tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45525273907335407562023-11-15T08:52:27.759-08:00HOUSE OF THE BELOVEDTorah comes from the word Horo'ah which means guidance for life! Bless you forever and a day. Welcoming you into Heaven, upon your Earthly ways!White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-89818378257322532302018-09-20T18:17:00.002-07:002018-09-20T18:50:41.754-07:00Yom Kippur the Promised Land, A Light From Within Shines Star Light in the Wind<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yom Kippur the Promised Land, A Light From Within Shines Star Light in the Wind</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Shine me a light from within my heart. I will be there to dew my part. I want to set sail to the seas. I want to be next to thee. Shine my light inside of my heart today. Shine my light, let me be a star ray. Shine my light, help me guide my enemy, those who do not want to walk with me.<br /><br />Shine your light, next to mine. Shine your light, inside divine. Shine your light, come kingdom sail today. Shine your light, for us to have a good daze.<br /><br />Today I set my course upon the breeze, where the colors always seem to shock me. Yet when I rise up and share my sacred soul, my planted spirit, ahw, just wants to grow. I’m a rock and I have set my course. I looking at the other side, where my family receives me of course. Yes I know, I am a star light. I will protect the children, with all of my might.<br /><br />Shine your light, next to mine. Shine your light, inside divine. Shine your light, come kingdom I sail, I want to be next to you, even crossed to the nail.<br /><br />Yes my Father, my heaven divine. HE shows us witness, to all that will chime. Do you hear my shofar, blowing in the wind? I know love will beget a holy heart once again.<br /><br />Today I send my prayers, because Yom Kippur stares at all of this confusion, that sits right in the air. All of those frequencies, those colors in the wind, I know we are treasures, yet confusion seems to wind. So set your sails. Set your course today. Look at the stars, stationary so you can find your way. We the holy people of heaven have been set, to share the good knews, love lives in the wind.<br /><br />Shine your light, next to mine. Shine your light, inside divine. Shine your light, come kingdom set sail, because my heart can sing and I can wail.<br /><br />Look at the Rainbow, my calling is for YOU. Look at the Rainbow, my treasure chest is YOU. Look at the colors, my dismonds and jewels. You are the colors, I know deep down you got tools. Shed your mighty colors. Shine them like star light. Inside you are the treasure, the spirit with sight. Just open up your heartbeat and sail with me. We will be sailing sow we can plant more seeds.<br /><br />Shine your light, next to mine. Shine your light, inside divine. Shine your light, come kingdom within, the Great Spirit inside of you wants to grin.<br /><br />Let us be together and forgive those who lost their way. They did not follow the course of the diamonds in their hearts array. They did not understand, they were the treasures in the wind. They did not want to be jewels of every color once again. Yet we will become diamonds, stars in the sky. We holy people, House of Judah will cry. We will show others, how to reach in the depths and shine like a diamond, even the lowest did creep.<br /><br />Shine your light, next to mine. Shine your light, inside divine. You are the kingdom God has set my love. You are the highest priests, kingdom of love. Set your star light (crying) on those waves waves. Set your star light within, the spirit will praise. Yes, we are together, Great Spirit Father Hashem knows the way. HE will show you, love pops too, with you. Sparkling diamonds, every color will shine. Sparkling diamonds, you know every Jew will bind. Yes, marry me, my soul within me, share my light with every stranger, let my mishnah, my showing of delight.<br /><br />Let me help the ones the way. I am set my Hashem, He is the glory today. I bow down to every strange, because I am protected within. I am the future, the past, the PRESENT, I gift.<br /><br />Tikkum Olam, healing this world. Yes, my Father, He send me with these words. He said, be good child, show them good deeds. Forgive the stranger, because he really needs.<br /><br />Shine your light, next to mine. Shine your light, inside divine. Shine your light, come kingdom within, you are the star light, Great Father sent. You are the Star light, pure in the wind.<br /><br />Blessings Yom Kippur, this judgment day, I will heal the stranger, no matter what she say. I will protect all Mothers and daughters too. I will protect my Auntie, because she always stuck like glue.<br /><br />Blessings to those stars, that guided others today. Let it be written, a good year started this way. Let the book of life shine, like stars and diamonds that led the way. I will be treasures, that gather more arrays. Let the House of Judah, sing holy praise.<br /><br />Holiness David, King Melech adorned. I say I will gift my heartbeat, to fall down on your course. Because I know LOVE is gigantic when it comes to your heart. I know fold even the enemy, you do your part. Yes, we fold them together, we light up this ark. We will be moving across time and sharing space with everyone. We will be shining a light divine, come sit for awhile.<br /><br />Twin Deer Mother says, tell me your story true. Let me note the conclusion, the greatness of you. Let me show love is guiding all of these arcs, the circle, the behavior, the holy place we park. Yes, we gift our heartbeat, out straight in the air, because Yom Kippur helps us have a good stare.<br /><br />I am looking at you. Are you looking at me? Shine your light, next to mine, for all to seek. I will be among strangers, who needed a hand, to help them guide them, to the promised land.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Twin Deer Mother notes: Song was sang on Yom Kippur, yet posted the next day, according to tradition, to "REST". </span></div>
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<b><i>Sing a song, and get along, to have joy in life, full of tears, because you know, the sacred flow is all we have to get us home! Dance all day, and learn to play, with all you do and think and say, because we need love to please, to open hearts and doors to be! Welcome all your relatives, into the heart of all your sin and say, "I love you this very day" and "I won't let you get away!". I will fight for love this day, I will fight to show the way, because I am here to love you dear, my heart that sheds so many tears. And when we hope to comfort folks, then we will be prepared to say, "Come pray with me, learn joy to speak, and song and dance will keep us in relief". Whisper song and let a breeze come home to know your knees, where prayer is your living sacred breeze!</i></b><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-67697708201063532992017-11-02T12:57:00.001-07:002017-11-02T12:57:31.638-07:00"Plant the rows, so divine, for the river of that swirling vine" Worshiping Line<span style="background-color: #20cef5; color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Plant the rows, so divine, for the river of that swirling vine" Worshiping Line</span><div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-3057238256061652662017-04-15T09:57:00.002-07:002017-04-15T10:12:25.502-07:00gematria chart<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-27567713209974954182016-02-12T18:21:00.002-08:002016-02-12T19:28:28.851-08:00Shabbat Opening Hymns<span style="font-size: large;">Common Prayers for Shabbat Evening </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The candles are lit before the blessing is recited.<br />
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Baruch atah, Adonai, Eloheinu, melech haolam, asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav, v'tzivanu l'hadlik ner shel Shabbat. <br />
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Blessed are you, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the universe, who hallows us with mitzvot, commanding us to kindle the light of Shabbat.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.reformjudaism.org/practice/prayers-blessings/shabbat-blessings-upon-lighting-candles">http://www.reformjudaism.org/practice/prayers-blessings/shabbat-blessings-upon-lighting-candles</a><br />
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Also can be found here both Transliteration and Sound File<br />
<a href="http://www.reformjudaism.org/practice/prayers-blessings/shabbat-blessings-upon-lighting-candles">http://www.reformjudaism.org/practice/prayers-blessings/shabbat-blessings-upon-lighting-candles</a><br />
and full spectrum for Shabbat<br />
<a href="http://www.reformjudaism.org/practice/prayers-blessings/shabbat">http://www.reformjudaism.org/practice/prayers-blessings/shabbat </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Blessing over Candles Procedure for Sabbath (Shabbat)</b></span></span></span><br />
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<li>Light the candles. Place the lit match on the designated surface.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/674406/jewish/Why-do-women-wave-their-hands-over-the-Shabbat-candles.htm" title="Why do women wave their hands over the Shabbat candles?">Extend your hands</a> over the candles, draw them inwards three times in a circular motion, and then <a href="http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/484175/jewish/Why-cover-the-eyes.htm" title="Why cover the eyes?">cover your eyes</a>.<br />
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<li>Say the blessing:</li>
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בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה אַדֹנָ-י אֱ-לֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם
אֲשֶׁר קִדְּשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ לְהַדְלִיק נֵר שֶׁל שַׁבָּת
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<i>Transliteration</i>: Baruch a-ta A-do-nay Elo-hei-nu me-lech ha-o-lam a-sher ki-di-sha-nu bi-mitz-vo-tav vi-tzi-va-noo li-had-leek <span class="glossary_item">ner</span> shel Sha-bat ko-desh.<br />
<i>Translation</i>: Blessed are you, L‑rd our <span class="glossary_item">G‑d</span>, King of the universe, who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to kindle the light of the Holy Shabbat.</center>
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<li>Now, while your eyes are still covered, is an auspicious time to
pray for your heart's desires. The custom is to pray for children who
will be upright and G‑d-fearing, and for the coming of <span class="glossary_item">Moshiach</span>. Take the time also to pray for others who need blessings and good health.<br />
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<li>Uncover your eyes, gaze at the candles, and then greet everyone with blessings of a good Shabbat or holiday.</li>
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With the lighting of the candles, a woman ushers in the holy Shabbat. No "weekday" <a href="http://www.chabad.org/library/howto/wizard_cdo/aid/253222/jewish/1-A-Day-of-Rest.htm" title="1: A Day of Rest">activities</a> are to be done from that point on, as she has now entered a world of tranquility. Thank you <a href="http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/87131/jewish/Shabbat-Candles-Instructions.htm">http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/87131/jewish/Shabbat-Candles-Instructions.htm</a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />Blessing over Candles</b></span><br />
Light the shammus candle first, then recite the blessings while holding the
candle. Do not light the other candles until the blessings are done!<br />
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<i>Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam</i><br />
Blessed are you, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe
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<i>asher kidishanu b'mitz'votav v'tzivanu</i><br />
Who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us
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<i>l'had'lik neir shel Chanukah. (Amein) (use Shabbat instead of Chanukah for Shabbat)</i><br />
to light the lights of Chanukkah (or Shabbat). (Amen)</td>
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Blessing for the Chanukkah Miracle</span></h3>
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<i>Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam</i><br />
Blessed are you, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe
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<i>she'asah nisim la'avoteinu bayamim haheim baziman hazeh. (Amein)</i><br />
Who performed miracles for our ancestors in those days at this time</td>
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Shehecheyanu (Who Has Kept Us Alive)</span></h3>
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This blessing is recited only on the first night of Chanukkah.
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<i>Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam</i><br />
Blessed are you, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe
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<i>shehecheyanu v'kiyimanu v'higi'anu laz'man hazeh. (Amein)</i><br />
who has kept us alive, sustained us, and enabled us to reach this season (Amen)
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<span data-offset-key="tmqn-0-0"><span data-text="true">Protects our souls oh God (oneness consciousness). I want to sing my heart into the world. I want to share my part. Oh my God of the heavens. Oh my God of the earth. Let me seek out the revenge of your wrath as a pure child sent. We will overcome and bring all to rejoice (Drum hurts my listening, must go to silent drumming. Thank you Holiness David. So he brought us from the gate of paradise to the door of heaven. How sweet, we greet each other. Oh God our Lord, the one we serve in humility, we bow with the sacred hoop, the great circle where the holy dew flies on through). </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2msnv-0-0"><span data-text="true">We regain our composure to make magic upon the hill. You are like the diamonds of the seas, the pearls of the oceans, the valiant armor of the Kingdom of God. You are the gents of salvation. You are the women and daughter of the kingdom of righteous. You do not forget to honor each other and find the cosmos close to your hearts. Thank you. We, I, rejoice in this delight. We play nice. Oh how sweet it is. My heart divine bellows across time. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="eclju-0-0"><span data-text="true">Children of this age, the miracles of song save. Trust this place you sing. Bring forth the holy rings. Echo out to the place, within time we chase. Yet deep in the ravines, the glory does righteous sing. I hold my cup up to yours. We sparkle in our chores. The duty of the Kingdom of Saints, find the halls wane. To and fro, we know the sacred snow, the whiteness of the soul, the brightness of the star. We shine. We bind. We are the relatives that long to be near. We bring paradise a pear (a sweet sack of kindness, rather than towing our suffering around with us. behold the tears cleanse us to the gold. we are sold - on this conception or perspective of the idea, the ah hah moment, we got it). </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="bvh6e-0-0"><span data-text="true">Let us tether in this time to help and hold those who are lost in the bind. Let us teach them to find the glory that shines. The sun and the moon, the stars that swoon, bring to us hopes and dreams that reveal. We smile with the gents, the ladies of the went, passer-byes with good eyes. We are kinsmen to the Kingdom of salvation. We run home to each other. We send our love to drive us to the promise, the place of God's kingdom, the place where we walk holy, speak divine and inside we shine. There is a brilliance of hope that gifts to each other. There we know, such a lofty rainbow (vision of a cosmos that shines, twinkles divine).</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2fa7o-0-0"><span data-text="true">Making merry to the dance. We are goofy in the prance. We send our eyes traveling to and fro, to act like clowns on the rainbow. Yet in this laughter we gain, the miracles of even the insane. Send our family back to us, those who are lost and have no gust. We send our prayers that are divine, to help others come to shine. We await with open arms. We rejoice begot our wine. Tears of returning. Tears of gladness and yearning. We feel deeply forgotten shocking, yet divine, we await your shine. All my lost Brothers and Sisters, we cry, we weep. We wait at the gate of the eternal glory. We thank you for the duty of the dirty. Now cometh home and learn about the happiness you seek, the loyal not bleak, but hopeful in heart, a rage you cannot stop. We the warriors of salvation bring, happiness to all the rings. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="10cc7-0-0"><span data-text="true">As our tears flow down the river, we relieve the pains and sorrows and find there are morrows. Today we are the gift, the present, the joy of hopefulness, the glory of the slope divine, where the deep is swollen with love. There buried expanding floods of voluptuousness sighs bring me to tears. I expound the divine. Help me to shine. I want to be a good child of the universe. Devoted and pure, my heart is the calling of the divine. We are the stars of the magic we cannot hold deep within, but must be shared with others to become the treasures to each other. For we are the diamonds and the expansion (must get up and look all around for the flames of desire, that causes all this mire, smile, we are blown away, like leaves on a rainy day. We become free to dip deep within to gain a consciousness beyond contention. smells like a battery discharged). </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="athj2-0-0"><span data-text="true">Selah: **the song of the rock. We are crystalline beings of light, which a song of the heart or the ghost song comes shining through, the spiritual strength of the heavenly blue road, eternal glory of the soul. Twin Deer Mother notes</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="12c1c-0-0"><span data-text="true">Selah: Stop and listen to my song of my heart or stop and listen to me in thy song. I speak unto you, oh Great Spirits. Twin Deer Mother notes . </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3e8vp-0-0"><span data-text="true">56 Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f9hlc-0-0"><span data-text="true">4 In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1ook8-0-0"><span data-text="true">6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c7j4v-0-0"><span data-text="true">7 Shall they escape by iniquity? in thine anger cast down the people, O God.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c7f78-0-0"><span data-text="true">9 When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1487v-0-0"><span data-text="true">13 For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6ph8r-0-0"><span data-text="true">57 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5a545-0-0"><span data-text="true">4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="80e1d-0-0"><span data-text="true">11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dvsms-0-0"><span data-text="true">3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="egbbt-0-0"><span data-text="true">4 They run and prepare themselves without my fault: awake to help me, and behold.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cjlc3-0-0"><span data-text="true">5 Thou therefore, O Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, awake to visit all the heathen: be not merciful to any wicked transgressors. **Selah (stop and listen to me. Twin Deer Mother notes) .</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7f9pe-0-0"><span data-text="true">6 They return at evening: they make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fa6og-0-0"><span data-text="true">7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cobb1-0-0"><span data-text="true">8 But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them; thou shalt have all the heathen in derision.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8rn1l-0-0"><span data-text="true">9 Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defense.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6f6ug-0-0"><span data-text="true">10 The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="e0fsf-0-0"><span data-text="true">11 Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5v123-0-0"><span data-text="true">14 And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6ev98-0-0"><span data-text="true">16 But I will sing of thy power; yea, I will sing aloud of thy mercy in the morning (Morning Star, when the Sun emerges pure of heart. Twin Deer Mother notes): for thou hast been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5v284-0-0"><span data-text="true">17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defense, and the God of my mercy.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f0vq2-0-0"><span data-text="true">60 O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. (Twin Deer Mother notes: Heaven has been near for a long time, unable to assist in many measures, but now in the shifting tides of time, heavenly beings are able to drive the casting of heaven into the bounding of earth's ***liturgy ("the work of the people”. We worship, read/feel/know and respond; to many ears there is devotion. Twin Deer Mother notes.)</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5vd6o-0-0"><span data-text="true">In delivering punishments to various nations, we learn that God often turns the sin against the sinner. (What christ does, the crystal child, twins the sinner and learns to gift back the sins to the sinner or to sea upon thine own self. A mirror to the spiritual soul's doing. Twin Deer Mother notes. This is the teaching of a spiritual warrior who can obliterate the sins of others, by loving them, caring about them, to the eternal soul. Damnation becomes Earthly on the red road; rather than Heavenly blue road, in order they may learn the lesson from heaven and once again find the eternal stone trail of the soul's salvation. Christal children are the perfect soul stone or crystalline being who fights for the heavenly domain of the eternal song. White Buffalo Calf Woman notes the warrior's tote, towing, haul, convey, the suffering you carry around with you, thus the spiritual warrior fights for the law: LOVE.) Edom rejoiced at the emptying of Israel and five years later, Nebuchadnezzar swept through again, destroying several nations and emptying their lands -- including Edom. Here is what God promised Edom (Killed priests and set the tone of their judgement. Holiness David notes. King Saul was against David, whom priests exalted as King that was "prophesized". Even though David was not King yet, he and his warriors were pure of heart. King Saul's officials would not raise their swords against the priest. King Saul then turned to Doeg, a Edomite who slain all 85 priests plus men, women, children, oxen, donkeys and sheep of the town of Nob. King Saul went on a wild rampage through the Edomite, Doeg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doeg_the_Edomite and 1Samuel:21 David takes consecrated bread.): </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5vd6o-0-0"><span data-text="true">"Thus says the Lord GOD: "Behold, O Mount Seir (Land of the Edomites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Seir), I am against you; I will stretch out My hand against you, And make you most desolate; I shall lay your cities waste, And you shall be desolate. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. Because you have had an ancient hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, when their iniquity came to an end, therefore, as I live," says the Lord GOD, "I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you. Thus I will make Mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it the one who leaves and the one who returns. And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall. I will make you perpetually desolate, and your cities shall be uninhabited; then you shall know that I am the LORD" (Ezekiel 35:3-9).</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="91ri4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Ps 16:1-11. Michtam, or, by the change of one letter, Michtab—a "writing," such as a poem or song (compare Isa 38:9 - asking for help during suffering). Such a change of the letter m for b was not unusual. The position of this word in connection with the author's name, being that usually occupied by some term, such as Psalm or song, denoting the style or matter of the composition, favors this view of its meaning, though we know not why this and Psalms 56-60 should be specially, called "a writing." "A golden (Psalm)," or "a memorial" are explanations proposed by some—neither of which, however applicable here, appears adapted to the other Psalms where the term occurs. According to Peter (Ac 2:25) and Paul (Ac 13:35), this Psalm relates to Christ and expresses the feelings of His human nature, in view of His sufferings and victory over death and the grave, including His subsequent exaltation at the right hand of God. Such was the exposition of the best earlier Christian interpreters. Some moderns have held that the Psalm relates exclusively to David; but this view is expressly contradicted by the apostles; others hold that the language of the Psalm is applicable to David as a type of Christ, capable of the higher sense assigned it in the New Testament. But then the language of Ps 16:10 cannot be used of David in any sense, for "he saw corruption." Others again propose to refer the first part to David, and the last to Christ; but it is evident that no change in the subject of the Psalm is indicated. Indeed, the person who appeals to God for help is evidently the same who rejoices in having found it. In referring the whole Psalm to Christ, it is, however, by no means denied that much of its language is expressive of the feelings of His people, so far as in their humble measure they have the feelings of trust in God expressed by Him, their head and representative. Such use of His language, as recorded in His last prayer (Joh 17:1-26), and even that which He used in Gethsemane, under similar modifications, is equally proper. The propriety of this reference of the Psalm to Christ will appear in the scope and interpretation. In view of the sufferings before Him, the Saviour, with that instinctive dread of death manifested in Gethsemane, calls on God to "preserve" Him; He avows His delight in holiness and abhorrence of the wicked and their wickedness; and for "the joy that was set before Him, despising the shame" [Heb 12:2], encourages Himself; contemplating the glories of the heritage appointed Him. Thus even death and the grave lose their terrors in the assurance of the victory to be attained and "the glory that should follow" [1Pe 1:11].</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dkaaf-0-0"><span data-text="true">17 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ebmgb-0-0"><span data-text="true">2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="f1emc-0-0"><span data-text="true">3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d96t1-0-0"><span data-text="true">4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1li83-0-0"><span data-text="true">5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fnmoa-0-0"><span data-text="true">6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="6bhpi-0-0"><span data-text="true">7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="7t1iv-0-0"><span data-text="true">8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="c120v-0-0"><span data-text="true">9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b8hqe-0-0"><span data-text="true">10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="atot3-0-0"><span data-text="true">11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="d7pma-0-0"><span data-text="true">12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="cf4o4-0-0"><span data-text="true">13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2514c-0-0"><span data-text="true">14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5sjgv-0-0"><span data-text="true">15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="36sr2-0-0"><span data-text="true">17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="dd4rs-0-0"><span data-text="true">18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="23h4q-0-0"><span data-text="true">19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3t1nv-0-0"><span data-text="true">20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="8k0k8-0-0"><span data-text="true">21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b5lpa-0-0"><span data-text="true">22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="amsah-0-0"><span data-text="true">23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="41tm-0-0"><span data-text="true">24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2v3tk-0-0"><span data-text="true">25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4k23-0-0"><span data-text="true">26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="1ro90-0-0"><span data-text="true">4 yet their voice[b] goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.</span></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-34719920729287982792016-02-06T19:35:00.000-08:002016-02-06T19:35:03.764-08:00Havdalah - closing prayers after SabbatDear Relatives,<br />
As we show our respect to have have Sabbat on Friday evening thru Saturday evening, we also need to have a closing prayer, a separation prayer called Havdalah. It occurs 45 to 60 minutes after sunset. Havdalah means separation - leaving the Sabbat and entering the new week.<br />
Here's the details from: <a href="http://www.jewfaq.org/havdalahref.htm#Spices">http://www.jewfaq.org/havdalahref.htm#Spices: </a><br />
Another helpful website: <a href="http://www.chabad.org/library/howto/wizard_cdo/aid/256963/jewish/1-What-is-Havdalah.htm">http://www.chabad.org/library/howto/wizard_cdo/aid/256963/jewish/1-What-is-Havdalah.htm</a> <br />
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Havdalah Home Ritual
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Please note that this page contain the name of God.<br />
If you print it out, please treat it with appropriate respect.
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If you do not have experience reading transliteration<br />
please see the <a href="http://www.jewfaq.org/translitguide.htm">Guide to Transliteration</a>.
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The Havdalah service marks the end of Shabbat. It should be performed no
earlier than nightfall on Saturday night. Nightfall is the time when three
stars can be seen in the sky. It is normally about 45 minutes to an hour after
sundown, depending on your latitude. For the precise time when Shabbat ends in
your area, consult the list of candle lighting times provided by the
<a href="https://www.ou.org/calendar/#daily">Orthodox Union</a>.
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You will need three things for this ritual: a glass of wine or other liquid,
some fragrant spices, and a special Havdalah candle.
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<h3 id="Wine">
P'ri Hagafen: Wine</h3>
The first of the four havdalah blessings is made over wine or another liquid.
If wine or grape juice is not used, you should substitute shehakol nih'yeh
bid'varo (by whose will all things come to be) for borei p'ri hagafen (who
creates the fruit of the vine).
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<img alt="Hebrew" height="24" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/barukh_atah.gif" title="Hebrew" width="326" />
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<i>Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam</i><br />
Blessed are you, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe
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(if using wine or grape juice)
<img alt="Hebrew" height="24" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/borei_pri.gif" title="Hebrew" width="204" />
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<i>borei p'ri hagafen (Amein)</i><br />
Who creates the fruit of the vine (Amen)
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(if using other liquids)
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<img alt="Hebrew" height="24" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/shehakol.gif" title="Hebrew" width="238" />
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<i>shehakol nih'yeh bid'varo (Amein)</i><br />
Who made all things exist through His word (Amen)
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<h3 id="Spices">
B'samim: Spices</h3>
The second blessing is recited over fragrant spices. The spices represent a
compensation for the loss of the special sabbath spirit. The spices commonly
used are cloves, cinnamon or bay leaves. They are commonly kept in a special
decorated holder called a b'samim box.
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<i>Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam</i><br />
Blessed are you, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe,
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<img alt="Hebrew" height="24" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/borei_minei.gif" title="Hebrew" width="234" />
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<i>borei minei v'samim (Amein)</i><br />
Who creates varieties of spices (Amen)
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<h3 id="Fire">
Eish: Fire</h3>
The third blessing is recited over the special, multi-wicked Havdalah candle.
Havdalah candles can be obtained from Jewish gift stores. If you cannot obtain
a Havdalah candle, you can hold two candles close together, so their flames
overlap. I have also used party candles (long, very thin candles) that I warmed
up and twisted together.
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Lighting a flame is a vivid way of marking the distinction between the sabbath
and the weekday, because we cannot kindle a flame on the sabbath.
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After the blessing is recited, hold your hands up to the flame with curved
fingers, so you can see the shadow of your fingers on your palms. This is done
because it would be improper to recite a blessing for something and then not
use the thing.
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<img alt="Hebrew" height="24" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/barukh_atah.gif" title="Hebrew" width="326" />
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<i>Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam</i><br />
Blessed are you, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe
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<img alt="Hebrew" height="24" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/borei_morei.gif" title="Hebrew" width="228" />
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<i>borei m'orei ha'eish (Amein)</i><br />
Who creates the light of the fire (Amen)
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<h3 id="Havdalah">
Havdalah: Separation</h3>
The final blessing is the havdalah blessing itself, the blessing over the
separation of different things. The blessing is recited over the wine. After
the blessing is complete, drink the wine. A few drops of wine are used to
extinguish the flame from the candle.
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<img alt="Hebrew" height="24" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/barukh_atah.gif" title="Hebrew" width="326" />
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<i>Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam</i><br />
Blessed are you, Lord, our God, sovereign of the universe
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<img alt="Hebrew" height="24" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/hamavdil.gif" title="Hebrew" width="225" />
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<i>hamav'dil bein kodesh l'chol </i><br />
Who separates between sacred and secular
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<img alt="Hebrew" height="24" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/bein_or.gif" title="Hebrew" width="331" />
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<i>bein or l'choshekh bein Yis'ra'eil la'amim</i><br />
between light and darkness, between Israel and the nations
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<img alt="Hebrew" height="24" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/bein_yom.gif" title="Hebrew" width="356" /><br />
<i>bein yom hash'vi'i l'sheishet y'mei hama'aseh</i><br />
between the seventh day and the six days of labor
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<img alt="Hebrew" height="23" src="http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/barukh_atah2.gif" title="Hebrew" width="124" />
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<i>Barukh atah Adonai</i><br />
Blessed are You, Lord
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>Running Eagle Shooting Starhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06439936834942432478noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-41456111722399183342015-12-15T19:00:00.002-08:002015-12-15T19:00:39.451-08:00Rainbow Promise
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<span class="versiontext"></span><b>I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. </b><span class="p"></span></div>
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the Jews have a saying,"till ye see the bow in its luminous colours, do
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<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And Elohim spoke unto Noach, and to his banim with him, saying,</span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And I, hineni, I establish My brit <span class="parenth">(covenant)</span> with you, and with your zera after you;</span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And
with kol nefesh that is with you, of the bird, of the behemah, and of
every animal of ha'aretz with you; from kol yotzei hatevah <span class="parenth">(all that go out of the ark)</span>, to every creature of ha'aretz.</span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And I will establish My brit <span class="parenth">(covenant)</span> with you, neither shall kol basar yikaret <span class="parenth">(be cut off, violently killed)</span> any more by the waters of the mabbul; neither shall there be any more mabbul l'shachat <span class="parenth">(to destroy)</span> ha'aretz.</span><br />
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<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And Elohim said, This is the ot <span class="parenth">(sign)</span> of the brit <span class="parenth">(covenant)</span> which I make between Me and you and every nefesh chayyah <span class="parenth">(living creature)</span> that is with you, for dorot olam <span class="parenth">(perpetual generations)</span>;</span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span> <span class="btext">I do set My keshet <span class="parenth">(bow)</span> in the anan <span class="parenth">(cloud)</span>, and it shall be for an ot brit </span><span class="btext"><span class="btext"><span class="parenth">(covenant) </span></span>between Me and ha'aretz.</span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And it shall come to pass, when I bring an anan over ha'aretz, that the keshet be'anan <span class="parenth">(rainbow)</span> shall be seen;</span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And
I will remember My brit </span><span class="btext"><span class="btext"><span class="parenth">(covenant)</span></span>, which is between Me and you and kol nefesh
chayyah of kol basar; and the waters shall no more become a mabbul <span class="parenth">(flood)</span> l'shachat <span class="parenth">(to destroy)</span> kol basar.</span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And
the keshet shall be in the anan; and I will look upon it, that I may
remember the brit </span><span class="btext"><span class="btext"><span class="parenth">(covenant)</span></span> olam between Elohim and kol nefesh chayyah of kol
basar that is upon ha'aretz. </span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And Elohim said unto Noach, This is the ot habrit, which I have established between Me and kol basar that is upon ha'aretz. </span><br />
<span class="btext">Genesis 9:8-17 -Orthodox Jewish Bible- http://biblehub.com/ojb/genesis/9.htm</span><br />
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<span class="btext"><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/niv/revelation/10.htm">New International Version -Revelation 10-</a></span><br />Then
I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a
cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his
legs were like fiery pillars.</span><br />
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<span class="btext"><span class="reftext"><b>1</b></span> <span class="btext">And I saw another strong malach descending and coming down out of Shomayim, having been wrapped in an anan <span class="parenth">(cloud)</span>, and the keshet be'anan <span class="parenth">(rainbow, BERESHIS 9:16)</span> was over his rosh <span class="parenth">(head)</span> and the face of him was as the shemesh <span class="parenth">(sun)</span> and the feet of him as pillars of eish <span class="parenth">(fire)</span>, <span class="bracket">[YECHEZKEL 1:28]</span></span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And he had in his hand a sefer katan <span class="parenth">(small book)</span> which had been opened and he placed his ragel hayemanit <span class="parenth">(right foot)</span> on the yam <span class="parenth">(sea)</span>, and the smolit <span class="parenth">(left)</span> on ha'aretz <span class="parenth">(the earth)</span>,</span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And he cried with a kol gadol <span class="parenth">(loud voice)</span> as an aryeh <span class="parenth">(lion)</span> roars. And when he shouted, the shivat hare'amim <span class="parenth">(seven thunders)</span> reverberated. <span class="bracket">[HOSHEA 11:10]</span></span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And when the shivat hare'amim <span class="parenth">(seven thunders)</span> spoke, I was about to write, and I heard a kol <span class="parenth">(voice)</span> from Shomayim, saying, Put a chotam <span class="parenth">(seal)</span> on <span class="bracket">[the sod, the secret of]</span> what the shivat hare'amim <span class="parenth">(seven thunders)</span> have spoken, and seal it up, and do not write, <span class="bracket">[DANIEL 8:26; 12:4,9]</span></span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And the malach, whom I saw having taken his stand on the yam <span class="parenth">(sea)</span> and on ha'aretz <span class="parenth">(the earth)</span>, lifted his yad yamin <span class="parenth">(right hand)</span> to Shomayim <span class="bracket">[DEVARIM 32:40; DANIEL 12:7]</span></span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And made shevu'ah <span class="parenth">(oath)</span> by the One who lives l'Olmei Olamim <span class="parenth">(forever and ever)</span> whose "barah" <span class="parenth">(created)</span>
the Shomayim and the things in it and ha'aretz and the things in it and
the yam and the things in it--that there would be no od zman <span class="parenth">(more time)</span>. <span class="bracket">[BERESHIS 14:22; SHEMOT 6:8; BAMIDBAR 14:30; TEHILLIM 115:15; 146:6]</span></span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span> <span class="btext">But in the days of the sounding of the shofar by the malach hashev'i'i <span class="parenth">(the seventh angel)</span>, when he is about to blow the shofar, also then the raz <span class="parenth">(mystery)</span> of Hashem would be brought to an end, as he proclaimed to his avadim <span class="parenth">(servants)</span>, the Nevi'im <span class="parenth">(prophets)</span>. <span class="bracket">[AMOS 3:7]</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And the kol <span class="parenth">(voice)</span>
which I heard from Shomayim was again speaking with me and saying, Go,
take the sefer which is opened in the hand of the malach who has taken
his stand on the yam <span class="parenth">(sea)</span> and on the ha'aretz <span class="parenth">(the earth)</span>.</span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And I went to the malach, telling him to give me the sefer katan <span class="parenth">(small book)</span> and he says to me, Take and eat it, and it will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as devash <span class="parenth">(honey)</span>. <span class="bracket">[YIRMEYAH 15:16; YECHEZKEL 2:8-3:3]</span></span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And I took the sefer katan out of the hand of the malach and ate it, and it was in my mouth as sweet as devash <span class="parenth">(honey)</span>, but, when I ate, my stomach was made bitter.</span>
<span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span> <span class="btext">And they say to me, You must speak dvarim hanevu'ah <span class="parenth">(words of prophecy)</span> again, about haumim <span class="parenth">(peoples)</span> and Goyim <span class="parenth">(Nations)</span> and leshonot <span class="parenth">(tongues)</span> and many melachim <span class="parenth">(kings)</span>. <span class="bracket">[Ezek 37:4,9; Dan 3:4] </span></span><br />
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<span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/niv/genesis/9.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nlt/genesis/9.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />I have placed my rainbow in the clouds. It is the sign of my covenant with you and with all the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/esv/genesis/9.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nasb/genesis/9.htm">New American Standard Bible </a></span><br />I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/kjv/genesis/9.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hcsb/genesis/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />I have placed My bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. <span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isv/genesis/9.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />I've set my rainbow in the sky to symbolize the covenant between me and the earth. <span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/net/genesis/9.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/gwt/genesis/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />I will put my rainbow in the clouds to be a sign of my promise to the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jps/genesis/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />I have set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nasb77/genesis/9.htm">New American Standard 1977 </a></span><br />I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/jub/genesis/9.htm">Jubilee Bible 2000</a></span><br />I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/kj2000/genesis/9.htm">King James 2000 Bible</a></span><br />I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/akjv/genesis/9.htm">American King James Version</a></span><br />I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/asv/genesis/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/drb/genesis/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me, and between the earth. <span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/dbt/genesis/9.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />I set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/erv/genesis/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/wbt/genesis/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/web/genesis/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ylt/genesis/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;</div>
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<span class="titletext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/mhc/genesis/9.htm">Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary</a></span><span class="p"><br /></span>9:8-17
As the old world was ruined, to be a monument of justice, so this world
remains to this day a monument of mercy. But sin, that drowned the old
world, will burn this. Articles of agreement among men are sealed, that
what is promised may be the more solemn, and the doing of what is
covenanted the more sure to mutual satisfaction. The seal of this
covenant was the rainbow, which, it is likely, was seen in the clouds
before, but was never a seal of the covenant till now it was made so.
The rainbow appears when we have most reason to fear the rain
prevailing; God then shows this seal of the promise, that it shall not
prevail. The thicker the cloud, the brighter the bow in the cloud. Thus,
as threatening afflictions abound, encouraging consolations much more
abound. The rainbow is the reflection of the beams of the sun shining
upon or through the drops of rain: all the glory of the seals of the
covenant are derived from Christ, the Sun of righteousness. And he will
shed a glory on the tears of his saints. A bow speaks terror, but this
has neither string nor arrow; and a bow alone will do little hurt. It is
a bow, but it is directed upward, not toward the earth; for the seals
of the covenant were intended to comfort, not to terrify. As God looks
upon the bow, that he may remember the covenant, so should we, that we
may be mindful of the covenant with faith and thankfulness. Without
revelation this gracious assurance could not be known; and without faith
it can be of no use to us; and thus it is as to the still greater
dangers to which all are exposed, and as to the new covenant with its
blessings.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="titletext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></span><span class="p"><br /></span><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 13.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">I do set</span>. Literally, <span class="accented">I have given, or placed</span>,
an indication that the atmospheric phenomenon referred to had already
frequently appeared (Syriac, Arabic, Aben Ezra, Chrysostom, Calvin,
Willet, Murphy, Wordsworth, Kalisch, Lange). The contrary opinion has
been maintained that it now for the first time appeared (Bush, Keil,
Delitzsch), or at least that the historian thought so (Knobel); but
unless there had been no rain, or the laws of light and the atmospheric
conditions of the earth had been different from what they are at
present, it must have been a frequent spectacle in the primeval heavens.
<span class="cmt_word">My bow.</span> <span class="accented">i.e.</span> the rainbow, <span class="greek">τόξον</span> (LXX.), (cf. <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/1-28.htm">Ezekiel 1:28</a>).
The ordinary rainbow consists of a series of successive zones or bands
of polarized light, forming little concentric circles in the sky, and
having a common center almost always below the horizon, and
diametrically opposite to the sun. It is produced by the refraction and
reflection of the sun's light through the spherical raindrops on which
the rays fall, and, accordingly, must always appear, with a greater or a
lesser degree of visibility, when the two material agencies come in
contact The part of the sky on which the rainbow is thrown is much more
bright within than without the bow. The outer space is dark, almost
black; and the inner space, on the contrary, melts into the violet
almost insensibly (Nichol's 'Cyclopedia of the Sciences,' art. Rainbow).
It is here styled God's bow, as being his workmanship (cf. Ecclus.
43:12), and his seal appended to his covenant (<a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-17.htm">Genesis 9:17</a>). <span class="cmt_word">In the cloud</span>, <span class="hebrew">עָנָן</span> <span class="accented">that which veils the heavens</span>, from a root signifying to cover (Gesenius). <span class="cmt_word">And it shall be for a token,</span> <span class="hebrew">לְאות</span> = <span class="greek">εἰς</span> <span class="greek">σημεῖον</span>, (LXX.). In Greek mythology the rainbow is designated by a name (Iris) which is at least connected with <span class="greek">εἴρω</span>, to speak, and <span class="greek">εἰρήνη</span>,
peace; is represented as the daughter of Thaumas (wonder), and Electra
(brightness) the daughter of Oceanus; is assigned the office of
messenger to the king and queen of Olympus; and is depicted as set in
heaven for a sign (Homer, 'I1,' 11:27; 17:547, 548; 24:144, 159; Virgil,
AEn.,' 4:694; 5:606; Ovid, 'Met.,' 1:270; 11:585). The Persians seem to
have associated the rainbow with similar ideas. An old picture,
mentioned by Stolberg, represents a winged boy on a rainbow with an old
man kneeling in a posture, of worship. The Hindoos describe the rainbow
as a warlike weapon in the hands of Indras their god, "<span class="accented">with</span>
which he hurls flashing darts upon the impious giants;" but also as a
symbol of peace exhibited to man "when the combat of the heavens is
silenced." By the Chinese it is regarded as the harbinger of troubles
and misfortunes on earth, and by the old Scandinavians as a bridge
uniting earth and heaven ('Kalisch on Genesis,' pp. 223, 224).
