. I am holy and true, I will look after you. "Sacred Gate into Paradise, purifying devotion, a flame cleanses you"

I have flown, day 9 (Magenta, Inside Gatekeeper): Here the breath of life, offers rolling hills, where the sun sets into the arms of heaven and gives birth to the rising sun over the horizon each morning. We dance and sing, we play with all the things. We know joy in our step, in little ways. Our heart feels light, a butterflies flight, with each swell, wave after wave, I do breathe. We protect the world around us, prepare others for battle (uniting separation), but always attentive to the heart, especially, when we gift our part. We listen to your problems, we dance and sing together, we feel the rushing winds, the lights over flow, serve to bow, seek knowledge, ask and know.

Beloved Relatives,
The 12 Lost Tribes (Jacob), representing the rainbow clan by the way, have the perspective from the eastern shore, descending from light, to heaven below. There the cradle of consciousness holds us closer to the world, where our heart and soul thrives. With the final blowing of the Shofar, The Jewish High Holy Days draw to a close and the focus of the Jewish community shifts from the solemnness of Yom Kippur to the jubilant celebration of the festival of Sukkot (vision of the heart). If one drew a circle and divided it in half, with a horizon across. Light above and dark below. On the left, where the horizon greets the edges, we hold the position to the eastern shore. Now this seems backwards, and it is, because we live in a world of reflection.

I was looking at the Hebrew language, as a crystal person, and wondering why I couldn't read it. Then I took a mirror to it, and placed the book upside down. It was upside down and backwards. You still read right to left, but also bottom to top. The Aramaic language is rather been translated over time (images to more like characters), much like Chinese. The more ancient the language is, the more easily, I can read and translate. This is because I can read the star language. And all of the songs we sing are the star language (song above, from your heart or someone). Remember we are all, rainbow clan members, holding the perspective of the same one circle (pie), but we just stand at different points of reference to the center of the path of godly law and love, down the crystalline river, the blessed eventually. Because heaven is the blue road, where heaven is in charge of the law, and it's love. It will be purified, that's the way.

On the eastern shore, descending, we enter heaven's darkness. Here the Mother of Darkness, in which we call her the Great Spirit Mother leads us towards the path of the heart. She never and I mean never turns away to serve her children. She is perfect love. But this is her contribution in the Oneness of God. We all have our purpose. She too has hers. Just as Great Spirit Father has led us and is still leading us into the next millennium (a few more years). We welcome home the Father Nation, the 12 Lost Tribes, to come home, to walk into Great Mother's arm, into heaven. We cleanse our hearts, to greet her love. With pure devotion, we serve her as warriors, who pray, protect and do battle (laws of love), to create a world of harmony, ecstasy and bliss, for her children in paradise.

Someday over the rainbow, dreams come true. Hold on to the pure and devoted, there our hearts will bloom. Protect in prayers each day, bring harmony away. Fight battles to unite all hearts, instead of who's right. The days, will spring wells of love, when we forgive all who try to help out. When we give a royal blue. When we (can) care about you. And it's our hearts, that bloom in spring. We are here, to be every thing, but it's a room outside, where we look at the stars at night. Travelers you and me, over the rolling seas. We find waves of delight, to move mountains of plight. Hear all I (have to) say to you, God gave you that's the truth. Now take your hands, make mountains out of Man! Create rainbows in everyone. They are your relatives and your suns. We are a part of them. We belong to the wind. And in the darkness, of you and me, we enter heaven's heart literally.

Starts beating the Sacred Holy Drum, Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star

Bring in sunshine today! Bring in your heart this day! Hear Holiness come over you, the beat inside that is true, the place you feel in your heart. How glorious is it to do your part. You are greatness, like stars in a sea, above the holy sacred trees, the stars that shine, give me all and make me blind (you are so bright, healing all plight with your love). You are my devoted treasures above, and I will learn to walk like this below, to bring in destiny. to welcome home man, to woman, can you please. It's where Father's light, the sun, does rise, but needs set in each and every night, into a woman's arms. To hold you full of charms (beat my heart, three times). And my love it feels so full. I am embraced, with love, that is real. She comforts me, like heaven's breeze. I am full of delightful waves. I get lost in her comforting rays. She is delightful heart, that gives, without any thought. And my soul it's feeling complete, I have returned home to the deep. The oceans of time. The blew (blue), of my mind.

Now, I come home. Walking towards you. I remember, my soul does too. Creating rainbows, bringing sunshine. That's how, I can be too/two. United soldiers, walking home. Bring love on the phone, spirit talking prayer to me. I hold up the keys (to open the doors into heaven, the song). God feel good in me.

Wake up wonder, Heal like thunder, think I'm in love with the world. Where do I start, where do I leap. Where is my faith to believe? I am a soul, with feeling inside, the darkness realize, and heaven surprise. I am greatness, oh suns do they shine, glory of man, returning home to stand. Warrior(s) returning home to band (Mother says, Warrior you go home!). There she stands waiting at the doorway. There she holds open the gate. There my heart breaks, if I must leave her, but now it's heaven's wake. I am to return to her love again. I travel over the winds. I pray to god for her love. Great Spirit Mother you give us up. (tears swell). And we are grateful for what you did, holding down the fort (woman, the last phase of evolution we depart), while we fought in the wind. Now we come home to you. Now we come home from the blue. Heaven come home straight to you, in your welcoming arms (tears do flow). And it's time for us again, to live with heaven on earth, no more sin. We just share our hearts. We just do our parts. We gain, a new realm, within.

Rainbow do shine, over across the hearts of yours and mine. We have united at last. Even though we struggled with our past. We come home to heaven's roost, the four directions keep us safe, in this noose (circle of life, relatives of plight), but we are home at last, to find a way to blast (purify). Now, it's time to pray, almost everyday. Grateful are we, because we plant the tree. The blossoms do grow, sprout out and drop below, and seeds begin again, to live the cycle of the wind. Bless with smoke, the fire, will reign, purify, all God's children again, we are headed for company, heaven' reigns down on me. And I will be ready in my heart. I will be ready, to impart. Can I find liberty, within this chaos breeze? But if I pray and bless with fire, when Mother knows, all my mires. She will welcome me, but I must bless to be free (literally). I will purify my soul of shame. I will be bond to love again. I will be grateful for this view, Woman, who loves, me, Mother to me and you.

Heaven come home to me! Stars find me in liberty. I pray God set me free. I long to feel harmony. I walk and talk for you, I unite with a modified view. My soul is united to, the flesh of man, with a sacred view. I come home, I bless the stars. I come home, I bless the stars, I come home, I bless to you. I come home, the sacred and treu (relative freedom style).
Sung by White Buffalo Calf Woman and end Sacred Drum by Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star.

Holy Temple and Sanctuary
The Temple in Jerusalem is considered a Holy Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש, Bet HaMikdash ; "The Holy House", refers to a series of structures located on the Temple Mount Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת‎, Har haBáyit), also called the Noble Sanctuary (Arabic: الحرم القدسي الشريف‎, al-haram al-qudsī ash-sharīf).

"May He who causes His name to dwell [shochan, the divine presence] in this House, cause to dwell among you love and brotherliness, peace and friendship" who flock together with thy "neighbor", the seeker of divine wisdom. Thus relatives on the Tree of Life, the Oneness of us all, bring us to the golden path, where dreams come true and are shared in song. This is the house of the divine inner presence of the radiant soul. Here lies the "Shekhinah" (divine presence, of the eternal soul), the royalty of the blue, the "royal residence" of Noble Sanctuary, the Holy Temple of God (buffalo home). You are the image of perfection, the universe of one and part of the universe of oneness (related in space and time). We are the microcosm and macrocosm of the inter-relativeness of all creatures large and small. We journey with relatives, in the sacred blue. And only with divine presence, can we have faith, to know joy, to rejoice. We then can gather and be kingly too. Invite neighbors and share the truth of your dreams today, what you are going to do and how you are going to pray!

During this song, I felt like it would not end with melody, it seemed always to carry an abrupt ending. It felt like falling off a cliff. When we walk in the darkness, we must trust not our eyes, but our hearts. Have faith children of God, pray and bless and you will be protected all the way. Know joy in your heart, yee not toil, but rejoice. This is representative of Shabbat coming from the Hebrew verb shavat, which literally means "to cease." On the seventh day, you shall rest and you shall gather and know joy. Although Shabbat or Sabbath is universally translated as a "period of rest." To reflect upon, the pools of living waters! A more literal translation would be "ceasing", with the implication of "ceasing from work", just like our song above felt. Know joy in your heart, yee not toil, but rejoice. Holiness is known, when the divine presence is living, flowing and blossoming forth, like fountains of joy, over floweth within. This is the roaring sounds of winds that blow or the gentle breeze of rustling leaves, relatives on the tree of life. When we flock together and dwell in the Holy Temple, our soul knows, sanctuary. We share with the stars, to remember, we are together on this journey of life, on the crystalline stone river, the tears that flow and know. The divine presence is upon us , with the darkness of our perfect eternal heavenly soul. The unity of the heavenly soul, the blue road (heavenly dark), cross the red (earthly light, holy temple, in four sacred directions in rainbow colors, often referred to as the buffalo home), and my body is read (perfect book of life, pure in heart), my love is flowing pools of blood (hard work, endure for love, suffering for the ones I love, the relatives of the rainbow clan), rivers of spiritual tears I do know! To make holy and enter paradise, one must walk upon this world, with a heart of gold, singing with rejoice of the heavenly soul).

Again in Song White Buffalo Calf Woman Sings,"The unity of the heavenly soul, the blue road, cross the red and my body is read (book of life is known), my love is flowing pools of blood, rivers of spiritual tears I do know!"

We welcome the divine presence of our heavenly soul, asking for the spirit of the whole (of God), the unity of love, the greatness within, that flows, where heaven knows. We light the candle, to signify, our inner radiance, where there are no more lies, but pure bliss, a heart that is kissed. A light from within does bless, reciting the test of time, with song upon my heart, bringing joy to my heart. Hear, I dwell in my Temple of Love, rainbow colors everywhere. I do flock towards you, my heart is divine with this view of you. I am here, to join with you, every kind, with every view, because I know it's right, when I am part of this strife. I listen to all you say and do, singing with this brand new view, of heavenly delights, the divine right. It's brotherly love, the golden rule, the royal unity of dreams, the path where we reside, eternally. Our heaven, the perfection of love, the blue road, the heart, feels like doves, when peace comes over me, I have come home to feel this breeze. And here I dwell in the Tabernacle (Mishkan משכן "Residence" or "Dwelling Place") of God's bliss, sacred in all the cosmic dust, the inner world of love, I know it's heaven's road. I am a residence of Golden fields, abundance that is really real. The Stronghold, the Oneness of God, the mishcan (waking dead, spirit lives from this residence, rebirth), my dwelling place, the rainbow colors, the holy temple which houses the soul, the heartbeat of heaven knows. My heart lives with divine presence of my soul, in the wind, the waters of everything. Through prayer, my heart, the worship of brotherly love, I am golden with a crown (ahau, aho, my spirit flies), the place I make my sound, the song from up on high, I am an Angel in disguise.

I enter Shabbat (holy day), to rest my soul, to bring reflection of inner light, a mountain, I do stand, ready to command! My soul from heaven watches over the land (holy tabernacle, the footstool, the day of rest and rejoice of the returning soul), the rainbow colors rest be still. Listen to the wind, let prayer allow God's will in. Let me receive my soul's desire, to serve all the while. I will share my joy. I will know golden toil (joy). And after six days of creation in me, the sacred blessings, the star of David relieves, we house the perfect form, the crystalline norm. Prayers, build a house that is strong, to stand up, to the seventh house (the voice of god), the winds of time, the tears do chime (bell of freedom). The voice of God is raised up high, to bring in stories, that need a chide, sow we assemble our love, we commune like doves. We reflect all we do and say, reverberation all the way, as we unify our hearts, we build castles in the sky. Temporary means eternally, in a circle among the leaves, our relatives of stairs, the house of Jacob, knows where! Let us shine our inner light, cease laborious, no toil at all, but live in joy. Divine presence of heaven, the soul. A river of gold, of brotherly love. A crystalline shore, a living rainbow, where all we do, is real and knew, the place, our soul does reside, the living waters of heaven survives. Know joy in your heart, yee not toil, but rejoice for it's God's will.

Sung by White buffalo calf woman, your Twin Deer Mother, elder crystal person!

The purpose of the temporary dwelling, reminding us we are a traveler. The Jews, escaping Egypt and wandering the desert for forty years, living in tents as wanderers in temporary dwellings. 40 years is representative of a complete four sides of our rainbow colors, your sacred four directions, and the wind of eternal life (zero) representing the stream of all life, the crystalline river of heaven that binds us all together eternally. We talk the blue road, the song of heaven. We look into the stars, to remember the returning journey home. The 12 Lost tribes share with you, the journey of life, we all have used. Because we all carry four sacred directions of rainbow colors, we are called the sun or a dance, when the sun goes down at night, at the horizon a rainbow of colors appear. We enter the darkness of heaven. This is why all celebration begin when we enter darkness, each day starts here for the Lost tribes. This is to show us the way home from the light of man, to the darkness of our heaven. This is our soul, beginning to unite and realize, acquire eternal wisdom, with prayer when we know how to move in the winds of heaven. The laws of love always dictates how we are to journey. We are grateful of our body, in the physical world of light, when we come home to the eternal soul, the darkness, where our hearts leap with joy.

The whole purpose of the festival of Sukkot is to look up into the stars return home to your heavenly soul and become a moral, productive, happy, united clan of rainbow colors. We are then ready to have the "Eighth Day of Assembly" (Shemini Atzeret), which follows immediately after to help us enter realization, that we can be heaven on earth, and it's through holiness, and the purification of prayers and blessings, receiving the divine presence of your soul, allows you to walk into the loving arms and embrace of paradise. You walk into the garden where flowers are in bloom, and love springs up and wells of delight, fill our thirst within. We begin to understand, wealth, knowledge and destiny of the royal blue path. Dreams of these treasures, welcome us home to the third phase of evolution.

This is the houseofthebeloved, Star of David, blessing you for the night, the day, the journey, the way, the heart, the path, the dash, the motion of twinkling stars, who dance. Welcome home Rainbow Clan, for the sacred nine directions command, the halls of consciousness is built on the laws of song filled with dance. Let us reverberate the light, rainbow colors delight, my tears lead me home, where my soul remembers the throne! Kingsmen, I do know, for I am of this royal glow. Love let it grow, blossom, heaven's door . Point to your heart, that's the way, our soul is divine and now you let it shine, "I am a Sun Dance, from the Rainbow Clan."

I give you a Dime, understand call home! Embrace of the sky, let me hear your song, send a prayer in the wind and it's eternally round, the spiraling sound, the circle of life grows, flourishes with laws of love, a perfect world, heaven on earth is known. Welcome to the third yellow rolling hill in time, the dawning, where Holy and Sacred will be our Home!

your devoted servants,
White Buffalo Calf Woman and Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star.
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The Sukkah is the temporary dwellings of the rainbow colors, the physical light that shines, where rivers of bounty flow, eternally knows/nose (bridge between realms).
Nisuch HaMayim נסוך המים literally "pouring of the water" or Water Libation Ceremony, the sacred blessing of the unity with the Suns!
V'ahavta: Assert the oneness of God's kingship. Command: To love God with all one's heart, soul and might and to remember and teach these very important words to the children throughout the day. Obey these commands will lead to rewards. To ensure fulfillment God also commands wearing the tzitzit, "that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. Follow the Blue Road to Heaven, with your heart!"
Shema means "what is", in Chinese, or what is truth, knowledge, the way of the torah, with Emet or Truth to the end of prayer. "Blessed be the Name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever", was originally a congregational response to the declaration of the Oneness of God; an undertone (lift me up, I stand up, a voice does ring, I am free to know everything).
Shemini Atzeret שמיני עצרת "the Eighth day of Assembly is celebrated on the 22nd day of tishri, to build heaven on earth, theunited fields. Golden rays of brotherhood, with sisterhood in song.
The Temple Mount acts as the figurative "footstool" of God's presence or the hebrew word "shechina" in the physical world."
Sukkot, the nine-day Festival of Booths, concludes with a special two-day holiday. The first of these days is known as Shemini Atzeret, meaning "the eighth day of assembly" (day of holiness, sacred unity), and the final day is Simchat Torah, meaning "the joy of Torah" (to seek wisdom, living rivers of gold).