Traditional reflections of the Biblical narrative, they do not "account
for the application in the Pentateuch of the rainbow to a very
remarkable purpose," or "explain why the New Testament represents the
rainbow as an attribute of the Divine throne," or "why angels are sent
as messengers on earth" (Kalisch); but are themselves accounted for and
explained by it. The institution of the rainbow as a sign clearly
negatives the idea (Aquinas, Cajetan) that it was originally and
naturally a sign; which, if it was, "it was a lying sign," since the
Flood came notwithstanding its prognostications (Willet). <span class="cmt_word">Of a covenant</span>. "<span class="accented">The</span> bow in the hands of man was an instrument of battle (<a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/48-22.htm">Genesis 48:22</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/7-12.htm">Psalm 7:12</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/6-2.htm">Proverbs 6:2</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/zechariah/9-10.htm">Zechariah 9:10</a>); but the bow bent by the hand of God has become a symbol of peace" (Wordsworth). <span class="cmt_word">Between me and the earth.</span> <span class="p"><br /></span><span class="titletext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/gill/genesis/9.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></span><span class="p"><br /></span>I
do set my bow in the cloud,.... Or "I have given", or "have set it"
(p); which seems as if it was at that instant set; this is the same we
call the "rainbow": and so Horace (q) calls it "arcus pluvius": it is
called a "bow", because of its form, being a semicircle, and a
"rainbow", because it is seen in a day of rain, and is a sign of it, or
of its being quickly over, <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/1-28.htm">Ezekiel 1:28</a>
and this appears in a moist dewy cloud, neither very thick nor very
thin, and is occasioned by the rays of the sun opposite to it, refracted
on it: and this God calls "his bow", not only because made by him, for,
notwithstanding the natural causes of it, the cloud and sun, the
disposition of these to produce it, such a phenomenon is of God; but
also because he appointed it to be a sign and token of his covenant with
his creatures; so the Heathen poets (r) call the rainbow the messenger
of Juno. It is a question whether there was a rainbow before the flood,
and it is not easily answered; both Jews and Christians are divided
about it; Saadiah thought there was one; but Aben Ezra disapproves of
his opinion, and thinks it was first now made. The greater part of
Christian interpreters are of the mind of Saadiah, that it was from the
beginning, the natural causes of it, the sun and cloud, being before the
flood; and that it was now after it only appointed to be a sign and
token of the covenant; but though the natural causes of it did exist
before, it does not follow, nor is it to be proved, that there was such a
disposition of them to produce such an effect; and it might be so
ordered in Providence, that there should not be any, that this might be
entirely a new thing, and so a wonderful one, as the word for "token"
(s) signifies; and the Greeks calls the rainbow the "daughter of
Thaumas" or "Wonder" (t); and be the more fit to be a sign and token of
the covenant, that God would no more destroy the earth with water; for
otherwise, if this had been what Noah and his sons had been used to see,
it can hardly be thought sufficient to take off their fears of a future
inundation, which was the end and use it was to serve, as follows: <span class="p"><br /></span>it
shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth; that is,
between God and the creatures of the earth; or of a promise that God
would no more destroy the earth, and cut off the creatures in it by a
flood; for though it is a bow, yet without arrows, and is not turned
downwards towards the earth, but upwards towards heaven, and so is a
token of mercy and kindness, and not of wrath and anger. <span class="p"><br /></span>(p)
"dedi", Montanus; so Ainsworth; "posui", Pisator, Drusius, Buxtorf. (q)
De Arte Poetica, ver. 18. (r) Nuntia Junonis varios induta colores
Concipit Iris aquas--------- Ovid. Metamorph. l. 1. Fab. 7. (s) "signum,
tam nudum, quam prodigiosum", Buxtorf. (t) Plato in Theaeeteto,
Plutarch. de Placit, Philosoph. 3, 4. Apollodor. Bibliothec. l. 1. p. 5.
<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="titletext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/jfb//genesis/9.htm">Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary</a></span><span class="p"><br /></span>13.
I do set my bow in the cloud—set, that is, constitute or appoint. This
common and familiar phenomenon being made the pledge of peace, its
appearance when showers began to fall would be welcomed with the
liveliest feelings of joy.<span class="p"><br /></span><a href="http://biblecommenter.com/genesis/9-13.htm">Genesis 9:13 Additional Commentaries</a></div>
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<span class="hdg"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9.htm">The Covenant of the Rainbow</a></span><br />… <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-12.htm">12</a></span> ... God
said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me
and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive
generations; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-13.htm">13</a></span><span class="highl">I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-14.htm">14</a></span>"It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud,…</div>
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<span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-12.htm">Genesis 9:12</a></span><br />And
God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and
you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations
to come:<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-14.htm">Genesis 9:14</a></span><br />Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/1-28.htm">Ezekiel 1:28</a></span><br />Like
the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the
radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the
glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice
of one speaking.</div>
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Parallel Commentaries</div>
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<span class="p"></span><span class="titletext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></span><span class="p"><br /></span><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 14.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth.</span> Literally, <span class="accented">in my clouding a cloud</span>, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> gathering clouds, which naturally signify store of rain (<a href="http://biblehub.com/1_kings/18-44.htm">1 Kings 18:44, 45</a>). Clouds are often used to denote afflictions and dangers (cf. <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/30-3.htm">Ezekiel 30:3, 18</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/32-7.htm">Ezekiel 32:7</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/ezekiel/34-12.htm">Ezekiel 34:12</a>; <a href="http://biblehub.com/joel/2-2.htm">Joel 2:2</a>). <span class="cmt_word">That the bow shall be seen in the cloud</span>. Literally, <span class="accented">and the bow is seen</span>,
which it always is when the sun's rays fall upon it, if the spectator's
back is towards the light, and his face towards the cloud. Thus at the
moment when danger seems to threaten most, the many-colored arch arrests
the gaze. <span class="p"><br /></span><span class="titletext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/commentaries/gill/genesis/9.htm">Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible</a></span><span class="p"><br /></span>And
it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth,.... Or
"cloud a cloud" (u), cause the clouds to gather thick in the heavens,
and to hang over the earth ready to pour down great quantities of water;
by reason of which the inhabitants might dread another flood coming
upon them: wherefore, in order to dissipate such fears, it shall be so
ordered: <span class="p"><br /></span>that the bow shall be seen in
the cloud; after it has pretty much discharged itself; for the rainbow
is always in a thin, not a thick cloud; after the heavy showers are
fallen from the thick clouds, and a small thin one remains, then the
rainbow is seen in it; not always, but very frequently, and when the sun
and clouds are in a proper position: and this is often so ordered, to
put men in mind of this covenant, and to divest them of, or prevent
their fears of the world being drowned by a flood; for when they see
this, it is a sure sign the rain is going off, since the cloud is
thinned, or otherwise the rainbow could not appear: and a most glorious
and beautiful sight it is, having such a variety of colours in it, and
in such a position and form. Some think that it serves both to put in
mind of the destruction of the old world by water, through its watery
colours, and of the present world by fire, through its fiery ones.
Others make the three predominant colours to denote the three
dispensations before the law, under the law, and under the Gospel:
rather they may signify the various providences of God, which all work
together for the good of his people; however, whenever this bow is seen,
it puts in mind of the covenant of preservation made with all the
creatures, and the firmness, stability, and duration of it; and is by
some considered as an emblem of the covenant of grace, from <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/54-9.htm">Isaiah 54:9</a>
which is of God's making, as this bow is; is a reverberation of Christ
the sun of righteousness, the sum and substance of the covenant;
consists of various blessings and promises of grace; is expressive of
mercy and peace, and is a security from everlasting destruction: or
rather it may be thought to be an emblem of Christ himself, who was seen
by John clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow on his head, <a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-1.htm">Revelation 10:1</a>
this being a wonderful thing, as Christ is wonderful in his person,
office, and grace; and as it has in it a variety of beautiful colours,
it may represent Christ, who is full of grace and truth, and fairer than
the children of men; and may be considered as a symbol of peace and
reconciliation by him, whom God looks unto, and remembers the covenant
of his grace he has made with him and his chosen ones in him; and who is
the rainbow round about the throne of God, and the way of access unto
it; <a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/4-3.htm">Revelation 4:3</a>
the Jews have a saying,"till ye see the bow in its luminous colours, do
not look for the feet of the Messiah, or his coming (w).'' <span class="p"><br /></span>(u)
"cum obnubilavero nubem", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Schmidt. (w)
Tikkune Zohar, correct. 18. fol. 32. 2. correct. 37. fol. 81. 1.<span class="p"></span><span class="p"><br /></span><a href="http://biblecommenter.com/genesis/9-14.htm">Genesis 9:14 Additional Commentaries</a><br />
Thank you http://biblehub.com/genesis/9-14.htm<br />
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<span class="hdg"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17.htm">The Transfiguration</a></span><br /><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17-1.htm">1</a></span>Six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17-2.htm">2</a></span><span class="highl">And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17-3.htm">3</a></span>And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.…</div>
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<span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/34-29.htm">Exodus 34:29</a></span><br />When
Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant
law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he
had spoken with the LORD.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-10.htm">Song of Solomon 6:10</a></span><br />Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17-1.htm">Matthew 17:1</a></span><br />After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17-3.htm">Matthew 17:3</a></span><br />Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-16.htm">Revelation 1:16</a></span><br />In
his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a
sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its
brilliance.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-1.htm">Revelation 10:1</a></span><br />Then
I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a
cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his
legs were like fiery pillars.</div>
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<span class="hdg"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17.htm">The Transfiguration</a></span><br /><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17-1.htm">1</a></span>Six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17-2.htm">2</a></span><span class="highl">And He was transfigured before them; and His face shone like the sun, and His garments became as white as light.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17-3.htm">3</a></span>And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him.…</div>
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<span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/34-29.htm">Exodus 34:29</a></span><br />When
Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant
law in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he
had spoken with the LORD.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/songs/6-10.htm">Song of Solomon 6:10</a></span><br />Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17-1.htm">Matthew 17:1</a></span><br />After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/17-3.htm">Matthew 17:3</a></span><br />Just then there appeared before them Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/1-16.htm">Revelation 1:16</a></span><br />In
his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a
sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its
brilliance.<span class="p"><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="http://biblehub.com/revelation/10-1.htm">Revelation 10:1</a></span><br />Then
I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven. He was robed in a
cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his
legs were like fiery pillars.</div>
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And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.</div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/34-29.htm" style="color: #001320;"><span class="vtext">Exodus 34:29-35</span> And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the …</a></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/john/1-14.htm" style="color: #001320;"><span class="vtext">John 1:14</span> And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory…</a></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/acts/26-13.htm" style="color: #001320;"><span class="vtext">Acts 26:13-15</span> At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the …</a></div>
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<a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/104-2.htm" style="color: #001320;"><span class="vtext">Psalm 104:2</span> Who cover yourself with light as with a garment: who stretch out …</a></div>
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Erev Yom Kippur, 5773 - September 25, 2012<br />
Shalom u'vracha m'Yerushalayim!<br />
(may peace find you complete and reach out from you in all directions)<br />
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Ancient Hebrew Word Meanings<br />
Peace ~ shalom<br />
By Jeff A. Benner<br />
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When we hear the word peace we usually associate this to mean an absence of war or strife but, the Hebrew meaning of the word shalom has a very different meaning. The verb form of the root word is shalam and is usually used in the context of making restitution. When a person has caused another to become deficient in some way, such as a loss of livestock, it is the responsibility of the person who created the deficiency to restore what has been taken, lost or stolen. The verb shalam literally means to make whole or complete. The noun shalom has the more literal meaning of being in a state of wholeness or with no deficiency. The common phrase shalu shalom yerushalayim (pray for the peace of Jerusalem) is not speaking about an abcense of war (though that is part of it) but that Jerusalem (and by extension all of Israel) is complete and whole and goes far beyond the idea of "peace".<br />
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AHLB# 2845 (c)<br />
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Preparing before Yom Kippur</h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It's a time to take off all your old clothes and put on new clothes. In
other words, no more blame or shame, love is the new gain, happiness
bring us to the great circle, to receive the heavenly virtues of the
blue road. Let us sing and dance all day, let joy lead the waves. Fire
and Water, I shall purify, the holy smoke within me shall roar, I shall
be righteous with loving rays, to bow to the will of God, the voice of
all the children at the great circle of the ONE, the rings of bonds, the
marriage to G_ah_d (utterance of heavenly transmission, in the winds).
We are all relatives. We are all clowns (medicine people). We bring
happiness to the world that needs to hear this sound.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Halachah </b></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Jewish Law, the
legal part of the Talmud, which should be oral, the songs upon high, the
law is love that prescribes) prescribes the Mikyah Baths.</span></span><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></b></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><b>Sacred Song Blessings Sky of the Eternal:</b><b> Twin Deer Mother Sings and Holiness David Father Red </b>Hand Drums <a href="http://weblessyou.blogspot.com/2012/09/sky-of-eternal.html">http://weblessyou.blogspot.com/2012/09/sky-of-eternal.html</a></i></span></b></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>excerpt</b>: Impunity is the exemption from punishment, penalty or
harm. This is what happens with the cleansing colors. The golden child,
our Cosmic Father cleanses the inner soul songs, the heavenly fields.
The lavender child, our Holiness cleanses the outer physical colors, the
fields of earth. This is done automatically, without consent, but
freely gifted happily. It is a time of rejoicing, when we can walk into brotherhood
with the holy and divine beings we are to become, those who can share
the great dream together. The kingdom is near.<i><b> </b></i></span></b></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Mother Earth's natural bodies of water<span style="font-size: small;"> -- its oceans, rivers, wells, clouds and spring-fed lakes -- are <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>mikvahs</i>
in their most primal form, our tears that fell, like stars from heaven.
They contain waters of divine source and
thus, tradition teaches, the power to purify. Mikvahs are baths where
one is baptized between yourself and God's unity, a holy purification to
cleanse within the waters. The baths are joined together. One is
usually filled with collection of rain water (stillness). And the other
with running water (movement). The two baths are next to each other and
an opening of <span class="il">2</span> <span class="il">inches</span>
is left open for the waters to mingle. This place is represents the blue
waters of song, the heavenly soul and the red fire of color, the
earthly flesh (song and dance). When a circle is twisted, someone is
backwards and someone is forwards, but still a circle. This holy divine
is the figure 8, representing the eagle that flies free and the holy and
divine in each child, like you. Often this is referred to as the
infinity symbol. These two parts, the unseen of heavenly virtues and the
seen of earthly virtues, join together to mingle in the rites of
purification. To cleanse one self is now a daily measure, as we learn to
understand the values of purification. We take our blessings seriously,
because learning and practicing together, brings us to the great blue
seas of you and me, relatives of 12 tribes, eternal and bliss, the
Rainbow Clan. </span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">For more about fire and water blessings, visit </span>
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://birthingofhope.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">birthingofhope.blogspot.com</a>. <br />To visit <a href="http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com</a>
for Jewish Traditions for everyone to understand. your devoted servant,
White Buffalo Calf Woman your Twin Deer Mother, elder crystal child, <a href="http://alightfromwithin.org/">alightfromwithin.org</a></span></span></span></h1>
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It is a widely accepted custom for all men to immerse in a <i><span class="glossary_item">mikvah</span></i> (ritual pool) on the day before <span class="glossary_item">Yom Kippur</span>. In certain communities, women also immerse in a <i>mikvah</i> on this day. <br />
There are two reasons for this immersion:<br />
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<li>In order to be ritually pure in preparation for the holiest day of the year.</li>
<li>The immersion is symbolic of conversion. Just as a convert immerses in a <i>mikvah</i> and thus becomes a "new person," so, too, it is our intention to do <i><span class="glossary_item">teshuvah</span></i> (repentance) and become new people.</li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
first time I entered into the mikveh, it felt as if my body was
suspended in something extraordinary, primordial fluid, if you will.
Every sense awoke. The water felt warm against my skin, like a
comforting caress, and the gentle lapping sounds echoed against the
walls and whooshed in my ears. Time became irrelevant when I held my
breath, opened my eyes, and submitted to the experience.<br /><br />It is
with total reference when we say that Judaism’s ancient ritual – mikveh
immersion – is both sacred and intimate, a rejuvenation of the heart,
soul and body. Read more
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Before Yom Kippur</b> 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.<br /><br />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, which
includes the reading from Leviticus followed by the yizkor memorial
service; Musaf, which includes a detailed account of the Yom Kippur
Temple service; Minchah, which includes the reading of the Book of
Jonah; and Neilah, 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.<br /><br />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. <b>Chabad.org</b></span></b></span></h1>
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What is Yom Kippur?</h1>
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Yom Kippur or Day of Attonement (harmonizing the divine talk to the divine walk) is considered the holiest day of the year. The day on which we are
closest to G_ah_d (utterance of heavenly transmission) and to the glory
of our own souls. Fasting and atonement (harmony, united soul to flesh, talk and walk), solemnity and joy...are the virtues to express the holy day of cleansing of our sacred hearts. We are divine beings and bring happiness to those we encounter, when they can receive the great blessings of God's (g_d, no heaven, yet heaven is arriving, prepare, it is now, GOD or GAHD) divine oneness, we are together, a streaming weather.</div>
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Sow put on your dancing shoes and grab a partner or find a neighbor or traveler and enjoy time together, in holy preparation of the sacred soul that rejoices in bringing the child within (talking), into the world (walking). Share the good news of cleansing one's heart, to prepare the prayers of divine consciousness and gather in the great dream together on this world we will fallow (rest) in the whether.<br />
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We are forgiven always in the heavenly viewpoint. It is an earthly viewpoint that man would need forgiveness. To forgive and be forgiven, is a heavenly virtue. But learning how to live this way is not an easy task to undertake.<br />
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<b><i>"You are supposed to live everyday out of sin, trying to be out of sin, by practicing God's law, of every moment of every day." </i></b>says Holiness David our Father Red Hand.<br />
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Yom Kippur or Day of Attonement (harmonizing the divine talk to the divine walk) is considered the holiest day of the year. Leviticus 16<br />
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<tr><td><b>29</b> And it shall be a statute for ever unto you: in the seventh
month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict* your souls, and
shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger that
sojourneth among you.
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<tr><td><b>30</b> For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before the LORD. </td><td></td></tr>
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* afflict: <i><b>"Rejoice, release your afflictions, abstain and live in peace". Twin Deer Mother</b></i><br />
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<i><b>"Then it's up to the sinner to improve himself and become
worthy of God's forgiveness. Only through personal repentance and self
cleansing can a person "be cleansed of all his sins before God".</b></i><br />
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Verses 29-34 Commentary within the Stone Edition of the Chumach. It continues...<br />
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The eternal commandment of Yom Kippur: having completed the Yom Kippur Ritual, the Torah states that the commandment to observe Yom Kippur is an annual one and that in addition to the Temple Service which has been the sole focus of the Chapter up to this point, there are additional commandments to fast and refrain from work. 29. The explanation of "you shall afflict yourself": the sages expound that the expression<i> "afflict" </i>refers only to abstention from food and drink. Whereever scripture associates "self", with "affliction", it refers to fasting. This is how the sages derive that our verse requires fasting rather than some other form of affliction. It is noteworthy that, in giving the laws of Yom Kippur, Rambam does not speak of fasting of affliction. Rather he writes: there is a further positive commandment on Yom Kippur. It is to rest from eating and drinking. It is forbidden to bath, to apply oil to the body, to wear shoes or to cohabit (sexual relations). It is a positive commandment to rest from all of these, just as it is commanded to rest from eating. Rambam's choice of words is significant. He states that on Yom Kippur, one <b>"rest"</b> from the listed activities which indicates that the purpose of fasting is not that one should suffer, but that that he should transcend the normal human limitations that prevent him from functioning properly unless he eats. On Yom Kippur a Jew <b>(oldest children of the rainbow clan who is ordained to teach the younger children these laws of cleansing and purification rituals)</b> is like an Angel who serves God without need for food*<b></b>. In the Yom Kippur, it proclaims that repentance is one of the means of deflecting evil decrees. The implications is plain: fasting is it's greatest value when associated with repentance, and the purpose of the fast is to elevate Jews, not to cause them physical deprivation. <br />
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* <i><b>"An Angel would give up what she has for another, as a Mother would give up her soul, to gift the rainbow, the dreams
for all her children. In actuality, the Rainbow Mother gifts to us each a
soul, a bit of heavenly virtues by teaching us how to roll over those lessons (stepping stones) and prepare us to get ready
for the birthing of the SUN, SHAVAH, the inner sun of a divine shard of
lights, rainbow colors shine. These 12 Sun Tribes known as the Jewish People, represent the Rainbow Clan and it's story of the streaming on the red road, where the law is love and their role in leading us towards this law, the practice of purification depends on the holiest of thou, those who bow. It is written to show honor to thine Mother and Father and to learn from their mistakes. We forgive them, because in this practice we are allowed to make our own mistakes, our own lessons, our own path to discovery. And as each new generation appears, evolution lifts us higher into our collective consciousness. You are all children of the Rainbow Clan, for we each wear the four directions in rainbow colors. Many in Israel throw Roosters in the air, unknowingly, representing the weather vane, the turning of the winds, where four directions guide us homeward, bound together, in all the whethers. It's love that keeps us afloat, the heart with the most. We bow with the Rainbow Clan, all our relatives of heaven and earth. "I bless the sacred nine streams and the four holy directions." </b></i>Twin Deer Mother<i><br /></i><br />
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Verse 31 commentary<br />
A Sabbath of Complete Rest. Unlike festivals, when a preparation of food and related work is permitted, all labor is forbidden on Yom Kippur. The Torah describes the other festivals as a day of rest, while it calls Yom Kippur a Sabbath of Complete Rest. <br />
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<i><b>"This is a day we attempt not to kill anything for foods (stones, plants, animals) to bring peace upon our hearts and to receive all the streaming light from the sunrise and the sunset. This will be our nourishment, each other, the relatives of the rainbows. To be still and receive on the blue road. the soul sings divine, while serving the Oneness of God.</b></i> <i><b>We are the ark of the covenant, the promise of the Rainbow and all it's treasures shall be known, when the brotherhood is sown." </b></i>Twin Deer Mother continues.<b><i>"I cry each time I cut into a plant, all things feel. For one holy day (annual migration) of rest and rejoicing brings us to the whole of the wheel, the dreaming that is real, the tears that bring us home to the strong and gallant, the tears of joy on returning to our heavenly consciousness, where our eternal souls are birthed again in the streaming of the born child, the pureness of your smile. Tears roll down, for all the children. It will take a while. Bless and pray, we are on our way. We are on our way, heaven is on her wings. We are on our way! Let the tears remind us of the heavenly true blue, the streaming four corners that hold us close like glue, to the heavenly truth.</i></b>"<br />
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<i><b>"Upon the front of the sails, the winds blow across your face, I bless your prayer cloth where ever you may bow."</b></i> Twin Deer Mother<br />
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Today sunrise 6:59am and sunset 6:59pm was equally the same, 24 hours complete. An auspicious day for Yom Kippur to begin, the holiest of day each year. Tonight sunset 7:02 (several minutes before sunset on <span class="glossary_item">Tishrei</span> 9) to next sunset 7:00pm (to after nightfall on Tishrei 10), we abstain from food and drink. We do not wash or anoint our bodies nor do we wear animal skin on our feet. Thus we show honor to all our relatives. During a time of a great migration, finding water is not always easy. We must be prepared to live without water, in a time of great need and create bountiful tears for the world to grow. During our trials and tribulations, what is called affliction of our souls, is to be cleansed and purified to elated joy and glory filled eyes. Let our tears wash us clean and gift to us rebirthing of our souls in the peace filled darkness of heavenly bliss. Peace be with us.<br />
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your devoted servants, <i><b>White Buffalo Calf Woman your Twin Deer Mother and Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star our Father Red Hand</b></i>, elders of the Rainbow Clan, House of David, the beloved children of the rainbow. <a href="http://alightfromwithin.org/">alightfromwithin.org</a>, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy<br />
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<i><b>It's a day to receive, the heart of those who grieve, let us pray for them to know the way! </b></i><br />
<i><b>Joy is here to stay ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ and sacred is the way, to heaven's bounty where we come from,</b></i><br />
<i><b> we return to this Heavenly Sun. Shine on me today, let my heart shower miracles away. </b></i><br />
<i><b>Free my soul and walk with me, to the shore of divinity. Gather and set my soul on fire, </b></i><br />
<i><b>the waking call of G_ah_d's (utterance of heavenly transmission) desire. </b></i><br />
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<i><b>Let us shine as family. Let us set our souls free!</b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><i><b>"Last night I was dreaming to be in a synagogue and praying and singing with other Jews. </b></i></span></span></span></div>
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Leviticus Chapter 16 <span class="h">וַיִּקְרָא</span></h1>
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<b>א</b> וַיְדַבֵּר יְהוָה, אֶל-מֹשֶׁה, אַחֲרֵי מוֹת, שְׁנֵי בְּנֵי אַהֲרֹן--בְּקָרְבָתָם לִפְנֵי-יְהוָה, וַיָּמֻתוּ.
</td><td><b>1</b> And the LORD spoke unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the LORD, and died;
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<b>ב</b> וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-מֹשֶׁה, דַּבֵּר אֶל-אַהֲרֹן אָחִיךָ,
וְאַל-יָבֹא בְכָל-עֵת אֶל-הַקֹּדֶשׁ, מִבֵּית לַפָּרֹכֶת--אֶל-פְּנֵי
הַכַּפֹּרֶת אֲשֶׁר עַל-הָאָרֹן, וְלֹא יָמוּת, כִּי בֶּעָנָן, אֵרָאֶה
עַל-הַכַּפֹּרֶת.
</td><td><b>2</b> and the LORD said unto Moses: 'Speak unto Aaron thy brother,
that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil,
before the ark-cover which is upon the ark; that he die not; for I
appear in the cloud upon the ark-cover.
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<b>ג</b> בְּזֹאת יָבֹא אַהֲרֹן, אֶל-הַקֹּדֶשׁ: בְּפַר בֶּן-בָּקָר לְחַטָּאת, וְאַיִל לְעֹלָה.
</td><td><b>3</b> Herewith shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering.
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<b>ד</b> כְּתֹנֶת-בַּד קֹדֶשׁ יִלְבָּשׁ, וּמִכְנְסֵי-בַד יִהְיוּ
עַל-בְּשָׂרוֹ, וּבְאַבְנֵט בַּד יַחְגֹּר, וּבְמִצְנֶפֶת בַּד יִצְנֹף;
בִּגְדֵי-קֹדֶשׁ הֵם, וְרָחַץ בַּמַּיִם אֶת-בְּשָׂרוֹ וּלְבֵשָׁם.
</td><td><b>4</b> He shall put on the holy linen tunic, and he shall have the
linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with the linen
girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired; they are the holy
garments; and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and put them on.
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<b>ה</b> וּמֵאֵת, עֲדַת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, יִקַּח שְׁנֵי-שְׂעִירֵי עִזִּים, לְחַטָּאת; וְאַיִל אֶחָד, לְעֹלָה.
</td><td><b>5</b> And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel
two he-goats for a sin-offering, and one ram for a burnt-offering.
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<b>ו</b> וְהִקְרִיב אַהֲרֹן אֶת-פַּר הַחַטָּאת, אֲשֶׁר-לוֹ; וְכִפֶּר בַּעֲדוֹ, וּבְעַד בֵּיתוֹ.
</td><td><b>6</b> And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which
is for himself, and make atonement for himself, and for his house.
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<b>ז</b> וְלָקַח, אֶת-שְׁנֵי הַשְּׂעִירִם; וְהֶעֱמִיד אֹתָם לִפְנֵי יְהוָה, פֶּתַח אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד.
</td><td><b>7</b> And he shall take the two goats, and set them before the LORD at the door of the tent of meeting.
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<b>ח</b> וְנָתַן אַהֲרֹן עַל-שְׁנֵי הַשְּׂעִירִם, גֹּרָלוֹת--גּוֹרָל אֶחָד לַיהוָה, וְגוֹרָל אֶחָד לַעֲזָאזֵל.
</td><td><b>8</b> And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats: one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for Azazel.
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<b>ט</b> וְהִקְרִיב אַהֲרֹן אֶת-הַשָּׂעִיר, אֲשֶׁר עָלָה עָלָיו הַגּוֹרָל לַיהוָה; וְעָשָׂהוּ, חַטָּאת.
</td><td><b>9</b> And Aaron shall present the goat upon which the lot fell for the LORD, and offer him for a sin-offering.
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<b>י</b> וְהַשָּׂעִיר, אֲשֶׁר עָלָה עָלָיו הַגּוֹרָל לַעֲזָאזֵל,
יָעֳמַד-חַי לִפְנֵי יְהוָה, לְכַפֵּר עָלָיו--לְשַׁלַּח אֹתוֹ לַעֲזָאזֵל,
הַמִּדְבָּרָה.
</td><td><b>10</b> But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set
alive before the LORD, to make atonement over him, to send him away for
Azazel into the wilderness.
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<b>יא</b> וְהִקְרִיב אַהֲרֹן אֶת-פַּר הַחַטָּאת, אֲשֶׁר-לוֹ, וְכִפֶּר
בַּעֲדוֹ, וּבְעַד בֵּיתוֹ; וְשָׁחַט אֶת-פַּר הַחַטָּאת, אֲשֶׁר-לוֹ.
</td><td><b>11</b> And Aaron shall present the bullock of the sin-offering, which
is for himself, and shall make atonement for himself, and for his
house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin-offering which is for
himself.
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<b>יב</b> וְלָקַח מְלֹא-הַמַּחְתָּה גַּחֲלֵי-אֵשׁ מֵעַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ,
מִלִּפְנֵי יְהוָה, וּמְלֹא חָפְנָיו, קְטֹרֶת סַמִּים דַּקָּה; וְהֵבִיא,
מִבֵּית לַפָּרֹכֶת.
</td><td><b>12</b> And he shall take a censer full of coals of fire from off the
altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small,
and bring it within the veil.
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<b>יג</b> וְנָתַן אֶת-הַקְּטֹרֶת עַל-הָאֵשׁ, לִפְנֵי יְהוָה; וְכִסָּה
עֲנַן הַקְּטֹרֶת, אֶת-הַכַּפֹּרֶת אֲשֶׁר עַל-הָעֵדוּת--וְלֹא יָמוּת.
</td><td><b>13</b> And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD,
that the cloud of the incense may cover the ark-cover that is upon the
testimony, that he die not.
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<b>יד</b> וְלָקַח מִדַּם הַפָּר, וְהִזָּה בְאֶצְבָּעוֹ עַל-פְּנֵי
הַכַּפֹּרֶת קֵדְמָה; וְלִפְנֵי הַכַּפֹּרֶת, יַזֶּה שֶׁבַע-פְּעָמִים
מִן-הַדָּם--בְּאֶצְבָּעוֹ.
</td><td><b>14</b> And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it
with his finger upon the ark-cover on the east; and before the
ark-cover shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
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<b>טו</b> וְשָׁחַט אֶת-שְׂעִיר הַחַטָּאת, אֲשֶׁר לָעָם, וְהֵבִיא
אֶת-דָּמוֹ, אֶל-מִבֵּית לַפָּרֹכֶת; וְעָשָׂה אֶת-דָּמוֹ, כַּאֲשֶׁר
עָשָׂה לְדַם הַפָּר, וְהִזָּה אֹתוֹ עַל-הַכַּפֹּרֶת, וְלִפְנֵי
הַכַּפֹּרֶת.
</td><td><b>15</b> Then shall he kill the goat of the sin-offering, that is for
the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood
as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the
ark-cover, and before the ark-cover.
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<b>טז</b> וְכִפֶּר עַל-הַקֹּדֶשׁ, מִטֻּמְאֹת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל,
וּמִפִּשְׁעֵיהֶם, לְכָל-חַטֹּאתָם; וְכֵן יַעֲשֶׂה, לְאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד,
הַשֹּׁכֵן אִתָּם, בְּתוֹךְ טֻמְאֹתָם.
</td><td><b>16</b> And he shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the
uncleannesses of the children of Israel, and because of their
transgressions, even all their sins; and so shall he do for the tent of
meeting, that dwelleth with them in the midst of their uncleannesses.
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<b>יז</b> וְכָל-אָדָם לֹא-יִהְיֶה בְּאֹהֶל מוֹעֵד, בְּבֹאוֹ לְכַפֵּר
בַּקֹּדֶשׁ--עַד-צֵאתוֹ; וְכִפֶּר בַּעֲדוֹ וּבְעַד בֵּיתוֹ, וּבְעַד
כָּל-קְהַל יִשְׂרָאֵל.
</td><td><b>17</b> And there shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he goeth
in to make atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have
made atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the
assembly of Israel.
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<b>יח</b> וְיָצָא, אֶל-הַמִּזְבֵּחַ אֲשֶׁר לִפְנֵי-יְהוָה--וְכִפֶּר
עָלָיו; וְלָקַח מִדַּם הַפָּר, וּמִדַּם הַשָּׂעִיר, וְנָתַן עַל-קַרְנוֹת
הַמִּזְבֵּחַ, סָבִיב.
</td><td><b>18</b> And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD,
and make atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock,
and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar
round about.
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<b>יט</b> וְהִזָּה עָלָיו מִן-הַדָּם בְּאֶצְבָּעוֹ, שֶׁבַע פְּעָמִים; וְטִהֲרוֹ וְקִדְּשׁוֹ, מִטֻּמְאֹת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל.
</td><td><b>19</b> And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger
seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleannesses of the
children of Israel.
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<b>כ</b> וְכִלָּה מִכַּפֵּר אֶת-הַקֹּדֶשׁ, וְאֶת-אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד וְאֶת-הַמִּזְבֵּחַ; וְהִקְרִיב, אֶת-הַשָּׂעִיר הֶחָי.
</td><td><b>20</b> And when he hath made an end of atoning for the holy place,
and the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall present the live goat.
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<b>כא</b> וְסָמַךְ אַהֲרֹן אֶת-שְׁתֵּי יָדָו, עַל רֹאשׁ הַשָּׂעִיר
הַחַי, וְהִתְוַדָּה עָלָיו אֶת-כָּל-עֲוֹנֹת בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל,
וְאֶת-כָּל-פִּשְׁעֵיהֶם לְכָל-חַטֹּאתָם; וְנָתַן אֹתָם עַל-רֹאשׁ
הַשָּׂעִיר, וְשִׁלַּח בְּיַד-אִישׁ עִתִּי הַמִּדְבָּרָה.
</td><td><b>21</b> And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live
goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel,
and all their transgressions, even all their sins; and he shall put
them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of
an appointed man into the wilderness.
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<b>כב</b> וְנָשָׂא הַשָּׂעִיר עָלָיו אֶת-כָּל-עֲוֹנֹתָם, אֶל-אֶרֶץ גְּזֵרָה; וְשִׁלַּח אֶת-הַשָּׂעִיר, בַּמִּדְבָּר.
</td><td><b>22</b> And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a
land which is cut off; and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
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<b>כג</b> וּבָא אַהֲרֹן, אֶל-אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד, וּפָשַׁט אֶת-בִּגְדֵי הַבָּד, אֲשֶׁר לָבַשׁ בְּבֹאוֹ אֶל-הַקֹּדֶשׁ; וְהִנִּיחָם, שָׁם.
</td><td><b>23</b> And Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and shall put
off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy
place, and shall leave them there.
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<b>כד</b> וְרָחַץ אֶת-בְּשָׂרוֹ בַמַּיִם בְּמָקוֹם קָדוֹשׁ, וְלָבַשׁ
אֶת-בְּגָדָיו; וְיָצָא, וְעָשָׂה אֶת-עֹלָתוֹ וְאֶת-עֹלַת הָעָם, וְכִפֶּר
בַּעֲדוֹ, וּבְעַד הָעָם.
</td><td><b>24</b> And he shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place and put
on his other vestments, and come forth, and offer his burnt-offering and
the burnt-offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and
for the people.
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<b>כה</b> וְאֵת חֵלֶב הַחַטָּאת, יַקְטִיר הַמִּזְבֵּחָה.
</td><td><b>25</b> And the fat of the sin-offering shall he make smoke upon the altar.
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<b>כו</b> וְהַמְשַׁלֵּחַ אֶת-הַשָּׂעִיר, לַעֲזָאזֵל--יְכַבֵּס
בְּגָדָיו, וְרָחַץ אֶת-בְּשָׂרוֹ בַּמָּיִם; וְאַחֲרֵי-כֵן, יָבוֹא
אֶל-הַמַּחֲנֶה.
</td><td><b>26</b> And he that letteth go the goat for Azazel shall wash his
clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into
the camp.
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<b>כז</b> וְאֵת פַּר הַחַטָּאת וְאֵת שְׂעִיר הַחַטָּאת, אֲשֶׁר הוּבָא
אֶת-דָּמָם לְכַפֵּר בַּקֹּדֶשׁ--יוֹצִיא, אֶל-מִחוּץ לַמַּחֲנֶה;
וְשָׂרְפוּ בָאֵשׁ, אֶת-עֹרֹתָם וְאֶת-בְּשָׂרָם וְאֶת-פִּרְשָׁם.
</td><td><b>27</b> And the bullock of the sin-offering, and the goat of the
sin-offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy
place, shall be carried forth without the camp; and they shall burn in
the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung.
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<b>כח</b> וְהַשֹּׂרֵף אֹתָם--יְכַבֵּס בְּגָדָיו, וְרָחַץ אֶת-בְּשָׂרוֹ בַּמָּיִם; וְאַחֲרֵי-כֵן, יָבוֹא אֶל-הַמַּחֲנֶה.
</td><td><b>28</b> And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he may come into the camp.
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<b>כט</b> וְהָיְתָה לָכֶם, לְחֻקַּת עוֹלָם: בַּחֹדֶשׁ הַשְּׁבִיעִי
בֶּעָשׂוֹר לַחֹדֶשׁ תְּעַנּוּ אֶת-נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם, וְכָל-מְלָאכָה לֹא
תַעֲשׂוּ--הָאֶזְרָח, וְהַגֵּר הַגָּר בְּתוֹכְכֶם.
</td><td><b>29</b> And it shall be a statute for ever unto you: in the seventh
month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and
shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger that
sojourneth among you.
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<b>ל</b> כִּי-בַיּוֹם הַזֶּה יְכַפֵּר עֲלֵיכֶם, לְטַהֵר אֶתְכֶם: מִכֹּל, חַטֹּאתֵיכֶם, לִפְנֵי יְהוָה, תִּטְהָרוּ.
</td><td><b>30</b> For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before the LORD.
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<b>לא</b> שַׁבַּת שַׁבָּתוֹן הִיא לָכֶם, וְעִנִּיתֶם אֶת-נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶם--חֻקַּת, עוֹלָם.
</td><td><b>31</b> It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.
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<b>לב</b> וְכִפֶּר הַכֹּהֵן אֲשֶׁר-יִמְשַׁח אֹתוֹ, וַאֲשֶׁר יְמַלֵּא
אֶת-יָדוֹ, לְכַהֵן, תַּחַת אָבִיו; וְלָבַשׁ אֶת-בִּגְדֵי הַבָּד,
בִּגְדֵי הַקֹּדֶשׁ.
</td><td><b>32</b> And the priest, who shall be anointed and who shall be
consecrated to be priest in his father's stead, shall make the
atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.
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<b>לג</b> וְכִפֶּר אֶת-מִקְדַּשׁ הַקֹּדֶשׁ, וְאֶת-אֹהֶל מוֹעֵד
וְאֶת-הַמִּזְבֵּחַ יְכַפֵּר; וְעַל הַכֹּהֲנִים וְעַל-כָּל-עַם הַקָּהָל,
יְכַפֵּר.
</td><td><b>33</b> And he shall make atonement for the most holy place, and he
shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar; and he
shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the
assembly.