John 7
2 Feast of Tabernacles was at hand. In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus (Yeshua, a christal person) stood and cried saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink."

He is saying "fly to my soul, let me tell you more".

This is the seeker, who knocks on the door, for the christal (crystal) person is heaven's mirror to your soul, who better knows (than your twin soul/heart). Come bring your thirst for knowledge to flow, restoring all within always to grow. Come sit have a drink with me. Let us share brotherly love, the golden cup, we dare to sea.

Forever free!

John 7
38 "He that believeth on me", as the scripture hath said, "out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."

Connected to space and time, Grandmother helps us chime, to know freedom again, to swell within. Come bring your spirit high, above let it fly (over waves of rainbow colors, our rolling hills in time), up into the winds (facing life head on, feeling it all), bringing us back to begin (the circle of life). And at birth we always know, the button of the falsetto (belly button where the spirit flies, reverberation and echo of heaven's embrace, turn it on the heart beat of unity), the place I sing, the place my tears do dream. I am the realization of everything, my heart,my soul, my wind, my prayers do sing, the heart of everything. And I'm a part of this river of love, especially when I fly above, in heaven's arms, perfect stars that charm!

I am the tears that reign/rain, along the blue road again. I travel to and fro, over oceans of more/moor. I remember my heart, the heavenly path of the soul, I always start and complete my life. Forever, I gift my strife.

My spirit flies!

Article written and sung by White Buffalo Calf Woman, elder crystal person. Articles below contains works of other authors, which contribute to this article. I have made occasional references below, and have collaborated to support your understanding of heaven's home, the blue road, the winds that blow.There maybe a bit of repetition, but hopefully not too much. I give praise to my relatives and bless their holy temple nine sacred directions. Thank you for the love of God, our return home to the heart "Sukkot, day 6 blessed as a thorn, day 7 mountain horn, day 8 eagle born, day 9 I have flown".

Sukkot will occur on the following days of the Gregorian calendar:

    * Jewish Year 5771: sunset September 22, 2010 - nightfall September 29, 2010
    * Jewish Year 5772: sunset October 12, 2011 - nightfall October 19, 2011
    * Jewish Year 5773: sunset September 30, 2012 - nightfall October 7, 2012
    * Jewish Year 5774: sunset September 18, 2013 - nightfall September 25, 2013

During Sukkot, a Jewish celebration, for four winds (40), the direction of wandering and freedom, the Hadass or the boughs from the Mrytle tree (relatives on the tree of life) are used to create temporary shelter for the night, to glean and gather some stones, the last remnants gazing at the stars. The North gate looks out to the fruitful land of Ephraim, which means doubly fruitful (Jew and Gentile, Earthly and Heavenly, Soul and Flesh, in other words, united with the Blue, the road to heaven, relatives to me and you, all leaves on the Oneness Tree of Life). This Sun's view point represent the North-Eastern perspective of the Oneness, where the light is at it's fullest, the Sun does shine, without, or upon light of Earth (reflection and shadow). This place, begins to rise, like a star in heaven, to twinkle in the night sky. Here in the darkness, Heaven emerges within. We call this the Bear (Star) that Shines, the united four directions (white or star person, or united four direction).

And while on route, our journey of life (deer), we build a home for a night, to look into to the sky, our heavens. This journey is celebrated, in our hearts, each year in commemoration, to honor memory of the yearly pilgrimage, to become the wind. This journey offers us unity with heaven. We join not only in spirit, but in flesh. Here the blue road (soul, dark), has crossed the red road (flesh, light), where dreams come true (yellow), to shine like a star in heaven (white). Our return and journey home (temporary shelter), reminds us, how grateful we are, to experience the "Greatness of our Lives". And as the sun rises, morning prayers lift us up, to shine again, until we return to our heaven once more! Traveling the circle of the eternal winds, do blow...(excerpt from alightfromwithin.org http://sacredsongblessings.blogspot.com/2010/09/esta-shares-dance-of-fair-festival-of.html)

Title: Sukkot, Type: Oil, Dimensions:
Width/Height (in inches) 60/48, Year: 2004

This painting fuses images and words from the Sukkoth Torah reading and two competing Sukkoth apocalyptic Haftorah readings from Zecharia and Ezekiel. According to both Zechariah and Ezekiel in the end of days (Acharit Hayamim), the apocalypse or Armageddon will occur on Sukkoth. According to Zechariah’s vision, Jerusalem will be saved from its attacking enemies who will be converted to Judaism so that on that day “the Lord shall be one and his name one”. All the surviving remnants of all the nations will come to Jerusalem to celebrate Sukkoth. In Ezekiel’s vision the apocalyptic armies of Gog and Magog descend upon Jerusalem, and are then decisively defeated by G-d thus ushering in the messianic age.

The painting portrays Moses (representing all of Israel) with the Ten Commandments (the Torah) being protected from the armies of Gog and Magog, and from the descending apocalyptic rain, fire and brimstone, by the hand of G-d which is formed by the lulav’s myrtle branches. God’s outstretched translucent veiled hand also represents the traditional roof (sechach) of the sukka above Moses’ head. G-d is further portrayed as a lulav with a burning face telling Moses that he is not allowed to see the face of G-d, and live. G-d places Moses in the crack of a rock, allowing Moses to view God’s back, portrayed as the spined stalk of the lulav.

The painting portrays the Gog and Magog soldiers carrying lulavs or sporting Sukka head gear in a very unconventional and disrespectful way, as they are being defeated by G-d’s descending rain, fire and brimstone. The armies consist of Assyrians, Egyptians, German Nazis and other historical enemies of Israel, who in the end of days after their defeat march toward Jerusalem to celebrate Sukkoth. The images of Gog and Magog goose-step marching soldiers have been inspired by the archeologically excavated victory Stele of Naram-Sin (Akkad, 2159-2133 B.C.). Thank you http://www.nahumhalevi.com/sukkot.html Email nmosk @nahumhalevi.com.

Sukkot and Simchat Torah

A great explanation on the celebration marking the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle. Simchat Torah is a component of the Biblical Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret ("Eighth Day of Assembly"), which follows immediately after the festival of Sukkot in the month of Tishrei (mid-September to early October on the Gregorian calendar).

The Final Days of Sukkot:
Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah

Shemini Atzeret 2010: Wednesday September 29
Simchat Torah 2010: Thursday September 30

Sukkot, the nine-day Festival of Booths, concludes with a special two-day holiday. The first of these days is known as Shemini Atzeret, meaning "the eighth day of assembly", and the final day is Simchat Torah, meaning "the joy of Torah". This joyful time has a number of special traditions associated with it, including:

Tefilat HaGeshem

Sukkot marks the conclusion of the harvest in Israel, and Shemini Atzeret welcomes in the beginning of the rainy season. In synagogue, a special prayer for rain, known as Tefilat Geshem, is recited.

Hakafot

In synagogue, Jews consecutively read aloud a portion of the Torah (Five Books of Moses) every week, reading the entire holy book each year. On Simchat Torah, the final passage of the Torah is read, immediately followed by the first passage, creating an unbroken cycle of Torah. To celebrate this auspicious and joyful occasion, worshippers participate in processions known as Hakafot. During these hakafot, people joyfully dance and sing while carrying the Torah scrolls.

Aliyot

An aliyah is a special honor in which members of the synagogue are called up to bless the Torah before it is reading. Typically there are seven aliyot during the reading of the Torah portion; on Simchat Torah, however, synagogues will repeat the readings over and over again, giving as many people as possible the opportunity to be honored by reciting these blessings.

Sitting in the Sukkah

Throughout the week, Jews traditionally eat their meals in the sukkah. Some even sleep there! During the final days of Sukkot, one is not obligated to eat in the sukkah. If one does eat in the sukkah on Shemenei Atzeret, he or she is not required to say the traditional blessing over sitting the sukkah.

Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah in Israel

In the Diaspora, Jews celebrate two separate, but attached days at the end of the Sukkot holiday: Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. In Israel, however, there is only a one-day holiday at the end of Sukkot, and the traditions of both Simchat Torah and Shemini Atzeret are combined into this day. Thank you http://www.holidays.net/sukkot/simchat_torah.htm

The Four Species (Hebrew: ארבעת המינים, Arba'at Ha-Minim, also called Arba Minim) are three types of branches and one type of fruit which are held together and waved in a special ceremony during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The waving of the Four Species is a mitzvah prescribed by the Torah, and contains symbolic allusions to a Jew's service of God.

The Four Species are:
    * Lulav (לולב) – a ripe, green, closed frond from a date palm tree
    * Hadass (הדס) – boughs with leaves from the myrtle tree
    * Aravah (ערבה) – branches with leaves from the willow tree
    * Etrog (אתרוג) – the fruit of a citron tree

Practice
The mitzvah of waving the Four Species derives from the Torah. In Leviticus, it states: “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day [of Sukkot], the fruit of the beautiful [citron] tree, tightly bound branches of date palms, the branch of the braided [myrtle] tree, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days.”[1] During the time of the Temple in Jerusalem, the waving ceremony (called na'anu'im – נענועים) was performed in the Holy Temple on all seven days of Sukkot, and elsewhere only on the first day. Following the destruction of the Temple, Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai ordered that the Four Species be waved everywhere on every day of Sukkot (except on Shabbat), as a memorial to the Temple.

To prepare the species for the mitzvah, the lulav is first bound together with the hadass and aravah (this bundle is also referred to as "the lulav") in the following manner: One lulav is placed in the center, two aravah branches are placed to the left, and three hadass boughs are placed to the right. (This order is the same for both right-handed and left-handed people.[2]) The bundle may be bound with strips from another palm frond, or be placed in a special holder which is also woven from palm fronds.

Sephardic Jews place one aravah to the right of the lulav and the second aravah to its left, and cover them with the three hadass boughs—one on the right, the second on the left, and the third atop the lulav's spine, leaning slightly to the right. The bundle is held together with rings made from strips of palm fronds. Many Hasidic Ashkenazi Jews follow this practice as well.

In all cases, all of the species must be placed in the direction in which they grew. (For the etrog, this means that the stem end should be on the bottom and the blossom end on top; this is the direction in which the etrog begins to grow, though as it matures on the tree it usually hangs in the opposite direction.)

Reciting the blessing The waving the Four Species during Hallele Four Species during Hallel

To recite the blessing over the lulav and etrog, the lulav is held in one hand and the etrog in the other. Right-handed users hold the lulav in the right hand and the etrog in the left. The customs for those who are left-handed differ for Ashkenazim and Sephardim. According to the Ashkenazi custom, the lulav is held in the left hand, and according to the Sephardi custom, in the right hand.[3]

According to Sephardi custom, the blessing is said while holding only the lulav and the etrog is picked up once the blessing is completed. According to Ashkenazi custom, before the blessing is said, the etrog is turned upside-down, opposite the direction in which it grows. The reason for these two customs is that the blessing must precede the performance of the mitzvah. Should all the species be held in the direction in which they grew, the mitzvah would be fulfilled before the blessing is recited.

After reciting the blessing, "Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to take the lulav" (the "Shehecheyanu" blessing is also recited the first time each year that one waves the lulav and etrog), the etrog is turned right side up (or picked up), and the user brings his or her two hands together so that the etrog touches the lulav bundle. The Four Species are then pointed and gently shaken three times toward each of the four directions, plus up and down, to attest to God's mastery over all of creation.

The waving ceremony can be performed in the synagogue, or in the privacy of one's home or sukkah, as long as it is daytime. Women and girls may also choose to perform the mitzvah of waving the lulav and etrog, although they are not required by Halakha to do so. Because women are not required to perform this mitzva, some are of the opinion that Sephardi women do not need to recite the blessing. [1]

The waving is performed again (though without the attendant blessings) during morning prayer services in the synagogue, at several points during the recital of Hallel.

Additionally, in the synagogue, Hallel is followed by a further ceremony, in which the worshippers join in a processional around the sanctuary with their Four Species, while reciting special supplications (called hoshaanot, from the refrain hosha na, "save us"). From the first through the sixth day of Sukkot, one complete circuit is made; on Hoshanah Rabbah, the seventh and last day of Sukkot, seven complete circuits are made. As the Four Species are not used on Shabbat, there are variant customs as to whether hoshaanot are said and a circuit made on that day.

Selecting the Four Species: While all mitzvot should be performed in the best manner possible, hiddur mitzvah (beautifying the mitzvah) especially applies to the Four Species. The halacha is explicit on what constitutes the "best" in each species.[4] To that end, people will spend large amounts of money to acquire the most perfect etrog, the straightest lulav, and the freshest hadass and aravah. Usually a father will buy several sets of the Four Species to outfit his sons, as well. Another custom for hiddur mitzvah is to, depending on your custom of wrapping lulav and esrog, is to have more than two aravos and three haddasim. Some people have the custom to have as many as 40 extra haddassim and aravos.

Hiddur mitzvah applies to all mitzvot, but its absence does not impede the mitzvah from being performed. For the Four Species specifically, there is a further "technical" requirement of hadar (beauty), which does impede the mitzvah of the Four Species from being performed. Despite their similar names and details, these two requirements are distinct from one another. [2]

Symbolism: Several explanations are offered as to why these particular species were chosen for the mitzvah. The Midrash[5] notes that the binding of the Four Species symbolizes our desire to unite the four "types" of Jews in service of God. An allusion is made to whether or not the species (or their fruits) have taste and/or smell, which correspond to Torah and good deeds. The symbolism is as follows:

    * The lulav has taste but no smell, symbolizing those who study Torah but do not possess good deeds.
    * The hadass has a good smell but no taste, symbolizing those who possess good deeds but do not study Torah.
    * The aravah has neither taste nor smell, symbolizing those who lack both Torah and good deeds.
    * The etrog has both a good taste and a good smell, symbolizing those who have both Torah and good deeds.

A second explanation[6] finds the four species alluding to parts of the human body. Each of the species or its leaves is similar in shape to the following organs:

    * Lulav – the spine
    * Hadass – the eye
    * Aravah – the mouth
    * Etrog – the heart

By binding them together for a mitzvah, the Jew shows his desire to consecrate his entire being to service of God.

An additional reason for waving the Four Species in all directions alludes to the fact that all these species require much water to grow. The lulav (date palm) grows in watered valleys, hadass and aravah grow near water sources, and the etrog requires more water than other fruit trees. By taking these particular species and waving them in all directions, the Jew symbolically voices a prayer for abundant rainfall for all the vegetation of the earth in the coming year.

Other interpretations: The mitzvah is derived from the Book of Leviticus: "And you shall take for yourself on the first day the fruit of goodly (meaning of Hebrew uncertain, but modern Hebrew "citrus") trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook" (Lev. 23:40). The use to which these species are to be put is not indicated; this gave rise to divergent interpretations at a later time. Two breakaway sects, the Sadducees and the Karaites, maintained that they were meant for building the sukkah, as would appear from Neh. 8:14-18, while their opponents contended that they were to be carried in the synagogue procession. http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Four+Species

Sukkot
Sukkot (Hebrew: סוכות or סֻכּוֹת, sukkōt ; "booths", also known as Succoth, Sukkos, Feast of Booths or Feast of Tabernacles), is a Biblical pilgrimage festival that occurs in autumn on the 15th day of the month of Tishri (late September to late October). The holiday lasts 7 days. Outside the land of Israel, many people continue to sit in the Sukkah (temporary dwellings, the rainbow colors) on the following day, Shemini Atzeret. In Judaism it is one of the three major holidays known collectively as theShalosh Regalim (three pilgrim festivals), when historically the Jewish populace traveled to the Temple in Jerusalem.

The Three Pilgrimage Festivals, known as the Shalosh Regalim (שלוש רגלים), are three major festivals in Judaism — Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Pentecost), and Sukkot (Tabernacles) — when the Israelites living in ancient Israel and Judea would make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, as commanded by the Torah. In Jerusalem, they would participate in festivities and ritual worship in conjunction with the services of the kohanim ("priests") at the Temple in Jerusalem.

After the destruction of the Temple, the actual pilgrimage is no longer obligatory upon Jews, and no longer takes place on a national scale. During synagogue services the related passages describing the holiday being observed are read aloud from a Torah scroll on the Bimah (platform) used at the center of the synagogue services. During the Jewish holidays in modern-day Israel, many Jews living in or near Jerusalem make an effort to attend prayer services at the Western Wall "emulating" the ancient "pilgrimages" in some small fashion.

The Sukkah

The word Sukkot is derived from the Hebrew word sukkah, meaning booth or hut. During this holiday, Jews are instructed to build a temporary structure in which to eat their meals, entertain guests, relax, and even sleep. The sukkah is reminiscent of the type of huts in which the ancient Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of wandering in the desert after the Exodus from Egypt, and is intended to reflect God's benevolence in providing for all the Jews' needs in the desert.

The sukkah is a temporary structure used for meals throughout the holiday. Its walls can be made from any material, including wood, canvas, plaster or regular walls of glass or metal, but its roof must be of organic material that is detached from the ground. The decor of the interior of the sukkah may range from totally unornamented to lavishly decorated.

The Four Species

On each of the seven days of Sukkot, the Torah requires the Jew to take Four Species of plants and to grasp and shake them in a specific manner. These species are: the lulav (date palm frond),hadass (bough of a myrtle tree), aravah (willow branch)— these three are actually bound together and collectively referred to as the lulav—and the etrog (a citron, a lemon-like citrus fruit). These plants are usually sold in religious communities during the days preceding the festival. However, in some Reform communities where these plants are not available locally, other plants such as reeds are substituted for one or more of the four species.

The Four Species are waved as follows: The first three species are held in the right hand, while thee trog is held in the left hand. The user holds his or her hands apart while saying the special blessing,"Blessed are You, God our Lord, King of the Universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to take the lulav". Then the user brings his or her hands together so that the etrog touches the lulav bundle, and points and gently shakes the Four Species three times in each of the four directions, as well as up and down. Symbolically, this ceremony is a prayer for adequate rainfall for all the vegetation of the earth in the coming year.

In Orthodox circles, the mitzvah of waving the lulav and etrog is mandatory each day of Sukkot (except Shabbat) for men and boys over the age of bar mitzvah. Although women are not obligated to wave the lulav and etrog, they may do so if they choose, and traditionally, Orthodox women are considered to have taken the obligation upon themselves and perform it as their male counterparts. In Conservative and Reform circles, all Jews over the age of Bar or Bat Mitzvah perform the waving ceremony.

Sukkot laws and customs

In modern day Israel (and among Reform Jews), Sukkot is a 7-day holiday, with the first day celebrated as a full festival with special prayer services and holiday meals. Outside the land of Israel, the first two days are celebrated as full festivals. The remaining days are known as Chol HaMoed ("festival weekdays"). The seventh day of Sukkot is called Hoshanah Rabbah and has a special observance of its own.

Prayers

Prayers during Sukkot include the reading of the Torah every day, saying the Mussaf (additional) service during morning prayers, reading the Hallel and adding special supplications into the Amidah and grace after meals. On the first day of Sukkot (the first two days, outside of Israel), the prayer services are extended and similar to those of Shabbat. Hallel (Hebrew: הלל‎ "Praise [God]" is part of Judaism's prayers, a verbatim recitation from Psalms 113-118, which is used for praise and thanksgiving that is recited by observant Jews on Jewish holidays. Hallel consists of six Psalms (113-118), which are said as a unit, on joyous occasions. It is usually chanted aloud as part of Shacharit (the morning prayer service) following the Shacharit's Shemoneh Esreh ("The Eighteen", the main prayer). It is also recited during the evening prayers the first night of Passover.) Psalms • תהילים (Tehilim)'' Psalm 23 • Psalm 51 • Psalm 67 • Psalm 74, Psalm 83 • Psalm 89 • Psalm 91 • Psalm 95,• Psalm 98 • Psalm 100 • Psalm 103,• Psalm 104 • Psalm 109 • Psalms 113-118 Psalm 119 • Psalm 130 • Psalm 137

• Psalm 151 • Psalms 152–155 Complete Psalms 1–150

Muktza

Many of the laws of Muktza that apply on Shabbat also apply on Sukkot, such as the prohibition of engaging in commerce, lighting a fire, and completing an electric circuit. Other Shabbat prohibitions, however, are relaxed. With various differences based on one's religious orientation, one is permitted to cook (so long as the fire is pre-existing), smoke (again, so long as the fire is pre-existing), and carry material things beyond the home or eruv boundaries ("an eruv" frequently refers to this symbolic "fence," (actually "doorframe/s") rather than the eruv itself. However, the term eruv actually refers to the process of sharing ownership within the enclosed domain.)

The relaxed rules derive from the specific tasks and duties that were permitted to be done on Sukkot in the Beit HaMikdash (Holy Temple) that were otherwise forbidden on Shabbat.

Sukkah in Herzliya

The applicable rules of Muktza only apply on the first day of Sukkot for those in Israel, and the first two days outside of Israel. For the remaining five days, known as Chol HaMoed (see below) other rituals are practiced, but Muktza does not apply.

General Concept of Muktza: Muktza is essentially a restriction on objects that were not 'prepared' before the Sabbath. The absence of prepairedness in this sense means that the vast majority of people would not expect to use this particaular item or substance on Shabbat.

Categories: There are four main categories of muktza, each one with different halakhic ramifications:

Muktza Mahmat Gufo – An object or substance not designed or prepared for any use (sometimes referred to as not having a 'torat keli').
Keli she'Melakhto le'Isur – An object that is used most of the time for activities prohibited on Shabbat (e.g. a pencil - writing is forbidden on Shabbat).
Muktza Mahmat Hisaron Kis – An object that is a Keli she'Melakhto le'Isur and that the owner of which is strict not to use it in any other way for fear of potential damage (e.g. a guitar-its use is prohibited on Shabbat and most people would not use it as a stepping stool).
Basis le-Davar he-Asur – an object on which a muktza object was placed before Shabbat (e.g. a table on which candlesticks were placed before Shabbat).

When the first day or Sukkot falls on Shabbat (or one of the first two days outside of Israel), the greater restrictions of Shabbat take effect. As a practical matter, on Shabbat, the rituals and blessings over the Four Species are not performed.

Chol HaMo'ed

The second through seventh days of Sukkot (third through seventh days outside the land of Israel) are called Chol HaMo'ed (חול המועד - lit. "festival weekdays"). These days are considered by Halakha to be more than regular weekdays but less than festival days. In practice, this means that all activities that are needed for the holiday—such as buying and preparing food, cleaning the house in honor of the holiday, or traveling to visit other people's sukkahs or on family outings—are permitted by Jewish law. Activities that will interfere with relaxation and enjoyment of the holiday—such as laundering, mending clothes, engaging in labor-intensive activities—are not permitted. Observant Jews typically treat Chol HaMo'ed as a vacation period, eating nicer than usual meals in their sukkah, entertaining guests, visiting other families in their sukkahs, and taking family outings.

On the Shabbat which falls during the week of Sukkot (in the event when the first day of Sukkot is on Shabbat, the Book of Ecclesiastes (seasons of time) is read read during morning synagogue services in Israel. (Diaspora communities read it the following Shabbat). This Book's emphasis on the ephemeralness of life ("Vanity of vanities, all is vanity...") echoes the theme of the sukkah, while its emphasis on death reflects the time of year in which Sukkot occurs (the "autumn" of life). The second to last verse reinforces the message that adherence to God and His Torah is the only worthwhile pursuit.

Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה ; alternate transliterations include Halocho and Halacha) is the collective body of Jewish religious law, including biblical law (the 613 mitzvot) and later talmudic and rabbinic law, as well as customs and traditions. Judaism classically draws no distinction in its laws between religious and ostensibly non-religious life. Hence, Halakha guides not only religious practices and beliefs, but numerous aspects of day-to-day life. Halakha is often translated as "Jewish Law," though a more literal translation might be "the path" or "the way of walking." The word is derived from the Hebrew root that means to go or walk.

Hakhel

In the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, all Jewish men, women, and children on pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the festival would gather in the Temple courtyard on the first day of Chol HaMo'ed Sukkot to hear the Jewish king read selections from the Torah. This ceremony, which was mandated in Deuteronomy 31:10-13, was held every seven years, in the year following the Shmita (Sabbatical) year. This ceremony was discontinued after the destruction of the Temple, but it has been revived by some groups and by the government of Israel on a smaller scale.

Deuteronomy (Greek deuteronomion, Δευτερονόμιον "second law") is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible and of the Old Testament. In form it is a set of three sermons delivered by Moses reviewing the previous forty years of wandering in the wilderness; its central element is a detailed law-code by which the Children of Israel are to live in the Promised Land.

In theological terms the book constitutes a covenant between Yahweh, the God of Israel, and the "Children of Israel"; this is the culmination of the series of covenants which begins with that between Yahweh and all living things after the Flood (Genesis 9). One of its most significant verses constitutes the shema* ("Hear, O Israel, the Lord (YHWH) is our God, the Lord (YHWH) alone!"), which today serves as the definitive statement of Jewish identity.

The Children of Israel, Bani Israil (بني اسرائيل) in Arabic or B'nei Yisrael (בני ישראל) in Hebrew B'nai Yisrael, B'nei Yisroel or Bene Israel) is a Biblical term for the Israelites. It is also an alternate way of referring to the people known as Hebrews or Jews. In the Torah, the literal children of Israel are the twelve sons of Jacob (also named Israel). The Children of Israel are also known as the Twelve Tribes. (also The phrase "Children of Israel" (or "Sons of Israel") refers to the offspring of the Biblical patriarch Jacob, who was renamed "Israel" after he triumphed in a wrestling match with a mysterious adversary. The name "Israel" in English means "Struggles with God". Jacob's twelve sons were the progenitors of the biblical Twelve Tribes of Israel. The Torah refers to them alternatively as the "children of Jacob" and the "children of Israel." After their descendants multiplied during their exile in ancient Egypt, the Bible continues to refer to them as the "Children of Israel."

*Shema Yisrael (or Sh'ma Yisroel or just Shema) (Hebrew: שמע ישראל; "Hear, [O] Israel") are the first two words of a section of the Torah (Hebrew Bible) that is used as a centerpiece of all morning and evening Jewish prayer services and closely echoes the monotheistic message of Judaism. It is considered the most important prayer in Judaism, and its twice-daily recitation is a mitzvah (religious commandment).

The term "Shema" is used by extension to the whole part of the daily prayers that commences with Shema Yisrael and comprises Deuteronomy 6:4–9, 11:13-21, and Numbers 15:37–41 These are in the weekly Torah portions: Eikev, VaEtchannan, and Shlach respectively.

History: Originally, the Shema consisted only of one verse: Deuteronomy 6:4 (see Talmud Sukkot 42a and Berachot 13b). The recitation of the Shema in the liturgy, however, consists of three portions: Deuteronomy 6:4–9, 11:13–21, and Numbers 15:37–41. These three portions relate to central issues of Jewish belief.

Additionally, the Talmud points out that subtle references to the Ten Commandments can be found in the three portions. As the Ten Commandments were removed from daily prayer in the Mishnaic period, the Shema is seen as an opportunity to commemorate the Ten Commandments.

The Hebrew text of the first two paragraphs of the Shema, as they are written on a mezuzah:

Notice that the two larger-print letters in the first sentence ('ayin ע and daleth ד) spell "עד" which in Hebrew means "witness". The idea thus conveyed is that through the recitation or proclamation of the Shema' one is a living witness testifying to the truth of its message. Modern Kabbalistic schools, namely that of the ARI, teach that when one recites the last letter of the word 'echadh' (אחד), meaning "one", he/she is to 'intend that he is ready to "die into God".

Shema Yisrael: The first, pivotal, words of the Shema are:

שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד

Judaism teaches that the Tetragrammaton (י-ה-ו-ה) is the ineffable name of God, and as such is not read aloud in the Shema but is traditionally replaced with אדני, Adonai ("my Lord"). For this reason, the Shema is recited aloud as:

Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad.

The literal word meanings are roughly as follows:

    Shema (A three part word) — listen, or hear and "act on"
    Yisrael — Israel, in the sense of the people or congregation of Israel
    Adonai — often translated as "Lord", it is used in place of the Tetragrammaton
    Eloheinu — our God, the word "El" or "Elohei" signifying God (see also: Elohim), and the plural possessive determiner suffix "nu" or "einu" signifying "our"
    Echad — the Hebrew word for "1" (the number)

In common with many other ancient languages, connective words such as "is", and conventions regarding punctuation, are usually implied rather than stated as they would be in modern English.

The first portion relates to the issue of the kingship of God. The first verse, "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord," has ever been regarded as the confession of belief in the One God. Due to the ambiguities of the Hebrew language there are multiple ways of translating the Shema:

    "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God! The LORD is One!" and,
    "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God — the LORD alone."

Many commentaries have been written about the subtle differences between the translations. There is an emphasis on the oneness of God and on the sole worship of God by Israel. There are other translations, though most retain one or the other emphases.
V'ahavta

V'ahavta in Hebrew: The following verses, commonly referred to by the first word of the verse immediately following the Shema as the V'ahavta, meaning "And you shall love...", contain the commands to love God with all one's heart, soul, and might; to remember all commandments and "teach them diligently to your children and speak of them when you sit down and when you walk, when you lie down and when you rise" (Deut 6:7); to recite the words of God when retiring or rising; to bind those words "on thy arm and thy head" (interpreted as tefillin), and to inscribe them on the door-posts of your house and on your gates (referring to mezuzah).V'haya im shemoa: The passage following the "Shema" and "V'ahavta" relates to the issue of reward and punishment. It contains the promise of reward for serving God with all one's heart, soul, and might (Deut 11:13) and for the fulfillment of the laws. It also contains punishment for transgression. It also contains a repetition of the contents of the first portion -but this time spoken to the second person plural, (Where as the first portion is directed to the individual Jew, this time it is directed to the whole community, all the Jews).

Vayomer: The third portion relates to the issue of redemption. Specifically, it contains the law concerning the tzitzit as a reminder that all laws of God are obeyed, as a warning against following evil inclinations and in remembrance of the exodus from Egypt. For the prophets and rabbis, the exodus from Egypt is paradigmatic of Jewish faith that God redeems from all forms of foreign domination. It can be found in the portion "Shlach Lecha" in the book of Numbers.

Summary of V'ahavta: In summary, the content flows from the assertion of the oneness of God's kingship. Thus, in the first portion, there is a command to love God with all one's heart, soul and might and to remember and teach these very important words to the children throughout the day. Obeying these commands, says the second portion, will lead to rewards, and disobeying them will lead to punishment. To ensure fulfillment of these key commands, God also commands in the third portion a practical reminder, wearing the tzitzit, "that ye may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God."

The full content verse by verse, in Hebrew, English transliteration and English translation, can be found here.

The second line quoted, "Blessed be the Name of His glorious kingdom for ever and ever", was originally a congregational response to the declaration of the Oneness of God; it is therefore often printed in small font and recited in an undertone, as recognition that it is not, itself, a part of the cited Biblical verses. The third section of the Shema formally ends at Numbers 15:41, but in fact traditionally Jews end the recitation of the Shema (Shema means "what is", in Chinese, or what is truth, knowledge, the way of the torah) with the following word from the next verse, Emet, or "Truth", as the end of the prayer.

Recitation and reading: The Hebrew Bible states that "these words" be spoken of "when you lie down, and when you rise up" Deuteronomy 6:7.

The first book of the Talmud, tractate Brachot, opens with a discussion of when exactly the Shema needs to be recited. The Mishna connects the time of recitation with details of the rhythm of the life of the Temple in Jerusalem, saying that the Shema should be recited in the evening when the Kohanim (Jewish priests) who were Tamei (ritually impure) (and had been unable to serve) enter to eat their Terumah (heave offerings). The Gemarrah contains a wide-ranging discussion of exactly when this occurred, with general agreement that it occurred in the evening, either after sunset or after three stars were visible. A similar discussion describes the morning Shema, which can be recited at first light prior to sunrise, as soon as colors can be discerned.

The Shema does not have to be recited in Hebrew. It may be recited in any language the worshipper understands (Berakhot 2:3). However, it is an almost universal custom among observant Jews to recite it in Hebrew.

In Orthodox and Conservative Judaism, the Shema should be recited twice daily, whether or not one is able to attend services with a congregation, wherever one is. Even a requirement of decent surroundings (e.g. not to recite it in the bathroom) can be waived if necessary, as occurred for example at Auschwitz.

The Shema, or as much of the first verse of it as can be said under the circumstances, is traditionally recited by a dying person as part of an affirmation of faith upon death. It is also recited at the end of Ne'illah service on Yom Kippur.