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<b>לד</b> וְהָיְתָה-זֹּאת לָכֶם לְחֻקַּת עוֹלָם, לְכַפֵּר עַל-בְּנֵי
יִשְׂרָאֵל מִכָּל-חַטֹּאתָם--אַחַת, בַּשָּׁנָה; וַיַּעַשׂ, כַּאֲשֶׁר
צִוָּה יְהוָה אֶת-מֹשֶׁה. {פ}
</td><td><b>34</b> And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make
atonement for the children of Israel because of all their sins once in
the year.' And he did as the LORD commanded Moses. <b>{P}</b></td></tr>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-20439455327213649322011-12-28T00:21:00.000-08:002011-12-28T00:21:22.038-08:00Eighth Day (of Eight Days) of Miracles: The Festival of Lights, called Chanukah<div class="gmail_quote"><a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=2b3bf19d2d&view=att&th=13483acf57c4a106&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_13483ab45a6a946b&zw" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Crystal-Indigo-children.blogspot.gif" border="0" height="215" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=2b3bf19d2d&view=att&th=13483acf57c4a106&attid=0.1&disp=emb&realattid=ii_13483ab45a6a946b&zw" title="Crystal-Indigo-children.blogspot.gif" width="400" /></a>On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:57 PM, White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother <span dir="ltr"><whitebuffalocalfwoman@gmail.com></whitebuffalocalfwoman@gmail.com></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px #ccc solid; margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><h1></h1><h1>Relatives of the Rainbow, </h1><h1><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">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. </span><br />
</h1>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.</blockquote><br />
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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.<br />
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.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <i><b>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.</b></i></blockquote><br />
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<i><b>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 </b><b>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.</b></i></blockquote><br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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!</blockquote><br />
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elders of the rainbow, <a href="http://alightfromwithin.org/" target="_blank">alightfromwithin.org</a>, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy</blockquote><br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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. <br />
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<h1>Last day of Chanukah</h1><div>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. </div></blockquote><br />
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div> Candles are lit during the Chanukah period. ©iStockphoto.com/Anyka</div></div><h2>What do people do?</h2>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.<br />
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 <i>menorah</i>, a candelabrum with holders for eight candles, one for each day of celebration, plus a ninth, the <i>shammash</i> or “server”, used to light the others during Chanukah. One candle is lit <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/jewish/chanukah" target="_blank">on the first night</a>, two on the second, three on the third, through to the eighth night when all are lit.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 <i>dreidel</i>. Other customs include gift-giving, especially to children, and decorating the home.<br />
<h2>Public life</h2>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 <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/australia/last-day-chanukah" target="_blank">Australia</a>, <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/canada/last-day-chanukah" target="_blank">Canada</a>, <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/uk/last-day-chanukah" target="_blank">the United Kingdom</a> and <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/last-day-chanukah" target="_blank">the United States</a>. Some Jewish schools in these countries and other countries have a vacation period that coincides with Chanukah.<br />
<h2>Background</h2>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).<br />
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.<br />
<h2>Symbols</h2>The eight-branched Chanukah <i>menorah</i>, 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 <i>menorah</i> is lit from the left side to the right and people say blessings when the <i>menorah</i> is lit. There are many different styles of the <i>menorah</i> – in many cases the ninth holder, known as the <i>shammash</i> (helper candle), is in the middle or to the left side.</blockquote><br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> The <i>dreidel</i> 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/<wbr></wbr>holidays/jewish/last-day-<wbr></wbr>chanukah<br />
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<h1></h1><h1>The Miracle of the Eighth Day<br />
(A Hanukkah Sermon)</h1><h2><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">by Jan Vickery Knost<br />
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First Parish in Norwell </span><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><br />
December 9, 2001</span><br />
</h2>Text: "<i>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</i>."<br />
The Apocrypha, 1st Book of Macabees<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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)<br />
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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.<br />
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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."<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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I would close this venture with some lines of poetry written by my friend and colleague, the Rev. Anthony F. Perrino:<br />
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<i><b>I am the Hanukkah-Christmas Spirit<br />
That comes with the month of December:<br />
A winter-solstice spell, perhaps,<br />
When people forget to remember--<br />
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The drab realities of fact,<br />
The cherished hurt of ancient wrongs,<br />
The lonely comfort of being deaf<br />
To human sighs and angels' songs.<br />
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Suddenly, they lose their minds<br />
To heart's demands and beauty's grace;<br />
And deeds extravagant with love<br />
Give glory to the commonplace.</b></i><br />
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Amen.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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, <a href="http://holinessdavid.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Holiness David</a> 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.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jt6PQYtPju0/TvHAeGLZknI/AAAAAAAAHkA/UoYIPf1Z9m0/s1600/menorah.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="149" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jt6PQYtPju0/TvHAeGLZknI/AAAAAAAAHkA/UoYIPf1Z9m0/s200/menorah.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>From 2004 to this year 2011 we received four thousand dollars in donations (most given to us by <a href="http://comfortinthewind.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Grandmother Comfort in the Wind</a> 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. <i><b>We the House of David (beloved children of the rainbow) celebrate the miracle each and every day.</b></i> Our abundance relies on LOVE, the LAW.<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>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. </b></span>This is the <a href="http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">House of David</a> (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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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Here is an example of a blog posted, Happy Hanukkah 2011.<br />
<a href="http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-hanukkah-2011.html">http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/2011/12/happy-hanukkah-2011.html</a><br />
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WE have interpreted the meaning of the Dridel and the Menorah. This is part of the blog posting.<br />
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<b>(the menorah seven lights of the oil lamp and channukiah for the nine candle</b><b> candelabrum)</b><br />
<i>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).</i><br />
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(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. <i><b>"Here I stand uniting heaven with earth, through dance and song, the great caretaker, the magenta color/child, the rainbow bridge dances along. </b></i>"Shammes" (in Yiddish) or "Shamash" (in Hebrew)<i> </i><i><b>Here is the helper who grinds the song and dance, to bring us towards the lights of the realm." White Buffalo Calf Woman sings</b></i> Rainbow clan cleaves to the covenant upon this land, let the lights shine a miracle is real, for God-brotherhood does heal.) <br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">White Buffalo Calf Woman interprets G-d.</span></b></i><br />
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<b><i>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.</i></b><br />
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<i><b>United Four Directions Dance, Holy Temple Commands. We are Man (kind).<br />
Stars from the Rainbow Clan, Rejoice, I say, Rejoice! </b></i><br />
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<i><b>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.</b></i><br />
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<i><b>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!</b></i><br />
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<i><b>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.</b></i><br />
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King David (root of David is the house of Judah): <b><i>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).</i></b><br />
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elders of the rainbow on the hoops of the universe,<br />
Grandfather Holy Spirit (white/star child), Grandmother Comfort in the Wind (gray child), <br />
White Buffalo Calf Woman (christal child) and Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star (lavender child)<br />
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"When you get lost" in the hoops of the universe, sing this;<br />
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<i><b>Separate hooves for separate grooves.<br />
Bring them home in the storm.<br />
We are bound to where is sound.<br />
Make my heart go all around! </b></i><br />
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The promise of the rainbow, the arc/ark of the covenant<br />
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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.<br />
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<i><b>White Buffalo Calf Woman interprets</b></i><br />
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).<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Oh Chanukah Oh Chanukah</b></span><br />
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I had a dreidl and made it out of sand and when I tried to spin it, it crumbled out of my hand.<br />
<b><i>- (sand is the times of the hourglass, the crystalline stones of many splendid colors, not contained, but blowing in the winds, diversity) </i></b><br />
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I had a dreidl and made it out of air and when I tried to spin it, it simply wasn't even there.<br />
<b><i>- (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></b><br />
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I had a dreidl and made it out of mud and when I tried to spin it, it stained my Mother's rug.<br />
<i><b>- (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) </b></i><br />
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I had a dreidl and made it out of stone and when I tried to spin it, it nearly broke my bones.<br />
<i><b>- (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)</b></i><br />
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I had a dreidl and made it out of tin and when I tried to spin it, it simply wouldn't spin.<br />
<i><b>- (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) </b></i><br />
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I had a dreidl and made it out of clay and when I tried to spin it, Oh dreidl I shall play. <br />
<i><b>- (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!)</b></i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P-XJzCYDmK4/Tu_nPmk8CqI/AAAAAAAAHiU/bqjkoFkpjQw/s1600/hanukkah.Dreidl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-P-XJzCYDmK4/Tu_nPmk8CqI/AAAAAAAAHiU/bqjkoFkpjQw/s1600/hanukkah.Dreidl.jpg" /></a></div><b><span style="font-size: large;">How to Play Dreidel</span></b><br />
A simple game shows significance of Hebrew miracle<br />
By Sarah James <br />
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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".<br />
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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.<br />
<b>How to play Dreidel</b><br />
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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:<br />
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Nun: No win / no lose<br />
Gimmel: Take all from the "kupah"<br />
Heh: Take half from the "kupah"<br />
Peh or Shin: Lose what you've put into the "kupah"<br />
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The game continues until all of the players have lost their pieces, or all decided to stop.<br />
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Holiday---Celebration-Recipes/Hanukkah-Recipes/How-to-Play-Dreidel<br />
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<i><b>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. </b></i><br />
<i><b> Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy, <a href="http://alightfromwithin.org/">alightfromwithin.org</a></b></i><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="color: #95bad5; float: Right; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; padding-left: 10px;">Kislev 23, 5772 · December 19, 2011</div><div style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Chanukah (Hanukkah)</div><div style="color: #95bad5; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Light Over Darkness</div><div style="margin-top: 25px;"><a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=61673140F70906D7A8AC9D7B2B4D5ABA&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> <img align="right" alt="Chanukah - Hanukkah" border="0" height="200" src="http://www.chabad.org/media/images/138783.jpg" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" vspace="5" width="250" /></a> <br />
<div><div style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 140%;">Chanukah<b> this year is Tuesday evening December 20 - Wednesday, December 28.</b></div><hr align="left" color="#95BAD5" width="90%" /><b><a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=61673140F70906D7A8AC9D7B2B4D5ABA&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> <span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Chanukah</span></a></b><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>-- the <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=FD632E05EBAA9485A7790D9D462E82A1&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> eight-day</a></b> festival of light that begins on the <b style="color: lime;"><a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=2BDD106343EF3CA82267A738EBD19515&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> eve</a></b> of the 25th of <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=E973D16F35B48270196086DE92529DEB&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> the Jewish month of Kislev</a></b> -- celebrates the <b style="color: lime;"><a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=AAF57F8E0467E8D01D43FADD31F25A5C&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> triumph</a></b><span style="color: lime;"> </span>of <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=5C4BF35907F1CF3ACBE7B4F7B9070480&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> light</a></b> over <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=2E0562D4E4B4D06DAB8A5D9D8985137C&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> darkness</a></b>, of <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=8FB6A4FD1194EEE7AB30DB467D34747B&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> purity</a></b> over <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=F7F81DCFB1069821C64E7105AC5925BA&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> adulteration</a></b>, of <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=C72F3019F6476F4D459096ED6F63A8BE&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> spirituality over materiality</a></b>.<br />
More than twenty-one centuries ago, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who sought to forcefully <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=D0E06E84A8679EA1DAA8C092C0CEAC8B&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> Hellenize</a></b> 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 <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=0F13D02A3A5FFD09E4AF5D903C7897C5&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> Holy Temple</a></b> in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the <b style="color: lime;"><a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=703ACA3E2CFA91E1E61BD0C9C519E61D&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> service</a></b> of <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=B1265066CC2A779D9A41D253D8887B7B&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> G-d</a></b>.<br />
When they sought to light the Temple's <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=143E5C79F9294388CFA99A8B25422D95&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> menorah</a></b> (the seven branched candelabrum), they found only a single cruse of <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=9D15CA7690DE7C4645D89D4BFD609DD1&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> olive oil</a></b> that had escaped contamination by the Greeks; <b style="color: lime;"><a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=C57D161176331E599FA2E6E309B5DBE0&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> miraculously</a></b>, the one-day supply burned for eight days, until new oil could be prepared under conditions of <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=5E765957A2D4E4413EBB5161ACA70806&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> ritual purity</a></b>.<br />
To commemorate and <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=3FFD5957711C2460FE26CAE1F37AE64F&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> publicize</a></b> these miracles, the sages instituted the festival of Chanukah. At the heart of the festival is the <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=6B3AD0F277BC5852574F52DEEF398BD6&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> nightly menorah (candelabrum) lighting</a></b>: a single <b style="color: lime;"><a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=29DFDFE1B933C73A676F076EC328BC71&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> flame</a></b> on the first night, two on the second evening, and so on till the eighth night of Chanukah, when <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=0B508E3815611D2E4F641FDA6BD2A6D0&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> all eight lights</a></b> are kindled.<br />
On Chanukah we also add the <i>Hallel</i> and <i>Al HaNissim</i> in our daily prayers to offer praise and thanksgiving to G-d for "delivering the strong into the hands of the <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=635C3665B3C97D8A7BB0A0CF7F418ADF&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> weak</a></b>, the many into the hands of the <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=FDA089FDFC1BBB18F8305157AB09A6FA&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> few</a></b>... the wicked into the hands of the <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=879E648FB40A5753EE8783530AF31C0E&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> righteous</a></b>."<br />
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Chanukah customs include eating foods fried in oil -- <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=D4C58D022A68674A1CF42076AF417F85&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> latkes</a></b> (potato pancakes) and<span style="color: lime;"> </span><b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=CF051C6B6CB4BA6819A2816CBD157D50&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> sufganiot</a></b> (doughnuts); playing with the <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=648CBA23490097F10B10BEB1D8D06252&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> dreidel</a></b> (a spinning top on which are inscribed the Hebrew letters <i>nun</i>, <i>gimmel</i>, <i>hei</i> and <i>shin</i>, an acronym for <i>Nes Gadol Hayah Sham</i>, "a great miracle happened there"); and the giving of <b> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=0CF81DCEE8064B1FB3B76ED6C50C0495&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"><i> <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: lime;">Chanukah</span> <span style="color: lime;">gelt</span></span></i></a></b>, gifts of <b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=7FDA03BC6FF898E7DFD3EE3B90380175&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> money</a></b>, to<span style="color: lime;"> </span><b style="color: lime;"> <a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=F2B58253B92F6172EC579D958D5403E3&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" target="_blank"> children</a></b>.<br />
<div style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=520BC19E6AA25344063D1403E72F4B32&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" style="color: cyan;" target="_blank">Click here</a> for a comprehensive "How To" guide for the observances and customs of Chanukah</div><div align="right"><a href="http://link.chabad.org/go.asp?li=A30580625C01A9AC42931ED76F4C3DD6&ui=3F1CAAC08B66AA47BDE06B6F0C479D7C" style="color: #006699; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 140%; padding-top: 4px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> <b> <img align="absMiddle" border="0" height="16" hspace="4" src="http://www.chabad.org/images/global/icons/window.gif" width="16" /><span style="color: cyan;">Click here to visit www.Chanukah.org</span></b></a></div><div align="right" style="color: cyan;"></div><div align="left" style="color: cyan;"></div><br />
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<i><b>United Four Directions Dance, Holy Temple Commands. We are Man (kind).<br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #20124d;">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!"</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Yee shall dwell in booths for seven days-Leviticus 23:42 </i></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>"Let me sing and I will know the Mishnah </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="he" xml:lang="he">משנה</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b> (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!"</b> </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Isaiah 12:3 </i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>" And you shall draw waters with joy from the wells of salvation". </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i><b>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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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I look up at you ♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪ (space time)</b></i><i><b> ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ </b></i><i><b>stars in the blue</b></i><i><b> ♥ ¸¸.•*¨*•♫♪</b></i><i><b> (space time)</b></i><i><b> ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ </b></i><i><b>I know you are out there too!<br />
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(silently) </b></i><i><b>♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ T</b></i><i><b>ears 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.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i><b>Our Blessed</b></i> <i><b>"Sukkot, day 6 blessed as a thorn, day 7 mountain horn, day 8 eagle born, day 9 I have flown". </b></i>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.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i><b>Blessed as a thorn</b></i>, 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. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i><b>Mountain horn</b></i>, 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. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i><b>Eagle born</b></i>, 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"</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"> <i><b>I have flown</b></i>, 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.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">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. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">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.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #20124d;">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. </span></b></i><br />
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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. <br />
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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. <br />
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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.<br />
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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). </span></b></i><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;">The <b>Temple in Jerusalem</b> is considered a <span style="font-size: small;"><b>Holy Temple</b></span> (Hebrew: <span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>בית המקדש</b>,</span> <span class="Unicode">Bet HaMikdash</span> ; "The Holy House", refers to a series of structures located on the Temple Mount <span dir="ltr">Hebrew: <span lang="he" xml:lang="he"><b>הַר הַבַּיִת</b></span></span>, Har haBáyit), also called <b>the Noble Sanctuary</b> (Arabic: <span lang="ar" xml:lang="ar"><b>الحرم القدسي الشريف</b></span>, al-haram al-qudsī ash-sharīf). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">"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! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">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 <i>Shabbat</i> coming from the Hebrew verb <i>shavat</i>, which literally means "to cease." On the seventh day, you shall rest and you shall gather and know joy. Although <i>Shabbat</i> 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<i><b>. </b><b>The unity of the heavenly soul, the blue road </b></i>(heavenly dark)<i><b>, cross the red</b></i> (earthly light, holy temple, in four sacred directions in rainbow colors, often referred to as the buffalo home)<i><b>, and my body is read </b></i>(perfect book of life, pure in heart)<i><b>, my love is flowing pools of blood </b></i>(hard work, endure for love, suffering for the ones I love, the relatives of the rainbow clan)<i><b>, rivers of spiritual tears I do know!</b></i> To make holy and enter paradise, one must walk upon this world, with a heart of gold, singing with rejoice of the heavenly soul). <i><b> </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i><b>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. </b></i><i><b>A light from within does bless, reciting the test of time, with song upon my heart, bringing joy to my heart.</b> <b>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. </b></i><b><i>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 </i></b><i><b>(Mishkan</b></i> משכן <b><i>"Residence" or "Dwelling Place"</i><i>) 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,</i></b><i><b> 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.</b> <b><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b><i>I enter Shabbat (holy day), to rest my soul, to bring reflection of inner light, a </i></b><i><b>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. </b><b>Know joy in your heart, yee not toil, but rejoice for it's God's will.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">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. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;">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.</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #20124d;">This is the <a href="http://whitebuffalocalfwoman.net/">houseofthebeloved</a>, 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." </span></b></i><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i><b>I give you a Dime, understand</b></i> <i><b>call home!</b></i> 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!</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;">The </span><span style="font-size: small;">Sukkah is the </span><span style="font-size: small;">temporary dwellings of the rainbow colors, the physical light that shines, where rivers of bounty flow, eternally knows/nose (bridge between realms). </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;">Nisuch HaMayim נסוך המים literally "pouring of the water" or Water Libation Ceremony, the sacred blessing of the unity with the Suns! </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;">V'ahavta</span><span style="font-size: small;">: 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!" </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;">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. </span><span style="font-size: small;">"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). </span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;">Shemini Atzeret </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">שמיני עצרת</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> "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.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;"><i> </i>The Temple Mount acts as the figurative "footstool" of God's presence or the hebrew word "shechina" in the physical world." </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">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). </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"> 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, <i>"If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." </i></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #20124d;">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. </span></b></i><br />
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<i><b><span style="color: #20124d;">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!</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><i><b>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 </b></i><i><b>heavenly path of the soul</b></i><i><b>, I always start and complete my life. Forever, I gift my strife. </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;">Article written and sung by <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">White Buffalo Calf Woman</span>, elder crystal person. </span>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 <i><b>"Sukkot, day 6 blessed as a thorn, day 7 mountain horn, day 8 eagle born, day 9 I have flown".</b><b><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"> * Jewish Year 5771: sunset September 22, 2010 - nightfall September 29, 2010</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"> * Jewish Year 5772: sunset October 12, 2011 - nightfall October 19, 2011</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"> * Jewish Year 5773: sunset September 30, 2012 - nightfall October 7, 2012</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"> * Jewish Year 5774: sunset September 18, 2013 - nightfall September 25, 2013</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>D</b></span>uring 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).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">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 <a href="http://sacredsongblessings.blogspot.com/2010/09/esta-shares-dance-of-fair-festival-of.html">http://sacredsongblessings.blogspot.com/2010/09/esta-shares-dance-of-fair-festival-of.html</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>T</b></span>his 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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://img2.tfd.com/wiki/8/8b/Arbaat_haminim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="265" src="https://img2.tfd.com/wiki/8/8b/Arbaat_haminim.jpg" width="200" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The Four Species </b>(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.<br />
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The Four Species are:<br />
* Lulav (לולב) – a ripe, green, closed frond from a date palm tree<br />
* Hadass (הדס) – boughs with leaves from the myrtle tree<br />
* Aravah (ערבה) – branches with leaves from the willow tree<br />
* Etrog (אתרוג) – the fruit of a citron tree<br />
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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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.)</span></span></span></span></div>
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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]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> After reciting the blessing,</span><i style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> "Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments, and commanded us to take the lulav" </b></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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]</span><br />
<br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * The lulav has taste but no smell, symbolizing those who study Torah but do not possess good deeds.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * The hadass has a good smell but no taste, symbolizing those who possess good deeds but do not study Torah.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * The aravah has neither taste nor smell, symbolizing those who lack both Torah and good deeds.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * The etrog has both a good taste and a good smell, symbolizing those who have both Torah and good deeds.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * Lulav – the spine</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * Hadass – the eye</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * Aravah – the mouth</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * Etrog – the heart</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> By binding them together for a mitzvah, the Jew shows his desire to consecrate his entire being to service of God.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /> <br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 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. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Four+Species</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><b>Sukkot</b> (Hebrew: <span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>סוכות</b> or <b>סֻכּוֹת</b>,</span> <i><span class="Unicode">sukkōt</span></i> ; "booths", also known as <b>Succoth</b>, <b>Sukkos</b>, <b>Feast of Booths</b> or <b>Feast of Tabernacles</b>), 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 the<i>Shalosh Regalim</i> (three pilgrim festivals), when historically the Jewish populace traveled to the Temple in Jerusalem. </span></span><br />
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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.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The word <b>Sukkot</b> is derived from the Hebrew word <i>sukkah</i>, 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 <i>sukkah</i> 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.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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 <i>lulav</i> (date palm frond),<i>hadass</i> (bough of a myrtle tree), <i>aravah</i> (willow branch)— these three are actually bound together and collectively referred to as the <i>lulav</i>—and the <i>etrog</i> (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.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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 <i>Chol HaMoed</i> ("festival weekdays"). The seventh day of Sukkot is called <i>Hoshanah Rabbah</i> and has a special observance of its own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Prayers during Sukkot include the reading of the Torah every day, saying the Mussaf (additional) service during morning prayers, reading the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Hallel </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Hallel </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">(<span dir="ltr">Hebrew: <span lang="he" xml:lang="he">הלל</span></span> "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.) <b><a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalms" onmouseout="t_o(1)" onmouseover="t_i(1)">Psalms • תהילים (<i>Tehilim</i>)</a></b>'' Psalm 23 • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+51" onmouseout="t_o(2)" onmouseover="t_i(2)">Psalm 51</a> • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+67" onmouseout="t_o(3)" onmouseover="t_i(3)">Psalm 67</a> • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+74" onmouseout="t_o(4)" onmouseover="t_i(4)">Psalm 74, </a><a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+83" onmouseout="t_o(5)" onmouseover="t_i(5)">Psalm 83</a> • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+89" onmouseout="t_o(6)" onmouseover="t_i(6)">Psalm 89</a> • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+91" onmouseout="t_o(7)" onmouseover="t_i(7)">Psalm 91</a> • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+95" onmouseout="t_o(8)" onmouseover="t_i(8)">Psalm 95,</a>• </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+98" onmouseout="t_o(9)" onmouseover="t_i(9)">Psalm 98</a> • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+100" onmouseout="t_o(10)" onmouseover="t_i(10)">Psalm 100</a> • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+103" onmouseout="t_o(11)" onmouseover="t_i(11)">Psalm 103,</a>• </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+104" onmouseout="t_o(12)" onmouseover="t_i(12)">Psalm 104</a> • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+109" onmouseout="t_o(13)" onmouseover="t_i(13)">Psalm 109</a> • Psalms 113-118 <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+119" onmouseout="t_o(14)" onmouseover="t_i(14)">Psalm 119</a> • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+130" onmouseout="t_o(15)" onmouseover="t_i(15)">Psalm 130</a> • <a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+137" onmouseout="t_o(16)" onmouseover="t_i(16)">Psalm 137</a><a class="tip" href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Psalm+137" onmouseout="t_o(16)" onmouseover="t_i(16)"> </a></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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.)</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;"><i>Keli she'Melakhto le'Isur</i> – An object that is used most of the time for activities prohibited on Shabbat (e.g. a pencil - writing is forbidden on Shabbat).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;"><i>Muktza Mahmat Hisaron Kis</i> – An object that is a <i>Keli she'Melakhto le'Isur</i> <i>and</i> 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).</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The second through seventh days of Sukkot (third through seventh days outside the land of Israel) are called <i>Chol HaMo'ed</i> (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 <i>sukkahs</i> 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 <i>Chol HaMo'ed</i> as a vacation period, eating nicer than usual meals in their <i>sukkah</i>, entertaining guests, visiting other families in their <i>sukkahs</i>, and taking family outings.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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 <i>sukkah</i>, 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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;">Halakha (Hebrew: הלכה ; alternate transliterations include <i>Halocho</i> and <i>Halacha</i>) is the collective body of Jewish religious law, including biblical law (the <a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/613+mitzvot">613 <i>mitzvot</i></a>) 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.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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 <i>Chol HaMo'ed</i> 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.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;">Deuteronomy (Greek <i>deuteronomion</i>, 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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;">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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;"><b>*Shema</b> <b>Yisrael</b> (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).<br />
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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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://img.tfd.com/wiki/e/e5/Mezuzahklaf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://img.tfd.com/wiki/e/e5/Mezuzahklaf.jpg" width="309" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>History: </b>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.</span><br />
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The Hebrew text of the first two paragraphs of the Shema, as they are written on a mezuzah:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;">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". </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shema Yisrael: The first, pivotal, words of the Shema are:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> שמע ישראל יהוה אלהינו יהוה אחד</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><b>Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad</b></i>.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The literal word meanings are roughly as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shema (A three part word) — listen, or hear and "act on"</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Yisrael — Israel, in the sense of the people or congregation of Israel</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Adonai — often translated as "Lord", it is used in place of the Tetragrammaton</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Eloheinu — our God, the word "El" or "Elohei" signifying God (see also: Elohim), and the plural possessive determiner suffix "nu" or "einu" signifying "our"</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Echad — the Hebrew word for "1" (the number)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God! The LORD is One!" and,</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God — the LORD alone."</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">V'ahavta</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><img border="1" height="146" src="https://img.tfd.com/wiki/b/bf/Vahavta_2.jpg" style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" width="498" /></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">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).</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">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).<br />
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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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Summary of </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> V'ahavta</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">: 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."</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The full content verse by verse, in Hebrew, English transliteration and English translation, can be found here.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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).</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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]</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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).</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Arnold Schoenberg used it as part of the story to his narrative orchestral work A Survivor from Warsaw (1947).</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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] </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">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).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">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.<br />
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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.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;">*Mechitza: A <b>mechitza </b>(מחיצה, Hebrew: partition or division, plural mechitzot) is a partition that is a valid divider under Jewish law. </span></div>
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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):<br />
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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]<br />
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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.<br />
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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.</span></div>
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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.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;"><b>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."</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Typical schedule: The following is a typical daily schedule for Beit Midrash students:</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 7:00 a.m. - Optional seder (study session)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 7:30 a.m. - Morning prayers</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 8:30 a.m. - Session on study of Jewish law</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 9:00 a.m. - Breakfast</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 9:30 a.m. - Morning Talmud study (first seder)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 12:30 p.m. - Shiur (lecture) - advanced students sometimes dispense with this lecture</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 1:30 p.m. - Lunch</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 2:45 p.m. - Mincha - afternoon prayers</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 3:00 p.m. - Mussar seder - Jewish ethics</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 3:30 p.m. - Talmud study (second seder)</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 7:00 p.m. - Dinner</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 8:00 p.m. - Night seder - Review of lecture, or study of choice.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 9:25 p.m. - Mussar seder - Jewish Ethics</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 9:45 p.m. - Maariv - Evening prayers</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> * 10:00 p.m. - Optional evening seder</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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.</span><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><br style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">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. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The seventh day of Sukkot is known as Hoshanah Rabbah (הושענא רבא, Great Supplication). This day is marked by a special synagogue service, the <i>Hoshanah Rabbah</i> (Great Hoshanah), in which seven circuits are made by the worshippers with their <i>lulav</i> and <i>etrog</i>, 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 <i>aravah</i> branches is taken and beaten against the ground, accompanied by a series of liturgical verses ending with, "<i>Kol mevasser, mevasser ve-omer</i>" (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.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Among Sephardic Jews, prayers known as "<i>Selihot</i>" (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.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The day immediately following Sukkot is known as <i>Shemini Atzeret</i>, "the Eighth (Day) of Assembly." <i>Shemini Atzeret</i> is a separate holiday.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0">[1]</sup> In Israel, the celebration of <i>Shemini Atzeret</i>includes <i>Simchat Torah</i>*. Outside the land of Israel, <i>Shemini Atzeret</i> is celebrated on the day after Sukkot and <i>Simchat Torah</i> is celebrated on the day after that, bringing the total days of festivities to eight in Israel and nine outside Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><i>Shemini Atzeret</i>* 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.</span></span></div>
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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.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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 <i>aliyah</i>, and all the children under the age of bar mitzvah are also given an "<i>aliyah</i>" called <i>Kol HaNa'arim</i> (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 <i>aliyah</i>. 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 "<i>hakafot</i>") are made, although the dancing can go on for hours.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">*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.<br />
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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. </span></span></div>
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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. </span></span></span></div>
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<li>“The Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths) ” (<a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Leviticus">Lev.</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Lev&verse=23:34&src=HE">23:34</a>; <a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Deuteronomy">Deut.</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Deut&verse=16:13-16&src=HE">16:13-16</a>; <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Deut&verse=31:10&src=HE">31:10</a>; <a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Book+of+Zechariah">Zech.</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Zech&verse=14:16-19&src=HE">14:16-19</a>;<a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Book+of+Ezra">Ezra</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Ezra&verse=3:4&src=HE">3:4</a>; <a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Books+of+Chronicles">2 Chron.</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=2%20Chron&verse=8:13&src=HE">8:13</a>)</li>
<li>“The Feast of Ingathering” (<a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Exodus">Ex.</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Ex&verse=23:16&src=HE">23:16</a>, <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Ex&verse=34:22&src=HE">34:22</a>)</li>
<li>“The Feast” or “the festival” (<a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Books+of+Kings">1 Kings</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=1%20Kings&verse=8:2&src=HE">8:2</a>, <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=1%20Kings&verse=8:65&src=HE">8:65</a>; <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=1%20Kings&verse=12:32&src=HE">12:32</a>; 2 Chron. <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=2%20Chron&verse=5:3&src=HE">5:3</a>; <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=2%20Chron&verse=7:8&src=HE">7:8</a>)</li>
<li>“The Feast of the Lord” (Lev. <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Lev&verse=23:39&src=HE">23:39</a>; <a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Book+of+Judges">Judges</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Judges&verse=21:19&src=HE">21:19</a>)</li>
<li>“The festival of the seventh month” (<a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Book+of+Ezekiel">Ezek.</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Ezek&verse=45:25&src=HE">45:25</a>; <a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Book+of+Nehemiah">Neh.</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Neh&verse=8:14&src=HE">8:14</a>)</li>
<li>“A holy convocation” or “a sacred occasion” (<a href="http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Book+of+Numbers">Num.</a> <a class="external text" href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Num&verse=29:12&src=HE">29:12</a>)</li>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;"><i>* </i>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.<br />
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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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;"><b>Divine Presence</b>, is known as <span class="hw"> </span><b>Shekhinah</b> - alternative transliterations <b>Shekinah</b>, <b>Shechinah</b>, <b>Shekina</b>, <b>Shechina</b>, <b>Schechinah</b>, <b>שכינה</b> 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. <span class="mw-headline">Etymology: </span>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<b> <i>(welcoming in the </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;">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 <i><b>(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)</b></i>, after the six days of creation<b> <i> (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.)</i></b> 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.<b> <i> (Candle-lighting to share our inner light)</i></b> time changes from week to week and from place to place, depending on the time of the sunset at the location.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>"</b></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>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. </b></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Let the stars shine, in the house of the throne, where kinsmen are known, and rainbow colors have come home,</b></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>" White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother.</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: small;">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.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> <b>According to classical Jewish belief, the Temple (or the Temple Mount) acts as the figurative "footstool" of God's presence (Heb. "</b></i><b><i>shechina" in the physical world."</i>)</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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).</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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 </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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.)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #20124d; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">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.</span></span></div>
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<li>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 (<i>Josh.</i> 13:27). This is where Jacob, on his return from Padan-aram after his interview with Esau, built a house for himself and made <i>sukkot</i> (booths) for his cattle (<i>Gen.</i> 32:17, 30; 33:17).</li>
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<li>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" (<i>Judg.</i> 8:13-16). Wright identifies this with Deir Άlla.</li>
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<li>At this place were erected the foundries for casting the metal-work for the temple (<i>1 Kings</i>7:46).<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Thank you http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/sukkot</span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </span></span>Etymology of the name <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Auaris</span></span> (Avaris)<br />