Women and the Shema: In Orthodox Judaism, women are not required to recite the Shema, as with other time-bound requirements which might impinge on their traditional familial obligations, although they are obligated to pray at least once daily without a specific liturgy requirement and many discharge that obligation through prayers like the Shema. Since 2002, Conservative Judaism has regarded Conservative women as generally obligated to recite the Shema at the same times as men. Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism do not regard gender-related traditional Jewish ritual requirements, including obligations for men but not women to pray specific prayers at specific times, as necessary in modern circumstances; instead, both genders may fulfill all requirements.

Accompanying blessings: The Benedictions preceding and following the Shema are traditionally credited to the members of the Great Assembly. They were first instituted in the liturgy of the Temple in Jerusalem.

According to the Talmud, the reading of the Shema morning and evening fulfils the commandment "You shall meditate therein day and night". As soon as a child begins to speak, his father is directed to teach him the verse "Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob" (Deut. 33:4), and teach him to read the Shema (Talmud, Sukkot 42a). The reciting of the first verse of the Shema is called "the acceptance of the yoke of the kingship of God" (kabalat ol malchut shamayim) (Mishnah Berachot 2:5). Judah ha-Nasi, who spent all day involved with his studies and teaching, said just the first verse of the Shema in the morning (Talmud Berachot 13b) "as he passed his hands over his eyes" which appears to be the origin of the Jewish custom to cover the eyes with the right hand whilst reciting the first verse.

The first verse of the Shema is recited aloud, simultaneously by the hazzan and the congregation, which responds with the rabbinically instituted Baruch Shem ("Blessed be the Name") in silence before continuing the rest of Shema. Only on Yom Kippur is this response said aloud. The remainder of the Shema is read in silence. Sephardim recite the whole of the Shema aloud, except the Baruch Shem. Reform Jews also recite the whole of the Shema aloud, but including the Baruch Shem.

Bedtime Shema: Before going to sleep, the first paragraph of the Shema is recited. This is not only a commandment directly given in the Bible (in Deuteronomy 6:6–7), but is also alluded to from verses such as "Commune with your own heart upon your bed" (Psalms 4:4).

Some also have the custom to read all three paragraphs, along with a whole list of sections from Psalms, Tachanun, and other prayers. altogether this is known as the Kerias Shema She'al Hamita. According to the Arizal, reading this prayer with great concentration is also effective in cleansing one from sin. This is discussed in the Tanya.[1]

Other instances: The exhortation by the Kohen ("priest") in calling Israel to arms against an enemy (which does not apply when the Temple in Jerusalem is not standing) also includes Shema Yisrael. (Deuteronomy 20:3; Talmud Sotah 42a).

Rabbi Akiva patiently endured while his flesh was being torn with iron combs, and died reciting the Shema. He pronounced the last word of the sentence, Echad ("one") with his last breath (Talmud Berachot 61b). Since then, it has been traditional for Jews to say the Shema as their last words.

Arnold Schoenberg used it as part of the story to his narrative orchestral work A Survivor from Warsaw (1947).

Roi Kline, a major in the IDF, said the Shema before jumping on a live grenade, in accordance with the traditional Jewish practice of reciting the Shema when one believes one is going to die.

In Parade (musical) (see [1]) the main character Leo Frank, wrongly accused of the murder of a child worker at the pencil factory he manages, recites the Shema Yisrael as a vigilante gang kidnap and hang him in the final scenes of the work. The musical is based on a true story.

Shema in Christianity: Shema is one of the sentences that are quoted in the New Testament. The Gospel of Mark 12:29 mentions that Jesus considered the Shema the beginning exhortation of the first of his two greatest commandments: "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, 'Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord'" (KJV). Jesus also refers to the Shema in The Gospel of John 10:30. A group of Jews in the Temple in Jerusalem at the Feast of Dedication, or Hanukkah, asks him if he is Messiah, the anointed one of God. Jesus concludes his response with the words "I and my Father are one" (KJV). This is an allusion to the Shema, which the Jews immediately recognize.

In addition, the apostle Paul reworks the Shema in 1 Corinthians 8:6 vis-à-vis the risen Christ: "yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist."[2]

Simchat Beit HaSho'eivah

In the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, a unique service was performed every morning throughout the Sukkot holiday: the Nisuch HaMayim (נסוך המים—lit. "pouring of the water") or Water Libation Ceremony. According to the Talmud, Sukkot is the time of year in which God judges the world for rainfall; therefore this ceremony, like the taking of the Four Species, invokes God's blessing for rain in its proper time. The water for the libation ceremony was drawn from the Pool of Siloam (Hebrew: Breikhat Hashiloah in the City of David, believed to be the original site of Jerusalem, now outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast. The pool was fed by the waters of the Gihon Spring, which were carried there by two aquaducts - the Middle Bronze Age Channel, a 20ft deep direct cutting that was covered with rock slabs, and dates from the Middle Bronze Age Hezekiah's Tunnel, a curving tunnel within the bedrock, dating from the reign of King Hezekiah ~700BC, is a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of the ~1800BC) and the joy that accompanied this procedure was palpable. (This is the source for the verse in Isaiah: "And you shall draw waters with joy from the wells of salvation" (Isa. 12:3).

Afterwards, every night in the outer Temple courtyard, tens of thousands of spectators would gather to watch the Simchat Beit HaSho'eivah (Rejoicing at the Place of the Water-Drawing), as the most pious members of the community danced and sang songs of praise to God. The dancers would carry lighted torches, and were accompanied by the harps, lyres, cymbals and trumpets of the Levites. According to the (The Mishnah or Mishna (משנה, "repetition", from the verb shanah שנה, or "to study and review") is a major work of Rabbinic Judaism, and the first major redaction into written form of Jewish oral traditions, called the Oral Torah.) Mishna tractate Sukkah, "He who has not seen the rejoicing at the Place of the Water-Drawing has never seen rejoicing in his life." Throughout Sukkot, the city of Jerusalem teemed with Jewish families who came on the holiday pilgrimage and joined together for feasting and Torah study. A mechitza* (partition separating men and women) was erected for this occasion.

Nowadays, this event is recalled via a Simchat Beit HaSho'eivah gathering of music, dance, and refreshments. This event takes place in a central location such as a synagogue, yeshiva*, or place of study. Refreshments are served in the adjoining sukkah. Live bands often accompany the dancers. The festivities usually begin late in the evening, and can last long into the night.

*Mechitza: A mechitza (מחיצה, Hebrew: partition or division, plural mechitzot) is a partition that is a valid divider under Jewish law.

Origin: The rationale for a partition dividing men and women is given in the Babylonian Talmud (Sukkah 51b, 52a). A divider in the form of a balcony was established in the Temple in Jerusalem for the occasion of the Simchat Beit Hashoeivah (Water Drawing Ceremony) on Sukkot, a time of great celebration and festivity. The divider was first established to preserve modesty and attention during this time. In the Talmud, the Amoraic sage Abba Arika (known as Rav) explains that the divider originated with a statement of the prophet Zechariah regarding the mourning following the war between Gog and Magog (dark and light, heaven and earth, female and male):

The land will mourn each of the families by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by itself and their wives by themselves; and all the families who remain, each of the families by itself and their wives by themselves. Zechariah 12:12-14. [1]

The rabbis of the Talmud reasoned that if such a sad occasion necessitates a separation between men and women, then the Simchat Beit HaShoeivah in the Temple in Jerusalem, considered the happiest Jewish occasion, does as well.

Uses of Separate seating in synagogue: A mechitza most commonly means the physical divider placed between the men's and women's sections in Orthodox synagogues and at religious celebrations. The idea behind this is twofold. First, mingling of the genders is generally frowned upon, as this leads to frivolity, which itself may lead to promiscuity. Secondly, even if the sexes are separated, they shouldn't be able to interact to a high degree during a religious service, lest this lead to gazing and impure thoughts. Because of these restrictions, mechitzot are usually opaque (at least looking from the men's side to the women's side). The women's section of the synagogue is called the Ezrat Nashim (women's courtyard) after a similar area in the Temple in Jerusalem.

*A yeshiva or yeshivah (IPA: [jəʃi'və]) (Hebrew: ישיבה, "sitting (n.)" ; pl. yeshivot or yeshivas) is a Jewish institution for Torah study and the study of Talmud. Yeshivot are usually Orthodox Jewish institutions, and generally cater to boys or men. A roughly equivalent women's institution is the midrasha.

The term yeshiva gedola ("senior/great yeshiva") refers to post-high school institutions, and yeshiva ketana ("junior/small yeshiva") refers to institutions catering to boys of high school age. The term "yeshiva" is also used sometimes as a generic name for any school that teaches Torah, Mishnah and Talmud, to any age group.

A yeshiva with a framework for independent study and providing stipends for male married students is known as a kollel.

Etymology: Jewish tradition holds that students should sit while learning from a master. The word yeshiva, meaning "sitting," therefore came to be applied to the activity of learning in class, and hence to a learning "session."

Academic year: In most yeshivot, the year is divided into three periods (terms) called zmanim. Elul zman starts from the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul and extends until the end of Yom Kippur. This is the shortest (approx. six weeks), but most intense semester as it comes before the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Winter zman starts after Sukkot and lasts until just before Passover, a duration of five months (six in a Jewish leap year). Summer semester starts after Passover and lasts until either the middle of the month of Tammuz or Tisha B'Av, a duration of about three months. A typical beth midrash in Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore. Usually each student has his own fixed place to sit, known as a makom kavuah.

Typical schedule: The following is a typical daily schedule for Beit Midrash students:

    * 7:00 a.m. - Optional seder (study session)
    * 7:30 a.m. - Morning prayers
    * 8:30 a.m. - Session on study of Jewish law
    * 9:00 a.m. - Breakfast
    * 9:30 a.m. - Morning Talmud study (first seder)
    * 12:30 p.m. - Shiur (lecture) - advanced students sometimes dispense with this lecture
    * 1:30 p.m. - Lunch
    * 2:45 p.m. - Mincha - afternoon prayers
    * 3:00 p.m. - Mussar seder - Jewish ethics
    * 3:30 p.m. - Talmud study (second seder)
    * 7:00 p.m. - Dinner
    * 8:00 p.m. - Night seder - Review of lecture, or study of choice.
    * 9:25 p.m. - Mussar seder - Jewish Ethics
    * 9:45 p.m. - Maariv - Evening prayers
    * 10:00 p.m. - Optional evening seder

This schedule is generally maintained Sunday through Thursday. On Thursday nights there may be an extra long night seder, known as mishmar sometimes lasting beyond 1:00 am, and in some yeshivot even until the following sunrise. On Fridays there is usually at least one seder in the morning and the afternoons are free. Saturdays have a special Shabbat schedule which includes some sedarim but usually no shiur.

Method of study: Studying is usually done together with a study-partner called a chavruta (Aramaic: "friend"), or in a shiur (lecture). The chavruta is one of the unique features of the yeshiva. The young men studying in the yeshiva will spend most of their time with a study partner. The duo should read over the text, discuss it, test each other, ask questions, encourage each other etc. Upon entering the main study of the yeshiva, a first-time visitor will be amazed at the noise level. The learning partners in each chavruta will be almost shouting at each other, generating much noise.

Hoshanot

In the synagogue, each day of Sukkot, worshippers parade around the synagogue carrying theirlulavim and etrogim and reciting Psalm 118:25 (Anna, Adonay, hoshi'a na..", "We beseech you, O Lord, save us..." followed by special prayers). The Hoshanot are recited either after the morning's Torah reading of at the end of Mussaf. This ceremony commemorates the Aravah (willow) ceremony in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, in which willow branches were piled beside the altar, with their tops branching over it, and worshipers paraded around the altar reciting the same verse.

Hoshanah Rabbah

The seventh day of Sukkot is known as Hoshanah Rabbah (הושענא רבא, Great Supplication). This day is marked by a special synagogue service, the Hoshanah Rabbah (Great Hoshanah), in which seven circuits are made by the worshippers with their lulav and etrog, while the congregation recites Psalm 118:25 and additional prayers. It is customary in some communities for all the scrolls of the Torah to be removed from the ark and lead this procession. In addition, a bundle of five aravah branches is taken and beaten against the ground, accompanied by a series of liturgical verses ending with, "Kol mevasser, mevasser ve-omer" (A voice brings news, brings news and says) —expressing hope for the speedy coming of the Messiah. The reasons for the latter custom are rooted in Kabbalah.

Abudarham speaks of the custom of reading the Torah on the night of Hoshanah Rabbah, out of which has grown the modern custom of meeting socially on that night and reading from Deuteronomy, Psalms, and passages from the Zohar; reciting Kabbalistic prayers; and eating refreshments. In Orthodox Jewish circles, men will stay up all night learning Torah.

Among Sephardic Jews, prayers known as "Selihot" (forgiveness) are recited before the regular morning service (these are the same prayers recited before Rosh Hashanah). In Amsterdam and in a few places in England, America, and elsewhere, the shofar (call of the mighty horn) is also sounded in connection with the processions. The latter practice reflects the idea that Hoshanah Rabbah is the end of the high holiday season, when the world is judged for the coming year.

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

The day immediately following Sukkot is known as Shemini Atzeret, "the Eighth (Day) of Assembly." Shemini Atzeret is a separate holiday.^[1] In Israel, the celebration of Shemini Atzeretincludes Simchat Torah*. Outside the land of Israel, Shemini Atzeret is celebrated on the day after Sukkot and Simchat Torah is celebrated on the day after that, bringing the total days of festivities to eight in Israel and nine outside Israel.

The holiday of Shemini Atzeret (שמיני עצרת - lit. "the Eighth [day] of Assembly") is a separate festival that follows immediately after Sukkot, on the eighth day (eighth and ninth days outside the land of Israel). The family returns indoors to eat and sleep in their house, special synagogue services are held, and holiday meals are served. However, outside of Israel many have the custom to still eat in the Sukkah on Shemini Atzeret, but not on Simchat Torah.

Shemini Atzeret* is a separate holiday in respect to six specific issues. However, it is considered part of an eight-day holiday regarding a seventh issue. These issues are explained in the Talmud,Tractate Rosh Hashanah 4b. There is a dispute amongst the commentaries regarding what those six issues are. Two of the main opinions are Rashi and Tosafot.

*Shemini Atzeret (שמיני עצרת - "the Eighth [day] of Assembly") is a Jewish holiday celebrated on the 22nd day (to build, heaven on earth, the united) of the Hebrew month of Tishrei. In the Diaspora an additional day is celebrated, the second day being separately referred to as Simchat Torah.[1] In Israel and Reform Judaism the holidays of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah are combined into a single day and the names are used interchangeably.

Shemini Atzeret is mistakenly referred to as the eighth day of the Festival of Sukkot, which occupies the seven preceding days. In fact, Shemini Atzeret is a holiday unto itself. There is no use of the Sukkah in Israel, and the lulav and etrog are not waved, although in the Diaspora some sit in the sukkah on Shemini Atzeret.[2] However, one of Sukkot's liturgical aliases זמן שמחתנו, "Time of Our Happiness" continues to be used to describe Shemini Atzeret in prayers.

In Israel, Shemini Atzeret lasts for one day and the festivities of Simchat Torah* (שמחת תורה) coincide with it. Outside of Israel, Shemini Atzeret lasts for two days and the festivities of Simchat Torah fall on the second day. Simchat Torah (lit. "the joy of the Torah") is an especially happy day on which the very last portion of the Torah is read in the synagogue during morning services and, in order to convey the idea that Torah study never ends, the very first portion of the Torah (the beginning of Genesis) is read immediately after. All the men and boys, and in more liberal congregations all the women and girls, over the age of bar mitzvah are called up to the Torah for an aliyah, and all the children under the age of bar mitzvah are also given an "aliyah" called Kol HaNa'arim (all the children) —the youngsters crowd around the reader's table while men hold up a large tallit* (prayer cloth) to include them all in the aliyah. Both during the night service and the morning service in Orthodox synagogues, all the Torah scrolls are removed from the ark and all the worshippers engage in rounds of spirited dancing. Seven official circuits around the reader's table (called "hakafot") are made, although the dancing can go on for hours.

In the Former Soviet Union, Simchat Torah was the day on which Jews gathered in the street outside the synagogue to dance and proclaim their Jewishness openly. Refuseniks were often inspired by that Simchat Torah celebration to pursue other Jewish religious practices in secret, despite Communist oppression.