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).<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> Thank you http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Avaris</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">The stranger and the journey across the river! Give yee light. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Brotherly love swells within a heart.</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 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! <span style="font-size: x-small;">Thank you http://alightfromwithin.org</span></span> </span></span></li>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">The Stranger: Deuteronomy 16</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"> 13 Thou shalt observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, after thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine.</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"> 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.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #20124d;"> 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:</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"> 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.</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"> 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.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">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,</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;">The Feast of the Watergate, The Festival of the Final Harvest. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Thank you http://curtis.loftinnc.com/sukkot.htm</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Significance:</b> Remembers the wandering in the dessert; also a harvest festival</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Observances:</b> Building and "dwelling" in a booth; waving branches and a fruit during services</span><br />
<span style="color: #20124d;"><b>Length:</b> 7 days</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: medium;">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 </span><span style="font-size: medium;">G-d</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">*</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">for seven days. -Leviticus 23:40</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: medium;">*</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">L-RD (ah, heaven is home, look at the stars, Lord). </span></span></div>
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<li>Jewish Year 5770: sunset October 2, 2009 - nightfall October 9, 2009</li>
<li>Jewish Year 5771: sunset September 22, 2010 - nightfall September 29, 2010</li>
<li>Jewish Year 5772: sunset October 12, 2011 - nightfall October 19, 2011</li>
<li>Jewish Year 5773: sunset September 30, 2012 - nightfall October 7, 2012</li>
<li>Jewish Year 5774: sunset September 18, 2013 - nightfall September 25, 2013</li>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-55137162466819388532010-09-18T13:46:00.000-07:002010-09-19T14:07:43.248-07:00Joyful for the Celebration of Liberation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJWEQ0ZU8NI/AAAAAAAAE_s/XfcgguctHgI/s1600/Crushed+Angel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJWEQ0ZU8NI/AAAAAAAAE_s/XfcgguctHgI/s320/Crushed+Angel.jpg" /></a></div><br />
We sing for those who have found their heaven. Those who seek to find their heaven. And those who are lost from their heaven. <br />
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<i><b>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).<br />
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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. <br />
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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. <br />
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</b></i>Crows sing to us:<i><b><br />
</b></i><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJWFhmNJ6VI/AAAAAAAAE_0/bVokZfY_kQE/s1600/BlackWhiteCrows.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJWFhmNJ6VI/AAAAAAAAE_0/bVokZfY_kQE/s320/BlackWhiteCrows.jpg" /></a><i><b>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.</b></i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">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 <a href="http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/">houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com</a>, who Walk and Talk with Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy, <a href="http://alightfromwithin.org/">alightfromwithin.org</a>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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Thank you for sharing your heart with us. Your dream last night,<i>"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."</i><br />
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Lost in transfer a video in the last posting about forgiveness <a href="http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/2010/09/giving-to-receive-joy-give-alms-for.html">http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/2010/09/giving-to-receive-joy-give-alms-for.html</a> 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.<br />
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<i>[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.<br />
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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]</i><br />
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<i><b>Kol Nidrei:<br />
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, </b><b>Sh'vikin sh'vitin, betelin umevutalin, lo sheririn v'lo kayamin, Nidrana lo nidrei, V'essarana lo essarei, Ush'vuatana lo shevuot.</b></i><br />
(contributed by Cup of God)<br />
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Cup of God, I prefer this video where Carlebach sings the Koi Nidrei<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>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).<br />
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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).<br />
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<i>["Kol Nidre," </i><i>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</i>.<i> 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.]</i><br />
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<i><b>"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.<br />
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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."</b></i><br />
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The leader and the congregation then say together: (Num. xv. 26).<br />
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<i><b>"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"</b></i><br />
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</b></i>This also is repeated three times. The ?azzan then closes with the benediction, :<i><b><br />
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"Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast preserved us and hast brought us to enjoy this season."</b></i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJZw1kbhw_I/AAAAAAAAFAc/e2TrJ5_AleM/s1600/6a00e5522b789f88330120a6a756c8970b-800wi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="196" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJZw1kbhw_I/AAAAAAAAFAc/e2TrJ5_AleM/s200/6a00e5522b789f88330120a6a756c8970b-800wi.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><i>"</i><b>The Kol Nidre</b><i> is the holiest Jewish prayer and is recited several times on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It means "all vows" and </i><b>is a flat statement that no promise of any kind will be kept for the coming year</b><i>. It is also sung by the cantor in synagogue, accompanied on the violin and it says this." </i>says JB Campbell 11-30-2003 JBC@wealthkeeper.net:<br />
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<i><b>"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." </b></i><span style="color: #006600; font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span><br />
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</b></span>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. <br />
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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 <u><i>(ordained eastern shore, 12 Houses of Jacob, representing rainbow colors, rainbow mother of heaven, talkers of the blue road of heaven, eldest physical bodies)</i></u>. The earthly flesh travels the red road, the law of love and walk <u><i>(ordained western shore, are the Sioux, spiritual embrace of this world </i></u><u><i>and the rainbow clan,</i></u><u><i> walkers of the red road of earth, eldest soul bodies)</i></u>. 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. <br />
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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. <br />
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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?<br />
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Look here, this line <i><b>"pledges of all names</b></i>" or Jews who use no name, but rather <i><b>"whether called '?onam,' '?onas,' or by any other name</b></i>". 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 <i><b>G_ah_d, the utterance of heavenly transmission</b></i>, 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!<br />
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<i><b>"Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast preserved us and hast brought us to enjoy this season."</b></i><br />
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</tbody></table><i>[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.] </i><br />
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This prayer Avinu Malkeinu, "Father Our King" is often omitted if Yom Kippur falls on the Sabbath like today, Saturday. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>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. <i><b><br />
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Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy take my hand, let us greet the promised land.</b></i><br />
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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<br />
Inscribe us for blessing in the book of life<br />
Let the new year be a good year for us</b></i><br />
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Barbra Streisand</b> sings traditional music </span><span class="watch-extra-info-left">Avinu Malkeinu. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span>Part of the service for Yom Kippur.<br />
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Avinu malkeinu chatanu l'faneycha<br />
Avinu malkeinu alkenu chamol aleynu<br />
V'al olaleynu v'tapenu,<br />
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Avinu malkeinu<br />
Kaleh dever v'cherev v'raav mealeynu<br />
Avinu malkeinu kalehchol tsar<br />
Umastin mealeynu,<br />
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Avinu malkeinu<br />
Avinu malkeinu<br />
Kotvenu b'sefer chayim tovim<br />
Avinu malkeinu chadesh aleynu<br />
Chadesh a leynu shanah tovah,<br />
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Sh'ma kolenu<br />
Sh'ma kolenu<br />
Sh'ma kolenu,<br />
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Avinu malkeinu,<br />
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Avinu malkeinu<br />
Chadesh a leynu,<br />
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Shanah tovah,<br />
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Avinu malkeinu<br />
Sh'ma kolenu<br />
Sh'ma kolenu<br />
Sh'ma kolenu<br />
Sh'ma kolenu</b> <br />
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<i><b>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!</b></i><br />
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</b></i>Comfort in the Wind, our Sunshine Glory Shines says with her heart,<i><b> "Carry me home, darkness embrace, the dreams unfold, a human face!" </b></i><br />
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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.<i> </i><i><b>Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy will make a stand, law of love, shall be the reprimand.<br />
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</b></i><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJZyMl9oZ2I/AAAAAAAAFAs/bc8Qt-Qjhcs/s1600/lightAngel4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJZyMl9oZ2I/AAAAAAAAFAs/bc8Qt-Qjhcs/s320/lightAngel4.jpg" /></a><i><b>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</b></i> (knowing peace). <br />
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Your devoted servant,<br />
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Contributed by Holiness David<br />
<i><b>"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." </b></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> 1. THE KOL NIDRE</b></span><br />
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By : Joseph Jacobs Max Schloessinger Cyrus Adler Francis L. Cohen<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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Form of Prayer.<br />
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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: <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><i>"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."</i></b></div><br />
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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:<br />
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<i><b>"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.<br />
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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."</b></i><br />
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The leader and the congregation then say together: (Num. xv. 26).<br />
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<i><b>"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"<br />
This also is repeated three times. The ?azzan then closes with the benediction, :<br />
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"Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast preserved us and hast brought us to enjoy this season."</b></i><br />
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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<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>2.</b></span><b> 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.</b><br />
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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).<br />
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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.<br />
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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).<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2010, Cup of God flips over and pours out <span dir="ltr"><cupofgod@gmail.com></cupofgod@gmail.com></span> wrote:<br />
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<i><b>(Hebrew words to Kol Nidrei above) </b></i><br />
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<i><b>the waking call of G_ah_d's (utterance of heavenly transmission) desire. </b></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Blessing for a New Year! </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Let us shine, </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>a light from within,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b> for all to know.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.ajoylightfromwithin.org/" target="_blank" title="Network with the Center Shore, the Sun Dance, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy, Sanctuary and Elders"><img height="48" src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dk6qqs5_248cr8bfpcr_b" width="44" /></a></div></td></tr>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJZzw2jiY8I/AAAAAAAAFA0/YEzOI9idhzY/s1600/northernlights.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJZzw2jiY8I/AAAAAAAAFA0/YEzOI9idhzY/s320/northernlights.jpg" width="320" /></a><i><b>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? </b></i><br />
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<i><b>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. </b></i><br />
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<i><b>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.</b></i><div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-52233069306997190402010-09-17T13:59:00.000-07:002010-09-17T23:17:14.977-07:00Giving to Receive Joy, Give Alms for High Holy Day, Yom Kippur Sept. 17-18, 2010<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJPA6aGwUfI/AAAAAAAAE-M/p8ughhDrS2Y/s1600/yom_kippura.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<b>Giving to Receive Joy</b><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>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.</b></i><br />
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<i><b>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). </b></i><br />
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<i><b>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!</b></i><br />
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<i><b>It's a day to receive, the heart of those who grieve, let us pray for them to know the way! </b></i><br />
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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 (<i>bein adam leMakom</i>) and against other human beings (<i>bein adam lechavero</i>). The evening and day of Yom Kippur are set aside for public and private petitions and confessions of guilt (<i>Vidui</i>). At the end of Yom Kippur, one considers one's self absolved by God.<br />
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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 (<i>Ma'ariv</i>, the evening prayer; <i>Shacharit</i>, the morning prayer; and <i>Mincha</i>, the afternoon prayer), or a Shabbat or Yom Tov, which have four prayer services (<i>Ma'ariv</i>; <i>Shacharit</i>; <i>Musaf</i>, the additional prayer; and <i>Mincha</i>), Yom Kippur has five prayer services (<i>Ma'ariv</i>; <i>Shacharit</i>; <i>Musaf</i>; <i>Mincha</i>; and <i>Ne'ilah</i>, the closing prayer). The prayer services also include a public confession of sins (<i>Vidui</i>) and a unique prayer dedicated to the special Yom Kippur <i>avodah</i> (service) of the Kohen Gadol in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.<br />
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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<br />
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<div class="co_body"><b style="color: #20124d;">Yom Kippur</b> is the holiest day of the year--the day on which we are <b>closest to G‑d</b> and to the <b>quintessence</b> of our own souls. It is the <b>Day of Atonement</b> -- "For on this day He will <b>forgive</b> you, to <b>purify</b> you, that you be cleansed from all your <b>sins before G‑d</b>" (<span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="619284" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Leviticus</span> 16:30).<br />
For <b>twenty-six hours</b>--from several minutes before sunset on <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="620055" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Tishrei</span> 9 to after nightfall on Tishrei 10--we "<b>afflict</b> our souls": we <b>abstain from food and drink</b>, do not wash or anoint our bodies, do not wear leather footwear, and abstain from marital relations.<br />
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<b>Before Yom Kippur</b> we perform the <b>Kaparot</b> atonement service; we request and receive <b>honey cake</b>, in acknowledgement that we are all <b>recipients</b> in <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="622568" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">G-d</span>'s world and in prayerful hope for a sweet and abundant year; eat a <b>festive meal</b>, immerse in a <b>mikvah</b>, and give extra <b>charity</b>. Late afternoon we eat the pre-fast meal, following which we <b>bless our children</b>, light a <b>memorial candle</b> as well as the <b>holiday candles</b>, and go to the <b>synagogue</b> for <i><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="618537" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Kol Nidrei</span></i> services.<br />
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In the course of <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="618264" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Yom Kippur</span> we hold <b>five prayer</b> services: <i><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="621187" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Maariv</span></i>, with its solemn <b>Kol Nidrei</b> service, on the eve of Yom Kippur; <i><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="619060" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Shacharit</span></i>--the morning prayer; <i><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="622046" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Musaf</span></i>, which includes a detailed account of the Yom Kippur <b>Temple service</b>; <i><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="620447" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Minchah</span></i>, which includes the reading of the <b>Book of Jonah</b>; and <i>Ne'illah</i>, the "closing of the gates" service at <b>sunset</b>. We say the <i><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="620558" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Al Chet</span></i> <b>confession</b> of sins eight times in the course of Yom Kippur, and recite <b>Psalms</b> every available moment.<br />
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Erev Yom Kippur, 5771 • September 17, 2010</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 130%; margin: 1em;">Dear Friend, </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 130%; margin: 1em;">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. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 130%; margin: 1em;">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. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 130%; margin: 1em;">In his urgent desire to help each individual, the Rebbe did not consider even one of them to be insignificant. </div><div align="center">• • •</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 130%; margin: 1em;">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. </div><div align="center">• • •</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 130%; margin: 1em;">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.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 130%; margin: 1em;">On behalf of the amazing Chabad.org Team,</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 130%; margin: 1em;">Sincerely,</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 130%; margin: 1em;">Rabbi Zalman Shmotkin<br />
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<i><b>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. </b></i><br />
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<i><b>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.</b></i><br />
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<h4 align="justify"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJO_o6iTNdI/AAAAAAAAE-E/4aNHQHerFJA/s1600/happy_yomkippur.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TJO_o6iTNdI/AAAAAAAAE-E/4aNHQHerFJA/s200/happy_yomkippur.jpg" width="153" /></a>Yom Kippur Historical Background </h4><div align="justify">Judaism is the religion of the Jews. It is one of the oldest religions in <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9">the world</span> <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">dating</span> 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 <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7">that the</span> official state of Israel was formed. </div><h4 align="justify">Early Yom Kippur History </h4><div align="justify">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. </div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">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 <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2">process</span> 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. </div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">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. </div><div align="justify"><br />
</div><div align="justify">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 <a href="http://crystal-indigo-children.blogspot.com/">crystal person,</a> 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 (<a href="http://whitebuffalocalfwoman.net/">blue road</a>) upon earth (<a href="http://whitebuffalocalfwoman.net/">red road</a>)" </div><h4 align="justify">The Later Years of Yom Kippur</h4><div align="justify">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 <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5">United States of America</span> 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. </div><h4 align="justify">The Yom Kippur War </h4><div align="justify">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. </div><h4 align="justify">Yom Kippur Today </h4><div align="justify">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 <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4">all over the world</span> 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 </div><div align="justify">http://www.altiusdirectory.com/Society/yom-kippur.php</div><i><b> </b></i><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>It's a day to receive, the heart of those who grieve, let us pray for them to know the way! </b></i><br />
<i><b>Joy is here to stay ♪♫•*¨*•.¸¸♥ and sacred is the way, to heaven's bounty where we come from,</b></i><br />
<i><b> we return to this Heavenly Sun. Shine on me today, let my heart shower miracles away. </b></i><br />
<i><b>Free my soul and walk with me, to the shore of divinity. Gather and set my soul on fire, </b></i><br />
<i><b>the waking call of G_ah_d's (utterance of heavenly transmission) desire. </b></i><br />
<i><b>Let us shine as family. Let us set our souls free!</b></i></div><div id="xofu" style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dk6qqs5_393fppt7zvp_b" style="height: 72px; width: 288px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.houseofthebeloved.net/" title="Network at the Eastern Shore, the Blue Road with the House of the Beloved"><img height="51" src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dk6qqs5_250c3nwdcdt_b" width="47" /></a><i><b style="color: #660000;"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: x-large;">Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy</span></b></i><a href="http://www.whitebuffalocalfwoman.net/" title="Network at the Western Shore, the Red Road with White Buffalo Calf Woman"><img height="48" src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dk6qqs5_141hfkg9v22_b" width="48" /></a></div><div style="color: #f1c232; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Pray With Elders around the World</span></b></span><br />
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<a href="http://rainbowwarriorsofprophecy.blogspot.com/" id="ll3k" title="Walk into your soul, learn to walk into that talk, be bold, trust told (the winds blow), from the inside of your heart! The wisdom of time, is eternally blind, but it's about time to trust the soul. Feel your Heart!">Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="http://crystal-indigo-children.blogspot.com/" id="e2ul" title="Blessed Rainbow Colors of the Four Winds! The Winds That Blow Over Rolling Hills in Song! These are the sacred tools of light, we use on the Red Road, the Law of Love. Listen to the winds, and use the Blue Road, the Law of Song, the heart that knows the within. Aho (may your spirit fly), Follow the Heart, the Golden Dream!">Crystal (flesh) Indigo (soul) Children (dream)</a></b><b> </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Blessing for a New Year! </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>To give to <a href="http://www.alightfromwithin.org/donation">AlightFromWithin.org</a>, </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b> just follow the Flow, </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>the links that grow, </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>the center of the glow!</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Let us shine, </b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>a light from within,</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b> for all to know.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.ajoylightfromwithin.org/" title="Network with the Center Shore, the Sun Dance, Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy, Sanctuary and Elders"><img height="48" src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dk6qqs5_248cr8bfpcr_b" width="44" /></a></div></td></tr>
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of water while casting out bread, some other food,<br />
or even lint from pockets; this is a symbolic <br />
casting off of the sins from the year past. Both the<br />
word and the practice are derived from <br />
Micah 7:18-20, which says "Thou wilt cast<br />
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<b><i>But let us bring the blessings, to purify darkness<br />
heaven within, the soul along the blue road,<br />
the place where vision is strong. Here inside<br />
the soul, the realm of inner light set free. Let<br />
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<b><i>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.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>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.</i></b><br />
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<b><i>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? </i></b><br />
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<b><i>"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. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>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).</i></b><br />
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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.<br />
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L'Shana Tova Chicago!<br />
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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.<br />
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.<br />
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*.<br />
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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<br />
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*Kiddush also spelled Qiddush (Hebrew: “sanctification”)<br />
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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.<br />
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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<br />
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</tbody></table><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">"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</span></i></b></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">“Man does not live on bread alone, but by the utterance of G-d’s mouth does man live.”<br />
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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.</span> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">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.</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"><br />
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."<br />
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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.<br />
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On </span> </span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">Rosh HaShanah</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">, the Jewish new year, raisins are added to the dough and the Challah is braided into a special crown shape, representing God's crown.<br />
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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 </span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">http://www.jewishrecipes.org/jewish-foods/challah.html</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TI2FYHValgI/AAAAAAAAE68/VRomlqTZkb4/s1600/106.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TI2FYHValgI/AAAAAAAAE68/VRomlqTZkb4/s320/106.gif" /></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">A select number of </span><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="608544" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">Torah </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">commandments are categorized as </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">t’luyos ba’aretz</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">, directly connected with the physical Land of </span><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="608389" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">Israel</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">. </span><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="606993" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">Challah</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">, 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 </span><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="609429" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">G-d</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"> awarded to the </span><i><span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="607338" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">kohanim</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;">, the priests.</span></div></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f1c232;"><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Pray with fire my relative. Pray with water each day. Remember to be faithful and forgive those who lost their way. Remember the Torah, not the Talmud, because this was not left for you (by G_ah_d's command the Torah, but by Man's command the Talmud, the reason it's oral is by the heart,</span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"> the blue thread, relatives, </span></i></b><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">not intelligence). Even though, righteous does bring us towards the throne, one must be pure of heart, willing to give it all away. But instead you (Rabbis) are marrying children, without feeding the homeless first. So many traditions, don't keep the word. The salvation left behind for you, the 10 commandments first.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Then how about the reason, you kick the helpless on the streets. It's the judgement of G_ah_d that says to heal and complete. To help those who need you and those who ask of your help, but you hide away in castles, even thinking it's okay. Hating everyone who comes inside your gates.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">And what about pass over, only once did the lamb make it's mark, yet each year you kill the humble lamb on the post. You forgot that it was for one year, only one time, G_ah_d did tell you, now you are continuing slaughtering lambs on the streets. We are here to protect lambs, not slaughter them for meat. Offering sacrifice is what we do in our hearts, but you even forgot the blue string, on the heart. The tzitzit gave you salvation, the blue road to heaven eternally, but you don't remember, how to get back to me (the one you prayed for).</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">And the red calf, did not heal you, but gave you a zeal (puffed up with pride), how to be the chosen people, means you walk with G_ah_d's heart (gentile and jew). We are part of the heirarchy, we are part of the clan. We are part of G_ah_d's kingdom and we are finally home. In two short years, you don't purify, the heaven's will cleanse your heart, as you fall down upon the steeple, hoping somehow, G_ah_d did not loose his (Great Spirit Father in Heaven) heart (like you did) and that we can be forgiven, if we use fire blessings each day, for it's the cleansing that's coming, we need prepare and start to pray (with fire to cleanse the light, impure delights).</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">The darkness of heaven, is the spiritual embrace. And we can only hope for fruition, when we learn to take our place. But one after the other, I see egos overload, because they can't receive my love, nor learn of higher grace. That the law of heaven is the song, where law of love abounds. And none are refused, to gift the loving surge, the reaction of the embrace, the darkness holds our trace (true love written in the book of life, that only a christal can read, now it's time for all to sea, vision with a heart, it's evolution, man, get to your stand, take your post and start to demand blessings, that heal our souls, the way into heaven's gate).</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Here is the blue, the heart inside of you. The soul that is aching to be free. But you did not walk with love upon your heart, because you did not want to bleed (suffer for the oneness), instead you run and hide, thinking you know it all, intelligence will make you fall. The blue string of heaven (song written on the tzitzit, it's the tears we cry for me and you), is the road, well spent. There we know the causes of all we do and went. But now it's upon us, the heaven is knocking at the door, because evolution has waited, for you to adore, use love and song to reach them, the people who do sin.</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Blessings to my Brothers, blessings Sisters too (daughters who embue). Blessings to everyone, especially you too. And blessings to my neighbors, the children everywhere. I bless them to know love, is waiting for them in here, my heart is full of wisdom, because I'm the sun of Jacob and free. I know the laws and judgements, that G_ah_d passed down to me. Now it's time for me to stand up, for loving relief (prayers in the winds of time). Let's not be blind, but let us shine instead this time. Let us be rainbows (sacred four directions in rainbow colors). Let us be true. Let us bee the heart of the royal blue (the soul, that resides in you, the eternal knowing, upon your heart). G_ah_d's chosen. G_ah_d's to command. G_ah_d's little children, who follow and abound and make amends. Let us pray for the four winds, to come home!</span></i></b><br />
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<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Suns of Jacob, I am your throne! (Put your hands together and pray, with your prayer cloth and blue string, the tassel that remembers the flight of the soul, the </span><a href="http://whitebuffalocalfwoman.net/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">blue road</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"> is here, heaven abounds!)</span></i></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">This unusual Alaskan artifact combines the Jewish custom of sending Rosh Hashanah cards with the centuries-old Inuit craft of walrus-tusk carving, a tradition that developed quite separately from the whaleman's scrimshaw. However, with the arrival of the whalers in the nineteenth century, both Inuit carvers and scrimshanders expanded their repertoires as they exchanged techniques and materials. The complexity and diversity of Inuit subjects increased as more sophisticated interpretations displaced schematic figures and linear ornamentation. Inuit carvers quickly learned to copy illustrations or photographs in what is termed a "western pictorial style."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Most of the engraved walrus tusks are unsigned, but several closely resemble this carving. A cribbage board, for example, assumed to have been made by Happy Jack, is embellished with portraits of a couple separated by a nosegay. Even though he could not read or write, Happy Jack reproduced written inscriptions; one work included the full content of a Packer's Tar Soap label with its portrait, pinecones, and slogan. While some other native carvers also had the ability to copy the inscriptions and photographs provided by their customers, they lacked his consummate skill.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">On this tusk, the artist has ably recorded the faces and attire of a religiously observant Jewish couple, believed to have run a store in Nome. The woman seems to be wearing a wig and is dressed in typical turn-of-the-century style. The man's beard is neatly trimmed; his top hat suggests a holiday or formal occasion. The Hebrew inscription delivers the traditional Jewish New Year salutation: "May you be inscribed for a good year, 5671 [1910]." In English is added: "Nome, Alaska.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">The House of the Four Winds, is the Book of life, the</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">time for the soul to arise, to sing praise for paradise and bring law to the people once more! Welcome to the third phase of evolution, Heaven upon Earth, the blue road merges with the red road, where dreams come true (yellow path), the heart of you, the soul that arises on the </span><br />
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</tbody></table><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Question about the Talmud.</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"> </span></span><br />
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<div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Holiness David asks, "You attack the Talmud and you have never read this book and you don't know what it is?"</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Answer about the Talmud.</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"> </span></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">White Buffalo Calf Woman says, "Many times I tell you Holiness David (lavender person, Holiness), that crystal people don't need to open a book to read it. We can simply pick up a book and hold it to our hearts. We can access heaven and all knowledge written in all books of life, whether light or dark, whether plant, animal or rock, near or far, in the past, future or now. We crystal people absorb all information in the light and darkness. We never disconnect to heavenly knowledge, the blue road. We, crystal persons, read heaven upon earth, in the song. Lavender people like you access information differently, as you can find a needle in a haystack, and uniting heaven with earth constantly the living fire that cleanses. This is why you are here to ask the question, that hits the heart. However, crystal people read the rainbow colors or light spectrums can only be truthfully read by a crystal person. (Apparently I am here to show you your rainbow colors and for you -Suns of Jacob- to find other crystal people in your communities and for you to bring law among all peoples and G_ah_d's kingdom once again. Pure hearts within the Suns of Jacob and daughters imbued, come receive the mathematical treasure, the facts that will show you the waves or light spectrums and perfectly arranged in space and time!) Each rainbow color has it's own power. However, we are entering a time, when all of us shall be reading each other's book of life (not truth, but reflection, yet knowledge you did not have before of the inner world of each other's soul), the darkness within (vision with a heart). We walk in the light, we call this the red road, the law of love and the embrace of man in the physical world. We walk in the dark, we call this the blue road, the law of the song and the embrace of heaven, our soul within. The Talmud is an oral tradition. It was meant to be passed down by the use of the heart. The use of the heart is the soul's knowledge, the blue road. This is a blue thread and commandment of Heavenly law, placed with safe keeping for the Suns of Jacob to find their way home! </span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><br />
</span> </i></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Crystal people are many, who walk around this world. And I am the Oneness of a Crystal person, who is bringing this law from heaven, the SONG, to the people again, the </span></i><a href="http://whitebuffalocalfwoman.net/"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">BLUE ROAD</span></i></a><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">. We, the Rainbow Clan, the Oneness, are the oral traditions, when we trust our hearts and the soul that lives within. This is the promised blue road of heaven, now in evolution coming home to us to live again. We cannot bring the Talmud in to this new world, with a written record, when it's an oral tradition, supposed to be passed down through the heart, the blue road and song of heaven. Yes song has been passed down. Yes information about the song has been passed down, we call the Talmud, however, it's still an intellectual property of the world of man </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">(a living record) </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">and his physical beingness on the red road, where rainbow colors shine. But on the blue road, we walk on the path of heaven, the vision with our heart. Suns of Jacob are the eldest physical humans on earth. This means, you have all knowledge written upon your hearts, when you can access this knowledge. This cannot be done, by reading a book with intelligence, remember this is the red road. This can only be done, by oral tradition and in the song of heaven, here we arise, to the souls eternal knowledge, to learn to return home again, from whence we came oh such a long time ago. Remember we are eternal on the path to evolution's spiraling. The blue road, is the song of heaven and the oral tradition can only be kept alive, when we understand the four winds in rainbow colors. We must be able to access our powers of light (rainbow light spectrums), in order for our inner darkness to shine. We must bind, the two worlds together (flesh and soul), to allow the whole of the clan, to learn about the laws of heaven, brought here for man. Suns of Jacob are the chosen people on the eastern horizon, because as the eldest flesh, we enter heaven once more, in preparation, to dreams that unfold and missions and commands gifted to us only through heaven. In the second phase of evolution, we did have to know death in order to enter heaven again. But as we enter the third phase of evolution (recently in history so many live after death, to bring in heaven like a child again, to teach us, that heaven can be here upon earth) in two in half years, we shall all enter heaven. All of us, shall be able to read the book of life, in each other. We shall know the inner darkness and what we have hidden for eons of time. Now it's the Talmud, the blue road, the oral tradition, that shall save us. For the laws left behind where the five books, Moses gifted to you, to guide you, into the heavenly realms. Moses is a crystal person. Jesus is a crystal person. And White Buffalo Calf Woman is a crystal person, who reads your book of life, with truth and sing the songs of heaven, brought home to you. We must trust our hearts, sing these songs, that come from within, in order that we can teach our children the true and noble songs of heaven, the blue road, promised, in our prayer cloth. The laws of heaven are always gifted by the celestial crown, that all crystal people around the world carry upon their heads. It is now time, for us to create clans, where crystal persons are giving songs to all of G_ah_d's kingdom. Law is love, the red road. Law is song, the blue road. The intellectual laws left behind are written in the Torah. In order for you to understand the oral tradition, one must first understand a pure heart. Then we can unite the blue and the red road, to unite a dream, brotherhood, the golden path. You the Suns of Jacob are the eastern shore chosen to lead the people back to their song and joy of heaven back into their lives, with the laws of love and song, the purification rituals we belong, let us ring out to bring in the world again, evolution come take my hand and cleanse my heart to begin. For I am the chosen, the wind, the sun of Jacob and daughter to this whim. I am the law of love and song again!"</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Question about the Eastern Shore</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><b></b>Holiness David asks, "What eastern shore of what country?"</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Answer about the Eastern Shore</span></span></b></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">White Buffalo Calf Woman says, "There is one kingdom of G_ah_d, this is the country of heaven, Oneness. The eastern shore lies upon the horizon, where the sun sets, where we enter our darkness, within. In the Oneness of God, there is 70, in the mathematical perfection. We are all parts of this oneness. When you cut this oneness (a circle) in half, you find light above and dark below. Light is earthly and dark is heavenly. Now, the place, where it's divided, is the horizon. Each day and night, it guides you to where you journey. This horizon at sunrise gives us the walk, the red road. This horizon at sunset gives us the talk (song), the blue road. This is the eastern shore. At these times, we are awe stricken with the rainbow colors. At these moments we are gathered together, to remember our heaven, blue road and earth, red road, united in one girth (oneness of G_ah_d). However, it moves quickly and then it's gone. How we bring this heaven home, will be according to the laws left behind, already written in the Torah and when the true oral tradition begins again, we shall unite the peoples of the world, ordained on the eastern shore. </span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><br />
</span> </i></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">If we look at a circle and fold it in half, the horizon is known. We open the circle and find earth above light and darkness below our heaven. At the eastern shore (reflection western sunset), the truth inside the darkness of heaven (left side), we of the Suns of Jacob are of the greatest light (northeastern, darkness not light or reflection). Here on the eastern shore, we travel counterclockwise and teach all other lights (rainbow clan) how to enter heaven. This can only be done, with the song of heaven. These songs, open portal doors into heavenly realms. You are chosen, to know this song. When we trust the Talmud, we throw away our inner song. When we trust our hearts, that we purify each day in prayers and rituals of fire and water, we find our way with oral traditions that live in our hearts, eternally. We rely on the laws according to Moses, the 10 commandments, left behind (red road, intelligence). Let us remember, what lies upon our hearts (blue road), because in a few short years, we shall all know, the truth of your blue road, the soul, you have been hiding within, for eons. Now it's time for the blue road, to heaven to return. All shall be able to read you darkness, the heavenly soul within. It is the eastern shore ordained to bring heaven home upon this earth. You will have to join with the western shore ordained, in order to pull this through. Trust your heart. Trust the Torah. Trust love, is law upon the world of heaven and earth. Here we fold, the darkness comes alive, within our light of earth (rainbow colors, house of the four winds). Prepare and lead the people, can only be done, when the song of heaven, is flowing from our hearts. Cleanse and purify, to know love and use love. This is the blue road of heaven, the ordained at the eastern shore, the Suns of Jacob and daughters imbued.</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><br />
</span> </i></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">We have too many lost, because of persecution and name changes. You cannot become the Sun of Jacob, you must be born into this honor, ordained on the eastern shore. Those who remember the heart, will bring back the Suns. Law of love, is the one who forgives and learns and teaches how to behave correctly. The only army in the entire world (light, red road, law of love, physical embrace), that has a law, against morality issues of commanding officers is in Germany. You left a living legacy of moral conduct. It was a high cost, but true love, suffers for the ones we love, the entire oneness of G_ad_d depends on you leading them home on the blue road, the song of heaven, that can bring joy to us all, the Rainbow Clan, once again! (tears come from my heart to yours)."</span></i></div><div style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Celebrate Rosh Hashanah</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><br />
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</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">L 'Shana Tovah (a good year)</span></span></td></tr>
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</span> </b></span></span></div></b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Jews celebrate the Jewish New Year for 10 days in the fall, beginning with Rosh Hashanah. From 2010 to 2015, the dates range from early to late September. Those who observe Rosh Hashanah believe people are judged and entered into the Book of Life for another year at this time. Traditionally, people send each other greeting cards to celebrate the new year, often with the inscription "L'Shana Tovah" (a good year). Creating a Jewish New Year's card can be fun for children, and a handmade craft makes a distinctive gift. Allow two weeks for the preparation for these cards.</span></span></b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="article FLC" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #232323; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="sectionTitle FLC" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-height: 1.2e+007px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="Heading1a Underline header" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 25px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 7px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; 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width: 175px;"><h2 class="Heading5a" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Things You'll Need:</span></h2><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">Waxed paper</span></span></li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(168, 190, 213); border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #bf9000;">8.5-by-11-inch paper (one sheet makes two cards)</span></span></li>
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<b><i>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. </i></b><br />
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<b><i>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.</i></b><br />
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<b>Email alightfromwithin@gmail.com for your Song and Rainbow Colors!</b></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-68140336663281018232010-06-05T13:31:00.000-07:002010-08-21T11:44:57.372-07:00Israel, Jews, Relatives: Israel Attacks the Flotilla Ship<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TAqpFxiUxXI/AAAAAAAADgg/Eq1O52F3r48/s1600/Jews.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/TAqpFxiUxXI/AAAAAAAADgg/Eq1O52F3r48/s320/Jews.jpg" /></a></div>Weapons were found on the Flotilla Ship Mavi Marmara, which were used by Activists against IDF (Israel Defense Forces)<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>soldiers. What are you doing? I know you feel that you need defend our homeland, but the more Israeli kills, the lack of Faith we have for YHWH <img alt="YHWH" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/YHWH.GIF" />. Redirect my beloved, redirect. No one wins this way. Everyone needs to learn to pray! Love is the greatest weapon used in Heaven. And Heaven is coming home in three short years 2013 (unite the stream leads to dreams). Earth need learn that we of heaven are here to stay. And it's the blue road (soul, heart, relative), the blue strand in the prayer cloth, the tzitzi does share the law of always, the law of love. These are relatives who we compare, to diamonds in the sky, as stars in our lives. Both sides need love and woman (soul, heaven) unites broken hearts. Let us pray for a brand new day, when brotherhood shall lead the way!<br />