*Simchat Torah or Simchas Torah (שמחת תורה) is a Jewish holiday marking the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle. Simchat Torah is Hebrew for "rejoicing with the Torah". On the morning of Simchat Torah, the last parashah of Deuteronomy and the first parashah of Genesis are read out in the synagogue. Most communities have a special Torah reading on the eve of Simchat Torah. At both the morning and evening services in the synagogue, the ark is opened, and the Torah scrolls are carried around the synagogue in seven circuits, accompanied by singing and dancing.

Duration of holiday: On the Hebrew calendar, the holiday of Sukkot in the autumn (mid to late October) is immediately followed by the holiday of Shemini Atzeret. In Orthodox and Conservative communities outside Israel, Shemini Atzeret is a two-day holiday and the Simchat Torah festivities are observed on the second day. The first day is referred to as "Shemini Atzeret" and the second day as "Simchat Torah," although both days are officially Shemini Atzeret according to Halakha, and this is reflected in the liturgy.

*The tallit (Hebrew: טַלִּית‎), also called tallis (Yiddish, plural taleysm), is a prayer shawl that is worn during the morning Jewish services (the Shacharit prayers) in Judaism, during the Torah service, and on Yom Kippur and other holidays. It has special twined and knotted fringes known as tzitzit attached to its four corners. The tallit is sometimes also referred to as the arba kanfot, meaning "four corners," although this term is more commonly used to refer only to the tallit katan undergarment with tzitzit. The bible mandates that the tzitzit contain a thread of blue known as tekhelet.[1] Since the bible itself does not describe how to tie the tzitzit, interpretation of the oral tradition has resulted in a number of methods of tying.[2]

In some Jewish communities, a tallit is given as a gift by a father to a son, a father-in-law to a son-in-law, or a teacher to a student. It might be purchased to mark a special occasion, such as a wedding or a bar/bat mitzvah. Many parents purchase a tallit for their sons at the age of 13, at the same time as they purchase tefillin. While it is considered a personal item, and many men have their own, synagogues usually have a rack of shawls for the use of visitors and guests. Although non-Jewish male visitors are expected to wear a kippah (headcovering) when visiting a synagogue, they should not wear a tallit.

Sukkot in the Hebrew Bible

In the Hebrew Scriptures, Sukkot is called:

“The Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths) ” (Lev. 23:34; Deut. 16:13-16; 31:10; Zech. 14:16-19;Ezra 3:4; 2 Chron. 8:13)

“The Feast of Ingathering” (Ex. 23:16, 34:22)

“The Feast” or “the festival” (1 Kings 8:2, 8:65; 12:32; 2 Chron. 5:3; 7:8)

“The Feast of the Lord” (Lev. 23:39; Judges 21:19)

“The festival of the seventh month” (Ezek. 45:25; Neh. 8:14)

“A holy convocation” or “a sacred occasion” (Num. 29:12)

In later Hebrew literature it is called “chag,” or "[the] festival." Sukkot was agricultural in origin. This is evident from the name "The Feast of Ingathering," from the ceremonies accompanying it, and from the season and occasion of its celebration: "At the end of the year when you gather in your labors out of the field" (Ex. 23:16); "after you have gathered in from your threshing-floor and from your winepress" (Deut. 16:13). It was a thanksgiving for the fruit harvest (compare Judges 9:27). And in what may explain the festival’s name, Isaiah reports that grape harvesters kept booths in their vineyards (Isa. 1:8). Coming as it did at the completion of the harvest, Sukkot was regarded as a general thanksgiving for the bounty of nature in the year that had passed.

Sukkot became one of the most important feasts in Judaism, as indicated by its designation as “the Feast of the Lord” (Lev. 23:39; Judges 21:19) or simply “the Feast” (1 Kings 8:2, 65; 12:32; 2 Chron. 5:3; 7:8). Perhaps because of its wide attendance, Sukkot became the appropriate time for important state ceremonies. Moses instructed the children of Israel to gather for a reading of the Law during Sukkot every seventh year (Deut. 31:10-11). King Solomon dedicated the Temple in Jerusalem

"The Temple in Jerusalem or Holy Temple (Hebrew: בית המקדש, Bet HaMikdash ; "The Holy House"), refers to a series of structures located on the Temple Mount (Har HaBayit) (The Temple Mount (Hebrew: הַר הַבַּיִת‎, Har haBáyit), also called the Noble Sanctuary (Arabic: الحرم القدسي الشريف‎, al-haram al-qudsī ash-sharīf), is a religious site in the Old City of Jerusalem. Due to its importance for Judaism and Islam it is one of the most contested religious sites in the world.

The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism. Jewish Midrash holds that it was from here that the world expanded into its present form, and that this was where God gathered the dust He used to create the first man, Adam. The Torah records that it was here that God chose to rest His Divine Presence, and consequently two Jewish Temples were built at the site. Jews believe that the Third Temple*, which they hope will be the final one, will also be located here. In recent times, due to difficulties in ascertaining the precise location of the Mount's holiest spot, many Jews will not set foot on the Mount itself.

A drawing of Ezekiel's Visionary Temple from the Book of Ezekiel 40-47

* Third Temple: Since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, religious Jews have prayed that God will allow for the building of a Third Temple. This prayer has been a formal part of the traditional thrice daily Jewish prayer services. Though it remains unbuilt, the notion of and desire for a Third Temple is sacred in Judaism, particularly Orthodox Judaism, as an unrealized place of worship. The prophets in the Tanakh called for its construction, to be fulfilled in the Messianic era.

Unused ancient Jewish floor plans for a Temple exist in various sources, notably in Chapters 40-47 of Ezekiel (Ezekiel's vision pre-dates the Second Temple) and in the Temple Scroll discovered at Qumran among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Divine Presence, is known as Shekhinah - alternative transliterations Shekinah, Shechinah, Shekina, Shechina, Schechinah, שכינה is the English spelling of a feminine Hebrew language word that means the dwelling or settling, and is used to denote the dwelling or settling presence of God, especially in the Temple in Jerusalem. Etymology: Shekhinah is derived from the Hebrew verb שכן. In Biblical Hebrew the word means literally to settle, inhabit, or dwell, and is used frequently in the Hebrew Bible. (See Exodus 40:35 - "Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting, for the cloud rested [shakhan, the divine presence] upon it, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle." See also e.g. Genesis 9:27, 14:13, Psalms 37:3, Jeremiah 33:16, as well as the weekly Shabbat (welcoming in the

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divine presence of heaven, with candle lighting, inner radiance, a light from within) blessing recited in the Temple in Jerusalem "May He who causes His name to dwell [shochan, the divine presence] in this House, cause to dwell among you love and brotherliness, peace and friendship"). In Mishnaic Hebrew the word is often used to refer to birds' nesting and nests. ("Every bird nests [shechinot, divine presence] with its kind, and man with its like, Talmud Baba Kammah 92b.) and can also mean "neighbor" ("If a neighbor and a scholar, the scholar is preferred" Talmud Ketubot 85b, the one who seeks is more divine). The word "Shekhinah" also means "royalty" or "royal residence" (our heaven, the perfection of love, the blue road, the heart) (The Greek word σκήνη - dwelling - is thought to be derived from שכינה and שכן.) The word for Tabernacle, mishcan, is a derivative of the same root and is also used in the sense of dwelling-place in the Bible, e.g. Psalm 132:5 ("Before I find a place for God, mishcanot (dwelling-places) for the Strong One(ness) of Israel.")(I must find the dwelling place, the rainbow colors, the holy temple which houses the soul, the heartbeat of heaven, my heart) Accordingly, in classic Jewish thought, the Shekhinah refers to a dwelling or settling in a special sense, a dwelling or settling of divine presence, to the effect that, while in proximity to the Shekhinah, the connection to God is more readily perceivable (again the divine presence of heaven, upon us, through prayer and worship of brotherly love, the golden rule). According to Professor Kern, Shekhinah means "the presence of God." practically the same as the Greek word "Parousia also a feminine word (literally: "presence") which is used in a similar way for "Divine Presence".

Shabbat or Shabbos (Hebrew: שבת, shabbāt, shabbes, "rest/inactivity"), is the weekly Sabbath or day of rest. Judaism, symbolizing the seventh day in Genesis in (mountain, I do stand, ready to command, my soul from heaven watches over the land, the rainbow colors, rest be still, listen receive God's will), after the six days of creation (That's the sacred blessings, the six days, the star of David, the perfect crystalline form. The six days are to build prayer to the winds, seven days, are to assemble, to commune and reflect upon.) Though it is commonly said to be the Saturday of each week, it is observed from sundown on Friday until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night. Shabbat is ushered in by lighting candles. (Candle-lighting to share our inner light) time changes from week to week and from place to place, depending on the time of the sunset at the location.

Etymology: The Hebrew word Shabbat comes from the Hebrew verb shavat, which literally means "to cease." Although Shabbat (or its anglicized version, "Sabbath") is almost universally translated as "rest" or a "period of rest," a more literal translation would be "ceasing", with the implication of "ceasing from work." Thus, Shabbat is the day of ceasing from work; while resting is implied, it is not a necessary denotation of the word itself. For example, the Hebrew word for "strike" (as in work stoppage) is shevita, which comes from the same Hebrew root as Shabbat, and has the same implication, namely that striking workers actively abstain from work, rather than passively.

Some people ask why God needed to "rest" on the seventh day of Creation according to Genesis. If the meaning of the word is understood as "ceasing from labor" rather than "rested," this is more consistent with the biblical view of an omnipotent God.

"When we cease walking in labor, we toil not, but live in joy, the divine presence of heaven, the soul, within does shine over living rivers of water. Let the stars shine, in the house of the throne, where kinsmen are known, and rainbow colors have come home," White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother.

In Islam, the site is revered as the location of Islamic prophet Muhammad’s journey to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven and is associated with other local Muslim figures of antiquity. The site is the location of the al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock, the oldest extant Islamic structure in the world. Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority claim sovereignty over the site, which remains a key issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict. In 1967, the Israeli government assigned a Muslim council management of the site.)

According to classical Jewish belief, the Temple (or the Temple Mount) acts as the figurative "footstool" of God's presence (Heb. "shechina" in the physical world.") on Sukkot (1 Kings 8; 2 Chron. 7). And Sukkot was the first sacred occasion observed after the resumption of sacrifices in Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity (Ezra 3:2-4).

In the time of Nehemiah, after the Babylonian captivity, the Israelites celebrated Sukkot by making and dwelling in booths, a practice of which Nehemiah reports: “the Israelites had not done so from the days of Joshua” (Neh. 8:13-17). In a practice related to that of the Four Species, Nehemiah also reports that the Israelites found in the Law the commandment that they “go out to the mountains and bring leafy branches
of olive trees, pine trees, myrtles, palms and [other] leafy trees to make booths” (Neh. 8:14-15). In Leviticus, God told Moses to command the people: “On the first day you shall take the product of hadar trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook” (Lev. 23:40), and “You shall live in booths seven days; all citizens in Israel shall live in booths, in order that future generations may know that I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt” (Lev. 23:42-43). Numbers, however, indicates that while in the wilderness, the Israelites dwelt in tents (Num. 11:10; 16:27).

Some secular scholars consider Leviticus 23:39-43 (the commandments regarding booths and the four species) to be an insertion by a late redactor. (E.g., Richard Elliott Friedman. The Bible with Sources Revealed, 228-29. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003.)

Jeroboam son of Nebat, King of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whom Kings describes as practicing “his evil way” (1 Kings 13:33), celebrated a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, one month after Sukkot, “in imitation of the festival in Judah” (1 Kings 12:32-33). “While Jeroboam was standing on the altar to present the offering, the man of God, at the command of the Lord, cried out against the altar” in disapproval (1 Kings 13:1).

According to Zechariah (Zech. 14:16-19), Sukkot in the messianic era will become a universal festival, and all nations will make pilgrimages annually to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast there. (A modern interpretation of this resulted in a recent holiday celebrated in Jerusalem by non-Jews, "The Feast of Tabernacles".) Sukkot is here associated with the granting of rain, an idea further developed in later Jewish literature. Observance of Sukkot is detailed in Mishnah, Tosefta, Jerusalem Talmud, and Babylonian Talmud in tractate Sukkah, part of the order Moed (Festivals). (Mishnah Sukkah 1:1–5:8; Tosefta Sukkah 1:1–4:28; Jerusalem Talmud Sukkah 1a–; Babylonian Talmud Sukkah 2a–56b.)

Sukkot in the Christian New Testament

Only in one place in the four Christian Gospels is there a mention of Sukkot. The Gospel of John mentions Sukkot indicating, "Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand." John 7:2 In this account, Jesus asks his own family to attend the feast telling them, "Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come. When he had said these words unto them, he abode still in Galilee. But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were, in secret. John 7:8-10.

Sukkot as a place

The name Sukkot appears in a number of places in the Hebrew Bible as a location:

Sukkot is Egyptian for the "place of entering into the darkness". It's the place where the Sons of Israel went to retrieve the bones of Joseph from his tomb at Auaris before leaving Egypt. It is the first encampment of the Israelites after leaving Auaris (later named Pi-Ramesse/Raamses) (Exodus 12:37).

Succoth is a city east of the Jordan River, identified with Tell Deir Άlla, a high mound, a mass of debris, in the plain north of Jabbok and about one mile from it (Josh. 13:27). This is where Jacob, on his return from Padan-aram after his interview with Esau, built a house for himself and made sukkot (booths) for his cattle (Gen. 32:17, 30; 33:17).

The princes of Succoth (Sukkot) refused to provide help to Gideon and his men when they followed one of the bands of the fugitive Midianites after the great victory at Gilboa. After routing this band, Gideon on his return visited the rulers of the city with severe punishment. "He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth" (Judg. 8:13-16). Wright identifies this with Deir Άlla.

At this place were erected the foundries for casting the metal-work for the temple (1 Kings7:46). Thank you http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/sukkot

Etymology of the name Auaris (Avaris)
Exodus Decoded, a made-for-TV documentary by Simcha Jacobovici [1] reported an unlikely etymology for the place name Avaris (Hatwaret/Auaris), suggesting the place name derives from the Hebrew word for "Hebrew" (Hebrew: עִבְרִי, Tiberian: ʕivɾi, Israeli: Ivri). If so, it would mean something like "the place of the Hebrews", and thus identify the Asiatic Hyksos with the biblical Hebrews. Nevertheless, while a Canaanite/Hebrew origin is plausible, it is difficult to show how the Canaanite/Hebrew word-root ʕ.b.ɾ (עבר), meaning "to pass" (whence a "Hebrew", a "passer-by", one who "goes across"), could linguistically become ħt wʕrt in Egyptian. The Hebrew to the word Ivri (Israelite) "עברי" has its roots in the words "מעבר הנהר" which translates as "from across the river". i.e. The Hebrew's or Israelites as such were commonly known as "those from across the river" (the Nile). Thank you http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Avaris

The stranger and the journey across the river! Give yee light. Brotherly love swells within a heart. Let us be kinsmen, to assist our travelers along the blue road of heaven, where the soul shines a light from within, to rise up to sing, and hearts do feel a spring in the air (a well). Water is blessed, we are in a sacred nest, all hearts belong together in the breeze. Welcome home, Sisters who reign/rain love! Thank you http://alightfromwithin.org

The Stranger: Deuteronomy 16
13 Thou shalt observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, after thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine.
14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

Even if we're not native-born Israelis, or even Jewish, scripture says that even "the stranger within the gates" is to observe the Feast.

Restoration: Nehemiah 8
     14 And they (Ezra and the scribes) found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the Feast of the seventh month:
     15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
     16 So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

Sukkot is also called The Feast, The Great Feast, Feast of Booths - Hag’ha Sukkot, Feast of Ingathering - Hag’Ha Asif, Time of Our Joy - Z’man Simchateinu, The Feast of Full Glory,
The Feast of the Watergate, The Festival of the Final Harvest. Thank you http://curtis.loftinnc.com/sukkot.htm

Sukkot

Significance: Remembers the wandering in the dessert; also a harvest festival
Observances: Building and "dwelling" in a booth; waving branches and a fruit during services
Length: 7 days

On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Sukkot, seven days for the L-RD. -Leviticus 23:34

On the first day, you will take for yourselves a fruit of a beautiful tree, palm branches, twigs of a braided tree and brook willows, and you will rejoice before the L-RD* your G-d* for seven days. -Leviticus 23:40

*L-RD (ah, heaven is home, look at the stars, Lord).

*G-d (ah, heaven is home, look at the stars, God).

List of Dates

Sukkot will occur on the following days of the Gregorian calendar:

Jewish Year 5770: sunset October 2, 2009 - nightfall October 9, 2009

Jewish Year 5771: sunset September 22, 2010 - nightfall September 29, 2010

Jewish Year 5772: sunset October 12, 2011 - nightfall October 19, 2011

Jewish Year 5773: sunset September 30, 2012 - nightfall October 7, 2012

Jewish Year 5774: sunset September 18, 2013 - nightfall September 25, 2013

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"When we cease walking in labor, we toil not, but live in joy, the divine presence of heaven, the soul, within does shine over living rivers of water. Let the stars shine, in th house of the throne, where kinsmen are known, and rainbow colors come home, "White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother Understands, your heart needs a command!

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We sing for those who have found their heaven. Those who seek to find their heaven. And those who are lost from their heaven.

Oh Holy Day, the Joy that over comes me. I am in faithful watchfulness for you. I gift my heart to know the glory of you. The relative shore, where all is in sacred bloom. My soul does yearn. I come to learn. Do tell me your story, we did concern. It's a show, above the righteous glow, because tomorrow, will bring to us many shores (each being). All who do glow (rainbow clan). My soul does flow, towards the heart, where love lives a spark. My holy day in you, I share with the mighty sacred blue (road of heaven, the heart).

I give my heart, don't impart from me (don't walk away from my heart). I give to you, the soul inside of me that blooms. I'm here don't count on me too soon (I will do my best, not always like a perfect nest), but I will bring my heart, it's in bloom. I will be there to guide to you. I will be there to smile for you. I will gift to you my hands, to bring the holy stand. I will gift my soul complete. I will fill my heart so we can sleep. Knowing we did greet, the souls who did look out over easy street, to tell them glory means, it's God's throne (Kingdom of Oneness, the Rainbow Clan, the royal descendants of Kings, kinsmen). The place we promised, inside your heart. I look there always, do you live there too. My relative blue. My soul guides me to you. Oh holy day. Oh holy holy day. My crows (represents the darkness of heaven's prodding and embrace, literally outside my widow pane) sing for you. Don't you hear them in the blue. The song of heavenly form flies close to you.

Our souls do guide the way, from blue to red this day. To bring the heart of a throne to a sacred true, the rainbow flow in you. Come bring the lights, guide them from all plight. Give them a soul to count and bloom, show them they are worth, and count too. Give your soul a right, to forgive each and every night, towards heaven, we do loom, to bring the sacred bloom.

Crows sing to us:
They want you to know, how great is your show. You try to do your best now forgive your sacred nest. It's time to bring peace, inside your heart you do keep. My soul is alive, when you are here to thrive. My awakening call. I bring you down to fall. Down on your sacred knees, pray God will be pleased. Tell all you do your fire, your sacred living desire, the rainbow call you keep is a place where you live your treats (within heaven, we turn lessons into treasures, with love and song provides my measure). Come and fly with me tonight. I will bribe the highest calling (how sweet, but only true love, will enter the kingdom of God). I will show you the way in (here, the measure is shared). I will show the darkness thin (create a veil for you). We will be one fluid light, you and I, will shine so bright (turn darkness to light, a light from within). Let the soul walk on in (reflection of light, inner vibrancy). Let us be so ever bold, not so thin (together a rope, bonded together in heart, the blue of heaven in you and me, as we fly with our souls free). Bring in trust from everywhere. Bring in your heart if you dare. Tell all the soldiers we are here. And it's time to rise in the wind. Come my beloved clan, let us in. Listen to us, when we call (the animals are our soul elders, listen with your heart). Tell the children how to fall (get down on your knees and pray). Bless the hall of consciousness, to begin a heavenly path.

Sung (and interpreted) by White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother and Holiness David Running Eagle, our Father Red Hand, the Star of David, the houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com, who Walk and Talk with Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy, alightfromwithin.org.

Beloved Cup of God and Relatives on the Hoops,

Thank you for sharing your heart with us. Your dream last night,"Last night I was dreaming to be in a synagogue and praying and singing with other Jews. It was like a party and big fun to praise the creator - everybody was very colorful."

Lost in transfer a video in the last posting about forgiveness http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/2010/09/giving-to-receive-joy-give-alms-for.html and what is the meaning of it, by Rabbi Svirsky on this Holy of Holy Days, the Great Day of Awe, where the heart leaps with joy. It's a wonderful explanation of this wonderful day, Yom Kippur. Please I hope everyone starts here in their viewing, to understand forgiveness towards great joy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Zicrk1eDY&feature=player_embedded

[The Day of Atonement for Jews, Yom Kippur has begun with its opening Kol Nidrei (or Kol Nidre) “annulment of vows” on Friday evening. Yom Kippur is observed on the tenth day of Tishrei, a first month of the civil year and continues till the next nightfall. This year, the Yom Kippur falls on Saturday, 18th September. Kol Nidre is opening prayer and name for the evening service that symbols the opening of Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is Jews’ holy day of the year.

Yom Kippur is observed as the Jews’ holiest day. This holy day is a 25-hour period of fasting (for those physically able), intensive prayer, and spending most of the day in Jewish congregation or temple services. On this day, the people excludes eating, drinking, bathing, cosmetics, wearing leather (including shoes), and conjugal relations. The fasting starts a before sundown, and ends after nightfall the following day. Yom Kippur finished the annual period identified as the High Holy Days or Days of Awe. Thank you Jewish News123]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFxv_gI70ZU&feature=related
Kol Nidrei:
Ve'esarei, Ush'vuei, Vacharamei, Vekonamei, Vekinusei, Vechinuyei. D'indarna, Ud'ishtabana, Ud'acharimna, Ud'assarna Al nafshatana, Miyom Kippurim zeh, ad Yom Kippurim haba aleinu letovah, Bechulhon Icharatna vehon, Kulhon yehon sharan, Sh'vikin sh'vitin, betelin umevutalin, lo sheririn v'lo kayamin, Nidrana lo nidrei, V'essarana lo essarei, Ush'vuatana lo shevuot.
(contributed by Cup of God)

Cup of God, I prefer this video where Carlebach sings the Koi Nidrei because my heart did swell with love. Perry Como did not put feelings in my heart, even though Holiness David did marvel about his voice, with feelings of swelling in his heart, with his portray of Koi Nidrei (below).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY6i6SobW6M&NR=1

Sow Perry Como must be from an earthly perspective, bringing earth towards paradise. He did not live with heaven in his own heart, because he did not practice faithful tradition of blessings in his life, even is he was Jewish, just like many of us today. It's important to pray and give your praise away. Carlebach brings the essence of glory into this song, Kol Nidrei. Here Heaven is exclaiming the raptures of love. The opening prayer, Kol Nidre means, "All Vows" (words to song in English below and Cup of God sent Hebrew above).

["Kol Nidre," with its marvelously plaintive and touching melody, and, gradually increasing in volume from pianissimo to fortissimo, repeats three times the following words", says Joseph Jacobs. Note: The chazan (cantor) recites Kol Nidrei aloud three times, each time louder and louder than before, and the congregation recites along in an undertone.]

"All vows , obligations, oaths, and anathemas, whether called '?onam,' '?onas,' or by any other name, which we may vow, or swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement until the next (whose happy coming we await), we do repent.

May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void, and made of no effect; they shall not bind us nor have power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligatory; nor the oaths be oaths."

The leader and the congregation then say together: (Num. xv. 26).

"And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them, seeing all the people were in ignorance"

This also is repeated three times. The ?azzan then closes with the benediction, :

"Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast preserved us and hast brought us to enjoy this season."

"The Kol Nidre is the holiest Jewish prayer and is recited several times on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It means "all vows" and is a flat statement that no promise of any kind will be kept for the coming year. It is also sung by the cantor in synagogue, accompanied on the violin and it says this." says JB Campbell 11-30-2003 JBC@wealthkeeper.net:

"All vows, obligations, oaths or anathemas, pledges of all names, which we have vowed, sworn, devoted, or bound ourselves to, from this day of atonement, until the next day of atonement (whose arrival we hope for in happiness) we repent, aforehand, of them all, they shall all be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, void and made of no effect; they shall not be binding, nor have any power; the vows shall not be reckoned as vows, the obligations shall not be obligatory, nor the oaths considered as oaths."

We must understand, the point of view of the Oneness of God from the eastern shore, where ordained people, the 12 tribes of Israel stand. Here we enter into heavenly space. We have walked our way from the earthly world (red earthly road), journeyed over torrential waters (blue heavenly road) and have found that the place of promise, lies inside the heart, where heaven is gifted birth in our souls. With the awakening of mankind around the world, evolution brings us to the perspective of Oneness. However even in this rainbow clan, we all have a perspective of the same center, where dreams live, inside gray (grandmother) space. We just stand in different places. This becomes our viewpoint. Here lies heaven, in our dreams, by trusting our blessed souls. We are given birth, and lifted up by the chains of bondage, by learning that forgiveness is known, in our hearts as we walk and talk with others. This is not always the body's knowing, the light, but always the soul's knowing of the heart, the darkness within, our heaven.

JB Campbell is angry, with a whole lot of other members of the human race, why the Jewish nation can commit crime after crime and simply absolve themselves. This is a way of living (blue road of heavenly soul), rather than a day to day event (red road of earthly flesh). When we forgive ourselves, we are able to allow our souls to be set free. The heavenly soul travels the blue road, the law of song and talk (ordained eastern shore, 12 Houses of Jacob, representing rainbow colors, rainbow mother of heaven, talkers of the blue road of heaven, eldest physical bodies). The earthly flesh travels the red road, the law of love and walk (ordained western shore, are the Sioux, spiritual embrace of this world and the rainbow clan, walkers of the red road of earth, eldest soul bodies). The unity of the soul and flesh, releases us from bondage. This occurs when we forgive all things every day, to bring in the new, to play, through prayer and song. This is innately known by the Jewish Nation. But is not known, through their physical actions of daily occurrences. We all reach to be the perfect we are within. This song tells us, that we are forgiven. That we need to forgive. And when we unite the blue road of heaven, our soul and dark, with the red road of earth, our flesh and light, then dreams can come true. We are freedom, without bondage or chained to our sins. We are born within, we awake with joy. We share our heart full of heaven, in an earthly domain, we attempt to bring in paradise.

But JB Campbell knows, like many of us, that this fine line, between the middle, the golden path of dreams, between the blue and red roads. This means, we must cleanse our holy temple, the rainbow colors, through fire ceremonies to bless the light (book of life), that contains our soul and all the darkness we conceal in our lives, because each of us, cannot read the book of life clearly, except for crystal persons. However, because of evolution and the return of heaven to earthly domain, we all will be able to read more clearly the book of life in everyone. We are folding the light and darkness. We are becoming greatness. We have skills and sacred holy powers, when we fight with love.

In the days ahead, many will loose their way, because they could stay hidden from the truth of this world. But because we will all be given sight or vision of the heart, the blue road of heaven, tool of our soul, the song, will be able to look into the dark space of others, where they did hide for eons previously. This is the importance of learning to forgive and walking sacred in forgiveness. This is the holy communion of freedom, when forgiveness is a given. Now how do we unite the path, together?

Look here, this line "pledges of all names" or Jews who use no name, but rather "whether called '?onam,' '?onas,' or by any other name". This is for the returning soul within. We are God, the oneness, called the Rainbow Clan. We are all Godly. And G_d, had no heaven upon earth. Now heaven returns G_ah_d, the utterance of heavenly transmission, our voice and song, will lead us the way....to heaven on earth, scribed in your book of life. Walk sacred, talk sacred, it's evolution and it's home. Two more years and it's done (dark and light will fold), heaven and earth arrive home. Law of love demands, we care, forgive everyday and be free, to know God's love, each other, like pure hearts, we shall rule and reign, with heaven above, down upon this world, paradise in bloom!

"Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast preserved us and hast brought us to enjoy this season."

"Artist Rendition"

[During the Avinu Malkenu, the Ark is opened, and at the end of the prayer, the Ark is closed. In the Sephardic tradition, it is recited on Shabbat, and the Ark is not opened. Throughout the Ten Days of Repentance, five lines of Avinu Malkeinu that refer to various heavenly books include the word Kotveinu ("Inscribe us"). During Ne'ila, this is replaced with Chotmeinu ("Seal us"). This reflects the belief that on Rosh Hashanah all is written and revealed and on Yom Kippur all decrees for the coming year are sealed.]

This prayer Avinu Malkeinu, "Father Our King" is often omitted if Yom Kippur falls on the Sabbath like today, Saturday.

However, as heaven (darkness) greets us (light), we make way for the Kingdom of Glory ruled by the Kings of Heaven and Earth. We give praise to the Great Spirits who lead us. And give homage to the Great Spirit Father who has led the army of G_ah_d homeward and we made it to the top of the hill. Now in evolution, we move from the light into the shadows (down the hill or wave of light), and our souls begin to spiral towards the center of darkness, we give homage to the Great Spirit Mother, who embraces the Warrior.

Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy take my hand, let us greet the promised land.

Avinu Malkeinu "Our Father Our King" (our Great Spirit Father, our Kingdom), Hear our prayer
We have sinned before thee, Have compassion upon us and upon our children, Help us bring an end to pestilence, war, and famine, Cause all hate and oppression to vanish from the earth
Inscribe us for blessing in the book of life
Let the new year be a good year for us

Barbra Streisand sings traditional music Avinu Malkeinu. Part of the service for Yom Kippur.

"Sung during Rosh Ha' Shanah (the Jewish New Year), "Avinu Malkeinu" ("Our Father, Our King") is a supplication to God to treat us with kindness and generosity, even when we haven't always lived up to His ideals for us. The melody I sing here is so beautiful, surely the hand of God touched the composer." Barbara Streisand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YONAP39jVE&feature=related

Avinu malkeinu sh'ma kolenu
Avinu malkeinu chatanu l'faneycha
Avinu malkeinu alkenu chamol aleynu
V'al olaleynu v'tapenu,

Avinu malkeinu
Kaleh dever v'cherev v'raav mealeynu
Avinu malkeinu kalehchol tsar
Umastin mealeynu,

Avinu malkeinu
Avinu malkeinu
Kotvenu b'sefer chayim tovim
Avinu malkeinu chadesh aleynu
Chadesh a leynu shanah tovah,

Sh'ma kolenu
Sh'ma kolenu
Sh'ma kolenu,

Avinu malkeinu,

Avinu malkeinu
Chadesh a leynu,

Shanah tovah,

Avinu malkeinu
Sh'ma kolenu
Sh'ma kolenu
Sh'ma kolenu
Sh'ma kolenu

Let us sing praise upon the highest. Let us motion in time, with love. Let us walk with our neighbor with glad tidings. Let us talk with our children in song. And expound, that we are the dream unfolding, and we are kings (kingsmen, kinsmen, we are related) again, royal blue (blood), the hearts of the (true) blue, heaven's bond, the loyal in you. We are oneness, one clan, rainbow colors. We are walking talking to be free. We are dreams that come from heaven to shed a blanket of love!

Comfort in the Wind, our Sunshine Glory Shines says with her heart, "Carry me home, darkness embrace, the dreams unfold, a human face!"

You are the promise land, when a smile comes across your face (love is known in your heart), bless and pray, and all pain will be just a trace, as forgiveness shows you the way. Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy will make a stand, law of love, shall be the reprimand.

Come my Angels, let's walk towards the promise land, right into your heart, my talk does start, to reverberate all your worth. Let us sing together, let us be one hand (knowing peace).

Your devoted servant,
White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother
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Contributed by Holiness David
"The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. This is the law of love and the law of song, let us dream to the beyond."

1. THE KOL NIDRE

By : Joseph Jacobs Max Schloessinger Cyrus Adler Francis L. Cohen

Prayer recited in the synagogue at the beginning of the evening service on the Day of Atonement; the name is taken from the opening words. The "Kol Nidre" has had a very eventful history, both in itself and in its influence on the legal status of the Jews.

Introduced into the liturgy despite the opposition of rabbinic authorities, repeatedly attacked in the course of time by many halakists, and in the nineteenth century expunged from the prayer-book by many communities of western Europe, it has often been employed by Christians to support their assertion that the oath of a Jew can not be trusted.

Form of Prayer.