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<i><b>Oh my beloved Relatives, what have you done. Hating almost everyone. G_ah_d (</b><b>utterance of the heavenly transmission, sharing our hearts)</b></i><i><b> tells us to be good little children, to love they neighbor like your own. Now we are killing those who need us. Down in the heart, there lives us who are stout (stand up). And the House of David (beloved children of G_ah_d) does walk this way, to speak of loving passage for all this wondrous day. <br />
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Israel my homeland, where the skies do turn red</b></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">*</span></span><i><b>. Don't you remember what G_ah_d did say. There is magic when love is used in the head. Hating your neighbor is against the G_ah_d's law. Can you remember the songs that you sing? There is a heart that remembers all things. And the only way to heaven is with loving arms instead of hate, because you will have no place to go but straight (along the path of a dream, the commandment of love). <br />
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<a href="http://holinessdavid.blogspot.com/">Holiness David</a> our King has come home. Where are you going, if not from the Sun (radiate inner light, <a href="http://alightfromwithin.org/">a light from within</a>)? And here I stand glistening to offer you all our love, the star of David sings to send you home to the above (heaven). There the house of children, know that G_ah_d is here to stand (righteousness).<br />
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When are you coming to receive all this love? When are you going to receive the perfect cloud? When will the Ark, show treasures inside (truth of the mathematical perfection of all life)? I know we gift to you, the perfect alibi (warrior who walks right, with the law of love, not hate). We gift to you, what you have waited for all your lives (Israel children rule with G_ah_d's laws, the law of love).<br />
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Put heaven upon this earth, will need all of Israel (Hebrew Clan, 12 Suns). Come my relatives, the Suns who know G_ah_d. There is a heart that longs to feel this pain (for those who suffer love for thy neighbor as thy self, the relative who is lost where </b></i><i><b>forgiveness relieves</b></i><i><b>, empathy of compassion, a twin heart). All you have suffered, is for the perfect gain (12 suns, Israel, shall rule the house of winds). We are here to place the treasure back home inside the ark (mathematical perfection). Just come home and get it and we shall put you up (chosen royal blue), high in the mountains (holy) where the winds do fly around, through all the rolling hills, where we put our heads down at night.<br />
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Come my little children. Come home to my heart. This is the <a href="http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/">House of David</a>, who's finally come home to you to shout. All you need cherish is your perfect heart. Come receive the treasures our ancestors have waited for. Come to receive </b></i><span style="color: red;">**</span><i><b>Yeshua </b></i><i><b>(saving cry that delivers and saves - salvation</b></i><i><b>), the clan who rules the day. We shall bring in salvation instead of blood shed. We shall bring in harmony, where Israel </b></i><i><b>(Hebrew Clan, 12 Suns) </b></i><i><b>rules the way. </b></i><br />
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Law is law and G_ad_d chose you well. Law is commandment, to tell all that we know. Law come from heaven, to sing our songs loud. It's time to worship, what we know in our heart. Love rules all above the rest, when you lead the way. Come Israel </b></i><i><b>(Hebrew Clan, 12 Suns) </b></i><i><b>stand up and rule the right way.</b></i><br />
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Tears flood my heart beat. Tears flood my sights. Tears know my enemies even in the night. Tears will bring holiness, when we remember to pray. Cry a river darling, to save another day. And when you remember that the House of David brings, the one you have waited for, the one who awaits (star of David, crown of united heaven and earth). Now you can receive all the treasures that put you on top of the world, but you must know love that lives in the heart for sure. And until that day, my beloved, I shall pray and await your returning grace.<br />
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</b></i><i><b>White Buffalo Calf Woman sings to the heart of Israel </b></i><i><b>(Hebrew Clan, 12 Suns)</b></i><i><b>. . .are you real (heaven's heart) or are you on the shore (earth's flesh)?</b></i><br />
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To explain why we'll need to know why clouds sometimes appear red and how that may be used to predict the weather. Firstly, why do clouds often appear red in the morning and evening?1. Sunlight is broken into the familiar rainbow spectrum of varying-wavelength colors as it passes through the atmosphere. 2. The blue/violet end of the spectrum is diverted more than the red/orange (This is the same mechanism that causes us to see the sky as blue incidentally, but that's getting rather off our point). 3. When the sun is low in the sky, at dawn and dusk, sunlight travels through more atmosphere than at other times of day. The red wavelength is better able to go on a direct course and be reflected back off clouds, whereas the blue light is more scattered before reaching the cloud and is therefore less visible. So, we see the clouds as red as the light that is reaching them is primarily red. http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/red-sky-at-night.html <br />
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A red moon due to an eclipse (Lavanah) has been viewed as a bad omen for the nation of Israel. Anciently, a blood red moon symbolized violence, war, and evil factions rising up against the nation of Israel. A red moon has historically and 'scripturally' meant a period of judgment for the wicked. In history, many battles and wars coincided with an eclipse. Given the turmoil in the ME. http://www.israelforum.com/board/showthread.php?t=13657<br />
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YHWH <img alt="YHWH" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/YHWH.GIF" /> (Yahveh, Yahweh and Jehovah) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Four Hebrew letters <i>Yud, hey, vav, hey. </i></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">This format is </span> known as the Tetragrammaton</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> (four, green grass valleys). Often Hebrew tradition YHVH is 'not to be uttered', and therefore use of 'Adonai' instead, meaning 'Lord'.</span> However as we leave this period in evolution, we move towards Heaven upon Earth, we recognize the Heavenly Name. It is now time for us to realize our dreams and mission in our lives. God's Name changes from<b> Elohim</b> to <b>YHWH</b> in Genesis 2:4. The letters <img alt="waw" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/wawsmall.GIF" /> (<i>waw</i>), <img alt="yod" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/yodsmall.GIF" /> (<i>yod</i>) and <img alt="he" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/hesmall.GIF" /> (<i>heh</i>). This word us used as <img alt="dwd" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/410.GIF" /> <i>dod</i>, which means beloved (<img alt="waw" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/wawsmall.GIF" /> vowel), or <img alt="dwd" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/410.GIF" /> <i>dud</i>, meaning jar (<img alt="waw" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/wawsmall.GIF" /> vowel), or <img alt="dwd" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/410.GIF" /> <i>dawid</i> (David <img alt="waw" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/wawsmall.GIF" /> consonant). Here it is shown that the contained world (jar) holds the beloved or David. <br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><i><b>YAHU is Strength, my God is YAHU.</b> </i></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">YAHU'SHUAH (</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">YAHU</span>) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">as the Only true God.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">"YAH - HOVEH (Y-HVH or Yud - hey vav hey)</span><i>. </i></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">The Tribe of Judah (Jews), represents Hebraic Faith instituted by Moses according to Divine Mandate, gifted by YAHU, G_ah_d of Israel 4000 years ago. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Yehudah, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Yahudim, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">'Yahuda' both represent the</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> Tribe of Judah. A Jew is 'Yahudi' and</span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">'guardians of His Oracles'. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">YHVH the Sacred Name and finally </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Y'SHUAH (YAHU'SHUAH) is the name of the Messiah<span lang="en-us">.</span></span><br />
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Variations Yod-Sheen-Waw-Ayn, Yod-Hay-Sheen-Waw-Ayn, and Yod-Hay-Waw-Sheen-Ayn. The Qabala (Kabbalah קַבָּלָה "receiving") knows another name, signifying the incarnation of the timeless Immanence and showing Reb YHSHWH's precise relationship to that energy. YHWH can also be explained as: 10.5.6.5, Existence-Life-Copulation-Life, expresses in existence the two lives (that of the container or shell or physical support, and that of the contained germ or inner life) that fertilze each other. This double impregnation can only occur in Man and as long as it does not occur YHWH is immanent but unborn.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span lang="en-us"> </span></span><br />
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Ex 3:13-15, where God names Himself first: <img alt="I AM WHO I AM" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/IAMWHOIAM.GIF" /> (I Am Who I Am), then <img alt="I AM" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/IAM.GIF" /> (I Am), and finally <img alt="YHWH" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/YHWH.GIF" /> (YHWH), the name forever. This word <img alt="haya" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/491.GIF" /> (<i>haya</i>) to be, to become, to happen is present day interpretation, but from an ancient form to name G_ah_d is <i>haya</i>, <img alt="hawa" src="http://www.abarim-publications.com/Bible_Commentary/plaatjes/483.GIF" />, <i>hawa</i>, to <i>y-hawa</i> or <i>yahweh</i> (Being or He Is). "A believer is not someone who looks like one, or even says she's one, but rather someone who <i>acts</i> like one. To be is to do. To say is to talk (blue road). To be is to walk (red road). And elders say and talk united (yellow way), the one who IS (whitey or star that shines). Great Father in Heaven who leads the world of light on Earth, instructs the youngest soul to show the way. And this is Grandfather light (white, star). The star in heaven, leads the clan as a babe, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">'YAH' (10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet 'yood', smallest letter in the alphabet, the inverted comma ( ' ). YAHU has the meaning of 'He is YAH' </span>). In Hebrew Scriptures, entities are reckoned with after their behavior and not after their appearance. An entity <i>is</i> a behavior, not that which executes the behavior.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">The Name of the Almighty </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">‘Hoveh’</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">, is related to the verb ‘to be' ( I am, I was, I will be). YHVH can mean: “YAH Hoveh”, which means “YAH is ...” (Psalm 68:4). </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">The indwelling Spirit of the Almighty in the heart and soul of the believer, changes this selfish, haughty, deceiving attitude to an attitude of genuine humility, recreated in His Image, as the Almighty requires of us to possess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">True and unshakable Faith in His Holiness (King of the Beloved, star of David), which you will be amply rewarded for in His Kingdom (heaven and earth kingdom in the third phase of evolution). Phil 4:8 (KJV) "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Isaiah 12:4 "Give thanks to YHVH - call His Name aloud. Proclaim His deeds to the nations, declare His Name sublime. Sing of YHVH, for He has done marvelous things - let it be known to the whole world!".</span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">King Holiness David Sings His Heart to Israel Relatives...</span><br />
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What have you done, to the children everywhere? How can you rule the world, when you don't even act fair. God is here to hold you closer than you think, but you must realize, that we have come home to sink (humble bowing like the rainbow), oh (flight of the soul) down in the valleys (heavenly numinous where green grass grows, paradise), there is glory everywhere. Don't you see it's time, for us to say farewell (evolutions past and bring in brotherhood). <br />
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Now we are going into a new time, that shall cure disease (blessings). All the hate darlings, will be relieved. It's time to send love, the magic of your heart. It's time to send love, the warrior who is smart (stings, not death). It's time to wage war, upon those who act unkind (against unkindness not against our relative, we must teach instead and resist the bloodshed). It's time to teach those, that love is never blind (I am and the great spirit within can read your heart). <br />
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And we are needing your heart, to save another day. We are needing true love, to capture all you say. Even in America the Jews call police everyday. What makes you fear love, when God does rule the way. What makes you hate so much, when God feels the day?<br />
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I know it's glory, the sun does rise again, but Israel must show us the way to Heaven's fill. And we must act right, according to G_ah_d. We are the children who lead all the crowds (all the children of the world, the rainbow clan). Don't you want your treasures? Don't you want the ark? Don't you want brotherhood, inside your sacred heart? I know we are waiting for you to return, to the heart of heaven upon earth, we do roam.<br />
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Gather together to share and pray aloud. Gather and find a way to know love rules and shouts. Gather with neighbors, it's law of commanding waves. We are the children of Great (heavenly) Father's ways. Heaven is waiting for those who act right. Heaven is waiting to share all our plights (feel our hearts). Now it's time to gather, to be like radiant stars, be suns of Israel where we know how to fall (humbleness, falling down from heaven). We are the covenant of a rainbow that calls (hear my call).<br />
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Come receive your treasures (mathematical perfection of all spirit life). Come know your name (heavenly mission). Come lead the people and teach them to gain (warriors of the royal blue). Tell all that happiness is waiting for everyone, those who remember to be like living suns (a light from within, my heaven -soul- does wind). It's time to go home (paradise, heaven upon earth), where treasures abound. It's time to know, how great you could become. And I am here waiting for you to come home. Right now I play the sacred heart beat drum (holiness unites light and dark space, sharing one heart).<br />
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Walk home. Walk home. Walk home to me. I am your KING now, just you wait and sea (heart vision). I will bring order, to all children on the earth. And Israel my children, shall be my footstool. You must be ready, to share your heart's of love. You must know kingdoms lie inside your heart. Deep inside there is wisdom that gains and feels the heart. Pass on a miracle, teach love rules and shouts (I am and I thrive).</b></i><br />
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Sung by White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother, elder christal person (crown of heaven), wakan iyeshka or holy interpreter, House of David. sung for the heart of Holiness David Running Eagle Shooting Star, your Father Red Hand, elder lavender person (crown of earth), Holiness, House of David. To receive your heavenly (mission in life) and earthly (tools of light) names, please email whitebuffalocalfwoman@gmail.com <a href="http://alightfromwithin.org/">http://alightfromwithin.org </a><i><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Elohim: </b></span> http://www.psyche.com/psyche/lex/elohim.html</span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>The house of the beloved, the holy temple streams, there is perfection in where the wind does breeze. Back and forth, to and fro that's where we live, leading us united and one flow (crystalline stone river). Relatives share with me all that is joy, flow through the the rocks and you will be ONE. </b></i>Gematria: <i><b>Holy is Perfect, the star that does shine, where the perfect soul is housed inside the sublime (holy temple). We flow to and fro forever it's true. We are the children, who know it's you (G_ah_d utterance of heavenly transmission).</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>The blue of a river is perfect blessings to receive. We are related to all of the seas. There we are lit from below to the above, the sky does lead us home where we are one hood (together like we should). One home, One life, Oneness is known. </b></i>Gematria: <i><b>Communicate and bind with blessings everywhere. There is a house, that longs to be heard. </b></i></span><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;">Relative you are perfect when joy fills the stream to and fro. Relative you are my royal blue (warrior), leading the oneness and all it's dreams. Realize and fulfill, </span></b></i>(Gematria begins)<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"> to gain joy again, it's a united perfection, a blessed dream.</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Interpretation 2. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Heart of a warrior shares delights, flowing and growing, pure wind in my sight. I am the fluid, that leads my life. </b></i>Gematria:<i><b> Joy shared is the blessed vision.</b></i></span><br />
<h1 style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Awr/Aur/Ohr/'Or: Light</span> http://www.psyche.com/psyche/lex/awr.html</span></h1><table align="CENTER" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="1" bordercolor="#d0d0d0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1"><tbody>
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<tr align="CENTER" bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="MIDDLE"> <td>200</td> <td>6</td> <td>1</td> </tr>
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<i><b>United (our, time) river flows to and fro. Blessings (perfect warrior) lead.</b></i> Gematria:<i><b> Communicate (unite) the whole spirit.</b></i><br />
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<a class="watch-description-username" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GeorgeGalloway0" onclick="yt.events.stopPropagation(event);"><b>GeorgeGalloway0</b></a> <span class="watch-description-username-dash">—</span> <span class="watch-video-date">May 31, 2010</span> — Early this morning, IDF Naval Forces intercepted six ships attempting to break the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip. This happened after numerous warnings from Israel and the Israeli Navy that were issued prior to the event. The Israeli Navy requested the ships to redirect toward Ashdod where they would be able to unload their aid supplies which would then be transferred over to the Gaza Strip after undergoing security inspections.<br />
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During the boarding of the Marmara ship, demonstrators onboard attacked the IDF Naval personnel with live fire and light weaponry including knives and clubs. According to reports, two weapons used were grabbed from an IDF soldier. The demonstrators had prepared their weapons in advance for this specific purpose.<br />
As a result of this life-threatening and violent activity, naval forces first employed riot dispersal means, followed by live fire.<br />
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According to initial reports, these events resulted in nine deaths among the demonstrators and numerous injuries. In addition, five naval personnel were injured, some from gunfire and some from various other weapons. Four of the soldiers were seriously wounded and one sustained moderate injuries. All of the injured parties, Israelis and foreigners, were evacuated by helicopter to hospitals in Israel. Reports from IDF forces at the scene indicate that some of the participants on board the ships were planning to lynch the forces<br />
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The events are ongoing, and information will be updated as soon as possible. Israeli Naval commander, Vice Admiral Eliezer Marom is overseeing the events.<br />
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In the coming hours, the ships will be directed to the Ashdod port, while IDF naval forces perform security checks in order to identify the people on the ships and the cargo brought on board. The IDF Spokesman emphasizes that this event is currently unfolding and further details will be provided as soon as possible.<br />
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This IDF naval operation was carried out under orders from the political leadership to prevent the flotilla from reaching the Gaza Strip and breaching the maritime closure.<br />
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The boarding of ships in the flotilla followed numerous warnings given to the organizers of the flotilla before leaving their ports as well as while sailing towards the Gaza Strip. In these warnings, it was made clear to the organizers that they could dock in the Ashdod Sea Port and unload the equipment they are carrying in order to deliver it to the Gaza Strip in an orderly manner, following the appropriate security checks. Upon expressing their unwillingness to cooperate and arrive at the port, it was decided upon to board the ships and lead them to Ashdod.<br />
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IDF naval personnel encountered severe violence, including use of weaponry prepared in advance in order to attack them, as well as having their weapons stolen by protesters and used against them. The forces operated in adherence with operational commands and took all necessary actions in order to avoid violence, but to no avail.<br />
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<div class="metadata"><div><div class="metadata"><div><a class="author" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/delyxstudios" title="delyxstudios">delyxstudios </a>comments: </div></div></div><div><span class="time"></span> </div></div><div class="comment-text">British survivor tells of Israeli assault on Gaza aid ship Sarah Colborne, the first British survivor of the Israeli assault on the Mavi Marmara aid ship to return to Britain, insists troops fired live ammunition at unarmed activist. View Video here<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/jun/03/british-survivor-gaza-aid-floatilla"> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/jun/03/british-survivor-gaza-aid-floatilla</a> </div><br />
<div class="comment-text"><div><div class="metadata"><div><a class="author" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/bob5944" title="bob5944">bob5944</a> comments: </div></div></div>NOTICE the Israelies were "armed" with PAINTBALL guns! Only after this attack by the "peaceful" activists was deadly force used. ...and 3 of the ships were resistered to HHC while the other three were financed by "Free Gaza". Both supporters of terrorist activities. Not to mention, Egypt and Israel BOTH offered dock space for the inspection to take place. Where's the International uproar over North Korea ATTACKING and SINKING a vessel from another country!?!</div><div class="comment-text"></div><div class="comment-text">Read Further: <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/02/95240/israel-denouncing-flotilla-as.html">http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/02/95240/israel-denouncing-flotilla-as.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.ajoylightfromwithin.org/" target="_blank" title="Warriors, Sanctuary and Elders"><img height="48" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dk6qqs5_248cr8bfpcr_b" width="44" /></a><i><b> 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.</b></i> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-58185346669434058442010-03-12T02:09:00.000-08:002010-03-12T03:23:35.129-08:00Suns of Israel, Are We for Real? That's Right, "Is Real", Passover is Here!<h2 class="title" style="color: #cc0000;">I Bless Myself, I Bless the World, I Bless You</h2><div class="widget-content"><a href="http://www.uscj.org/images/tree.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="http://www.uscj.org/images/tree.gif" border="0" src="http://www.uscj.org/images/tree.gif" /></a><br />
<i><b>It is the Song of Angels that bring us home, into the Greatness that gets along. Do we need love, to rise above? Yes, bring us love that brings us all along, the laws that gets us from the rising tides, our hearts that swell and know our pride. Be that, is heard like Angels Call, we are the Rainbow Hall, where humbleness gifts life along, the path of Brotherhood. We bless the shoulders of grief befall, and send a blessings to that Great Hall, where we know tears, bring us new life, the light, that sheds all our strife. Be your color of bountifulness, the waking of the soul, that should, and we can offer wisdom here, to be the soul, that lives forever deer (journey of life). You the <a href="http://houseofthebeloved.blogspot.com/">beloved</a> knows good deeds,when we belong to all the leaves (relatives on the tree of life).</b></i> </div><div style="border: 1px dotted rgb(215, 233, 253); padding: 15px; text-align: left;"><img align="left" alt="Passover" border="0" height="48" hspace="9" src="http://www.chabad.org/media/images/195/Weok1958206.jpg" width="63" /> <b>Upcoming Jewish Holiday: </b><br />
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<tr><td><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;">What is Shabbat Hagadol (Passover)</h1><span class="co-byline"><a href="http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=11363" title="Browse more articles by this author">Eliyahu Kitov</a></span> writes that, "Shabbat haGadol, is the Great Sabbath". It was a time when Egypt and Israel celebrated the first Shabbat Ha-Gadol on the tenth of Nissan, five days before the redemption where each man should take a lamb for the household (Exodus 12:3). This was only meant for this first generation who made the voyage into the desert ( forsaken; without life or cultivation) and out of bondage and slavery. This was not for future generations to continue on as tradition.<br />
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A Lamb represents the heart of humbleness. Bondage is not freedom, but humbleness that is free, knows the rolling hills of the rising sun, a dream that is given birth. It is a great migration that took hold of the people, to teach of wandering, and it's purpose. Here a Lamb, an innocent heart, who follows the laws of G_ah_d (utterance of heavenly transmission), brings forth the knowing soul, that wanders to bee (dream, of the impossible flight) free. Here we know and live Godly behaviors, where brotherhood is known (embrace of fellows, stories shared) and sisterhood is practiced (law of love, unification of broken hearts).<br />
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Even though G_ah_d tells the Jewish Nation in the Torah, not to continue this practice, this mitzvah is still carried out, because the whole meaning that was not understood about faith, brought questioning instead. This is where Jews trust their intelligence (flesh) rather than their wisdom (soul). Yet this practice is still continued, with lambs with no blemishes (a preclude of sacrifice). This is meant to show that holiness and humbleness of heart is the sacrifice, and when we show our hearts to the world, we know a moral code of the laws of LOVE, Godly behavior. This is the spiritual being which resides in us all, when we are devoted, faithful and trusting first, as law states, rather than questioning our faith in our soul's knowing, our wisdom written across our hearts.<br />
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<div class="co_body">Prophecy speaks of a Red Hefer, that would be a sign to the world, that law of love would again show the face of Godliness. Such Red Hefers are being born almost everywhere now. The Native Americans have a prophecy of the White Buffalo, which is being born all over the place too. It is a sign, of the deliverance of the people. Where the Soul emerges from within, to walk as the humble heart of a LAMB, the rising sun, <a href="http://alightfromwithin.org/">alightfromwithin</a>.</div><div class="co_body">Miracles were performed for the Children of Israel on this first Shabbat haGadol, to begin the great voyage of the faithful wanderer. This is the seeker of knowledge, a wisdom rather than intelligence. When the Torah commanded them to take a lamb and tie to their bedpost, was for the beginning, walking of faith. This is what we are entering now, as we walk from the second phase of evolution into the third phase, where our soul and flesh cross roads, and unite to be walking and talking spiritual beings. In other words, we begin to "do what we say" with pure hearts of faithful servitude.</div><div class="co_body"><br />
</div><div class="co_body">The Egyptian neighbors considered the Lamb as a Deity, yet the Children of Israel was to slaughter this very Lamb. So you could imagine the misunderstanding of the two varying points of view, yet were speaking of the same humble heart of faith. Because of the Miracles performed in faith, this Passover offering has been given the name of Shabbat haGadol.</div><div class="co_body"><br />
<b>Written by White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother, elder crystal person, House of the Beloved (Star of David)</b><br />
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Wanderers spent thirty nine years in the desert. <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="543234" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Israel</span> had three benefactors who sustained them in the desert: <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="543346" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Moses</span>, <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="543589" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Aaron</span>, and Miriam. These spiritual beings were seen as benefactors to all of Israel. Their merit granted three gifts, and these gifts lead the people for months and years, into a body of instruction for all the world, to lead us and follow us into the third phase of evolution, the "dawning", the sun does rise from within!<br />
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<b>the <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="543451" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">manna</span> in the merit of Moses </b><br />
Moses is a crystal (christal) person, who brought truth of the Oneness of God to the people. He was an Akicita, or one who is a Messenger of Law. He was a Marshal to the people and considered all matters of the band including customs. Manna means the breath of life. How were the people going to live, in a place that held no life forces of sustenance for the people, other than faith? Our breath offers us a flight of our souls, a place for our holy temple to house, the inner of heaven (a light from within). This is the dream of the whole of Oneness. To bee a seeker, wanderer (sojourner) and one with faith, we could endure (suffer and know true love for all our relatives) and live out our dreams, for generations to come. It is humility to the bow of the Rainbow, that offers us the twelve houses of Israel. Now evolution teaches us what this was all about, it's time to come home. To rise up, and take the place as teachers to all of the world as chosen people. And it takes a crystal person, to bring truth to the reflection of what we thought was knowledge. Intelligence is the holy temple, but true knowledge is the soul, the blue of you and me, the relative eternal who knows true flight.<br />
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<b>the clouds of glory in the merit of Aaron</b><br />
Aaron is an Aqua person, who brought leadership to an unruly class of people, without laws. When Moses delivered law, it was Aaron who brought it to the people. And it was Aaron, the people followed. As an Aqua person, there is a knowing of the flowing, where the great stream moves. This ability gave him leadership stamina. Also being a man, in the second phase of evolution, Man leads the world of flesh, and of the lights of earthly behavior. It is important to note, that being a good leader is one who follows rather than one who leads. With Brother Moses, who brought law of G_ah_d, there was a knowing of which way to follow both spiritually and physically.<br />
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<b>the well in the merit of Miriam</b><br />
Miriam also was an Aqua person, but she was also a female, which made her both female spirit and female flesh. She was all woman. Woman brings the laws of love to the people. She represented the well of waters, where the blue of me and you flow, the relative, the embrace of our needs. Also as an Aqua person, she was a leader to the people. And this meant others did not question her, but rather followed her knowing of where to flow. She was always giving to the people building a bridge into heavenly knowledge, our soul, where laws of love, did grow. <br />
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1) The primary event commemorated on this Shabbat is a great miracle which occurred on this day, several days before the Exodus. The Jewish people were commanded by <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="543346" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Moses</span> to take a lamb and tie it to their bedposts on Shabbat, the 10th day of <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="542571" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Nissan</span>, five days before they were to leave Egypt. When the Egyptians inquired by the Jews why they were buying lambs en masse, they were told that these lambs were intended for the Paschal Offering, which would be sacrificed in preparation of the Plague of the Firstborn. For some reason, this information rattled the Egyptian firstborn, who immediately insisted that Pharaoh grant the Jews the liberty they demanded. When Pharaoh refused their request, the Egyptian firstborn waged war with Pharaoh's army, and many Egyptians who were guilty of atrocities against the Jews were killed on that day.<br />
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2) Furthermore, on this day it was demonstrated that the Egyptians were powerless against the Jews. They must have been mightily peeved by the fact that the Jews were planning to slaughter lambs, an Egyptian deity -- but were incapable of doing anything to hamper their plans.<br />
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3) Some suggest that this Shabbat earned the title "<i>Gadol</i>," because it is the day when the rabbis traditionally deliver extensive lectures about the laws of <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="541084" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Passover</span>, and pontificate about the lessons to be learned from the holiday.<br />
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<tr><td><i><b>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. </b></i><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer">thank you for your interests in the house of the beloved</div>White Buffalo Calf Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272264200755227853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4552527390733540756.post-54419889417263331902010-01-30T23:03:00.000-08:002010-01-30T23:30:13.926-08:00Tu B'Shevat, What Makes us Leaves, Branches and Relatives to the Tree of Life?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S2UB3pTCodI/AAAAAAAAC3w/OAl8hnxxJHk/s1600-h/TmGv1150100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S2UB3pTCodI/AAAAAAAAC3w/OAl8hnxxJHk/s320/TmGv1150100.jpg" /></a></div><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;">The Tree</h1><span class="co-byline">Talmud, Taanit 5b</span><br />
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<div class="co_body"><i>A man was traveling through the desert, hungry, thirsty, and tired, when he came upon a tree bearing luscious fruit and affording plenty of shade, underneath which ran a spring of water. He ate of the fruit, drank of the water, and rested beneath the shade.</i><br />
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<i>"Should I bless you that your fruit be sweet? Your fruit is already sweet.</i><br />
<i>"Should I bless you that your shade be plentiful? Your shade is plentiful. That a spring of water should run beneath you? A spring of water runs beneath you."</i><br />
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We belong to each other, because we come from the branches of the Tree of Life. We are relatives to one another. </span></i></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">When we are alive, this means we carry a spirit within our flesh, we need others to nurture us, or love us. This is the nourishment we all seek from our relatives. We travel to one another on the branches to our relatives, our families. These families make up communities. And here we are made up of colorful people, or the Rainbow clan, we of many colors. Finally we are related to the world, the human race. We are born together upon this Earth, as children of G_ah_d (the utterance of heavenly transmission) we call this Oneness, the spirit of the "Tree of Life". We are distinctive and unique, like a flower or a snowflake, yet perfect unto our own, as G_ah_d says, we are the image of "I am". Often though, we feel these differences get in the way of being oneness. We separate and think, "He doesn't understand me!", but often, that very perspective may be exactly what we need to understand, the world at large, the Oneness of G_ah_d. </span></i></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">If we think of us as leaves, on the tree of life, then the twigs and branches lead us to each other. Then we reach the trunk, where our hearts remember the song, the unity of love. This is the law that unites us all together. We need love. We need nourishment from one another. We need to be understood from our point of view. Then we know we are loved. It is a listening, that provides us with love. This is often called the winds of time. For wind is provided because we have waters of the oceans, the tears of our hearts, the leaking if tears for others who feel pain and suffering for those who do not have what we may have. This is why we give to one another, to fill the void of others, to gift them some happiness when they are feeling lowly. To rise them up, are like the roots, that reach downward where the water provides us with nourishment. And nurturing is the love that we all need. The tree of life depends on water from our roots for it's very survival. This joins us together as one nation, the Rainbow Clan, relatives of light, of many colors. </span></i></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Often we think we walk alone. but in reality we walk with many at all times. Sometimes we walk with the light, but often we walk with those in the darkness of heaven. We are never alone, and this is the meaning of prayer. Prayer joins us together as the wind blows, like dew on a morning when it's cold, the sun shines and warms us, like our hearts that are lowly and needing nourishment, warms our hearts to glowing and to be nourished.</span></i></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We are not alone, like the many leaves on a tree, we experience the closeness of our relatives. These are our ancestors. We roam as travelers to where our hearts need sustenance. Carrying experiences of our elders, who offered us a path to a new life, a newborn child. We have troubles, traumas, victories, hopes and aspirations, this is what makes us wholeness. We serve each other to bring us nourishment of our tears, we have compassion for one another, and this is love. </i></span></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Like a seed of life, our thoughts grow out from our beginnings, our dreams. We are shaped by our relatives, or leaves on the tree of life, the branches of this same tree, the road ways to our destiny. We hold each others hands, push us upwards like a seed that seeks sunlight, providing our roots a place to extend towards. Our consciousness offers us a heritage and a dream, and now we are seeking oneness with all our brothers and sisters of one world, the Race of Man and the unification of Heaven. We are waves of many colors, the Rainbow Clan. </i></span></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We need each other, and provide each other with sustenance like water that feeds roots, the tree of life, within each of us. People are important to us, because they provide us with LOVE. When we exclude others from our lives, we don't offer our relatives a way to feed our souls. We are lonely. Exclusion is not love. Exclusion is separation. And when separation is used, we start to not offer each other sustenance or love that we so desperately need from one another. Only when we allow others to be part of our lives, we are nourished by our relatives, the leaves on the tree of life.</i></span></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>It is not easy to know peace in a world that is full of oppression. If we could only learn to share our hearts with one another and receive the assistance we need from others, to survive! A tree of life, without water or tears, dies. We need to know the heart of sharing, then we can come to peace. We are a great family of many thousands of years, even eons of time, we call evolution. It is important to offer each of our relatives and even strangers, who journey on a path that crosses our own, we need offer them what we can, to know peace in our lives. We are sages, because our souls, have wisdom, we don't access. And to reflect and trust our G_ah_dliness, then we start to know how great we truly are, then we can offer our lives to others in compassion. We each are heroes, legends and living miracles, if we believe in our own faith. It is those who suffer for love who understands that the laws of Heaven are brought to all of man's race, the bright lights of the many colors of all the leaves on the tree of life. It is the ideals of heaven, that form laws unto man, that offers them a way to peace and inward happiness. </i></span></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>We suffer for one thing, and that is for love. We all suffer, and we do so, to bring the children the needs they may receive, their dreams to come true, in a world, that is coming in a new age, the third phase of evolution, Heaven upon Earth. Knowing the laws of man, helps us and guides us onto the branches of the One tree of life, the Oneness. As each of us represent wholeness, we are also part of the whole of G_ah_d's Oneness. We need remember to extend towards others who have lost their way, into a brand new day, the dream that is waiting to blossom and change colors on the seasons of the tree of life. Our love nourishes others with daily blessings, to be safe in a world that is changing. Gift a heart of knowing and a breath of life, to the newborn, and life shall continue onwards, the survival of the "Tree of Life". </i></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S2Uo0Y9IX5I/AAAAAAAAC4Q/uxvBrfd-YuI/s1600-h/458472081_RY4q3-S.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S2Uo0Y9IX5I/AAAAAAAAC4Q/uxvBrfd-YuI/s320/458472081_RY4q3-S.jpg" /></a></div><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tree's New Year</span></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Tu B'Shevat the 15th of the Hebrew month Shevat is known as the "New Year for Trees". We are like "trees of life", and we need to offer ourselves in soul searching, like so many are doing. We are in a changing age of prophecy all around us, and it's a time of evolution that has us changing, inside the darkness of our hearts, where the light is born within. This is the change, we each are seeking to be who G_ah_d explains us to be the "I am". We are souls with eternal knowledge, if we have trust and faith in ourselves. It is a time of prayer and blessings. </span></i></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">We need offer shelter to the seedlings that live in our shade, which means we offer our hearts that replenish the dreams of others to find their way. We want our relatives to know their souls, to live up to their own Greatness. This offers us sustenance. It is love and blessings, that gift life, to others. When they find their own darkness or the heaven of their own heart's dream, then a sunlight bursts forth from within. This allows their tree of life to grow, to reach higher and higher towards their dreams. We strive only when we know our relatives have compassion for us. We need nourishment from others to survive. </span></i></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">Our roots keep us grounded, and plants us firmly in our dreams. It is Mother Earth, that nurtures us, where the leaves drop down to gift our lives, the suffering we do as elders for the next generation to continue onwards, to a new era of dreams. It is a journey, as the "Tree of Life" that offers us a destiny (tree), a path (branches) and relatives (leaves), that intertwine to be Oneness, we call G_ah_d, the utterance of heavenly transmission, or the song of angels that ring true within our Souls. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><i><span style="font-size: small;">We need nourish each other to bring us sweet fruits and blossoms, to cultivate the laws of love, as G_ah_d wanted for us, the Oneness of relatives, the "Tree of Life". The riches of our glory come when we sustain each other, to fall back, to rise up, to fall down and gift life again, and again, do we know the lessons, the experiences we are gifted to feel in a wonderful world that is majestic every day, we breath life while our hearts beat the song of angels within our soul's knowing. We need trust that we are the creatures that was meant to be, to travel over rolling hills, to be divine beings of light (luminous and numinous). </span></i></h1><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>When we smile, we know there is joy for us to share, with one another. We remember the dew of life, the tears we shed in our suffering, the wind that is offered upon our cheeks. We are the life giving for all our relatives, and we are all a part of this greatness. We are all relatives to Oneness. Give hope to each other, and have faith, for we are a birth right, and with each ring around a tree, we are in marriage of a new dream, the child, who provides us with a future, a planted seed, that brings forth fruit, the blossom, who's beauty is forever knowing, we are the "Tree of life", and "Relatives" to each other. It is the bounty of a world, where rocks, plants, and animals can offer us breath, the winds of time, our hearts, that yearn for survival of a dream.</i> </span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S2UqLTO3scI/AAAAAAAAC4g/BoX02hmvO9E/s1600-h/tree2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S2UqLTO3scI/AAAAAAAAC4g/BoX02hmvO9E/s320/tree2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Power of a Blessing</b></span><br />
<i>On Tu B'Shvat, we take a fruit, and before enjoying it, we recite a blessing: "Blessed are you, G-d ou G-d, king of the universe, who creates the fruit of the tree." In other words, "You, G_ah_d, are the source of this blessing."</i><br />
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<i><b>Planting a tree, is a festival of an Arbor day. For it is the tree that a new year begins again. The tree offers us oxygen while we offer carbon monoxide, an exchange of wonder that benefits us all. We are relatives to the trees. And it is important to offer our relatives life. And when we offer our relatives life, they provide for us too. </b></i><br />
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<i><b>We celebrate by eating fruit, especially fruits significant to <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="543234" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Israel</span> to remember our past, and our elders. "I was born into a world flourishing with ready pleasures. My ancestors planted for me, and I now I plant for my children." This is what faith is all about, the act of planting hope for a new generation. We fertilize a seed with love and with having faith, that it will grow and find life, for our children to enjoy, the blossoms, fruit and a garden of paradise for years to come. It is an important event to cherish in our lives, to continue our faith, to feed our spirit with a deep-rooted trust in our elders, who offers us life. We are creatures of G_ah_d's world, and this gifts us a garden of paradise, when we remember our past, our present and our future, the tree of life continues to give to us, over and over, to sustain our faith, to receive our light, within our darkness. These are the miracles of relatives in our lives. </b></i><br />
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<i>"The Talmud says that if you have taken water from a well, it is forbidden to throw out the remaining water but should find some way to recycle it. This Tu B'Shevat, let us appreciate the unity and purposefulness of all creation, and rededicate ourselves to protecting it." </i><a href="http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=1348" title="Browse more articles by this author"><span class="co-byline"></span></a><a href="http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=8871" title="Browse more articles by this author">Rabbi Gavriel Weinberg</a><br />
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<i><b>Feed one another and gift the tree of life, for future generations, by planting a tree, for tomorrow, a paradise for our children, the next generation, that will sustain our hopes and dreams, the spirit of the "Tree of Life". We bend like the Rainbow, to understand that humility provides us with strength, to carry onwards, to feel the winds of eternal blissfulness, the tears that flow, to know our Souls, continue on. We are beings of evolution, at times personally and at other times, we are part of a greater world, the Oneness. It is the Torah that offers us the laws of love, that gifts us the wisdom of the laws of love, and with these cherished verses, we are fed, the nourishment that continues our lives of peaceful bliss upon a world of paradise. Remember it is a seed that offers us a dream, a fertile ground to new beginnings. We are greatness, the image of "I am". We need be remember to be proud of your Greatness. Be a source of nourishment for all the relatives for we are part of the Rainbow Clan, the many colors of G_ah_d, the song of angels. We are the sustenance for generations to come, the tears that flow, to know the roots of nourishment, that keeps us growing and growing, the heart of our insides blossoms into the <a href="http://alightfromwithin.org/">light, from within, </a>the soul that feels and grows eternally.</b></i><br />
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<b>Written by <a href="http://white-buffalo-calf-woman.blogspot.com/">White Buffalo Calf Woman</a>, your <a href="http://twindeermother.blogspot.com/">Twin Deer Mother</a>, <a href="http://alightfromwithin.org/"><i>alightfromwithin.org</i></a></b><i><b><br />
</b></i><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;">Ecology and Spirituality in Jewish Tradition</h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S2UhEe3AayI/AAAAAAAAC4I/ZCQr7WjIjYE/s1600-h/133610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S2UhEe3AayI/AAAAAAAAC4I/ZCQr7WjIjYE/s320/133610.jpg" /></a></div><h1 style="margin-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="co-byline">By <a href="http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=8868" title="Browse more articles by this author">David Sears</a></span></span></h1><h1 style="font-weight: normal; margin-top: 10px;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Ecology is a highly practical branch of science. Nothing could be more "down to earth" than preservation of the planet. Yet there is a facet of ecological awareness that is often overlooked. This is its spiritual dimension. When we act as self-absorbed individuals, with little regard for anyone or anything that exists outside ourselves, we immediately fall into moral and spiritual error. As the <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="542432" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Yiddish</span> saying goes, "A blind horse heads straight for the pit!"</span></b></h1>Thus, countless laws in the <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="543382" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Torah</span> adjure us to open our eyes, and act responsibly and compassionately toward the world around us. Among other ecological mandates, it promulgates the laws of <i>bal tashchis</i> (neither to destroy wantonly, nor waste resources unnecessarily); the prohibition of cutting down fruit trees surrounding an enemy city in wartime; the laws of covering excrement, and removing debris from public places, etc. In doing so, the Torah indicates that although we may feel at odds with nature, having to struggle to survive, in truth the world comprises a potentially harmonious whole in which each element is precious.<br />
<span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="544306" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Rav</span> <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="541696" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Avraham</span> <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="541808" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Yitzhak</span> Kook (1865-1935), Chief <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="540451" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Ashkenazic</span> Rabbi of pre-state <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="543234" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Israel</span> and a leading 20th century thinker, expresses this idea compellingly: "If you are amazed at how it is possible to speak, hear, smell, touch, see, understand, and feel -- tell your soul that all living things collectively confer upon you the fullness of your experience. Not the least speck of existence is superfluous, everything is needed, and everything serves its purpose. 'You' are present within everything that is beneath you, and your being is bound up with all that transcends you."<a class="tiny" href="javascript:doFootnote('1a255521');" name="footnoteRef1a255521"></a><br />
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A spiritually attuned person will recognize that every creature is essentially bound up with every other creature, and that we share a collective destiny. Thus, our most fundamental attitude should be one of compassion, not acquisitiveness or aggression. This ethic applies toward all levels of creation. As master kabbalist Rabbi <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="536992" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Moshe Cordovero</span> of Safed ("RaMaK," 1522-1570) adjures: "One's compassion should extend to all creatures, and one should neither despise nor destroy them; for the Supernal Wisdom [i.e. divine wisdom that brings all existence into being] extends to all of creation -- the "silent" or mineral level, plants, animals, and humans. This is why our sages have warned us against treating food disrespectfully. Just as the Supernal Wisdom despises nothing, since everything is produced there -- as it is written, 'You have formed them all with wisdom' (<span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="542659" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Psalms</span> 104:24) -- a person should show compassion to all of the works of the Holy One, blessed be He."<a class="tiny" href="javascript:doFootnote('2a255521');" name="footnoteRef2a255521"></a><br />
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The RaMaK's words bespeak a G-d-centered view of the universe, as opposed to one that is man-centered or nature-centered. In the words of the <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="538266" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Baal Shem Tov</span> (Rabbi Israel <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="544313" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">ben</span> <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="542222" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Eliezer</span>, founder of <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="540090" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Chassidism</span>, 1698-1760), we must seek the welfare of all precisely because we are equally <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="544257" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">G-d</span>'s works, created to perform His will.<br />
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"Do not consider yourself superior to anyone else . . ." the founder of Chassidism states. "In truth, you are no different than any other creature, since all things were brought into being to serve G-d. Just as G-d bestows consciousness upon you, He bestows consciousness upon your fellow man. In what way is a human being superior to a worm? A worm serves the Creator with all of his intelligence and ability; and man, too, is compared to a worm, as the verse states, 'I am a worm and not a man' (Psalms 22:7). If G-d had not given you a human intellect, you would only be able to serve Him like a worm. In this sense, you are both equal in the eyes of Heaven. A person should consider himself, the worm, and all creatures as friends in the universe, for we are all created beings whose abilities are G-d-given."<a class="tiny" href="javascript:doFootnote('3a255521');" name="footnoteRef3a255521"></a><br />
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This kinship of all creation and shared mission of serving G-d, each creature in its own way, is often compared to a cosmic song. As we recite during the <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="541724" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Sabbath</span> prayers, "The soul of every living being shall bless Your Name . . . All hearts shall revere You, and every innermost part shall sing to Your Name." Indeed, when the <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="542715" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Talmud</span> describes the mysteries of the <i>Ma'aseh Merkavah</i> ("Workings of the Chariot," i.e. the mystical experience), it associates this prophetic wisdom with song. The sages relate how <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="539266" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Rabbi Elazar</span> ben Arach demonstrated his preparedness to engage in the study of these mysteries before his teacher, Rabbi Yochanan -- at which point the trees of the field were encompassed by heavenly fire and broke into song, echoing the verses of Psalm 148: "Praise G-d from the Earth, sea giants and all watery depths . . . mountains and hills, fruitful trees and all cedars . . . Praise G-d!"<a class="tiny" href="javascript:doFootnote('4a255521');" name="footnoteRef4a255521"></a><br />
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If we listen closely, this song still may be heard. Rabbi Aryeh Levin (the "<span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="541849" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">tzaddik</span> of <span class="glossary_item" glossary_item="540581" onclick="Page_Glossary.complete_show(this);" onmouseout="Page_Glossary.hide(this);" onmouseover="show_glossary(this);">Jerusalem</span>, 1885-1969), told how he once was walking in the fields with his mentor, Rav Avraham Yitzhak Kook. In the course of their Torah discussion, Rabbi Levin picked a flower. At this, Rav Kook remarked, "All my days I have been careful never to pluck a blade of grass or a flower needlessly, when it had the ability to grow or blossom. You know the teaching of our sages that not a single blade of grass grows here on Earth that does not have an angel above it, commanding it to grow. Every sprout and leaf says something meaningful, every stone whispers some hidden message in the silence -- every creation sings its song."<br />
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"These words of our great master," Rabbi Levin concluded, "spoken from a pure and holy heart, engraved themselves deeply in my heart. From that day on, I began to feel a strong sense of compassion for all things."<br />
So may it be for us who hear this story today and contemplate its perennial truth.<br />
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Thank you <a href="http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword.asp?kid=8868">David Sears </a>and <a href="http://chabad.org/">Chabad.Org</a> for sharing your wisdom with us!<br />
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</div><b>ALPHABET, THE HEBREW: </b><br />
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<b>By</b> : <firstname><b>Mark</b></firstname> <lastname><b>Lidzbarsky,</b></lastname> <contributor id="C010119"><abbrevname><name><firstname><b>M.</b></firstname> <lastname><b>Li. </b></lastname></name></abbrevname><proftitle><b>Ph.D.,</b></proftitle><br />
<paratext>Privat-Docent of Semitic Philology at the University, Kiel, Germany; Author of "Handbuch der Nordsemitischen Epigraphik."</paratext></contributor><br />
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ARTICLE HEADINGS:<br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Origin of Alphabet.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Moabite Stone.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Seals.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Coins.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Samaritan Alphabet.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Aramaic Origin of Modern Hebrew Letters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Changes in Letters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Causes of Adoption of Aramaic.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>The 'AraḲ-el-Emir Inscription.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Stone-Chest Inscriptions.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Final Letters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Changes in Letters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Inscriptions in Square Characters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Ornamentation of Letters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Names for Hebrew Script.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Influence of Ligature.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Influence of Writing Material.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Local Variations of Script.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>The "Ketibah Tammah."</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Transliteration of Foreign Languages.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Cursive Script.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel2><b>"Rashi" Script.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel1><sc>Plate</sc> I.</articlesubheadinglevel1> <articlesubheadinglevel2>(Old Hebrew and Samaritan.)</articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel1><sc>Plate</sc> II.</articlesubheadinglevel1> <articlesubheadinglevel2>(Origin and Development of the Hebrew Square Alphabet.)</articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel1><sc>Plate</sc> III.</articlesubheadinglevel1> <articlesubheadinglevel2>(Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions.)</articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel1><sc>Plate</sc> IV.</articlesubheadinglevel1> <articlesubheadinglevel2>(Manuscript Writing.)</articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
<articlesubheadinglevel1><sc>Plate</sc> V.</articlesubheadinglevel1> <articlesubheadinglevel2>(Cursive Writing.)</articlesubheadinglevel2> <br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Origin of Alphabet.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>The characters of the Hebrew Alphabet are derived from the so-called Phenician or Old Semitic letters, to which almost all systems of letters now in use, even the Roman, can be traced. But this latter is in mediate relation only to the original source, while the Hebrew Alphabet has kept closer to the primitive signs. In spite of the great progress made in Semitic paleography during the last decades, which enables the student to follow, step by step, the several styles of characters used by the various Semitic peoples from the ninth century <sc>B.C.</sc> down to the present day, no opinion can as yet be expressed with any certainty as to the origin of these characters. Attempts have repeatedly been made to derive them from the Egyptians (see Bibliography 1, at end), or from the Babylonian (Bibliography 2), but with indifferent success. The reason for this uncertainty lies perhaps in the fact that the oldest known forms of these letters come from a time that had been preceded by a long period of development, during which time the characters themselves may have undergone important modifications. It may also be said with a certain amount of probability that the alphabet did not possess from the beginning all the characters that it now contains. Thus <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p439006.jpg" /> is manifestly an expansion of <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p439007.jpg" />) is merely x (ח), enclosed in a circle; again by the addition of a horizontal line between the top and bottom strokes <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p439008.jpg" />) is formed from <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p439011.jpg" />, and a perpendicular stroke served perhaps to develop <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p439009.jpg" />) from W (ש). Though it may be impossible to determine with certainty of what race the inventor of these letters was, the alphabet undoubtedly received these expansions from a Semite. If it be conceded that the names of the letters of the alphabet originated with the same man, then, since their form is Aramaic, one could say that he was an Aramean; but they may also have arisen somewhat later. The names for the characters were chosen with reference to near-by things, such as parts of the body and other objects of the daily life peculiar to the Bedouins, the name of each of which began with the very sound the letter indicated. In a few cases the names seem to have been derived from the form which the sign represented. These names, as well as the order of the letters, certainly existed at least one thousand years <sc>B.C.</sc>, for they were known when the Greeks adopted their alphabet from the Semites. At this period the alphabet must already have undergone local variations among the different ethnical groups of the northern Semites.</paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Moabite Stone.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>The most important monument written in alphabetical characters of this epoch comes from a territory closely bordering on Palestine. Not only does the language of this section greatly resemble the Hebrew, but the writing already exhibits a coloring which approaches the epigraphic monuments of Palestine. This is the famous Moabite stone, which was discovered in 1868 by the Alsatian missionary Klein near Dibon in the land of Moab. Various governments attempted to obtain possession of this valuable stone; and when Turkey began to participate in the strife, the Bedouins, from intense hatred of the Turks, broke it into bits. The greater part of the fragments were, however, recovered and placed in the Museum of the Louvre in Paris. This monument dates from Mesha, king of Moab, mentioned in II Kings, iii. 4, who describes upon it his victorious wars against Israel and his doings in the interior of his land. The language, with slight deviations, is Hebrew, and reads almost like a chapter from the Book of Kings. The form of the letters is already essentially cursive. One peculiarity which the inscriptions on this monument have in common with Hebrew, and which the latter idiom has developed still further, is of special interest; namely, the tendency to bend the stems of the letters which slant to the left, so as to bring them nearer to the letter that follows, and also to extend the letters more in the width than in their length or perpendicular dimension. These are ṭhe eight lines of the inscription transliterated into the later Hebrew characters, according to Lidzbarski's "Handbuch," Plate I. <a class="cross" href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=680&letter=M"><crossreference goto="A081144">See <sc>Moabite Stone</sc></crossreference></a>, and Bibliography 3.</paratext><illustration><externalelements><br />
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</div><paratext>Palestinian monuments of the earliest antiquity are very rare. From the preexilic time there exists but<pagebreak id="P010440">one inscription of any length, found in the Siloam tunnel in 1881. It relates an episode from the construction of the conduit, and dates perhaps from the time of Hezekiah. The six lines below transliterated are taken from a photograph in the "Zeitschrift der Morgenländischen Gesellschaft," vol. xxxvi. See <sc>Siloam Inscription</sc>, and Bibliography 4.</pagebreak></paratext><br />
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</div><paratext>As may easily be seen from the text the language is pure Hebrew, and differs externally only in the sparing use of the <i>matres lectionum</i>. The script, which was probably previously traced upon the polished stone by a <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p440003.jpg" /> (a ready writer) with a reed, resembles the writing used in the preparation of a legal manuscript rather than that seen on monuments. It shows a conspicuous preference for curved lines, which not infrequently end in little strokes or flourishes. Besides this monument there exist from preexilic times only some very short inscriptions. They are mostly on seals, some of which may be even older than the Siloam inscription. They are characterized by the frequent occurrence of names composed with <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p440006.jpg" />; as well as by the utter absence of any representation of living things. There is, however, a series of seals that certainly bear Hebrew legends, and yet have pictures of animals or of Egyptian symbols. A peculiarity of these seals is the separation of the lines by two parallel strokes. See <sc>Seals</sc>, and Bibliography 5. For seal No. 1 compare Lidzbarski, "Handbuch," p. 487, and Clermont-Ganneau, "Recueil d'Archéologie Orientale," iii. 189; for No. 3 compare Clermont-Ganneau, <i>ib.</i> 154 <i>et seq.</i>; for No. 2 Clermont-Ganneau, "Journal Asiatique," 1883, i. 129.</paratext><illustration><externalelements><br />
</externalelements></illustration><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S0Lafm9e-WI/AAAAAAAACm4/emdCGRprM6o/s1600-h/Image3.Caption.InscriptionSiloamAqueduct.Source.Vigoroux.V01p440001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S0Lafm9e-WI/AAAAAAAACm4/emdCGRprM6o/s320/Image3.Caption.InscriptionSiloamAqueduct.Source.Vigoroux.V01p440001.jpg" /></a><illustration><externalelements> </externalelements><icaption><sc>Inscription Found in the Siloam Aqueduct</sc>.</icaption></illustration><br />
<source></source>(From Vigoroux.)<illustration><externalelements><br />
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</div><icaption>Seal No. 1.<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p440005.jpg" /></icaption><br />
<source></source>(From Clermont-Ganneau, in "Archeologie Orientale.")<br />
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</div><illustration><icaption>Seal No. 2.<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p440008.jpg" /></icaption></illustration><br />
<source></source>(From <name><lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, in "<origin><i>Journal Asiatique</i></origin>.")<br />
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<illustration> </illustration><articleminorsection><illustration><icaption>Seal No. 3.<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p440011.jpg" /></icaption></illustration></articleminorsection><br />
<source></source>(From <name><lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, in "<origin><i>Archeologie Orientale</i></origin>.")<br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Seals.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>Other smaller inscriptions with Old Hebrew characters occur as "factory-marks" upon clay vessels, which were found in Jerusalem, in Tell-es-Safi, and in Tell-Zakariya (southwest of Hebron). These are probably the product of the royal potteries which existed in the different cities, and in addition to the word <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p440012.jpg" />, "to the king," the seals mention also the name of the town in which the pottery was situated (compare Lidzbarski, "Ephemeris," i. 54; Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement, July, 1900, pp. 207 <i>et seq.</i> The following town-names have been found: Socho, Zif, Ezer, Ḥori, Hebron. This explanation of the legends is due to Clermont-Ganneau and Canon Dalton. It is more acceptable than the other which would see here the name of the king or some other person. The illustration accompanying this text shows <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p440014.jpg" /> and <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p440013.jpg" />. These smaller monuments of epigraphy<pagebreak id="P010441">and most of the seals date from preexilic times. Like the Hebrew language, the Hebrew Alphabet at this time was almost exclusively used in Palestine. Only the upper classes, who were in relations with foreign lands, spoke and wrote Aramaic (II Kings, xviii. 26; compare G. Hoffmann, in Stade's "Zeitschrift," i. 337, note 1 to Isa. viii. 1). But a marked change took place after the Babylonian exile. The Aramaic language, which had then already spread over the whole of Asia Minor, though used by the side of the local dialects, was gradually accepted by the Jews, together with its script. But inasmuch as the Hebrew was still used as the literary, the "holy," language, the writers did not altogether give up the use of the ancient Hebrew characters.</pagebreak></paratext><br />
<paratext><pagebreak id="P010441"> </pagebreak><illustration><icaption>Trade-Mark on Pottery Found at Lachish.</icaption></illustration></paratext><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S0Lck28JUmI/AAAAAAAACnY/vtQ8tILHNAM/s1600-h/TrademarkPotteryLachish.V01p441001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S0Lck28JUmI/AAAAAAAACnY/vtQ8tILHNAM/s320/TrademarkPotteryLachish.V01p441001.jpg" /></a><articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Coins.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>During the first centuries after the Exile, the Jews certainly used Hebrew in their writings. From this period up to the time of the Maccabees there are extant no monuments bearing inscriptions; for the following one there exist many remains, though in small dimensions, being mainly confined to coins. One would think that the characters used on a coin would be those most widely known; and, indeed, in Syria, Aramaic script and language are principally used upon coins. But the right to coin money was in olden times as to-day looked upon as a sign of political independence. Therefore, when the Jews, after their successful revolt against the Seleucids, felt themselves masters in their own land, they not only wanted to have their own coins, but, to give more forceful expression to their newly won independence, they inscribed legends in their own language and their own script. The letters on these coins resemble very closely those of the Siloam inscriptions and the smaller monuments. But what is there evidently the flourish of the reed as it hurried over the surface, or an imitation of it, appears here in fixed form. The curved stems of the old script have been broken at right angles, upon the lower leg of which the letter appears to rest. The appended stroke and flourishes, which before appeared accidental, became essential parts of the letter, while other original parts have been considerably reduced. Another peculiarity of this writing is the freedom observed in placing the character (see Plate I., cols. 4-6). For about a hundred years these characters were used upon the coins; they were then supplanted by the Greek.</paratext><illustration><externalelements><br />
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</div><illustration><icaption>A. B. Shekel of Simon Maccabeus, Second Year of Independence (140-139 <sc>B.C.</sc>). A, <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p441003.jpg" /> B, <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p441004.jpg" /></icaption></illustration><br />
<source></source>(After <name><lastname>Madden</lastname></name>, "<origin><i>Coins of the Jews</i></origin>.")<br />
<paratext>Not until the revolts against Nero and against Hadrian did the Jews return to the use of the old Hebrew script on their coins, which they did from similar motives to those which had governed them two or three centuries previously; both times, it is true, only for a brief period (<a class="cross" href="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=665&letter=C"><crossreference goto="A040264">see <sc>Coins</sc></crossreference></a>, and Bibliography 6). In addition to the above, there exists only one other small monument bearing the same sort of letters. It is the capital of a column, discovered in 1881 by M. Clermont-Ganneau near Amwâs, with the inscriptions <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p441005.jpg" /> and Έῖς <crossreference goto="F010019">θεός</crossreference><footnotes idoptional="F010019">Compare "Archives des Missions Scientifiques et Littéraires," iii. series, ix. 292, xi. 211.</footnotes> ("God is One"). This may, however, possibly be of Samaritan rather than of Hebrew origin.</paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Samaritan Alphabet.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>While the Jews adopted the Aramaic alphabet, gradually abandoning their own, the Samaritans held fast to the original forms, in order to show themselves the veritable heirs of ancient Hebraism. They then not only used the Hebrew text for sacred books, but employed it in secular writings as well, and later on even used it for both Aramaic and Arabic. The letters already adorned with angles and corners were still further overloaded under their hands and developed into a sort of Gothic (see Plate I., cols. 8-10). It is the same character used in all the Samaritan books of to-day, and remains the only offshoot of the old Hebrew script extant, while the modern Hebrew Alphabet is of Aramaic origin.</paratext><illustration></illustration><br />
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<illustration><icaption>A. B. Copper Coin of the Revolt Against Nero (66-67). A, <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p441007.jpg" /> B, <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p441008.jpg" /></icaption></illustration><br />
<source></source>(After <name><lastname>Madden</lastname></name>, "<origin><i>Coins of the Jews</i></origin>.")<br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Aramaic Origin of Modern Hebrew Letters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2><illustration><icaption idoptional="I010002"> </icaption></illustration></articleminorsection><br />
<articleminorsection><illustration><icaption idoptional="I010002">Inscription on Column Discovered Near Amwâs by Clermont-Ganneau.</icaption></illustration></articleminorsection><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S0LeMjJDdLI/AAAAAAAACnw/pT_FSLNzrsI/s1600-h/InscriptionColumnAmwasbyClermount-Ganneau.V01p441009.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NHJT11ixdNU/S0LeMjJDdLI/AAAAAAAACnw/pT_FSLNzrsI/s320/InscriptionColumnAmwasbyClermount-Ganneau.V01p441009.jpg" /></a><paratext>The Aramaic characters had undergone many changes in development before the Jews became acquainted with them. The oldest monuments with this alphabet are those discovered, about ten years ago, in or near the ruined mound of Zingirli, north of Nicopolis (Islaḥîe), and dating from the eighth<pagebreak id="P010442">century <sc>B.C.</sc> The texts are partly in Aramaic and partly in the local dialect, which was a compromise between Aramaic and Hebrew (see Bibliography 7). Several hundred monuments of smaller dimensions represent the succeeding centuries, among which those worthy of special mention are the two tombstones found in the mound of Nerab, near Aleppo, which date from the seventh century <sc>B.C.</sc> (see note 8). A larger number of inscriptions came from the archives of Nineveh and Babylon. As a rule, these are cuneiform inscriptions relating to commerce, and giving short Aramaic legends somewhat in the fashion of a label. It is obvious from this that the official scribes of Nineveh and Babylon were not perfectly familiar with the complicated cuneiform alphabet, and therefore, in order to facilitate future reference to these archives, inscribed upon the tablets a brief explanatory synopsis of their contents in Aramaic (compare "Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum," ii. No. 15 <i>et seq.</i>).</pagebreak></paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Changes in Letters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>These dockets, written entirely in cursive characters, are of special scientific value, because they allow us to follow up, step by step, the transition of the Aramaic alphabet from the original form to that in which it became known to the Jews in Babylonia, and even through some later developments (see plate II., col. 3). During that period the alphabet had undergone material changes, and at its close scarcely a symbol retained the form of three centuries before. The letters ג, ד, ד exemplify this evolution in a characteristic manner. Originally they were written with closed heads (<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442001.jpg" />) though, in writing rapidly, less and less attention was paid to the juncture of the lines. But what was at first only negligence became later a fixed custom. The heads were opened more and more, and the former convergent strokes developed into parallel lines, so that these three letters took on the following forms: <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442002.jpg" />. In <i>'Ayin</i> (O) the circle opened more and more until the curve <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442003.jpg" /> became an angle open at the top: ∨. In <i>Aleph</i> (<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442025.jpg" />) the sides of the angle separated, the upper one moving more and more to the right and becoming unrecognizably small. So also in <i>Kaph</i> <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442004.jpg" />: the upper side of the angle is moved to the left and placed perpendicularly at the end of the other leg; thus כ became <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442005.jpg" />, and therewith came to resemble closely ד and ר. In <i>He</i> the lower horizontal lines were detached from the perpendicular, one of them was gradually omitted, and the other attached to the horizontal cross-bar, as <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442006.jpg" />. The metamorphosis of <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442007.jpg" /> took place by the reduction of the head until it became entirely flat and ד is curved to a ך. Again in <i>Zayin</i> and <i>Yod</i> the double curved line <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442008.jpg" /> is gradually straightened, the former becoming <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442009.jpg" />, while <i>Yod</i> develops into <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442010.jpg" />, which sign is gradually made smaller until it is reduced to scarcely more than a mere dot. In <i>Ḥet</i>, the central horizontal stroke only was retained, and was moved more and more to the top: <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442011.jpg" />. In <i>Ṭet</i>, too, one line of the cross was omitted and the other fastened to the now open circle so that the letter could be made with one stroke: ט. In the case of <i>Mem</i> and <i>Shin</i> the broken line <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442012.jpg" /> first becomes <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442013.jpg" /> and for the latter of these two letters the middle stroke is then made parallel with the right one, so that a new sign results, <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442014.jpg" />, while in the case of <i>Mem</i> <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442015.jpg" /> becomes <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442016.jpg" /> or <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442017.jpg" />. In this latter form the straight stroke ׀ extends above the curved line and soon becomes greatly lengthened. Similarly the head of <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442018.jpg" /> is transformed into a zigzag <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442019.jpg" />, and gradually becomes <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442020.jpg" /> which is simplified to <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442021.jpg" />. The circular head in <i>ḳoph</i> was at first not closed; it becomes first <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442022.jpg" />, and then by the addition of a hook to the left is changed to ק. In <i>Tav</i>, the cross-line <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442023.jpg" /> forms an angle, the right side of which is lengthened until it reaches the base <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p442024.jpg" />.</paratext><br />
<paratext>The particular form given to these Aramaic letters with ink upon papyrus, at the close of this evolutionary period—that is, about the fifth or fourth century <sc>B.C.</sc>—is shown by a series of Aramaic papyri from Egypt collected in the "Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum," ii., table xv. Imitations of these cursive forms were also executed upon stone. A glance at the text in the "Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum," ii., table xvi., reveals the astonishing fact that not only the general features of the script are much like the cursive Hebrew of the Middle Ages, but that many of the signs taken by themselves are almost identical. It is scarcely probable that any material differences in the mode of writing existed in western Asia at the time when the use of the Aramaic alphabet became general among the Jews. The Jews in exile were certainly very quick to abandon their mother tongue for the Aramaic in word and script. When release came, the exiles returned in numbers to their native land, and it was among them that the art of writing as a profession was most prevalent. Meanwhile, masses of other nationalities had settled in Palestine, either from choice or from compulsion, and these people for the most part also spoke Aramaic; but the most important factor was the circumstance that the government functionaries both spoke and wrote Aramaic.</paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Causes of Adoption of Aramaic.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>An extended private epistolary correspondence among the Jews of Palestine at that time could hardly have existed; nearly all writing was limited probably to literary productions, or to commercial and official documents. For the former, the indigenous script could very well be retained, and since literature was mostly confined to the priests, it is also tolerably certain that they at least remained faithful to the ancient mode of writing. On the contrary, all official or semi-official documents had to be written in Aramaic. It became, therefore, necessary for business people to learn two alphabets, one for their social needs and the other to enable them to read the Holy Scriptures. Naturally Jews who lived in foreign lands, and whose numbers continually grew, were especially compelled to do this, which circumstance no doubt furnished a reason for writing even the holy books in the Aramaic character; and these established themselves so firmly, that they were regarded at the time of the Mishnah as the only sacred ones (compare Mishnah Yadayim, iv. 5).</paratext><br />
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</div><paratext>The opinion, therefore, has been expressed that the Hebrew Alphabet slowly developed into the Aramaic (compare Bleek-Wellhausen, "Einleitung in das Alte Test." 5th ed., p. 551), but this view can hardly be upheld. Among the Jews the two alphabets co-existed<pagebreak id="P010443">side by side, though this by no means precludes the possibility that a writer, either from ignorance or inadvertence, may have occasionally inserted Aramaic letters into his Hebrew text, or vice versa. Such errors would occur especially when the parallel letters differed very slightly. That this mixing of the letters occurred in the inscription below, which is regarded by authorities as the oldest one with square characters, may be due to chance. The inscription consists of only five letters, and not all even of these can be identified with certainty.</pagebreak><illustration><externalelements><br />
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</div><paratext><illustration><icaption>Inscription in a Cavern at 'AraḲ-el-Emir.</icaption></illustration></paratext><br />
<paratext>According to both Jewish and Christian tradition, the introduction of the Aramaic script and its use for the Holy Scriptures are directly attributed to Ezra the scribe (see Sanh. 21<i>b</i>, 22<i>a</i>; Yer. Meg. 71<i>a</i>; Origen, ed. Migne, ii., col. 1104: Jerome, "Prologus Galeatus"). The former statement is certainly not correct; nor can the latter be established satisfactorily. Supposing the introduction of the Aramaic script to have taken place in the fifth century or even later, the older manuscripts would hardly have been destroyed on that account. At all events, this much is assured, that, irrespective of the Samaritans, the knowledge of the older script still existed among the Jews for several centuries (Meg. <i>ib.</i>; Origen, "Hexapla" on Ezek. ix. 4, quotes the testimony of a converted Jew).</paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>The 'AraḲ-el-Emir Inscription.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>Ancient monuments with square letters are very rare. That at 'Araḳ-el-Emir, referred to above, southeast of Es-Salt on the Wadi es-Sîr, may be considered the oldest (see Chwolson, "Corpus Inscriptionum Hebraicarum," 1; Lidzbarski, "Handbuch," pp. 117, 190, 484). It consists of one single word, the correct reading of which is probably <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p443004.jpg" />. The cavern in which it is found is generally identified as the one which, according to Josephus ("Ant." xii. 4, § 11), was built by Hyrcanus, nephew of the high priest Onias II., in the land of the Ammonites when he fled thither. Since this flight took place in the year 183 <sc>B.C.</sc>, the inscription could not have been cut earlier; unless it be that Hyrcanus did not, at that time, construct the grotto, but altered the work of others to suit his own purposes. In this word the letter ע has the old Semitic form and the letters ב, ה, and י are similar to the Aramaic characters of the Persian period, while the ר has taken the form of a much later date (see Plate III., col. 1). The inscription of the Bene Ḥezir to be found on a family vault in the valley of Jehoshaphat probably dates from the first century <sc>B.C.</sc>, and was afterward regarded as the resting-place of St. James (see "Corpus Inscriptionum Hebraicarum," Plate I., No. 6; Driver, "Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Book of Samuel." pp. xxiii.; and Berger, "Histoire de l'Écriture," 2d ed., pp. 257 <i>et seq.</i>). From about the same period are to be dated the ossuaries, or stone sarcophagi wherein the bones of those deceased were preserved; these are found in great numbers in Palestine (see Plate III., col. 2; "Corpus Inscrip. Hebra." col. 76; and Clermont-Ganneau, in "Revue Archéologique," série iii., i. 257).</paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Stone-Chest Inscriptions.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>Notwithstanding the lack of care in the execution of the inscriptions and in spite of their uninteresting details, these stone chests possess an appreciable value, because by their aid may be traced the development of the square letters into characters which do not greatly differ from the present ones.</paratext><illustration><externalelements><br />
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</div><illustration><icaption><sc>Inscription on Family Vault of the Bene Ḥezir.</sc></icaption></illustration><br />
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<source></source>("This is the tomb and resting-place of Eleazar, Ḥoniah, Joezer, Judah, Simeon, Johanan, sons of . . . . . . , and Eleazar, sons of Ḥoniah, of the children of Ḥezir.")<illustration><externalelements><br />
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</div><illustration><icaption>Ossuary Inscription of "Shalam-Zion, Daughter of Simeon the Priest."<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p443006.jpg" /></icaption></illustration><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Final Letters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
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</div><articleminorsection><illustration><icaption>Ossuary Inscription of "Judah the Scribe."<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p443009.jpg" /></icaption></illustration></articleminorsection><br />
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<paratext>Even before the formation of the square characters, most of the letters could already be made with one stroke. But the attempt was presently made to give them such forms that a whole word might be written with as few breaks as possible, and each letter be gradually made to approach as near as possible the one following; thus in some of the letters which were originally closed by a perpendicular (<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p443007.jpg" />) line, this line was bent toward the left. But this bending of the perpendicular line took place naturally only when ligature with the next letter was desirable or permissible; when the letter stood at the end of the word, the change in the sign was unnecessary, and the final letters ץ, ף, ז, ד still retained their original downward stroke; though they are considerably lengthened in the forms of our present<pagebreak id="P010444">letters. In the letter מ the original bent stem was curved upward still more until it reached the upper horizontal stroke, so that the final <i>Mem</i> to-day has the form ם. The Palmyrene script possesses a final <i>Nun</i> with a lengthened stem; the Nabatean contains similarly final <i>Kaph, Nun, Ẓade</i>, and <i>Shin</i>, and further a closed final <i>Mem</i> and final <i>He</i>. In the same manner as exhibited in final <i>Mem</i> the zigzag on the head of <i>Samek</i> developed into a straight line, and—as was the case in the Palmyrene and Syriac script—the stem was again bent upward, so as to reach the upper horizontal line; but it remained open for a longer period than <i>Mem</i> (compare, for the two letters, also Shab. 104<i>a</i>). As a result of the effort to approach the letter following it, the hook on <i>Lamed</i> has been lengthened and advanced more and more toward the front until it finally became ל. So also in the case of ∨ the right side was prolonged beyond the point of intersection and finally produced ע. In such letters as ר, ד, and ן the stem could not be bent to the left without conflicting, the first two with the letters ב, כ, and the third with נ. But since the head of ו gradually disappeared or became nothing but a short stroke, the whole letter approached very closely to ן, which even in the Persian times had been reduced to a mere ׀. But, in order to distinguish the one from the other, it was found necessary to add a small stroke on the left side of <i>Vaw</i>, thus ן. The treatment of <i>Yod</i> varied: it often occurs with a stroke on the left side, a remnant of the lower horizontal line; but this line was very insignificant and often was not written at all. The stem, as a rule, was made very small (Matt. v. 18, ὶῶτα ἓν ἢ μία κεραία); though, in order to make its form harmonize more nearly with that of the other letters, it was occasionally lengthened and then resembled the ו. In the earliest editions of the Septuagint, it is said that the Tetragram was written in Hebrew characters which looked like the Greek ΠλΠλ (Jerome, ed. Migne, i. 429; see also Gesenius, "Gesch. d. Hebräischen Sprache und Schrift," p. 176).</pagebreak></paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Changes in Letters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>Of the upper transverse line in <i>Aleph</i> only the left side remains, and in order to reach the base-line, it was gradually lengthened. The same is the case with נ, though there as well as in <i>Aleph</i>, the whole left member of the letter is pushed to the bottom. In the letter <i>He</i> the former lower horizontal line is gradually made parallel to the vertical stem and fastened to the upper cross line, from which, by a process of shortening, it has been separated only since the Middle Ages. Some of the older forms of this letter show an extension of the right-hand stem above the cross-bar. In the case of <i>Ḥet</i> H = ח, a system of curtailment affected the upper horns of this letter, gradually reducing it to its present form. An extension of the upper part of <i>Tav</i> is also noticeable in the older forms of this letter, which causes the <i>Tav</i> to approach in appearance the corresponding Syrian sign. As early as the middle-Aramaic period the letters ט, ק, ש appear in forms almost identical with those now in use, though in the older <i>ḳ;oph</i> the stem is not longer than in the other letters, and it hangs from the horizontal line; the stems of the <i>Shin</i> are drawn together to a point, and often the left-hand stem passes beyond this point. Compare Plate III., cols. 2, 3, and Talmud Shab. 104<i>a</i>.</paratext><illustration><externalelements><br />
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<illustration><icaption>Boundary Inscription of the City of Gezer.<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p444002.jpg" /></icaption> </illustration><br />
<source></source>(Limit of Gezer).<br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Inscriptions in Square Characters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>The only inscriptions in square characters dating from the time of the destruction of Jerusalem are: (1) the monuments marking the boundaries of Gezer (see "C. I. H." ii.; compare also Lidzbarski, "Handbuch," p. 484, and "Ephemeris," i. 56), and (2) the bilingual legends upon the sarcophagus of Queen Ẓadda (see illustration below). Up to now (1901), five of these boundary-stones have been discovered, thanks to Clermont-Ganneau; they served to indicate the town limits of Gezer, beyond which it was forbidden to pass on the Sabbath. The sarcophagus bears the short legend <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p444003.jpg" />, which is repeated in Syriac. The queen or princess <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p444004.jpg" /> here referred to has been identified as the princess Helena of Adiabene, who is said to have settled in Jerusalem about the year 40 of the common era. From the fact that it preserves the oldest Syriac inscription known this bilingual stone possesses additional value. Several fragmentary inscriptions found in Jerusalem and vicinity may be assigned to the first centuries of the common era (Chwolson, Plate I., Nos. 3, 4, 7, 9). To the third and fourth centuries belong the inscriptions found in the synagogues of Kefr-Bir'im in Galilee, northwest of Safed; see illustration on following page.</paratext><br />
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<paratext>Older even than these are the inscriptions over the Synagogue in Palmyra, which contain the Shema'. (See Plate II., col. 7; compare S. Landauer in "Sitzungsberichte der Berliner Academie," 1884, p. 933, and Ph. Berger, "Histoire de l'Écriture," 2d ed., p. 259.) The characters on the walls of the catacombs of Venosa are also very old, and belong probably to the period between the second and the fifth centuries; most of them are painted in red lead. Till now the oldest gravestones have been found in Italy (compare Ascoli, "Iscrizioni Inedite o Mal Note Grecche, Latine, Hebraiche di Antichi Sepolcri Giudaici," in the "Transactions" of the fourth Oriental Congress in Florence, published at Turin and Rome, 1880, and also "C. I. H." No. 24 <i>et seq.</i>). See Plate III., cols. 7 and 8.</paratext><illustration><externalelements></externalelements></illustration><br />
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<source></source>(From "C. I. S." ii. 156.)<br />
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<paratext>The number of inscriptions relating to this period is very small, and their contents are of little importance. Owing to the many upheavals which took place, notably in Palestine, during this interval, much epigraphic material was undoubtedly destroyed, though it is certain that if very many monuments had been produced the existing remains would have been much greater. From the mode of execution it would appear that then there was not much activity in epigraphic work, for the script seems to come from inexperienced, clumsy hands. Compared with it, the de-degree of perfection to which the Palmyrene script had arrived is striking, though this in essence is the same as the Hebrew square script (compare Plate II., col. 7). The Nabatean alphabet also in a comparatively short period developed into a smooth and pleasing cursive, due entirely to the repeated effort to connect the letters with each other. The connection of single characters in words occurred even in the inscriptions of the Bene Ḥezir, but the general acceptance of ligature was systematically opposed. Such<pagebreak id="P010445">at least was the case with the text of the Holy Scripture, as is proven by testimony of Men. 29<i>a</i> ("Any letter not entirely surrounded by clear parchment on all four sides is unlawful"). This injunction has not been barren of effect; for, despite the various modifications through which the Hebrew Alphabet has passed, of all the Semitic systems of letters it has departed least from its fundamental form. Nothing alters the individuality of the letters so much as the use of ligature, because the little stroke which serves to unite the letters is often made too important a factor, so that the letter sometimes is merged entirely in it. This is most clearly exemplified in modern Arabic.</pagebreak></paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Ornamentation of Letters.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>As has already been remarked, specimens of writing from the oldest periods are afforded only by inscriptions; there are no manuscripts. And yet it may be safely asserted that toward the end of the ancient period the holy books were written substantially as now. A passage in the Talmud even declares that those small "ornaments," as they are called, the three <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445001.jpg" /> or <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445002.jpg" /> placed over the seven letters <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445003.jpg" />, were at the time not only customary but obligatory (Men. 29<i>b</i>). Whether written with ו or י, these signs were originally nothing more than ornaments which accidentally took the form of <i>Zayin</i>, and the letters which received them were simply all those which ended in a perpendicular stroke; for the heads that they now possess are of a later origin. At first they may have been nothing but thicker points, such as were made to terminate the strokes of the Samaritan ornamental writing (compare Plate I., col. 10), and since the great majority of the letters begin with a horizontal stroke, habit may have led the writer to add a small horizontal stroke to the others. ו and י are not included in the letters <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445006.jpg" />, because the stroke at the top is a part of their original form (see Plate III., col. 2); hence these two letters did not receive any of the <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445007.jpg" />. (For further information concerning the <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445008.jpg" /> and the <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445009.jpg" /> of the letters compare J. Derenbourg's work cited in Bibliography, § 9, end of this article.) There is this further possibility, that these marks are dia-critical. It may readily be supposed that ז received such a mark in order to distinguish it from ו and י; נ, to avoid confusion with כ; still this hypothesis is not tenable for all the letters. It would be just as difficult to determine why ק, ה, ד, ב, and in many manuscripts the letters י and ח, should receive a <i>zayin</i>. (For the form of the letters with these <i>zayinin</i> in modern German manuscripts, see Plate IV., col. 7.) It is certain that <i>Ḥet</i> received its "roof" (Men. 29<i>a</i>; compare also col. 24) solely in order to differentiate it from ה.</paratext><illustration><externalelements><br />
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</div><illustration><icaption><sc>Synagogue Inscription at Kefr Biri'm.</sc></icaption> </illustration><br />
<source></source>(From "C. I. H." p. 17.)<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445005.jpg" />("May peace abide within this [holy] place and in all [holy] places of Israel! Jose ha-Levi, son of Levi, erected this lintel; blessing attend his works (?) !")<br />
<paratext>As regards the names given to the Hebrew alphabets at the time of the Mishnah and the Gemara, the name <i>ketab 'Ibri</i> (Hebrew writing) needs no further explanation. Perhaps Rabbi Jose may be correct in his explanation of the term <i>ketab Ashuri</i> as the name for the modern script; according to him <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445010.jpg" /> is equivalent to Ασσυρία, Συρία, and <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445011.jpg" /> therefore meant Syriac, Aramaic. Of interest also is an expression of Rabbi Judah which shows that the contrast between the straight lines and stiffness of the Aramaic, as compared with the angular irregularity of the Samaritan, was considered quite striking.</paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Names for Hebrew Script.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2><quote></quote></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>Much more difficult to understand are the other names for the Hebrew script: <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445012.jpg" /> and <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445013.jpg" />; for <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445014.jpg" /> the reading <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445015.jpg" /> most often occurs, denoting the "broken" script. Again, in Stade's "Zeitschrift," i. 336, G. Hoffmann, referring to this appellation, says that in Epiphanius ("De Gemmis," xii. 63) this same script is called "deession," "deessenon," consequently <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445016.jpg" /> would be the correct reading; and according to Hoffmann also, <i>ketab Da'aẓ</i> meant first styliform script, and afterward script (used on coins). Both Hoffmann and Halévy ("Mélanges de Critique et d'Histoire," p. 435, Paris, 1883) recognize in <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445017.jpg" /> an adjective from the name of some locality. The former, with R. Hananeel in the Tosafot, adopts the reading <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445018.jpg" /> for the place (north of Neapolis), while the latter reads <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445019.jpg" /> (Neapolis). Since R. Ḥisda was a Babylonian it is quite conceivable that he was unacquainted with the Samaritan alphabet, and that he regarded the ancient forms as identical with those found upon the clay tablets—<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445020.jpg" />. This opinion of R. Ḥisda may have been strengthened by the existence of the name <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p445021.jpg" />. According to R. Nathan, who was likewise a Babylonian, the theory might be held that ketab Da'aẓ stood for styliform, incisive, or cuneiform text. Though this form of writing may not have been practised at this time, yet, both then and later, the rubbish of the old ruins supplied in numbers clay tablets covered with these characters, sufficient to perpetuate the knowledge that this was the form of the ancient script. A mention of the clay tablet inscriptions may be found even in the Fihrist of the An-Nadîm, composed in the year 987 (compare M. Jastrow, Jr., in "Zeit. f. Assyi." x. 99).</paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Influence of Ligature.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>Owing to the inflexible rules governing the writing of the Torah rolls there could not be any material variation in the form of their letters. The great importance, however, which was attached to these manuscripts led to great care in the execution of the characters; the scribes strove to produce the most beautiful effect so far as could be done within the prescribed limitations. In the case of alphabets having a highly developed system of ligature, like the Arabic, the writer might obtain good results by artistic grouping of letters, but in a block text, such as the Hebrew, in which every letter must be strictly separated, efforts in the direction of ornamentation were confined to the individual letter. Hence the Hebrew script followed the same development undergone previously by the Palmyrene. Even at the early period when the Aramaic alphabet branched out into the Hebraic, Palmyrene, and Arabic, the symbols had an almost rectangular form (compare Lidzbarski, "Handbuch," Table XXVI., col. 4), and developed until the characters became almost perfect squares, and thus formed the <i>ketab merubba'</i> ("square writing").</paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Influence of Writing Material.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>From the earliest days, throughout West Asia writing was done with the calamus, imported in most cases from Egypt. Since this reed was easily<pagebreak id="P010446">broken it was not found practical to make too sharp a point, and this circumstance resulted in producing an instrument analogous to the modern stub pen, which gave the characters in all texts of West Asia the form of a "round hand." The heavy and light strokes in the letters alternate in such a manner that gradually the horizontal strokes become heavy, while the perpendicular ones naturally diminish in thickness. Such a modification took place in the Hebrew, and all the horizontal strokes were made thick. As has been remarked above, the scribes, probably from force of habit, added even to the letters beginning with upright stems a short thin stroke quite similar to the little ornaments on the letters <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p446001.jpg" />. The reed pen ("habilis calamus") glided easily over the surface. Consequently, wherever it was used as an instrument for writing—that is, in Saracen lands—the characters, in spite of being in the square form, show a tendency to roundness, the vertical strokes at the same time becoming more or less inclined at an angle. In the Occident, however, the quill was used, which offered a similar obstacle to sharp pointing, and as a consequence it assumed in its results much the character of the calamus. On the other hand, the walls of the quill are much thinner than those of the reed; and this gave rise to an appreciable difference between the pen-stroke and one made by the calamus. The ability of the quill to retain a sharper nib adapted it especially to the finer strokes of the letters, but its comparative flexibility led more easily to the breaking of the lines. Again, since the nibs of the quill pen parted very easily, in fact spread so far asunder that the ink failed to fill out the space between them, distinct scratches would sometimes make their appearance at the beginning, or sometimes at the end, of a thick stroke. In the Saracenic, or, as they were called, Sephardic (Spanish) lands the Hebrew Alphabet is distinguished for its roundness, for the small difference between the thickness of the horizontal and upright strokes as well as for the inclined position of the letters. The script of the Christian Occident—called Ashkenazic from the Hebrew name for Germany, where the Jews were the most populous—shows sharper corners, thinner upright stems, broken and pointed lines. Several minor peculiarities arose also in the letters ג, צ, ק.</pagebreak></paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Local Variations of Script.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>Within the range of these distinct features, in different countries various gradations and transitions occur; thus the characters used by the Jews of Southern France and Italy, owing to their proximity to the Jews of Spain, and those used by the Greek Jews, owing to their relations with their Oriental coreligionists, assumed a rounder form than the strictly Ashkenazic. The Ashkenazic alphabets may be divided, therefore, into a German, a northern and a southern French (<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p446002.jpg" />); an Italian (<img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p446003.jpg" /> <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p446004.jpg" />), and a Greek branch. Among the Sephardim there are fewer variations noticeable, yet it is possible to distinguish in the Sephardic alphabet variations due to North African, Palestinian, and Babylonian-Persian Jews. The same script used for the Torah rolls is employed for the rest of the Biblical books or other important works, only in this case the <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p446005.jpg" /> and the roof of the <i>Ḥet</i> are omitted. In other works, however, embellishments and flourishes occur which were strictly prohibited in the preparation of the Torah. These ornamentations were influenced by the miniature illuminations used by Christians, and sometimes even artists of that faith were employed. Two works, freely used among the people, were thus especially illuminated, the Megillah (Book of Esther) and the Haggadah for Passover.</paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>The "Ketibah Tammah."</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>In the St. Petersburg Imperial Public Library may be found the oldest Hebrew Bible manuscript extant. It dates from 916-917, and the letters are in general the same as those made now, though several slight modifications appear. Thus in ד and ה the horizontal line projects to the right over the upright, besides in ה and in ק the left stem hangs from the cross beam. י is comparatively long, but ו not longer than the other letters (see Plate IV., col. 1). One or two centuries earlier is the manuscript of Ecclesiasticus discovered in Egypt, in which all these characteristics are wanting, but the very peculiar width of the lower part in ש may be noted (<i>ib.</i> col. 2). Columns 3, 4, and 5 in Plate IV. exhibit other Oriental alphabets; those of the Ashkenazim may be illustrated by specimens from illuminated German manuscripts. For the former, compare cols. 1-5; col. 6, in which the cusped letters predominate, is taken from a German Seliḥot manuscript of the thirteenth or fourteenth century (Steinschneider, "Verzeichniss der Hebr. Handschriften," Berlin, i. 4, 9; Tab. ii. 3). The more secular the work, the less importance was attached to it, and the less care was taken that the execution of its letters should conform to the rules set down for the writing of the Holy Scriptures, and be, as it was called, a <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p446006.jpg" /> (see Sifre on Deut. xxxvi. <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p446007.jpg" />). In the Talmud (Shab. 103b) <i>ketibah tammah</i> means simply "correct" script, but later it was applied to the square as opposed to the cursive alphabet; thus Maimonides' statement (compare Steinschneider, "Vorlesungen über Hebräische Handschriften," p. 29), that the ketab tam designates the German square script as compared with the Oriental, seems to rest on an error.</paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Transliteration of Foreign Languages.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>Still less care was taken in the execution of the letters in cases where the text transcribed was not even Hebrew. For though it is true that within their own country the Jews, in exchanging their language for that of another nation, adopted also the alphabet of that nation, yet, throughout the Diaspora, the vernacular of the country, which was invariably adopted by the Jews, was written by them with Hebrew characters. So that, whether the vernacular be German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Persian, or even Tatar, as is the case with the Karaites of Southern Russia, the Hebrew was the alphabet used. Accordingly there grew up in coexistence with the square a cursive script, the tendency of which was to give the letters such forms as would permit their being more easily and rapidly made. But the mandate against the use of the ligature in connection with the writing of the sacred texts was powerful enough to influence the development of this system of writing also; for the ligature occurs comparatively seldom even in the cursive script. Thus a most potent factor in the transformation of the alphabet was held in restraint.</paratext><br />