Before sunset on the eve of the Day of Atonement, when the congregation has gathered in the synagogue, the Ark is opened and two rabbis, or two leading men in the community, take from it two Torah-scrolls. Then they take their places, one on each side of the ?azzan, and the three recite in concert a formula beginning with the words, which runs as follows:

"In the tribunal of heaven and the tribunal of earth, by the permission of God -- blessed be He -- and by the permission of this holy congregation, we hold it lawful to pray with the transgressors."

Thereupon the cantor chants the Aramaic prayer beginning with the words "Kol Nidre," with its marvelously plaintive and touching melody, and, gradually increasing in volume from pianissimo to fortissimo, repeats three times the following words:

"All vows , obligations, oaths, and anathemas, whether called '?onam,' '?onas,' or by any other name, which we may vow, or swear, or pledge, or whereby we may be bound, from this Day of Atonement until the next (whose happy coming we await), we do repent.

May they be deemed absolved, forgiven, annulled, and void, and made of no effect; they shall not bind us nor have power over us. The vows shall not be reckoned vows; the obligations shall not be obligatory; nor the oaths be oaths."

The leader and the congregation then say together: (Num. xv. 26).

"And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, and the stranger that sojourneth among them, seeing all the people were in ignorance"
This also is repeated three times. The ?azzan then closes with the benediction, :

"Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast preserved us and hast brought us to enjoy this season."

In many congregations Num. xiv. 19-20 is recited before this benediction. After it the Torah-scrolls are replaced, and the customary evening service begins. Thank you http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=340&letter=K

2. Avinu Malkeinu (Hebrew: אָבִינוּ מַלְכֵּנוּ‎) (lit. "Our Father, Our King") is a Jewish prayer recited during Jewish services on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and certain fast days.

Each line of the prayer begins with the words "Avinu Malkeinu" and is then followed by varying phrases, mostly supplicatory. There is often a slow, chanting, repetitive aspect to the melody to represent the pious pleading within the prayer. There are 54 such verses. Verses 15-23 are recited responsively, first by the leader and then repeated by the congregation. The reader also reads the last verse allowed (and sometimes it is sung by the entire congregation).

On most days when Avinu Malkeinu is recited, it is included during Shacharit and Mincha on that day. It is omitted on Shabbat (except Yom Kippur at Ne'ila) and at Mincha on Fridays. On Erev Yom Kippur it is not recited at Mincha but some congregations do recite it in the morning when it falls on Friday. On Yom Kippur, Avinu Malkeinu is also recited during Maariv and Ne'ila, except when Yom Kippur falls on Shabbat in the Ashkenazi tradition, in which case Avinu Malkeinu is recited during Ne'ila only. During the Avinu Malkenu, the Ark is opened, and at the end of the prayer, the Ark is closed. In the Sephardic tradition, it is recited on Shabbat, and the Ark is not opened.

Throughout the Ten Days of Repentance, five lines of Avinu Malkeinu that refer to various heavenly books include the word Kotveinu ("Inscribe us"). During Ne'ila, this is replaced with Chotmeinu ("Seal us"). This reflects the belief that on Rosh Hashanah all is written and revealed and on Yom Kippur all decrees for the coming year are sealed. When recited on Fast Days (other than the Fast of Gedaliah which falls in the days of Penitence) the phrase Barech Aleinu ("bless us") in the 4th verse is recited instead of the usual Chadesh Aleinu ("renew us"), and "Zochreinu" (remember us) is recited in verses 19-23 in place of "Kotveinu B'Sefer" (inscribe us in the book). Fast Days on which it is not recited (by any custom) are Tisha B'Av, the afternoon of the Fast of Esther except when it is brought forward (thus not falling immediately before Purim) and when the 10th of Tevet falls on a Friday it is omitted at Mincha (as is usual on a Friday).

Sephardic Jews do not recite Avinu Malkeinu on fast days (except those that fall in the days of Penitence). Instead, a series of Selichot prayers specific to the day are recited.

In the interests of gender neutrality, the UK Liberal Jewish prayer-book for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (Machzor Ruach Chadashah) translates the epithet as "Our Creator, Our Sovereign". It also contains a contemporary prayer based on Avinu Malkeinu in which the feminine noun Shekhinah is featured.[1] Thank you http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avinu_Malkeinu.

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010, Cup of God flips over and pours out wrote:

(Hebrew words to Kol Nidrei above)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY6i6SobW6M&NR=1 (above)

Dream Vision (above)

"See, O Lord, what miserable sinners we are. We make promises to live better lives each year and yet always fall far short of keeping them. Therefore, help us, O Lord, and pardon us for our shortcomings."

Blessings from your Magenta Warrior,
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Joy is here to stay ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ and sacred is the way, to heaven's bounty where we come from,
we return to this Heavenly Sun. Shine on me today, let my heart shower miracles away.

Free my soul and walk with me, to the shore of divinity. Gather and set my soul on fire,
the waking call of G_ah_d's (utterance of heavenly transmission) desire.
Let us shine as family. Let us set our souls free!

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Let us shine,

a light from within,

for all to know.

White Buffalo Calf Woman your Twin Deer Mother Sings. I bring pass over to you, my heart does long to be bleu (freedom), the heart of always comes true, when faith is written on you. But so many, they don't really, think that G_ah_d (utterance of heavenly transmission) will bring, the heart that rings. And we are satisfied, to long for better skies, rather than trusting all the ones who came before us. It's time of prophecy, the living of all the devoted seas (blue tzitzit), and what could bring us home, we don't look at this loom (weaving of light and dark). It's a covering, the prayer cloth that helps us discover, that we are housing a truth, and it's called our soul. There is wisdom if we trust our heart's breath, the sanctity of loving all that is truth. But who can you depend on, when so many think they know lawns (green grass the home of paradise) and you don't know which way to turn?

There's only one place, that speaks volumes, it's the prayer you turn to, that leads you true. Look at your heart inside, not at your pride outside, but bring the soul, that knows, the way to go. And when we follow you and me, and gift all, to the leaves (tree of life, our relatives who we share life with), then we know where we must go, on it's course of time. Let's not be blind any more, but instead let's find vision of a stare, where our hearts show us the way, with good old fashion love in the air. And it's where we need find, the song that leads us this time, to unite our hearts, to fight for broken hearts.

There is wind in the clouds. There is flowing of the blood, but there is not wisdom that grows, with all the lies. Instead, let's hold each others hands, and feed all who do command, the soul of wisdom, the soul of pride (faith and humbleness), that offers us the ride. It's heaven inside. It's the grains of delight (abundance for all). It's where G_ad_d promises us paradise. Give your embrace to the world. Feed the homeless and the full. Open your hearts and give it all away. Brotherhood comes with a price, and we'd better think twice, because only love will allow us to survive. We are a hide (holy temple which resides a soul), the Rainbow Tribe.

Giving to Receive Joy, Give Alms for High Holy Day, Yom Kippur Sept. 17-18, 2010

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We call out for glory, freedom ring!

White Buffalo Calf Woman Sings, the House of the Beloved Rings, Holiness David brings in the heart beat, the drumming places, that meet. Greet and forgive our hearts, then all will be a part, of unity, the holy sanctity, because we long for liberty!

Giving to Receive Joy

Bring my heart around to you, to bless the sacred and the true. I see you as greatness, it's true, because G_ah_d did surely count on you (a sound in a circle). Now it's time, for us to shine. Bring in hearts that know glory all the time. Hear we flow, to join the kingdom knows, the bellow, the sharing of G_ah_d's voice. I know it's deep inside of you, where all the hearts are true. And I can feel the winds of the four directions again. Give me a safe place to flow. Offer me a home to grow and know. Here is a heaven, the place, we call our home, when we start to know the heaven's booth (Star of David, six sides of the crystalline form of a blessing, viewing heaven has begun). Do you see it? Do you sea the true? Do you see the heart that follows you? Give your soul to your brother, walk with him to the end. Feel your heartbeat churning for a friend (helping someone again). Now, it's time for unity to shine. Now it's time for us to grow a heart sublime. Give a soul, to those who are in need of growth, show them a booth, where they can roam.

Build a castle, dare you in the air. Fill the world sacred air. Can you dig deep and roots will abound, for all the seeds to find the holy ground. Give us a place, in the shallow worldly grave. Give a place, to shine in relief. Give in our hopes and dreams to everyone, bring in a heart that looms and grows (blanket of fields and dreams). Give them a prayer cloth to know. Have you build a castle, your booth inside the air (winds of the four directions). Don't you realize, this is the holy prayer. Blessings each other, the winds that blow in your face, give it directions, how to fare (with sacred blessings). Hold on to praise each day, we summon thee. Hold on to castles without any disease (freedom, forgive me, forgive thee, let me be free). Give each other abundance, like God in divinity. Be the heart that follows all this grief. Fill them up, with holy sieve (chaff from the seed, the heart within, the flesh of sin).

Do you understand, the will of a happy man? Do you understand a prayer will command? Do you understand, safety comes upon this land? Do you understand, the blessings you receive? Grow like a stout tree of life knows, sacred and all enclosed. A booth in the air, a castle if we dare, to bring in blessings in the sheaves (stock and seeds, bundled together). Holy is sacred, where we plant our hearts, enduring for all of it's parts. God hold me near your heart. Feel the swollen envelope heart. There is much to feel excited for. Much to feel sad too. But we of a perfect view, know God is here to show us through. Heaven has come home to us, to share in all this sacred fuss. It's time for us to go down the blue road, the place our soul, does blossom and bloom, to know the joy of G_ah_d is home! Welcome Home!

White Buffalo Calf Woman Sings and Holiness David Running Eagle Drums for your heart in the coming new year. Bring joy and happiness into your relatives, friends, co-workers, associates and strangers!

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The blue road is the law of motion in sound in the wind, tears, rivers and sky. The eternal circle of life. Like the tides, that ramble to and fro, the spiritual realm of numinosity is fastened to the heaven allowing the darkness to resonate or vibrate within the sanctuary of the flesh body. We are offered a voice and heartbeat, to flow through with soul body (motion and knowing), creating spiritual reverence and blessings, through the vision quest or inward walk, as we express creation through the soul. The blue road is the soul body, which is housed in our holy temple, buffalo home of the rainbow colors and four directions. Here the wind blows the leaves (relatives of the sacred blue) and the roots which long to feel the waters glory, on the tree of life.
The blue road is the law of sound, the realm of soul, darkness, where we talk and feel our heart. I am the song, from heaven.

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Sunset of September 17 through nightfall of September 18 (Tiehsrei 10, 5771)

No Work is Permitted, High Holy Day or Day of Awe Completes in Yom Kippur.

It's a day to receive, the heart of those who grieve, let us pray for them to know the way!
Joy is here to stay ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ and sacred is the way, to heaven's bounty where we come from,
we return to this Heavenly Sun. Shine on me today, let my heart shower miracles away.
Free my soul and walk with me, to the shore of divinity. Gather and set my soul on fire,
the waking call of G_ah_d's (utterance of heavenly transmission) desire.
Let us shine as family. Let us set our souls free!

Yom Kippur (Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר‎, IPA: [ˈjom kiˈpur]), also known as the Day of Atonement, is one of the holiest days of the year for the Jewish people. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Jewish practitioners traditionally observe this holy day with a 25-hour period of fasting and intensive prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services. Yom Kippur completes the annual period known in Judaism as the High Holy Days (or sometimes "the Days of Awe").

Yom Kippur is the tenth day of the month of Tishrei. According to Jewish tradition, God inscribes each person's fate for the coming year into a book, the Book of Life, on Rosh Hashanah, and waits until Yom Kippur to "seal" the verdict. During the Days of Awe, a Jew tries to amend his or her behavior and seek forgiveness for wrongs done against God (bein adam leMakom) and against other human beings (bein adam lechavero). The evening and day of Yom Kippur are set aside for public and private petitions and confessions of guilt (Vidui). At the end of Yom Kippur, one considers one's self absolved by God.

The Yom Kippur prayer service includes several unique aspects. One is the actual number of prayer services. Unlike a regular day, which has three prayer services (Ma'ariv, the evening prayer; Shacharit, the morning prayer; and Mincha, the afternoon prayer), or a Shabbat or Yom Tov, which have four prayer services (Ma'ariv; Shacharit; Musaf, the additional prayer; and Mincha), Yom Kippur has five prayer services (Ma'ariv; Shacharit; Musaf; Mincha; and Ne'ilah, the closing prayer). The prayer services also include a public confession of sins (Vidui) and a unique prayer dedicated to the special Yom Kippur avodah (service) of the Kohen Gadol in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.

As one of the most culturally significant Jewish holidays, Yom Kippur is observed by many secular Jews who may not observe other holidays. Many secular Jews attend synagogue on Yom Kippur—for many secular Jews the High Holidays are the only recurring times of the year in which they attend synagogue, causing synagogue attendance to soar, and almost two-thirds fast. For more reading please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur

Yom Kippur in a Nutshell

The holiest day of the year. Fasting and atonement, solemnity and joy...

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year--the day on which we are closest to G‑d and to the quintessence of our own souls. It is the Day of Atonement -- "For on this day He will forgive you, to purify you, that you be cleansed from all your sins before G‑d" (Leviticus 16:30).
For twenty-six hours--from several minutes before sunset on Tishrei 9 to after nightfall on Tishrei 10--we "afflict our souls": we abstain from food and drink, do not wash or anoint our bodies, do not wear leather footwear, and abstain from marital relations.

Before Yom Kippur we perform the Kaparot atonement service; we request and receive honey cake, in acknowledgement that we are all recipients in G-d's world and in prayerful hope for a sweet and abundant year; eat a festive meal, immerse in a mikvah, and give extra charity. Late afternoon we eat the pre-fast meal, following which we bless our children, light a memorial candle as well as the holiday candles, and go to the synagogue for Kol Nidrei services.

In the course of Yom Kippur we hold five prayer services: Maariv, with its solemn Kol Nidrei service, on the eve of Yom Kippur; Shacharit--the morning prayer; Musaf, which includes a detailed account of the Yom Kippur Temple service; Minchah, which includes the reading of the Book of Jonah; and Ne'illah, the "closing of the gates" service at sunset. We say the Al Chet confession of sins eight times in the course of Yom Kippur, and recite Psalms every available moment.

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The day is the most solemn of the year, yet an undertone of joy suffuses it: a joy that revels in the spirituality of the day and expresses the confidence that G-d will accept our repentance, forgive our sins, and seal our verdict for a year of life, health and happiness. The closing Neilah service climaxes in the resounding cries of "Hear O Israel... G-d is one." Then joy erupts in song and dance (a Chabad custom is to sing the lively "Napoleon's March"), followed by a single blast of the shofar, followed by the proclamation, "Next year in Jerusalem." We then partake of a festive after-fast meal, making the evening after Yom Kippur a Yom Tov (festival) in its own right.

By the Grace of G‑d
Erev Yom Kippur, 5771 • September 17, 2010

Dear Friend,

A few hours before the onset of Yom Kippur each year, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, would enter the synagogue for prayer, holding a bag of coins. The tables were covered with scores, perhaps hundreds, of charity plates, representing an array of causes, from food for the needy and assistance to poor brides, to schools and mitzvah campaigns and more.

Deliberately and methodically, despite his impossibly tight schedule, the Rebbe would place a coin into each plate, taking great care not to skip a single one. Each represented a community or an individual who needed help, materially or spiritually.

In his urgent desire to help each individual, the Rebbe did not consider even one of them to be insignificant.

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Emulating this extraordinary example, by digging deep into our own resources to fill the plates of others, we encourage G‑d to throw open His bank account of abundant blessings to each of us, to be judged with mercy and compassion for a truly happy, healthy and sweet year. And G‑d, we know, has plenty to give.

• • •

May your charity partnership stand you in good stead as G‑d opens His bank account real wide to grant you and yours all of the deepest of His blessings, for yourself, your family and the entire world, to have a Good and Sweet New Year.

On behalf of the amazing Chabad.org Team,

Sincerely,

Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin
Director, Chabad.org

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Yom Kippur Historical Background

Judaism is the religion of the Jews. It is one of the oldest religions in the world dating back to more than 3000 years. Jewish history is one marked with strife and turmoil, as the Jews have suffered much persecution throughout the ages. In fact, they did not have an independent country for thousands of years. The ancient reference to their country was that of the “Land of Israel”, but it was not until 1948 that the official state of Israel was formed.