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<paratext>The primal difference between the two alphabets, square and cursive, was size. In unimportant works the lettering, for economy's sake, was small; such was also the case with marginal or explanatory notes. The former was called <i>ketibah gassah</i>, or "large script"; the smaller characters were known as <i>ketibah daḲḲah</i> or <i>Ḳeṭannah</i>, "small script" (compare Steinschneider, <i>l.c.</i>, note 1, and Löw, "Graphische Requisiten," p. 73, where still other names for the various styles of script may be found). Through greater carelessness and haste in writing, the corners<pagebreak id="P010447">of the square letters became somewhat rounded, and the heads were made smaller or disappeared altogether; later on, distinct modifications took place in some of the letters.</pagebreak></paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>Cursive Script.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>The brief inscriptions daubed in red ink upon the walls of the catacombs of Venosa are probably the oldest examples of cursive script. Still longer texts in a cursive alphabet are furnished by the clay bowls found in Babylonia and bearing exorcisms against magical influences and evil spirits (see Bibliography 10). These no doubt date from the seventh or eighth century, and some of the letters are written in a form that is very antiquated (Plate V., col. 1). Somewhat less of a cursive nature is the manuscript, which dates from the eighth century (see Bibliography 11). Cols. 2-14 exhibit cursive scripts of various countries and centuries. The differences visible in the square alphabets are much more apparent. For instance, the Sephardic rounds off still more, and, as in Arabic, there is a tendency to run the lower lines to the left, whereas the Ashkenazic script appears cramped and disjointed. Instead of the little ornaments at the upper ends of the stems, in the letters <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p447002.jpg" /> a more or less weak flourish of the line appears. For the rest the cursive of the Codices remains fairly true to the square text. Documents of a private nature were certainly written in a much more running hand, as the sample from one of the oldest Arabic epistles written with Hebrew letters (tenth century?) clearly shows in the papyrus, in "Führer durch die Ausstellung," Table XIX., Vienna, 1894, (compare Plate V., col. 4). But since the preservation of such epistles was not held to be of importance, material of this nature from the earlier times is very scarce, and as a consequence the development of the script is very hard to follow. The last two columns of Plate V. exhibit the German cursive script of a later date. The next to the last is taken from a manuscript of Elias Levita. The accompanying specimen presents Sephardic script. In this flowing cursive alphabet the ligatures appear more often. They occur especially in letters which have a sharp turn to the left (ג, ז, כ, נ, צ, ח), and above all in נ, whose great open bow offers ample space for another letter.</paratext><illustration><externalelements><br />
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</div><illustration><externalelements> </externalelements></illustration><paratext>The following are the successive stages in the development of each letter: <i>Aleph</i> is separated into two parts, the first being written thus <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p447003.jpg" />, and the perpendicular stroke placed at the left <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p447004.jpg" />. In the modern German cursive these two elements are separated, thus ׀c, and the acute angle was rounded. It received also an abbreviated form connected with the favorite old ligature <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p447005.jpg" />, and it is to this ligature of <i>Aleph</i> and <i>Lamed</i> that the contracted Oriental <i>Aleph</i> owes its origin (Plate V., col. 7). In writing <i>Bet</i>, the lower part necessitated an interruption, and to overcome this obstacle it was made <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p447006.jpg" />, and, with the total omission of the whole lower line, <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p447007.jpg" />. In <i>Gimel</i>, the left-hand stroke is lengthened more and more. <i>Dalet</i> had its stroke put on obliquely to distinguish it from <i>Resh</i>; however, since in rapid writing it easily assumed a form similar in appearance to ר, ד in analogy with ב was later changed to <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p447008.jpg" />. A transformation very similar to this took place in the cases of final <i>Kaph</i> and of <i>ḳ;oph</i> (see cols. 2, 5, 11, 14), except that <i>ḳ;oph</i> opened out a trifle more than <i>Kaph</i>. The lower part of <i>Zayin</i> was bent sharply to the right and received a little hook at the bottom. The left-hand stroke of <i>Ṭet</i> was lengthened. <i>Lamed</i> gradually lost its semicircle until (as in both the Nabatæan-Arabic and Syriac<pagebreak id="P010448">systems) it became a simple stroke, which was bent sharply toward the right in the most modern cursive script. Final <i>Mem</i> branches out at the bottom, and in its latest stage is drawn out either to the left or straight down. In <i>Samek</i> the same development also took place, but it afterward became again a simple circle. In order to write <i>'Ayin</i> without removing the pen from the surface, its two strokes were joined with a curl. The two <i>Pe'</i>s spread out in a marked flourish. As to <i>Ẓade</i> the right-hand head is made longer, at first only to a small degree, but later on to a considerable extent. In the beginning <i>Shin</i> develops similarly to the same letter in the Nabatæan, but afterward the central stroke is lengthened upward, like the right arm of <i>Ẓade</i>, and finally it is joined with the left stroke, and the first stroke is left off altogether. The letters ה, ד, ח, ן, נ, ר, ת, have undergone little modification: they have been rounded out and simplified by the omission of the heads.</pagebreak></paratext><br />
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<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2><b>"Rashi" Script.</b></articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>When printing was introduced, the selection of a style of type depended upon the same conditions as in the case of the execution of manuscripts. Square or block letters were cast for biblical and other important works; in the various countries different models for letters were often followed; one form was preferred at one time, another at another; however, the style selected by the Ashkenazim prevailed and maintained its preeminence over all the others. Books of a secondary character, works which accompanied another text, such as commentaries and the like, were printed in the cursive; and here a style of type became popular which very closely resembled the Hispano-African cursive (compare Plate IV., col. 9). Since the script occurs oftenest in commentaries on the Bible and the Talmud by Rashi, it has become known as the Rashi script. For the printing of Judæo-German texts, a further development of the Ashkenazi alphabet, called "Weiber-Deutsch," has been created (compare Plate V., col. 13; see Bibliography 12).</paratext><br />
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<bibliographyitem><heading>3. Moabite Stone:</heading> </bibliographyitem><br />
<source></source><name><lastname>Lidzbarski</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Handbuch der Nordsemitischen Epigraphik</i></origin>, <pages>i. 39</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, with the numerous works on the inscription, of which the following are the most prominent: <name><firstname>Ch.</firstname> <lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, <origin><i>La Stèle de Dhiban ou Stèle de Mesa, Roi de Moab</i></origin>, Paris, <date>1870</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Th.</firstname> <lastname>Nöldeke</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Die Inschrift des Königs Mesa von Moab</i></origin>, Kiel, <date>1870</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>K.</firstname> <lastname>Schlottmann</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Die Siegessäule Mesa's, Königs der Moabiter</i></origin>, Halle, <date>1870</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>R.</firstname> <lastname>Smend</lastname></name> and <name><firstname>A.</firstname> <lastname>Socin</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Die Inschrift des Königs Mesa von Moab</i></origin>, Freiburg, <pages>i.</pages> B. <date>1886</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Ch.</firstname> <lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, <origin><i>La Stèle de Mesa</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Journal Asiatique</i></origin>, series viii., <pages>vol. ix. 72</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>A.</firstname> <lastname>Nordlander</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Die Inschrift des Königs Mesa von Moab</i></origin>, Leipsic, <date>1896</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>A.</firstname> <lastname>Socin</lastname></name> and <name><firstname>H.</firstname> <lastname>Holzinger</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Zur Mesainschrift, Berichte über die Verhandlung der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaft zu Leipzig</i></origin>, <date>1897</date>, pp. <pages>171</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>M.</firstname> <lastname>Lidzbarski</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Eine Nachprüfung der Mesainschrift</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Ephemeris für Semitische Epigraphik</i></origin>, <pages>i. 1</pages> <i>et seq.</i><br />
<bibliographyitem><heading>4. Siloam Inscription:</heading> </bibliographyitem><br />
<source></source><name><firstname>E.</firstname> <lastname>Kautzsch</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Die Siloahinschrift</i></origin> in <origin><i>Zeit. Deutsch. Paläst. Ver.</i></origin> <pages>iv. 102</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>260</pages> <i>et seq.</i> (with reproductions by <name><firstname>C.</firstname> <lastname>Schick</lastname></name> and <name><firstname>A.</firstname> <lastname>Socin</lastname></name>); <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>H.</firstname> <lastname>Guthe</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Die Siloahinschrift</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Z. D. M. G.</i></origin> <pages>xxxvi. 725</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>E.</firstname> <middlename>J.</middlename> <lastname>Pilcher</lastname></name>, <origin><i>The Date of the Siloam Inscription</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Proceedings Soc. Bibl. Arch.</i></origin> <pages>xix. 165</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>C.</firstname> <middlename>R.</middlename> <lastname>Conder</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Date of the Siloam Text</i></origin>, ib. pp. <pages>204</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>E.</firstname> <middlename>J.</middlename> <lastname>Pilcher</lastname></name> and <name><firstname>E.</firstname> <lastname>Davis</lastname></name>, <origin><i>On the Date of the Siloam Inscription</i></origin> in <origin><i>Pal. Explor. Fund, Quarterly Statement</i></origin>, <date>1898</date>, pp. <pages>56</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>76</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Ch.</firstname> <lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, <i>ib.</i> pp. <pages>158-167</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>A.</firstname> <lastname>Socin</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Die Siloahinschrift</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Zeit. Deutsch. Paläst. Ver.</i></origin> <pages>xxii. 61</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>M.</firstname> <lastname>Lidzbarski</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Zur Siloahinschrift</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Ephemeris</i></origin>, <pages>i. 52</pages> <i>et seq.</i><br />
<bibliographyitem><heading>5. Inscriptions on Seals:</heading></bibliographyitem><br />
<source></source><name><firstname>M.</firstname> <middlename>A.</middlename> <lastname>Levy</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Siegel und Gemmen mit Aramäischen, Phönizischen, Althebräischen . . . Inschriften</i></origin>, Breslau, <date>1869</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Ch.</firstname> <lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Sceaux et Cachets Israélites, Phéniciens, et Syriens</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Journal Asiatique</i></origin>, <date>1883</date>, <pages>i. 123</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>506</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>ii. 304</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Le Sceau de Obadyahau, Fonctionnaire Royal Israélite</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Revue Archéologique</i></origin>, series iii., <pages>vol. v. 1</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Nouvelles Intailles à Légendes Semitiques, Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions</i></origin>, <date>1892</date>, pp. <pages>274</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <date>1894</date>, pp. <pages>131</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Ph.</firstname> <lastname>Berger</lastname></name>, <i>ib.</i> p. <pages>340</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Ch.</firstname> <lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Le Sceau de Adoniphelet</i></origin> in <origin><i>Études d'Archéologie Orientale</i></origin>, <pages>i. 85</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>R.</firstname> <lastname>Brünnow</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Mitteilungen des Deutsch. Paläst. Ver.</i></origin> <date>1896</date>, pp. <pages>4</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, pp. <pages>21</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Ch.</firstname> <lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Un Nouveau Cachet Archaique</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Revue Archéologique</i></origin>, series iii., <pages>vol. xxviii. 348</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>E.</firstname> <lastname>Sachau</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Aramäische Inschriften</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Sitzungsbericht der Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften</i></origin>, <date>1896</date>, p. <pages>1064</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>B.</firstname> <lastname>Stade</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Vier im Jahre 1896 Publizirte Altsemitische Siegelsteine</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Zeitschrift der Alttestamentlicher Wissenschaft</i></origin>, <pages>xvii. 204</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>A.</firstname> <middlename>H.</middlename> <lastname>Sayce</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Note on the Seal Found at Ophel</i></origin> in <origin><i>Pal. Explor. Fund, Quarterly Statement</i></origin>, <date>1897</date>, p. <pages>181</pages> <i>et seq.</i>;<br />
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<source></source>further communications by <name><lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, <name><lastname>Pilcher</lastname></name>, and <name><lastname>Sayce</lastname></name>, <i>ib.</i> pp.<pages>304</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des Inscriptions</i></origin>, <date>1897</date>, pp. <pages>374</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Revue Biblique</i></origin>, <pages>vi. 597</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Ch.</firstname> <lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Le Sceau de Elamas, Fils de Elichou</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Revue Archéologique</i></origin>, series iii., <pages>vol. xxx. 244</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Cachet Israélite aux Noms de Ahaz et de Pekhai, Recueil</i></origin> <pages>ii. 16</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Cachet Israélite Archaique aux Noms d'Ishmael et Pedayahou</i></origin>, ib. pp. <pages>251-253</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Comptes-rendus</i></origin>, <date>1898</date>, p. <pages>812</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Lidzbarski</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Handbuch</i></origin>, p. <pages>486</pages>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Ch.</firstname> <lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Sceau Israélite au Nom d'Abigaïl, Femme de 'Asayahou, Recueil</i></origin> <pages>iii. 157</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Quatre Nouveaux Sceaux à Légendes Sémitiques</i></origin>, ib. pp. <pages>188</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Lidzbarski</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Ephemeris</i></origin>, <pages>i. 10</pages> <i>et seq.</i><br />
<bibliographyitem><heading>6. Coin Inscriptions:</heading> </bibliographyitem><br />
<source></source><name><firstname>M.</firstname> <middlename>A.</middlename> <lastname>Levy</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Gesch. der Jüd. Münzen, Leipsic</i></origin>, <date>1862</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Fr.</firstname> <lastname>Madden</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Coins of the Jews</i></origin>, London, <date>1881</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Th.</firstname> <lastname>Reinach</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Les Monnaies Juives</i></origin>, Paris, <date>1887</date>.<br />
<bibliographyitem><heading>7. Zendgirli or Sinjirli Inscriptions:</heading> </bibliographyitem><br />
<source></source><origin><i>Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli, Ausgeführt und Herausgegeben im Auftrage des Orient-Comité's zu Berlin</i></origin>, <pages>i.</pages>, Berlin, <date>1893</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>J.</firstname> <lastname>Halévy</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Deux Inscriptions Sémitiques de Zindjirli in Revue Sémitique</i></origin>, <pages>i. 77</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Les Deux Inscriptions Hétéennes de Zindjirli</i></origin>, ib. pp. <pages>138</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>218</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>319</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>ii. 25</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>D.</firstname> <middlename>H.</middlename> <lastname>Müller</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Die Altsemitischen Inschriften von Sendschirli</i></origin>, in <origin><i>W. Z. K. M.</i></origin> <pages>iii. 33</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>113</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Th.</firstname> <lastname>Nöldeke</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Bemerkungen zu den Aramäischen Inschriften von Sendschirli</i></origin> in <origin><i>Z. D. M. G.</i></origin> <pages>xlvii. 96</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>J.</firstname> <lastname>Halévy</lastname></name>, <origin><i>La Première Inscription de Bar Rekoub, Revue et Corrigée, in Rev. Sém.</i></origin> <pages>iv. 185</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>D.</firstname> <middlename>H.</middlename> <lastname>Müller</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Die Bauinschriften des Bar-rekub</i></origin>, in <origin><i>W. Z. K. M.</i></origin> <pages>x. 193</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>E.</firstname> <lastname>Sachau</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Aramäische Inschriften</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Sitzungsberichte der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften</i></origin>, <date>1896</date>, pp. <pages>1051</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>M.</firstname> <lastname>Lidzbarski</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Handbuch</i></origin>, <pages>i. 440</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>ii.</pages> tables xxii.-xxiv.<br />
<bibliographyitem><heading>8. Aramaic Inscriptions:</heading> </bibliographyitem><br />
<source></source><name><firstname>Ch.</firstname> <lastname>Clermont-Ganneau</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Les Stèles Araméennes de Neirab</i></origin>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Études d'Archéologie Orientale</i></origin>, <pages>ii. 182</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Album, d'Antiquités Orientales</i></origin>, tables i., <pages>ii.</pages> Paris, <date>1897</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>G.</firstname> <lastname>Hoffmann</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Aramäische Inschriften aus Nerab bei Aleppo</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Journal Asiatique</i></origin>, <pages>xi. 20</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>M.</firstname> <lastname>Lidzbarski</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Handbuch</i></origin>, <pages>i. 445, ii.</pages> table xxv.<br />
<bibliographyitem><heading>9. Letter Ornaments:</heading> </bibliographyitem><br />
<source></source><name><firstname>Sefer</firstname> <lastname>Taghin</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Liber Coronularum . . .</i></origin> ed. <name><firstname>J.</firstname> <middlename>J. L.</middlename> <lastname>Bargès</lastname></name>, Paris, <date>1866</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Derenbourg</lastname></name>, in <origin><i>Journal Asiatique</i></origin>, series vi., <pages>vol. ix. 246</pages> <i>et seq.</i><br />
<bibliographyitem><heading>10. Hebrew Inscriptions:</heading> </bibliographyitem><br />
<source></source><origin><i>Corpus Inscriptionum Hebraicarum</i></origin>, cols. 18-21; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Babelon</lastname></name> and <name><lastname>Schwab</lastname></name>, in <origin><i>Rev. Ét. Juives</i></origin>, <pages>iv. 165</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Hyvernat</lastname></name>, in <origin><i>Zeitschrift für Keilschriftforschung</i></origin>, <pages>ii. 113</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Grünbaum</lastname></name>, <i>ib.</i> pp. <pages>217</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Nöldeke</lastname></name>, <i>ib.</i> pp. <pages>295</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Schwab</lastname></name>, in <origin><i>Revue d'Assyriologie</i></origin>, <pages>i. 117</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>ii. 136</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>Proceedings Soc. Bibl. Arch.</i></origin> <pages>xii. 292</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>xiii. 583</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Harkavy</lastname></name>, in <origin><i>"Zapiski"</i></origin> of the Oriental section of the Petersburg Archæol. Society, <pages>iv. 83</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Lacau</lastname></name>, in <origin><i>Revue d'Assyriologie</i></origin>, <pages>iii. 49</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Wohlstein</lastname></name>, in <origin><i>Zeit. f. Assyr.</i></origin> <pages>viii. 313</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>ix. 11</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Fränkel</lastname></name>, <i>ib.</i> <pages>ix. 308</pages> <i>et seq.</i><br />
<bibliographyitem><heading>11. Hebrew Papyri:</heading> </bibliographyitem><br />
<source></source><name><lastname>Steinschneider</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Hebräische Papyrusfragmente aus dem Fayyum</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Aegyptische Zeitschrift</i></origin>, <pages>xvii. 93</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, and table vii.; <br />
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<source></source><origin><i>C. I. H.</i></origin> cols. 120 <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Erman</lastname></name> and <name><lastname>Krebs</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Aus den Papyrus der Königlichen Museen</i></origin>, p. <pages>290</pages>, Berlin, <date>1899</date>. <br />
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<source></source>For the Hebrew papyri in <origin><i>The Collection of Erzherzog Rainer</i></origin>, see <name><firstname>D.</firstname> <middlename>H.</middlename> <lastname>Müller</lastname></name> and <name><firstname>D.</firstname> <lastname>Kaufmann</lastname></name>, in <origin><i>Mitteilungen aus der Sammlung der Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer</i></origin>, <pages>i. 38</pages>, and in <origin><i>Führer durch die Sammlung</i></origin>, etc. pp. <pages>261</pages> <i>et seq.</i><illustration idoptional="P010449"><heading> </heading></illustration><br />
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</div><illustration idoptional="P010449"><heading> PLATE I. OLD HEBREW AND SAMARITAN ALPHABETS.</heading></illustration><br />
<articlemajorsection><articlesubheadinglevel1><sc>Plate</sc> I.</articlesubheadinglevel1></articlemajorsection><br />
<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2>(Old Hebrew and Samaritan.)</articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>1. Mesha Stone. 2. Seals and Gems; see Bibliography and Lidzbarski, <i>Handbuch</i>, Plates iii. 1, xlvi. 3. Siloam Inscription. 4-6. Coins, according to Madden. 7. Inscription from 'Amudas. 8-9. Inscriptions from the fifth century; compare Lidzbarski, <i>Handbuch</i>, i. 440; and Berger, <i>Histoire de l'Écriture</i>, 2d ed., pp. 200 <i>et seq.</i> 10. Samaritan-Pentateuch Manuscript of the year 1219, Hebrew and Arabic, according to the <i>Oriental series</i>, vol. xxviii. in the <i>Publications of the Paleographical Society.</i></paratext><br />
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<articlemajorsection><articlesubheadinglevel1><sc>Plate</sc> II.</articlesubheadinglevel1></articlemajorsection><br />
<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2>(Origin and Development of the Hebrew Square Alphabet.)</articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>1. Inscriptions of Zenjirli. 2. Inscriptions of Nerab. 3. Inscriptions on weights and clay tablets. 4. Inscriptions from Asia Minor; compare Lidzbarski, <i>Handbuch</i>, i. 446; and <i>Ephemeris</i>, i. 59 <i>et seq.</i> 5. Inscriptions from Arabia; see <i>C. I. S.</i> ii. 113-115. 6. Inscriptions and papyri from Egypt, <i>C. I. S.</i> ii. 122 <i>et seq.</i> 7-8. Palmyrene inscriptions; compare Lidzbarski, <i>Handbuch</i>, ii., plate xxvii. <i>et seq.</i></paratext><br />
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<articlemajorsection><articlesubheadinglevel1><sc>Plate</sc> III.</articlesubheadinglevel1></articlemajorsection><br />
<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2>(Ancient Hebrew Inscriptions.)</articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>1. Inscription from 'Araḳ-el-Emir. 2. Inscriptions on ossuaries, according to <i>C. I. H.</i> plate iv. 193. 3. <i>C. I. H.</i> 2 (Gezer) and 3. 4. <i>C. I. H.</i> 6 (Bene Ḥezir) and 8 (Gaza). 5. 17 (Kefr Biraim). 6. Inscriptions from Palmyra. 7. Inscriptions on the Catacombs of Venosa. 8. Tumulary inscriptions from Brindisi, seventh century. 9. Tumulary inscriptions from Aden, 66.</paratext><br />
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<articlemajorsection><articlesubheadinglevel1><sc>Plate</sc> IV.</articlesubheadinglevel1></articlemajorsection><br />
<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2>(Manuscript Writing.)</articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>1. Babylonian Codex of the Prophets in St. Petersburg. 2. Manuscript of Sirach. 3. Pentateuch with Targum from Babylonia or Persia, twelfth century, British Museum, Oriental, 1467. (According to Paleographical Society, Oriental series liv.) 4. Manuscript of the Prophets, from Persia, Babylonia, or Southern Arabia, twelfth century, British Museum, Harl. MS. 5720 (Paleographical Society, Oriental series xl.). 5. Hafṭarot with the Targum Jonathan from Southern Arabia from the year 1484. 6. Hagiographa with Rashi. German (Ashkenazi), of the year 1347. Cambridge University Library, Ee 5, 9 (Paleographical Society, Oriental series xli.). 7. Modern German script of the nineteenth century with ornamental flourishes or strokes. 8. Papyri from Egypt. 9. MS. alphabet of the TaḦamonim (African Sephardic) of 1282. British Museum, Additional Manuser, of 27113 (Paleographical Society, Oriental series lv.). 10. <i>Sefer ha-Mishḳol</i> written at Mustaghanem (Algeria), in 1363-64. Cambridge University Libr., Cod. 11. 22 (Paleographical Society, Oriental series xxx.). 11. See 5. 12. Epigraph from a Karaite Pentateuch roll from Theodosia (Crimea), about 1325 (<i>C. I. H.</i> 138). 13. Rashi on Baba Meẓi'a, written probably at Mosul (betraying the influence of a Greek-Ashkenazi hand) in 1190. British Museum, Oriental, 73. (According to Paleographical Society series xv.). 14. Talmud Yerushalmi, written at Rome in 1288-89 (Italian-Ashkenazi hand). Leyden University Library. Cod. Hebr. Sealiger 3. (Paleographical Society, Oriental series lvi.) 15. Menahem, <i>MaḦberot,</i> probably written in France in 1091 (French-Ashkenazi type). British Museum, Additional Manuser. of 27214. (According to the Paleographical Society, Oriental series xiii.) 16. <i>Semak</i>, copied by R. Moses of Zurich (French-Ashkenazi), in 1401. Cambridge University Library, Additional Manuser. No. 560 (Paleographical Society, Oriental series lxviii.). 17. See 6.</paratext><br />
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<articlemajorsection><articlesubheadinglevel1><sc>Plate</sc> V.</articlesubheadinglevel1></articlemajorsection><br />
<articleminorsection><articlesubheadinglevel2>(Cursive Writing.)</articlesubheadinglevel2></articleminorsection><br />
<paratext>1. Incantation upon Babylonian dish, in <i>C. I. H.</i> 18. 2. Egyptian of the twelfth century. 3. Constantinople, 1506. 4. Tenth century. 5. Spanish, date 1480. 6. Spanish, tenth century. 7. Provençal, tenth century. 8. Italian, tenth century. 9. Greek, dated 1375. 10. Italian, dated 1451. 11. Italian, tenth century. 12. German, tenth century. 13. Eleazer of Worms, <img border="0" src="http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/volume1/V01p454001.jpg" />, copied at Rome in 1515 by Elias Levita, German-Ashkenazic, British Museum, Additional Manuser. of 27199 (Paleographical Society, Oriental series lxxix.). 14. Ashkenazic from the nineteenth century.</paratext><articleautho goto="C010119"><name><firstname>M.</firstname> <lastname><sc>Li</sc>.</lastname></name></articleautho><br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Marquis</firstname> <middlename>de</middlename> <lastname>Vogüé</lastname></name>, <origin><i>L'Alphabet Hébraïque et l'Alphabet Araméen</i></origin>, in <origin><i>Revue Archéologique</i></origin>, new series, <pages>xi. 319</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Ph.</firstname> <lastname>Berger</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Histoire de l'Écriture dans l'Antiquité</i></origin>, 2d ed., pp. <pages>188</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, Paris, <date>1892</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>M.</firstname> <lastname>Lidzbarski</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Handbuch</i></origin>, <pages>i. 183</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, <pages>189</pages> <i>et seq.</i>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>Leop.</firstname> <lastname>Löw</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Graphische Requisiten und Erzeugnisse bei den Juden</i></origin>, <pages>ii. 38</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, Leipsic, <date>1871</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>M.</firstname> <lastname>Steinschneider</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Vorlesungen über die Kunde Hebräischer Handschriften</i></origin>, pp.<pages>27</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, Leipsic, <date>1897</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>De</firstname> <lastname>Wette-Schrader</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Lehrbuch der Historisch-Kritischen Einleitung in das Alte Testament</i></origin>, 8th ed., pp. <pages>185</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, Leipsic, <date>1869</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>B.</firstname> <lastname>Stade</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Lehrbuch der Hebräischen Grammatik</i></origin>, <pages>i. 22</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, Leipsic, <date>1879</date>;<br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Bleek</lastname></name> and <name><lastname>Wellhausen</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Einleitung in das Alte Testament</i></origin>, 5th ed., pp. <pages>580</pages> <i>et seq.</i>, Berlin, <date>1886</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>C.</firstname> <lastname>Schlottmann</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Schrift und Schriftzeichen</i></origin> in <name><lastname>Riehm</lastname></name>'s <origin><i>Handwörterbuch des Biblischen Altertums</i></origin>, 2d ed., pp. <pages>1416</pages> <i>et seq.</i>;<br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>H.</firstname> <middlename>L.</middlename> <lastname>Strack</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Schreibkunst und Schrift bei den Hebräern</i></origin> in <origin><i>Real-Encyklopädie für Protestantische Theologie</i></origin>, 2d ed., <pages>xiii. 690</pages> <i>et seq.</i> <br />
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<source></source>Facsimiles of Hebrew manuscripts may be found in the following works: <name><lastname>Chwolson</lastname></name>, <origin><i>C. I. H.</i></origin> <date>1881</date> <i>et seq.</i>, in <origin><i>Oriental Series</i></origin> of the <origin><i>Publications of the Paleographical Society</i></origin>, London, <date>1875-83</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Steinschneider</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Catalogues of the Hebrew Manuscripts of the Libraries of Leyden</i></origin> (<date>1858</date>), <origin><i>Munich</i></origin> (<date>1875</date>), <origin><i>and Berlin</i></origin>, <pages>i.</pages> (<date>1878</date>); <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Neubauer</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Cat. Bodl. Hebr. MSS.</i></origin> (facsimiles); <br />
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<source></source><name><firstname>B.</firstname> <lastname>Stade</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Gesch. des Volkes Israel</i></origin>, <pages>i.</pages> Berlin, <date>1887</date>. <br />
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<source></source>For a complete bibliography see <name><firstname>M.</firstname> <lastname>Steinschneider</lastname></name> in <origin><i>Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen</i></origin>, <pages>iv. 155</pages> <i>et seq.</i> For tables of alphabets see <origin><i>Publications of the Paleographical Society</i></origin>, lxxxvii. (<name><lastname>Euting</lastname></name>); <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Bickell</lastname></name> and <name><lastname>Curtiss</lastname></name>, <origin><i>Outlines of Hebrew Grammar</i></origin>, Leipsic, <date>1877</date>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Euting</lastname></name>, in <origin><i>Corpus Inscriptionum Hebraicarum</i></origin>; <br />
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<source></source><name><lastname>Neubauer</lastname></name>, <origin><i>The Introduction of the Square Characters</i></origin> (Brünnow).<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><center><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: teal;"><b>THE ALPHABET OF BIBLICAL HEBREW</b></span></span><span style="color: navy;"> </span></div><div style="color: yellow; text-align: left;"><b>This page is an introduction to the alphabet of Hebrew Scripture. </b></div><div style="color: yellow; text-align: left;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="color: yellow; text-align: left;"><b> Hebrew is a Semitic language. The word Semitic comes from the name Shem, named in Genesis (6:10) as the son of Noah , whose descendants lived in the Middle East. Phoenician, Hebrew, and Aramaic are Northwest Semitic languages, and Arabic is Southwest Semitic. All are examples of Semitic languages, which have similar characteristics, such as the presence of guttural letters formed in the pharynx or larynx; a consonantal system with three-letter word roots to connote meaning; and changes in the form or morphology of the word root through the addition of prefixes, infixes, and suffixes to determine the precise sense and function of the word. </b></div><div style="color: yellow;"><b> <br />
</b> </div><div style="color: yellow; text-align: left;"><b>Hebrew was the original language of the Israelites. Hebrew tradition, the Torah itself, as well as Jesus and the New Testament writers name Moses as the divinely inspired author of the Pentateuch (see Genesis and Genesis 3:15). It is believed that Moses lived in the latter part of the second millenium BC (1500-1200 BC). Archeology has yet to discover the precise time that Moses lived and led his people during the Exodus from Egypt, or the actual script utilized by Moses to write the Torah. Furthermore, no original manuscript by the author of any biblical book has yet been discovered! </b></div><div style="color: yellow;"><b> <br />
</b> </div><div style="color: yellow; text-align: left;"><b> Phoenicia (now Lebanon) was a peaceful sea-faring nation expert in navigation and trade that developed their alphabet around 1400 BC in an effort to communicate with their diverse trading partners that encircled the Mediterranean Sea. It was the Phoenician alphabet that was widely received throughout the Mediterranean world, as it was only 22 letters based on sound, as opposed to the myriad of symbols in cuneiform and hieroglyphics prevalent at the time. The Hebrew alphabet known as <i>Ketav Ivri</i> or <i>Paleo-Hebrew</i> was nearly identical to the Phoenician alphabet that follows:</b></div></center></div><br />
<center style="color: yellow;"> <b><img alt="The Phoenician Alphabet, circa 1400 BC." height="408" src="http://biblescripture.net/Alphabet.jpeg" width="441" /></b> </center> <br />
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</b></div><center><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><b>Biblical Hebrew contains 22 letters, as noted in Psalm 119, all of which are consonants. The alphabet and language remained pure until the Babylonian exile in 587 BC, when, following the destruction of the Temple of Solomon, spoken Hebrew came under the influence of other languages, particularly Aramaic. Aramaic became the prevailing language, or "lingua franca" of the entire Middle East from about 700 BC to 700 AD. Because of the Dispersion of the people of Israel to Babylon and Egypt, knowledge of pre-exilic texts was dependent on oral tradition. This occasionally gave rise to an ambiguity of interpretation for a text written purely in consonants.</b></span></div><div style="color: yellow;"><b> <br />
</b> </div><div style="color: yellow; text-align: left;"><b><i>The Hebrew language adopted the square script alphabet of Imperial Aramaic, known as Ketav Ashuri.</i> </b><br />
<b> Tradition holds that Ezra adopted the Aramaic square alphabet in place of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet during the post-exilic Restoration of Israel in the fifth century BC. As the Aramaic alphabet became the Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew papyri and parchments were then primarily written in Aramaic script. The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet has persisted to the present day solely with the Samaritans. The Biblical Hebrew text available to us today is thus written in the Hebrew language with the adopted Aramaic alphabet. </b><br />
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<b> Jesus and his Apostles spoke Aramaic. However, the Aramaic language was largely replaced by Arabic with the rise of Islam in the seventh century AD. Aramaic does persist in the liturgies of the Eastern Catholic Chaldean, Maronite, and Syriac Churches, and remains a spoken language among scattered villages throughout the Middle East, especially among the Assyrians and Chaldeans. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: navy;"> <span style="color: yellow;">Please note that the letter</span> </span> <span style="color: red;"><b>ו</b></span> <br />
<span style="color: navy;"> <span style="color: yellow;">in Biblical Hebrew was known as </span><b style="color: yellow;">waw</b><span style="color: yellow;"> and pronounced as </span><b style="color: yellow;">w</b><span style="color: yellow;">, as </span><b style="color: yellow;">יהוה</b> <i style="color: yellow;">Yahweh</i><span style="color: yellow;">, and </span><b style="color: yellow;">ויקרא</b> <i style="color: yellow;">Wayiqra</i><span style="color: yellow;">, the original Hebrew name for the Book of Leviticus, whereas in modern Hebrew </span><b style="color: yellow;">ו</b><span style="color: yellow;"> is known as </span><b style="color: yellow;">vav</b><span style="color: yellow;"> and pronounced as </span><b style="color: yellow;">v</b><span style="color: yellow;">. </span></span><br />
<div style="color: yellow;"></div><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: yellow;"> Note that the guttural letters</span> </span> <span style="color: red;"><b>א</b></span> <span style="color: navy;"> <span style="color: yellow;">and</span> </span> <span style="color: red;"><b>ע</b></span> <br />
<span style="color: navy;"> <span style="color: yellow;">are generally silent in contemporary pronunciation, and assume the sound of their related vowel. In fact, the laryngeal א and the pharyngeal ע had been two of the most difficult letters to pronounce. </span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;"><b><br />
</b></span> <div style="color: yellow; text-align: left;"><b>Hebrew is written from right to left. There are no capital letters in Hebrew. Letters stand alone in printing or writing. Observe that five letters, Kaf, Mem, Nun, Peh, and Tsade, have a final form when the letter occurs at the end of a word. For example, Peh at the beginning or middle of the word has the form of פ, but at the end of a word appears as ף.</b></div><div style="color: yellow;"><b><br />
</b> </div><div style="color: yellow; text-align: left;"><b>Notice that in the pronunciation column, six letters (aleph, het, tet, ayin, tsade, and shin) do not convert directly into our alphabet, and have been given symbols for transliteration, which are sometimes employed in biblical or scholarly works. Please observe in the following chart the distinctions in the pronunciation and transliteration of the three forms of the letter shin: unpointed shin (as in original texts or modern unpointed contemporary script), shin with a dot over the right-hand corner, and shin with a dot over the left-hand corner.</b> </div><span style="color: navy;"> </span> <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">In addition, three letters, Bet ב, Kaf כ, and Peh פ, vary in pronunciation depending on the presence of a dot. The point or dot </span><i style="color: yellow;">within</i><span style="color: yellow;"> a letter, as seen in the three letters Bet, Kaf, and Peh, is known as a </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">dagesh</b><b><span style="color: yellow;">. The functions of a dagesh include: (a) to signal the doubling effect of a consonant, as in the letter p in </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">יוֹם כִּפּוּר</b><b><span style="color: yellow;">, </span><i style="color: yellow;">Yom Kippur,</i><span style="color: yellow;"> the Day of Atonement; or (b) to emphasize pronunciation, as the letter Bet with the dot is hard b, as in ball, whereas Bet without the dot is soft and becomes v, as in have. Note the pronunciations in the following chart:</span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">Numbers one through ten have two forms - masculine and feminine, depending on the noun to which they refer. Number one </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">אֶחָד</b><b><span style="color: yellow;"> may mean </span><i style="color: yellow;">one</i><span style="color: yellow;"> or </span><i style="color: yellow;">first</i><span style="color: yellow;">, as in Genesis 1:5, the </span><a href="http://biblescripture.net/Firstday.html" style="color: yellow;">First Day</a><span style="color: yellow;">. Sometime during the Maccabean period (the second century BC), the letters of the alphabet began to represent numbers, such as the first ten letters of the Hebrew alphabet began to signify numbers one through ten, as seen in the presentation of the </span><a href="http://biblescripture.net/Commandments.html" style="color: yellow;">Ten Commandments</a><span style="color: yellow;">:</span></b></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: navy;"> <b style="color: yellow;">Two characteristics of ancient Hebrew were the pure use of consonants, and the use of an epicene personal pronoun (a personal pronoun that does not distinguish for male and female) - the same word is used for both "he" and "she." This use of an epicene personal pronoun </b><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><b><span style="color: red;">הוא</span> <span style="color: yellow;">first appears in Genesis 2:11, occurs in Genesis 3:15, and appears 120 times throughout the Pentateuch of Moses in Hebrew Scripture, but not in the Prophets or Writings. </span></b></span></div><span style="color: navy;"> </span> <br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: navy;"> <b><span style="color: yellow;">The only </span><i style="color: yellow;">pre-exilic</i><span style="color: yellow;"> Biblical passage that has been discovered to date is the </span><i style="color: yellow;">Priestly Blessing</i><span style="color: yellow;"> from Numbers 6:24-26, which is found throughout the liturgies of Judaism and Christianity. Two silver amulets with the Priestly Blessing were uncovered in a burial chamber on the western slope of the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem in 1979. This archeological find has been dated from about 600 </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">BC</b><b><span style="color: yellow;">, and is pre-exilic; the amulets are inscribed in the Paleo-Hebrew consonantal text. Of great importance, the Divine name YHWH was inscribed on the amulets! </span></b></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: navy;"> <b><span style="color: yellow;">Beginning in the pre-Exilic period, the following three consonants,</span></b> </span><span style="color: navy;"><b style="color: red;">ה hey</b><span style="color: red;">, </span><b style="color: red;"> ן waw</b><span style="color: red;">, </span><b style="color: red;">י yod</b> <b><span style="color: yellow;">were used at the end of a word to indicate final vowels. </span></b></span><b><span style="color: navy;">Beginning in the post-Exilic period, waw and yod were also used as vowel indicators within a word. </span></b></div><br />
<div style="color: yellow; text-align: left;"><b>The oldest Biblical Hebrew manuscript in our possession came with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of writings from the Essenes, a monastic religious sect of Judaism that lived near Qumran about 200 </b><b>BC. In 1947 a Bedouin shepherd named Muhammed ed-Dhib accidentally discovered three scrolls in the caves of Qumran near the Dead Sea: a complete scroll of the Book of Isaiah; the Manual of Discipline, also called the Community Rule, and a Commentary on Habakkuk. Soon thereafter, four more scrolls were uncovered - the Hymn Scroll, another partial scroll of Isaiah, the Genesis Apocryphon, and the War Scroll, an eschatological text that deals with the final battle between the sons of light and the sons of darkness. Together these seven comprise the seven original Dead Sea Scrolls now preserved in Jerusalem. Thus began the greatest discovery of ancient manuscripts of the twentieth century - nearly 900 scrolls were uncovered in 11 caves in Qumran. The Dead Sea Scrolls included portions of each book of the Pentateuch written in the pre-exilic Hebrew alphabet known as <i>Ketav Ivri</i> or <i>Paleo-Hebrew</i>, as well as scrolls written in the post-exilic <i>Ketav Ashuri</i> or <i>Aramaic Square</i> script, and even some written in both forms of script. These recently discovered scrolls of the Essenes were written purely in consonants. </b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: navy;"> <b><span style="color: yellow;">During the ninth and tenth centuries </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">AD</b><b><span style="color: yellow;">, the Masoretes, Jewish scholars in Tiberias, Galilee, perfected a system of </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">points</b><b><span style="color: yellow;"> or </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">nikkud</b><b><span style="color: yellow;"> for vowel notation and added it to the received consonantal text. The vowel points were added to ensure proper interpretation and reading of Hebrew Scripture, and are known as the Masoretic or Tiberian vowel points. This point system was added without altering the spacing of the text.</span></b></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: navy;"> <b style="color: yellow;">All of these considerations help biblical scholars to date a particular Hebrew text. For instance, the presence of "pointed text" allows biblical scholars to date manuscripts to at least the latter part of the first millennium AD.</b></span></div></center><center><span style="color: red;"><b>VOWELS </b></span></center> <center><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: navy;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">Vowels in Masoretic Hebrew Scripture are a combination of the historically long vowels, Hey, Waw, and Yod, and the Masoretic or Tiberian Vowel Points. Vowels are long or short in quality and quantity. Hey ה, Waw ו, and Yod י became known as "matres lectiones," or "mothers of reading," as they assisted in reading Scripture. The individual letter used as a vowel was known as a </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">mater</b><b><span style="color: yellow;">. Waw served as a vowel and was pronounced as long </span><u style="color: yellow;">o</u><span style="color: yellow;"> or </span><u style="color: yellow;">u</u><span style="color: yellow;">, whereas Yod as a vowel was pronounced as long </span><u style="color: yellow;">e</u><span style="color: yellow;"> or </span><u style="color: yellow;">i</u><span style="color: yellow;">. Hey served as a final long </span><u style="color: yellow;">a</u><span style="color: yellow;">. The Masoretic vowel points in conjunction with the mater helped to clarify and preserve the proper pronunciation, so that, for example, waw with a dot over it</span></b> </span><span style="color: red;"><b> וֹ </b></span><span style="color: navy;"><b style="color: yellow;">was pronounced long <u>o</u>, and waw with a dot beside it</b> </span><span style="color: red;"><b> וּ </b></span><span style="color: navy;"> <b style="color: yellow;">was pronounced long <u>u</u>. The vowel points for Hey and Yod occur underneath the <i>prior</i> letter. </b></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy;"><br />