Early Yom Kippur History

As the Jews have a long and colorful history, they also have a wide range of festivals and holidays. Of all the Jewish festivals, one of the most well known is “Yom Kippur” (biblically known as “Yom Kippurium”) or the “Day of Atonement”. As the calendar of the Jews starts at sundown, Jewish holidays begin the night before the actual date of the holiday. Yom Kippur demarks a 25 hour period of fasting, abstinence and prayer and usually occurs during September or October each year.

The culmination of this festival was the sacrifice of an animal, usually a goat (discontinued today). First the priest would put his hands on the goat’s head and confess on behalf of the congregation. Then it would be taken 10 to 12 miles into the wilderness by the priest and then killed by pushing it backwards off a cliff. The whole process was said to be symbolic of ridding of the sins of the worshippers. This is also how the word “scapegoat” came into being, which is actually what this particular goat was called.

The earliest reference to Yom Kippur can be found in the Old Testament in Leviticus chapter 23, Verse 27 where God is described as having spoken to Moses thus: “on the tenth day of the seventh month there shall be a day of atonement … ye shall not do work on that same day …”. Even though the actual word “Yom Kippur” is not mentioned in the Bible, this is probably due the fact that it is a Hebrew word which is the official language of the Jews.

There are several mentions of this festival even before the writing of the Old Testament, but they are mostly hearsay. A well-known historical fact is however that every year when Yom Kippur was observed, a crimson ribbon would be tied to the door of the temple. It turned white after the sacrifice of an animal, usually a goat. This was believed to signify that God had approved of the sacrifice. From the year 30 A.D. the ribbon stopped turning white. The interpretation was that now that Jesus had given himself in sacrifice to cleanse the sins of Mankind, the sacrifice of an animal was no longer required, and from that time on, the practice of animal sacrifice was discontinued. White Buffalo Calf Woman, elder crystal person adds, "But in these times of awakening, we understand that Jesus is a christal or crystal person, whom many do roam this earth. The crystal person, takes on the perspective of the entire Oneness of God. This is representative of the Rainbow Clan. And crystal is just one of many rainbow colors. We all suffer for each other, because this is true love! Welcome home to the third phase of evolution, heaven (blue road) upon earth (red road)"

The Later Years of Yom Kippur

Over the years, Yom Kippur had its champions and critics. It continued however, to be a major event in the Jewish religious calendar. In 1840, some rabbis stopped practicing it and in Germany it was even removed totally. The early part of 1900 brought about migration of Jews to the United States of America in large numbers from Jerusalem and also various Jewish Pockets throughout the world such as Poland and Russia. As the Jewish presence in the U.S. increased, Jewish customs and traditions came to be well known in America. Yom Kippur became a well known annual holiday along with other religious holidays in the U.S.

The Yom Kippur War

This war is so named because it was started on the day of Yom Kippur. On 6th October 1973, Egypt and Syria combined forces and launched an attack on Israel thereby starting what came to be called the “Yom Kippur War”. The Arab nations relied on the fact that the Israeli Military would be off guard on the biggest day in the Jewish calendar, and the element of surprise worked. The actual result of this war was a mixed bag for both sides, but we will not go into the full details at this point. It is sufficient however to mention that commemoration of the Yom Kippur War is part of the observances of Yom Kippur today.

Yom Kippur Today

Today the population of Jews worldwide is 13.3 million and half of them live in the U.S. The remaining is spread over Israel, Europe and what is known as “Diaspora” which means the population of displaced people – those who do not have a permanent homeland where 8.35 million people live. So it is easy to imagine that Yom Kippur has a very strong global presence today. It is marked with rallies and events and millions of Jews all over the world unite in prayer and meditation, praying for the souls of the ones who have gone on ahead and atoning for the sins past and praying in hope of salvation in the days to come. Thank you

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Tashlich, a special prayer said near a body
of water while casting out bread, some other food,
or even lint from pockets; this is a symbolic
casting off of the sins from the year past. Both the
word and the practice are derived from
Micah 7:18-20, which says "Thou wilt cast
all their sins into the depths of the sea."

But let us bring the blessings, to purify darkness
heaven within, the soul along the blue road,
the place where vision is strong. Here inside
the soul, the realm of inner light set free. Let
my darkness blossom and set me free!

My heart is full of wisdom, my soul does expound, that God (blue road, heaven, dark, soul) is here taking, the ground (red road, earth, light, flesh). And those who want to find the will of a saint (a light from within), need learn how to fall down and pray. Because God is heading our way. Heaven is upon us. Heaven is from the ground. Heaven is all around us, in all we do and say. Heaven is the heart strings, the blue of me and you (reflection of light, the heavenly road brought to earth). Heaven is abounding, when my soul seems to speak, to the heart of those who weep.

Imagine filling up volumes of what you did and say, then you could possibly know the distance between you and me. Your whole life is a story, that's written in your book of life, that's how we come to know, that God is here, noticing twice. Being woman, the soul. Being man the flesh (not always this way, but it's the way we view, the singularity). The sun does rise and sun does set, to bring in the heart of woh (horsey, the soul)....man (transmission of light, the flesh). And we are here to worship the hard work, we all withstand, to share the heart of oneness, the relative land. And it's a heart of wisdom. It's a book of life. It's where we look to find treasures. It's where we find a life. And when it's all over, we come to the heart of man. We are the many creatures, that we need to understand.

The dream has a master, and your hands can come forth, to bring in heartbeats, that last and create force. You don't have to wait for your brothers (flesh) to step up first, we can be sisters (souls), and know it's our worth. Walking and talking, to others each and every day. We are a story, that shows and displays, greeting each other, showing kindness in what you do, it's the way of saving, the true and the blue. Feel your heart giving so you can receive too. Bring in the stories, of many a day. Bring in the stories, that give it away. Bring in tomorrow, that sails in the breeze, sing your songs homeward towards eternity.

One way or another. One way is the path. We are always part of heaven. We are always parts that last. We gift to each other, the heart in the breeze, when we remember, that God is in me. Give your kindness, to the day you arise. Give your dreams a heart full of surprise. Give the sound of angels and sing for the world. Your heart is measured by what you gift it's worth. Does your heart sing, to bring in happiness again? Does your step walk towards those who feel the shot (pain in the heart)? Do you give to strangers? Do you help the poor? Do you give to those, who are far afford? Do you give to latent enemies, you forgive? Do you give to tomorrow, hoping children are the gift. Do you feel the kindness that's measured in you? Do you feel that hope of God is filling the inside of you?

"Thanks", Holiness David says to the world. We are all golden treasures, when gratitude is filled. Give your heart some measure, give to receive this day. Because all are golden treasures, when you give your love away.

One step yonder. Two step fore. Three steps glory. We do afford (gifts from God, our dreams). Five steps to a kingdom. Six steps towards righteousness. Seven steps to daylight, the seed that bursts forth. Eight steps to golden paradise above. Nine steps to consciousness, where prayer is dance and love. Ten steps to heaven, brings us closer to the end, to begin forever, the circle song begins. We are part of what we awe, the magic of our lives. We are the birthing place of God's apparent delights. We are the children, who bring us eternity. When we trust each other and gift the kindness breeze (I pass you, you pass me and we gift to each other, please, the exchange of true love, the gift of eternity).

"L'shanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim,"

which means

"May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year."

Holiness David says, "Pass somebody, smile and send silent love".

White Buffalo Calf Woman sings and Holiness David Drums, the song of love, to the throne of G_ah_d's kingdom. Today prayers for you in Song, to bring your hearts along, the wave of the blue, the heart inside of you, the soul, that lingers to come on home, where G_ah_d is known, by their throne! Crown of love, come to stay, because G_ah_d ordained it this way. We come to bring, the heart that's set free, when you trust the soul within, the darkness, the soul that finds the knowledge of goodness, the perfect soul that lingers and holds, to reflect and reverberate all hearts, to feel loved and never apart.

L'Shana Tova Chicago!

Although many of us are at work today, for our Jewish friends sundown yesterday marked the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (September 8, 2010). It is regarded as the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, and their first actions toward the realization of mankind's role in God's world.
Judaism has four "new year" observances, each marking a different yearly observance. Rosh Hashanah is the new year for people, animals, and legal contracts. There are many traditions that go with Rosh Hashanah, but the central observance is the sounding of shofar, the ram's horn, which also signifies the people's crowning of God as king of the universe. The sounding of the shofar is also a call to repent, as Rosh Hashanah is also observed as the anniversary of man's first sin and repentance. This marks the first day of the days of repentance, culminating ten days later in Yom Kippur, the day of atonement.
Besides the sounding of shofar, traditional Rosh Hashanah customs include eating a piece of apple dipped in honey to symbolize the desire for a sweet year, and blessing others with the words "L'shanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim," which means "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year." Later this afternoon, you may see Jewish Chicagoans near Lake Michigan practicing the Tashlich, a special prayer said near a body of water while casting out bread, some other food, or even lint from pockets; this is a symbolic casting off of the sins from the year past. Both the word and the practice are derived from Micah 7:18-20, which says "Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." As with every major Jewish holiday, after candle lighting and prayers, they recite Kiddush* and make a blessing on the Challah*.

One of the most amazing things about living in such a large urban area is the opportunity that we all have to encounter people that have different beliefs and customs than we do. If you aren't Jewish, today is a chance to reflect on the traditions of a faith that is the foundation of both Christianity and Islam. If you're Jewish, it's a great time to reach out and to share some of your traditions with friends that might not be familiar with your faith. Happy New Year, Chicago! Thank you http://www.jewishchicago.com Image via karbon69. By Kevin Robinson in News on September 13, 2007 12:00 PM

*Kiddush also spelled Qiddush (Hebrew: “sanctification”)

Jewish benediction and prayer recited over a cup of wine immediately before the meal on the eve of the sabbath or of a festival; the ceremony acknowledges the sanctity of the day that has just begun. Chanting, or recitation, usually performed by the head of the household, may involve several or all members of the family, depending on the custom; each then sips wine from the cup, which was held in the right hand during the benediction. In the Ashkenazi (German) tradition, two covered loaves of bread (halloth) on the table symbolize the double portion of manna gathered before the sabbath by Israelites during their years of wandering in the wilderness. If no wine is available, bread may be used as a substitute.

Following an ancient custom from the days when wayfarers and the poor lodged in synagogues, some congregations recite the Kiddush at the end of the Friday-evening service in the synagogue—except on the eve of the Passover (Pesaḥ), when the recitation is reserved for the Seder service. The Kiddush that is recited after the morning service of the sabbath and of the festival is preceded by appropriate readings from the Torah or first five books of the Bible. Thank you http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/317334/Kiddush

*What is Challah?
Circle of Life
"Returning G_ah_d, the utterance of heavenly (blue road) transmission, the heavenly soul, round and round we go, within, the voice bringing song again and trusting the hall of the four winds." White Buffalo Calf Woman

“Man does not live on bread alone, but by the utterance of G-d’s mouth does man live.”
Devarim 8:3.

The Maggid of Mezeritch explains: Everything in creation is an “utterance of G-d’s mouth.” In the beginning, G-d said, "let there be light," and there was light. Everything under the sun holds a spark of G-dliness because it came into being as a result of the word of G-d.

When we feel hungry for a slice of bread, this is really our soul’s desire for its spiritual essence. Food feeds body and soul. When we take challah we are saying: basic bread helps me have the strength to serve my Creator; by using the energy to do mitzvos, I am spiritually nourished. Food is not about simply keeping me alive. It is about helping me live for the purpose for which I was created.

Challah or hallah is a traditional Jewish bread eaten on Shabbat and Jewish holidays (except Passover, when leavened bread is not allowed). This association with Judaism is most prevalent in the United States, as challah is also a traditional bread in numerous European countries, such as Hungary, among local non-Jewish peasant populations.

On Shabbat every Jew is commanded to eat three meals (one on Friday night and two on Saturday). In Judaism, a "meal" includes bread. Hence, Jews will traditionally eat challah at the beginning of their Shabbat meal. As with any other type of bread, the blessing "Baruch atah Adonai, eloheinu melech ha'olam, hamotzi lechem min ha'aretz" is recited before the challah is eaten. Translated, it means "Blessed are you, Lord, our God, king of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth."

The dough is made with an especially large number of eggs, and sweetened with honey. The dough is traditionally cut into three rope-shaped pieces and then braided together before baking. An egg wash is applied to the dough to give a golden color after being baked. Poppy or sesame seeds are sprinkled on the bread before baking; the seeds represent manna that God gave to the Israelites to eat while they wandered in the desert.

On Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish new year, raisins are added to the dough and the Challah is braided into a special crown shape, representing God's crown.

The name refers to a small piece of dough which is reserved and baked separately. This is done in commemoration of when the temple stood in Israel. Originally, during temple times, the dough was given to a Cohen (priest). Since the destruction, the dough is burned and thrown away after a special prayer is said. Thank you http://www.jewishrecipes.org/jewish-foods/challah.html

*What is Challah?
By Yitzchak Hanoka

We are woven together!
Red, blue, yellow roads.
A select number of Torah commandments are categorized as t’luyos ba’aretz, directly connected with the physical Land of Israel. Challah, the separation of a portion of dough, is among these commandments. The Torah states: “You shall offer up a loaf (challah) from the first of your dough as a gift” (Numbers 15:20). This loaf is among the twenty-four gifts that G-d awarded to the kohanim, the priests.

Other commandments that are t’luyos ba’aretz include bikkurim, terumah, and ma’aser. Bikkurim, the First Fruits, were brought to Jerusalem by the landowner as an offering in the Temple and given to the kohanim. Terumah and ma’aser, portions of produce, were given respectively to a kohen and a Levite. These other mitzvos were not applicable until fourteen years after the Israelites entered the land (seven years to conquer it and seven years to divide it among the various tribes). In contrast, the mitzvah to take challah applied the moment that the Israelites crossed the Jordan River into the Holy Land.

By Biblical law, challah is taken only within the boundaries of the Land of Israel. However, the Sages instituted the taking of challah outside the Holy Land so that people living in the Diaspora would not forget the mitzvah. In order for the mitzvah of challah to have Biblical force, all (or according to the Sefer HaChinuch, a majority) of Jews must be present in the Holy Land. Ever since the forced dispersion of the Jews at the end of the First Temple era, this criterion has not been met. Therefore, challah today, both in and out of the Land of Israel, is a Rabbinic rather than a Biblical mitzvah. Thank you http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/130537/jewish/About-Challah.htm

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Let us be little children too, the house of the Beloved children of G_ah_d (Jews and Gentiles, Oneness stands). The blossoms of our lives, bring in four winds, that abound, here the soul does hide in dark, to shine, alightfromwithin, the golden heart!

It's a heart that always knows, how we live and how we grow. When we pray to G_ah_d above, all the sky does know of love. When we pray to G_ah_d below, all the ground does know the flow. Now it's time to unite our hearts, to the flesh, that seems so stout. We are here to unite our hearts, to the lost and lasting waves. It's time to lean on love this day. It's time to lead a holy day. It's time to create an army of G_ah_d, the kind that stands for love is law. The House of the Beloved Children know, that love is the only way to go. And it's written in all the books, holy few, have a niche. Because you know it's blessings that save the day. Because we know that glory will know the way. And because it's time to go on home. The place G_ah_d promised, the Rainbow Clan.

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Eighth Day (of Eight Days) of Miracles: The Festival of Lights, called Chanukah

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Last day of Chanukah

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Public life

Background

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Eight Days of Chanukah with Lyrics -Hanukkah Story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leemhE6_ayc

The Miracle of the Eighth Day(A Hanukkah Sermon)

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Muktza

General Concept of Muktza: Muktza is essentially a restriction on objects that were not 'prepared' before the Sabbath. The absence of prepairedness in this sense means that the vast majority of people would not expect to use this particaular item or substance on Shabbat.

Categories: There are four main categories of muktza, each one with different halakhic ramifications:

Chol HaMo'ed

Hakhel

Simchat Beit HaSho'eivah

Hoshanot

Hoshanah Rabbah

Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah

Sukkot in the Hebrew Bible

Sukkot in the Christian New Testament

Sukkot as a place

Sukkot

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The Later Years of Yom Kippur

The Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur Today

May Your Book of Life Know Peace, "May You Be Inscribed and Sealed for a Good Year", L 'Shanah Tovah

"L'shanah tovah tikateiv veteichateim,"

which means

"May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year."

The Miracle of the Eighth Day
(A Hanukkah Sermon)

by Jan Vickery Knost

First Parish in Norwell
December 9, 2001

The Final Days of Sukkot:
Shemini Atzeret & Simchat Torah