</span> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: navy;"> <b><span style="color: yellow;">The </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">Shewa</b></span><b><span style="color: red;">ְ </span><span style="color: navy;"> sign, a colon under the letter, is written in the absence of a distinct vowel sound, and may be vocal or silent. Shewa under the first letter of a word or syllable, or following a long vowel, is vocal, and becomes a semi-vowel, and is pronounced as a half of a short e. Shewa under a letter that closes a syllable is silent. With the guttural letters aleph א, hey ה, het ח, and ayin ע, vocal shewa is combined with three vowel signs (Patah, Segol, and Qamets) to produce three hurried vowels known as the <i>hateph</i> vowels.</span></b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="color: yellow;"><span style="color: navy;"> <b><span style="color: yellow;">The following chart summarizes the Masoretic vowel points. Notice in the following chart that the majority of vowel points appear under the letter, except for long </span><u style="color: yellow;">o</u><span style="color: yellow;"> when it occurs over and to the left of the letter.</span> </b></span><b>We recommend the three reference textbooks below for an in-depth study of Biblical Hebrew. </b></div></div><div style="color: yellow;"></div></center><center> <br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">With the Masoretic vowel points, the vowel </span><i style="color: yellow;">follows</i><span style="color: yellow;"> the consonant in pronunciation, as, for example, </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">לָ</b><b><span style="color: yellow;"> is pronounced </span><i style="color: yellow;">la</i><span style="color: yellow;">, </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">לֻ</b><b><span style="color: yellow;"> is </span><i style="color: yellow;">lu</i><span style="color: yellow;">, and </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">מִ</b><b><span style="color: yellow;"> is pronounced </span><i style="color: yellow;">mi</i><span style="color: yellow;">. As these are consonants that end with a vowel, these are examples of open syllables. Syllables are of two types in Hebrew: open and closed. A closed syllable is one that ends with a consonant, as </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">בֵּנ</b><b><span style="color: yellow;"> is </span><i style="color: yellow;">ben</i><span style="color: yellow;">, the word for son; and </span></b><b style="color: yellow;">סוּס</b><b><span style="color: yellow;"> is </span><i style="color: yellow;">sūs</i><span style="color: yellow;">, the word for horse.</span></b></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><center><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: navy;"><b style="color: yellow;">The following list of vocabulary words includes the personal pronouns and a chart of 40 words in Masoretic pointed text, primarily from the Books of Genesis and Exodus. Hebrew is quite distinctive in that it has two words for the first person singular pronoun. The third person feminine singular pronoun was written as הִוא in the Pentateuch, and subsequently as </b><b style="color: yellow;">הִיא. Hebrew words with the same root often have related meanings. For example, </b><b style="color: yellow;">יָלַד means <i>to give birth;</i> </b><b style="color: yellow;">יֶלֶד is <i>boy;</i> </b><b style="color: yellow;">יַלְדָה means <i>girl;</i> </b><b style="color: yellow;">יְלָדִים is <i>children or boys;</i> and </b><b style="color: yellow;">יַלְדוּת means <i>childhood or youth.</i> Accent is primarily on the last syllable. Nouns in Hebrew are either masculine or feminine. Note the verbs: <i>to create</i> in the perfect tense representing completed action; <i>to write</i> in the imperfect tense of discourse; and <i>to call</i> in the waw-consecutive tense of narration. A careful study of the pronunciation of the Hebrew words should give one an appreciation for the phonetics of Hebrew letters and vowels. Note that </b><b style="color: yellow;">Yeshua, the true name of Jesus, appears throughout the Old Testament, for it means <i>the Lord saves!</i></b> </span></span></span></center><br />
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<center><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: navy;"> <b style="color: yellow;">The following passage is Genesis 3:15 presented in Masoretic "pointed text." We have preserved the ancient epicene personal pronoun הוא in consonantal text, as one cannot know whether the pronoun in the original script referred to "woman" or "seed (offspring)." Remember Hebrew is written from right to left, so the English translation is best understood when read in similar fashion. The links at the end offer more passages in Hebrew for your study.</b> </span></span></span></center></div><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: navy;"> <br />
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<center><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: yellow;">1 Minto A. </span><i style="color: yellow;">Genesis 1-11</i><span style="color: yellow;">. Course Lectures and Texts, Franciscan University, Steubenville, Ohio, 2004. </span></span></span></span></span><br style="color: yellow;" /> <span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 2 Mansoor M. <b><i>Biblical Hebrew - Step by Step</i></b>, Volumes I and ll. Volume One, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1980, 24th Printing, 2007; Volume Two, Third Edition, 1984, 13th printing, 2002. </span></span><br style="color: yellow;" /> <span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 3 Ross A. <b><i>Introducing Biblical Hebrew.</i></b> Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2001. </span></span><br style="color: yellow;" /> <span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 4 Lambdin TO. <b><i>Introduction to Biblical Hebrew</i></b>. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1971. </span></span><br style="color: yellow;" /> <span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 5 The Hebrew Bible. <b><i>Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia</i></b>. Masoretic Text, Fifth Edition. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1997. </span></span><br style="color: yellow;" /> <span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 6 <b><i> JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh</i></b>. Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 2000. </span></span><br style="color: yellow;" /> <span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 7 <b><i>Pentateuch</i></b>. Navarre RSV Bible. Four Courts Press, Dublin, Ireland, 1999. </span></span><br style="color: yellow;" /> <span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 8 Rendsburg GA. <i>A New Look at Pentateuchal HW'</i>. Biblica 63:351-369, 1982. </span></span><br style="color: yellow;" /> <span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 9 Kohlenberger JR. <b><i>NIV Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament</i></b>. Zondervan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1987. </span></span><br style="color: yellow;" /> <span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 10 Brown F. <b><i>Brown, Driver, Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon</i></b>. Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts, 2000.</span></span><br style="color: yellow;" /> <span style="color: navy;"> </span></center><br />
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</div><b><i style="color: #0b5394;">White Buffalo Calf Woman, your Twin Deer Mother responses inline to Rambam's 13 principles of faith. White Buffalo Calf Woman represents the Royal lineage from the House of David, the Christal Elder who brings law, to a time of prophecy, to speak of truth in all that prevails. <br />
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And the Torah needs only be brought by those who reads the hearts of men. Heaven is here, when we enter our fears and give it up to receive others despise. We forgive them and proclaim, our faith has no gain, but to be with G_ah_d once again. </i><br />
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THE RAMBAM'S THIRTEEN PRINCIPLES OF JEWISH FAITH<br />
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</b><b><i style="color: #0b5394;">Rambam means that we are obligated to constantly recognize God's existence. Even though Rambam was a great scholar of the Torah, he is not a Crystal person, and cannot bring law unto God. The royal family David Ha'melech (the way of the king) belongs to the people always. And what faith does he bring, that he changes the Torah, and his faith is questioning everything that is said. Interpretation is still interpretation by One who is not a Christal person, who brings laws. He was a man, who longed to be, the heart of do and say.</i><br />
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1. I believe with perfect faith that G-d is the Creator and Ruler of all things. He alone has made, does make, and will make all things.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #0b5394;">He is the light, and he (Great Father) does not work alone, for darkness is heaven the place our souls live within. What do you think the blue thread represents (tzit tzit), if not the heart of the people, the soul from heaven? This the darkness of inside, the place that men always try to hide. Let us realize that she is the dark, the inside of the heart, who always provides.</span></i><br />
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2. I believe with perfect faith that G-d is One. There is no unity that is in any way like His. He alone is our G-d He was, He is, and He will be.<br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394;">God is Oneness, which means all of us together, not separation, including those who hate. God is the mathematical perfection of the "I am", the perfect image of Oneness, including the self. G_d is the voice and the transmission we exalt, but without the ah in God, there is no Oneness to abound, for G_ah_d, is the voice of the heaven that transmits to the world (soul), and this is belonging to the heavens up above. Excluding She is not including heaven, and Jews have a lot to learn if they are going to rule the world.<br />
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3. I believe with perfect faith that G-d does not have a body. Physical concepts do not apply to Him. There is nothing whatsoever that resembles Him at all.<br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394;">God without a body, means we don't have a world. My goodness he is besides himself denying his own world. There is no faith in believing that we are not brotherhood, for the light of Great Father is the light who leads the world, however, the heaven is coming home and Great Mother is going to command, the heavens within us all, the soul that God gifted to man.</i><br />
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4. I believe with perfect faith that G-d is first and last.<br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394;">Perfect faith is leaving our heaven as I said above, and if heaven is first and last, then he doesn't know his world. Faith is learning and receiving the heart of all the world, the spirits and the voice of man. We cannot even think that heaven is the first and last if we don't even acknowledge it with man. The ah in G_ah_d is the foundation of all the world (heaven). The eternal life is the ah in the word that God has command.</i><br />
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5. I believe with perfect faith that it is only proper to pray to G-d. One may not pray to anyone or anything else.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Prayer is perfect faith, when we believe in everyone, but exclusion of another is not of God, and does not know love at all. We are all God and that's the truth, the commandments of yesterday, when Moses the Christal (crystal) person, brought laws to the world. The Torah does not tell us to be exclusion, but to include all that we see and all that we don't. We pray to Great Spirit Father, because he leads the light, but Heaven is led by Great Spirit Mother who comes to rule the heart (soul).</span></i><br />
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6. I believe with perfect faith that all the words of the prophets are true.<br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394;">If prophets we do believe, then how come we don't listen to what they say! When a brother comes to your door and breaks away. the neighbor is the Brother at hand who may have lost their way, but that does not give us the right, to shoo them away! We are supposed to give to travelers, where ever they may go. This is the law of the Torah which so many don't read for sure. The Talmud and other forms have left the Torah alone, but only the Torah has been left behind, to bring law unto the world. <br />
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So many prophets come, yet we stab them, mistreat them and put them away, because we do not follow our faith, in all that is says. How can one even say, they listen to all what Prophets bring, for many Indigo people come and many are put away (insane asylums). <br />
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If a man cannot receive, what others say and do, then how can one really believe that faith is in his heart. Prophets are men, who know the wind, and when we don't listen and put them away, then we lie and speak false witness, not what God (Oneness) tells us today!<br />
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7. I believe with perfect faith that the prophecy of Moses is absolutely true. He was the chief of all prophets, both before and after Him.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #0b5394;">If Moses is the only one, then how can God exist, for Moses was sent by Great Father, who understands the law. The law of love cannot be used against the heart of men, and perfect faith cannot believe that Moses was the only one. Especially if the Messiah, is supposed to be here today!</span><br style="color: #0b5394;" /><br style="color: #0b5394;" /><span style="color: #0b5394;">What makes a man feel that only Moses knows the way, when we are part of everyone, when what a Crystal says. Moses knew law, because he was told, by Great Father who leads the way. And Great Father also speaks to many other Crystals this day!</span><br style="color: #0b5394;" /><br style="color: #0b5394;" /><span style="color: #0b5394;">This is a exclusion ploy to say, "I am better than you". Man must always learn a new way, called evolution as a tool. We are moving into a time, when House of David will lead the way, when heaven and earth comes home to win, the evolution's way. We enter the Dawning, within us all, the soul of yesterday.</span></i><br />
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8. I believe with perfect faith that the entire Torah that we now have is that which was given to Moses.<br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394;">Man speaks of truth this day, but doesn't know how to speak, for translations come and go, even the Greek. We do not write in one language and since Moses is not here today, what makes the Torah, completely the truth this day.<br />
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Yes, the Torah is from the One, true Crystal man God trusts, but man has resurrected his lust, in all that is said and done. Even when he came down from the earth, the mountain top of his day, he came unto the slutty world of those who did not pray. These were Jews, who hate today, and kills others and do not follow law. When a Jew, cannot receive a brother, the house of David this day!<br />
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Even the first line of the Torah cannot be understood, for only a Christal person, like me or Jesus can speak the truth this day! If we want to know the world, then we need start practice what we preach, because all that is said and done is not what God (Oneness) gave away. The Torah is the only book we must truth yes indeed, but only the words, that Moses left, not interpretations by other than Crystals (christal people)who know the way! (truth of laws of heaven)</i><br />
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9. I believe with perfect faith that this Torah will not be changed, and that there will never be another given by G-d.<br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394;">What makes them think the Torah will save the world today, for even Jews don't follow this law, left so many ways. The perfect faith is one who trusts the men of always, the ones who pray, and lead the way in LOVE not hate this day. Exclusion is a sure way to find, that Law of Love that was left behind this day (not following the Torah), then how can one think that there will never be none, if Prophets we do put away.</i><br />
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10. I believe with perfect faith that G-d knows all of man's deeds and thoughts. It is thus written (Psalm 33:15), "He has molded every heart together, He understands what each one does."<br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394;">Each of us has a book of life, that can be read perfectly. Man cannot read this book until the coming day, the evolution of heaven returning then man will know others hearts. But in this time, the blind do say, that they know the way! Only when one does what he says, is he following the Torah way, when brothers are left on the streets to suffer and spoil away. Even marriage is brought together, without feeding the streets today, and so many have no food in their hearts, if they allow the brothers to fade away.<br />
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The perfect faith is to show the way, the will of the Torah today, but receive prophets and trusting their brothers, will evolution show the way. Our deeds and thoughts need love to know the perfect loving way, the heart and soul of all that knows, the perfect faithful way!<br />
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We all can hide our perfect disguise, but this will all change real soon, because evolution has said, that David will show the way! And if we believe in Prophets calls, then we are needing to trust others who are Christals (crystal people) who know the way, for gifts come when others can receive, the heart of always.<br />
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11. I believe with perfect faith that G-d rewards those who keep His commandments, and punishes those who transgress Him.<br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394;">We are all part of majesty, and perfect in every way. The will of everyone has faith in all we say, but when we don't follow law, the law of love left this day, then how can we know of rewards, the perfect devoted way. <br />
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Inside our book of life, is written all we do, and there when we find joy, we find the heart of what we do and say. But when we have misery each day, is because we don't do what we say, as we don't trust the soul that presides inside our hearts this day. The blue fiber (tzit tzit) reminds us all, that ebb and flow of the heart, is the soul that transcribes the truth in all we do and say. Each of us, has commandments of G_ah_d, when heaven is part of our hearts, but if we deny heaven is here, then how can we have perfect faith. <br />
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We do not need outside of ourselves to punish all we do each day. We are punishing our selves, because we don't align with our hearts. We are the Rainbow Clan from above, the soul of yesterday, and when we love all, even those who are so bold, to hate others when they say, then misery will be part of our hearts, for love will not command that way. <br />
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Again, the commandments of him, the light of Great Father who left his law, tells us to be good children, the heart of yesterday. Be good little children and we will be happy each day, but if we don't suffer for those who lost their way, how can we follow laws. Each need love inside our hearts, to show us the happy way, the rewards that teach us that God is One, not somewhere else this day (but inside our hearts).</i><br />
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12. I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah. How long it takes, I will await His coming every day.<br />
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<i style="color: #0b5394;">He is light, not recognizing dark, the place of heaven's embrace. Sow the seeds of love will show that God is One heart not only light. The Messiah has come this way, but most Jews only hate the way, because they don't live the Torah way, only the law within the Man this day! How can we recognize the Messiah, if we don't recognize the heart of each man? We need start to trust ourselves, before the Messiah can walk through that door.<br />
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The gifts I have will put the Jews on top of the world, today. To command the world and all they do, if only they could receive with a heart. They refuse anything that they, the Jews say, they can't even recognize the house of David, because they hate most in the world today.<br />
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Even the prophecies that have been left behind, aren't even listened this day! The messiah is standing here to gift the perfect heart that knows the way, but only those who are pure hearts, will believe in all that we do and say, for God is the love within Oneness, where exclusion is not the way!</i><br />
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13. I believe with perfect faith that the dead will be brought back to life when G-d wills it to happen.<br />
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</b><i style="color: #0b5394;"><b>Perfect faith is trusting the heart, not the flesh of the day, but most think the flesh of man, certainly knows the way. The heart is known only to the few, who long for perfect rewards this day, for only joy will fill the heart, when we do what we say. We rise from death when we realize that the soul knows the way, but this means that we become the rising sun inside our hearts. The Oneness proclaims the knowledge we need and Jews need start to practice the Torah way, but we don't have perfect faith, when we judge all who do and say! True love is perfect faith, the devoted ONENESS way! </b><br />
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I believe with perfect faith<br />
Posted by: "song_of_redemption72", Violet Warrior, the Voice and Army of God<br />
Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:15 am (PST)<br />
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</div><span style="font-size: large;"> <b></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon ( Miamonides )</b></span><br />
"From Moshe to Moshe there was none like Moshe", are the words you'll see written on his tombstone in the city of Tverya.<br />
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The Rambam , Rabbeinu Moshe ben Maimon, was born on Erev Pesach which fell on Shabbos in the year 1135 in the city of Cordova, which lies in southern Spain.<br />
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He came from a family of great Torah scholars that extended back to Rabbeinu Ha'Kodosh who as we know came from the royal family of Dovid Ha'melech.<br />
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He studied under his great father, though he sometimes refers to the Ri Migash as his Rebbe (even though he was only six years old when the Ri Migash passed away).<br />
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He lived during a very painful and tragic time for Spanish Jewry. The Almohads, a fanatical group of Moslems, were taking over city after city. They hated all other religions and tried to convert the Jews to accept the Moslem religion. Those who refused to convert were expelled from the land or put to death. While most Jews fled, some unfortunately converted outwardly, but inwardly still kept to their Jewish faith.<br />
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The Rambam's family, as well as thousands of others, fled from Cordova and wandered from place to place seeking a place free from persecution-no easy matter in those difficult times. Finally the family settled in Fez, Morocco which was the ancient capital of North Africa. While even here Jews could not practice their religion in public places, they could at least practice it in their private homes. Certain noted people like the Maimon family were in fact granted the special privilege of being allowed to practice their religion in public.<br />
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Despite the many difficulties in life and the constant wandering, nothing could deter him from Torah study. As a young man of only twenty three, he already began writing an explanation on the Shisha Sidrei Mishnah which he called the Sefer Ha'Orah, but which has become known as the Pirush Ha'Mishnah L'Rambam, and it took him seven years to complete. He wrote it in Arabic so that the Jewish masses would be able to understand it. It was only later that it was translated by others into Hebrew. Not only does he explain every mishnah clearly and precisely, but he also tells us the halachah we are to follow.<br />
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It was during this time that some Rabbonim strongly criticized those Jews that were forced into accepting the Moslem religion publicly, and demanded that they sacrifice their lives "Al Kiddush Hashem" . They said that they were considered meshumodim (goyim) and would lose their share in the world to come. This only worsened the situation as many now decided to give up Judaism altogether. They felt that they may as well enjoy life in this world if in any case they will not get a share in the world to come.<br />
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Even though the Rambam was still a young man, he understood their situation quite differently and came to their defense. He wrote them a lengthy essay called "Iggeres Ha'shmad", explaining that despite everything they had done they were still considered Jews and must not despair. He strongly condemned those who dared call them meshumodim, since this is a term used for those who convert voluntarily and not for those that do so under force. He, of course, encouraged them to escape as quickly as possible so that they could once again become practicing Jews in public.<br />
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In the year 1165, as the situation in Fez became more and more difficult, his family sailed to Eretz Yisroel. On the way a terrible storm broke out and it seemed as if the ship would capsize and all would be doomed. Miraculously, the ship managed to stay afloat and they finally docked in the port city of Acco.<br />
At the time, the country was under Christian rule and had no more than a thousand Jewish families. The Rambam remained there for a very short time and in 1166 he left for Egypt and settled in the city of Forstat, a major center of Torah.<br />
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Here, he suffered great personal tragedy as his wife, two children and his father all died within a short period of time. Yet his greatest blow came when he heard that his dear brother David was lost at sea and was presumed dead. The Rambam was devastated by this loss. His brother had been a wealthy diamond dealer and merchant, and had supported his family so that he could spend his entire time immersed in Torah. It was only now that the Rambam had to begin his medical practice in order to support himself as well as his brother's family. In those times a Rebbe would never accept payment for teaching Torah or practicing the Rabbinate. In fact the Rambam in his pirush on Avos strongly condemns the practice of accepting money to teach Torah.<br />
His great ability as a marvelous doctor soon spread and he was hired to be the personal physician of Saladin, the Egyptian ruler. While this may have solved his financial worries, it left him greatly exhausted with little time for all else. In one of his letters, he describes a day in his life and one wonders where he ever found time to write his many great works. Yet, despite all his personal obligations, he still found time to help everyone.<br />
At the same time, he also fought the battle against a sect called the Karaim. These were a sect of Jewish people that did not accept Chazal's teachings and adopted their own version of Jewish law based only on the written word, Torah Se'bichsav, something we're all too familiar with nowadays. (The Karaim are still around today, but are very few in number.) They have a shul in the old city of Yerushalayim.<br />
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Yet, despite all his many responsibilities and his difficult schedule, he found the time to write his halachic masterpiece called the Mishnah Torah or the Yad Ha'chazaka. The word Yad, which equals to 14, is the number of main headings into which this work is divided. He started writing it in the year 1171, at the age of 36, and finished it ten years later.<br />
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There is a tradition that says that on the night it was completed (8th of Kislev 1181) his father came to him in a dream with another person whose face shone like the sun and told him that this was Moshe Rabbeinu who had come to see his work and give him a yasher koach on the magnificent job done.<br />
The Rambam wrote this work because of the terrible golus the Jews were going through. Their knowledge of Talmud was weakening and people were no longer able to comprehend the gemorah as did past generations. People simply weren't capable of figuring out what the halachah should be .The dreadful golus had taken its toll in Torah study. They needed a simple guide in practical halachah without the confusion of arguments and deep pilpul.<br />
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His work contains no names, arguments or proofs, but simply gives you the halachah to follow in each individual case. He wrote it in clear concise Hebrew and divided it up into different sections so that anyone could easily find the halachah he is looking for. These halochos include not only the halochos that one needs nowadays, but also covers the halochos needed in the time of the Bais Ha'Mikdosh (something the Shulchan Aruch has omitted). It's all set up in a very logical order. This great work is not just based on the Talmud Bavli but also includes the Talmud Yerushalmi, B'raysos, Toseftos, Sifri, Sifro, and the Mechilta as well as all the important commentaries and geonic teshuvos of previous generations. He relies heavily on the Rif in deciding the final halachah.<br />
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When one studies the Talmud, one finds the same topic scattered around in a dozen different places. The Rambam's genius was to put everything together in a logical and systematic order, and decide which opinion to follow, so that everything makes sense without having to consult the original sources. It was written in a clear, precise and concise Hebrew so that even present day scholars from all over the world study each and every word very carefully and derive important halachos from every word he writes.<br />
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Yet, as he later admits, he made a very big mistake by not quoting the sources that he had taken these halachos from. For this he would be strongly criticized. Some felt that one had no right to publish halachic opinions without giving the names of the people who said them and without giving the sources upon which they are based. Others were afraid that this would cause many to stop studying the original sources and only study the h conclusions. This type of study would destroy Torah scholarship and turn people into ignoramuses. Time has proven this argument to be false! The Talmud was never neglected, and in fact it was strengthened.<br />
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The debate became very heated and many Torah scholars became involved. The greatest opposition however, was against another one of the Rambam's works called the Moreh Nevuchim. This was a work that gave the Jewish outlook on many questions in philosophy. It was written in Arabic and later translated into Hebrew. It contained many thoughts that seemed based or resembled Aristotelian philosophy, which was heavily studied during those times. He wrote it for the many people who studied this type of philosophy from non-Jewish sources causing great harm to the reader. This book was not aimed at every reader, but only for those people who studied this type of philosophy.<br />
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Yet, this sefer caused great opposition to the Rambam and the controversy raged on with a terrible vengeance. There were great men pro and other great men against. Amongst the strongest opponents were Rabbi Meir Halevi Abulafia (author of Yad Ramah) and the R'aved (Rebbe Avrohom ben Dovid of Posquires, known as R'aved the third) whose critical comments can now be found printed on the Mishna Torah's side.<br />
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After the Rambam's death (in 1204, at the age of 70), the criticism became more vocal, violent and tragic as some began putting a rabbinical ban (a cherem ) on anyone studying his philosophical works-the Moreh Nevuchim. Of course, bans are a two way street and all it did was add fuel to the fire. As usual, people of lesser stature soon became involved and denounced his works to the monks at the Christian Church. The Dominican monks now confiscated all the Rambam's seforim and burned them at an auto-da-fe in Mordpilias in the year 1234. Eight years later the French Monks followed in their footsteps and burned all those found in France in the public square of Paris.<br />
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Once you can burn Jewish books, then what stops the goyim from doing the same to all other Jewish books? And so, less than forty days later, all copies of the Talmud that existed in France, including many other seforim as well, were burned at the very same public square in Paris.<br />
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It was first then that the great Rabbeinu Yonah (the author of many works on mussar such as the Sharei Teshuvah, Sefer Ha'Yirah and many other works) realized the terrible mistake he had made by opposing the Rambam's writings. He now decided to do t and go from city to city retracting all that he had previously said against him. In every shul he went to , he announced that "I have sinned against the G-d of Israel and against Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon..." etc.<br />
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Yet, beside these three major works, the Rambam wrote many other seforim as well as many teshuvos that he sent to those who constantly would seek his opinion on every matter under the sun. One of his most famous teshuvos is referred as "Iggeros Taimon", the letters he sent to the people of Taimon (Yemen), written in the year 1170.<br />
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This was a letter sent to the people of Yemen who were under great duress to either convert or face being burnt at a public auto-de-fe. This was a common problem Jews had to face during the Middle Ages. In the letter, the Rambam tries to lift their spirits and tells them how to cope with the problem. He, of course, advises them to leave at the first possibility. The Rambam also tried to intercede with the highest government officials on their behalf.<br />
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Another one of the Rambam's masterpieces is the Sefer Ha'Mitzvos. While we all know that there are 613 commandments, there is much disagreement as to exactly what they are. In this sefer, the Rambam goes through each and every one of the 613 mitzvos, explaining how and when they apply.<br />
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The Rambam also put down 13 basic tenets of Jewish belief called the Yud Gimmel Ikrim (which are printed in most siddurim after the Shacharis prayer). These 13 axioms represent the very foundations of Jewish belief.<br />
In December of 1204 at the age of 70, the mighty Rambam died in Fostat, Egypt. Legend has it that as his coffin was being led on its way to Eretz Yisroel, it was attacked by robbers who tried to remove the valuables but were unsuccessful. When they realized that it contained a very holy man, they let it continue on the way to its final resting place on the shores of the Kinneret in the city of Teverya, just to the side of the gravesite of the holy Tanna, Rebbe Yochanan ben Zakkai and his five students. To his side rests his illustrious father.<br />
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Recently, the entire area has been beautifully fixed over. Fourteen marble pillars stand along the pathway leading to his kever-seven on each side. They represent the 14 main headings of the Mishnah Torah. Engraved on each marble column is the topics that it contains. One should note that some of his other works are also subdivided into 14 parts.<br />
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Yet, tzadikim never die, for as we study their holy words, their memories live on forever.<br />
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THE RAMBAM'S THIRTEEN PRINCIPLES OF JEWISH FAITH<br />
1. I believe with perfect faith that G-d is the Creator and Ruler of all things. He alone has made, does make, and will make all things.<br />
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2. I believe with perfect faith that G-d is One. There is no unity that is in any way like His. He alone is our G-d He was, He is, and He will be.<br />
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3. I believe with perfect faith that G-d does not have a body. physical concepts do not apply to Him. There is nothing whatsoever that resembles Him at all.<br />
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4. I believe with perfect faith that G-d is first and last.<br />
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5. I believe with perfect faith that it is only proper to pray to G-d. One may not pray to anyone or anything else.<br />
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6. I believe with perfect faith that all the words of the prophets are true.<br />
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7. I believe with perfect faith that the prophecy of Moses is absolutely true. He was the chief of all prophets, both before and after Him.<br />
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8. I believe with perfect faith that the entire Torah that we now have is that which was given to Moses.<br />
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9. I believe with perfect faith that this Torah will not be changed, and that there will never be another given by G-d.<br />
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10. I believe with perfect faith that G-d knows all of man's deeds and thoughts. It is thus written (Psalm 33:15), "He has molded every heart together, He understands what each one does."<br />
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11. I believe with perfect faith that G-d rewards those who keep His commandments, and punishes those who transgress Him.<br />
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12. I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah. How long it takes, I will await His coming every day.<br />
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13. I believe with perfect faith that the dead will be brought back to life when G-d wills it to happen.<br />
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<b><span style="color: maroon; font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;">Great Leaders of our People</span></b> <span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Moses Maimonides is known as the greatest Jewish philosopher and codifier of Jewish law in history. Born in Cordova, Spain, he was forced to flee from fanatical Moslems at the age of thirteen, where he traveled with his family to North Africa, and ten years later to Palestine. As a result of the devastation left by the Crusaders, Palestine was virtually uninhabitable, forcing the family to move to Fostat (current day Cairo).</span></span><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Throughout these journeys, the young Maimonides had concentrated on Torah studies under the guidance of his father, and by the time he reached Fostat had become a famous scholar. Supported by his merchant brother, the Rambam was able to write copiously, gaining international acclaim in both Jewish and secular fields of knowledge. After the tragic death of his brother, the responsibility of supporting his family fell on the Rambam's shoulders, and through his fame he was appointed chief physician of the Sultan.</span></span><br />
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</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Despite the immense workload that was required, not only with his responsibilities to the royal family, but to the entire Egyptian community as the official Nagid (royally appointed leader), and to the halachic questions of world Jewry known as responsa, the Rambam was remarkably able to complete some of his greatest Jewish works, including his philosophical work <b>The Guide for the Perplexed</b> and his magnum opus the <b>Mishna Torah </b>- the great codification of all Jewish law. </span></span><br />
</div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">While he was considered an undisputed leader of world Jewry at the time, there was bitter opposition to much of his works because they incorporated much of Aristotelian philosophy that went against the traditional purist ideology of much of Ashkenazic Jewry, and others believed his codifications would make much of the role of the rabbi and the oral tradition obsolete. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">He did not quote his sources in the Talmud with his Halachic decisions, which engendered the fear that this would discourage people from studying the Talmud, and he seemed to be too much involved with Greek Philosophy. He was also criticized by some who misinterpreted his works for not believing in the Resurrection of the Dead.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<i><b>The days have been long and the nights seem to find, the heaven that's gone has woke up to find, the heart of the G_ah_d, the heart of my Soul and I have but went to overload. What makes me weep when I do go home. Where do I go, when all is a storm. There is one chance, the willing who dance, to make life again, the weeping of a bridge. Why must I die, to come back to life? Why must I gift to all those who lie? Where do I go, when all do not know? And when I go, there is sow much snow (crystalline stone river along the journey of life). <br />
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The willing of per chance is my heart who dance. And I will find my way, to overcome this day. The heaven that comes home to find the paradise. The place we seek out loud, but don't we seek within. Now Shabbat (The seventh day is holy, a day of rest, the holy Shabbat ' שבת-שלום) is here, the place many fear. Now we go to heart, to judge us from the start. What makes us rejoice to all those of choice? What makes us yearn to promise land we earned? I know it's you, the heaven and it's dew. The heart of my life, belongs to heaven sent. And I could climb rainbows when you are know from here, the place of the gardens where we can come home for sure.<br />
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This goes to speak my heart of plenty defeat, the place I hold my head, the place I long to keep. When does the sun rise, come inside of me? When does the sunrise find perfect company? There in the darkness of heaven sent from above, we need to hold you, like a perfect cup of tea. When does the sound of silence produce anything? For I know that wisdom comes from loving and laughing again. Don't keep me waiting, for I am here to speak. Don't walk away from me, because I am the keeps. The ordained from G_ah_d's wings, the Angels sent from above, I will be merciful, because G_ah_d did say. I will be merciful, because my heart is Gold. And I will live up to sin, because I will let it in. I will embrace thee and I will bless your heart, because I love you, the smart (sting) that always comes. You have a broken heart and let me mend it again. Don't worry of yesterday, for we will put it away. We will look upon the seeds tomorrow is the way. We will plant mercy, to those who spring a leak. And we will climb mountains, to find the heart again, for we brothers, with sisters who long to be, hearts of pure Angels, who dance and sing again.<br />
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Can it be me my Lord, who has come to know the land? Can it be me my love, who has come to know the land? I want to be with thee, upon the Promised Land! I want to be divine, sow my light will always shine. For I am a Sun within, the place that always begins, the dreams of yesterday, for tears that always lead the way. And my love has grown and grown, to be part of all the Stones, to be with humbleness upon the rolling hills. Now today, I am on my way, to trust the dance of yesterday. To be with you and me, to long to be in the view of the sea. You and I can walk the way, to be part of yesterday. I have my hand on you, to say, we are brotherhood. <br />
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Let us be strong again, like a woman who always defends, the heart of man and beast to make the best of me. My mother she is the law, the Greatness forever without the flaws, of saying I turn away, because she is here to stay. Great Spirit Mother longs to be with us in the Promised land, to guide her children pure, to be with a loving tear. And she is all we need to be sure of cleaving three, the reflection of all the days, to become loving hay (the golden path of growing from a seed). Now Great Father has led the way of promised glory of the day, and we have come so far, to be on top of the jar. The place that held us close, the place that kept the most, the glory of yesterday, learning to be slaves for the day. Great Warriors we are learning to be, to follow our Parents law, the heavenly bodies who left the way, sow we would get home this day. And now evolution is going to bring us home, to the days of yesterday, turned into dreams to stay.<br />
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Let us be free.........................................Let us know the breeze......................................Let us be loving ways, to bring the heart to stay. My heart is pure inside, when I don't have alibies, sow I will plant the seeds of tomorrow with all it's needs. Come home one and all, die and arise to see the fall, the rolling hills in time, that gift us ever time. And we are here to be, the happy and the free, with abundance for everyone, to be the rising sun. Come take my hand............................Come walk the promise land...........................................Come and see what I can believe...............................the way freedom rings!</b></i><br />
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Rosh HaShanah is the day on which G-d created Man, Adam, G-d’s final and most precious creation. Each Rosh HaShanah, the birthday of Mankind, we proclaim G-d as our one and true King. We then reaffirm our desire to serve him every moment of our lives. At this same time, G-d reviews the status of his creation and determines if he or she merits another year in this world.</span><br />
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<span style="color: navy; font-family: Arial;">On the first night of Rosh HaShanah, after prayer services, a special greeting is used, which is only said on this night "May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year." On Rosh HaShanah, everyone is judged by G-d based on his or her actions during the previous year. The resulting judgment is inscribed by G-d and a person’s future is determined for the following year. Though that judgment is inscribed, it is not yet sealed and can still be changed at least for another ten days. G-d waits until Yom Kippur to seal the book for the year. </span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #274e13;">In Hebrew, a wish before and during the Saturday of the Peaceful Sabbath. This is the seventh day of the week for the Jewish calendar and even the Gregorian Calender that most of the world uses. Sabbath Saturday is a day of rest and reflection often used to offer prayer and ceremony. A day of refreshing the soul to be free in the House of the winds. This day begins on Friday at sundown and ending on Saturday evening when the three stars appear in the sky and can be viewed together. Three is the reflection of light, that brings us the illusion of time. The reflection offers us the waves of rolling hills, to have a physical life upon the Earthly Realm, when our Souls descend to the place of Paradise. This motion is offered by the Moon, which reflects the light of the Sun every single day, along it trans-migratory route.</span><br style="color: #274e13;" /><br style="color: #274e13;" /><span style="color: #274e13;"> When a Wo/Man knows Shalom, they know peace within. This is often used a general greeting for all time. When you know peace, then you know the way into Heaven, where the Soul resides and we collide with Heaven and Earth. This process is what we are all experiencing during this tumultuous times of evolution when all things seems topsy-turvy (state of confusion), or upside down. We are learning to pour forth our roots of heaven down into the valley of Golden Dreams, our Paradise, we call Home (Earth).</span></b> <br />
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We are coming to an end of our 10 days of prayer, when the Yom Teruah (the day of shouting) began, often called Rosh Hashanah or New years. But this is not really new years, but the second annual harvesting of the crops begin and the new seed is planted. We learn to die within, with a river of tears, like the crop dies to provide us with sustenance. Then we learn to pray and pray and sing our hearts in joy, by migrating from shouting to ringing the bells to playing the trumpet all to learn about the soul's migration from death to arising to be born again in spirit. This is the time of rejuvenation or transformation of our Souls journey into the light from darkness or a time of reflection of the waves of our breath. The moon and the sun have our hearts entwined and we are learning to become the G_ah_d (whole as we learn to utter heaven's voice) within us all, as the winds of all our brothers and sisters glide through us as we journey inside the house of the beloved (STAR of DAVID). <br />
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<b>We learned that we are the house of four sides, with two sides that go to and fro. This migratory action flows along the Crystalline (Star of David as all crystals have this shape and the strength of Oneness that aligns inside and outside) stone river of our souls darkness and our rainbow colors of lights. The house stands with four sacred directions and the wind blows in two directions, the heart that motions up and down as we swell with pain and grief and joy and happiness bringing us tears of knowing with days of showing how to act kindly and with wisdom, the hand of G_ah_d. Having compassion upon those who do not know of prayer, and to teach others the necessary steps to guide them along the trail of rolling hills of sacredness, the strength of a fortified house of the beloved which lies within you. We are part of this song, the song where Angels do sing along the rushing river. And we are the very Angels G_ah_d has sent home to bring life again, to the heavenly realm below. To refresh the soul is the guiding factor to the rising sun within. When we pray and have ceremony and celebrate the passing days to remember we belong together and forever we are ONE.<br />
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<b>Today is the last day of our 10 days of prayer and we can find solace in those who have joined us to know "Shabbath Shalom"שבת-שלום", the sacred days of peace. Come home to the rising sun within, to shine forever and a day. The eternal flowing of G_ah_d.</b><br />
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</div>Holiness David Expression: Vision of person crushed, with legs sticking out, witch of the east, where all begins and all ends to greet. Legs inside under the house, pant legs a man, "crushing hate and pulling them into the house of G_ah_d (voice of heaven transmits)"<br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Yom haZikkaron, Song of Remembering, Destruction Before Creation of Perfect Man...day seven of ten!</span><br />
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<b><i>Wake up! Stand up! Think you're too late... what makes you think that G_ah_d has made mistakes? Wake up stand up, know your rights within. Then you can win, when you begin. Wake up stand up, blowing in the wind. Right wing, left wing, flying again. Wake up stand up, knowing where to begin, that's the question, I have which way do I begin?<br />
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There is one way, the way of evolution. Devotion and fire in the wind. Wake up stand up, know your rights within, then you can negotiate every single thing. Do it the right (heart) way, for G_ah_d is coming home, there is only one way, the way of the storm. Wake up stand up, know we're going home, the day of reckoning is flowing in the wind.<br />
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Wake up stand up, know your rights within, the day of dawning coming, the day just begins. Wake up stand up and we are going home, for we are all related and we have different songs. Even the rice cake loves you, and even the ant does dance, but we are part of oneness the calling of per chance. And when the fright is over, the dance will begin, and we will sing righteousness, because it's in the wind.<br />
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Wake up stand up, know you're living in, the heart of our heaven, it's coming home again. Wake up stand up, walk to heaven's door, we are going through it, even wanting more. There will be a memory of souls that travel far, and we are all brothers when we learn the call.<br />
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Wake up stand up, listen to the wind, we are part of destiny and we are going in. Wake up stand up, right wing has it's place and we are going to the left (evolution's call, counter clockwise is the dance of the eternal soul) to begin the dance again. Wake up stand up, we are going home, the place I know is the heartbeat, the place we call our home. There is a question, the place and why we come, do we know of evolution or do follow the sun? <br />
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Wake up stand up, where you going now? Don't you realize G_ah_d is here, the place we call life. (wave of love). There is a mighty ocean, the place we call paradise and we are going to this flow, the place we call the device (tools of light). The hand of mighty oceans (reflection of life, the heart dance), is reaching out to you, and we could be pure brothers when we learn how to breathe (to and fro of the know, when we pray to G_ah_d who knows, this is the flesh of all of light).<br />
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Wake up stand up, learn to love again. For we are mighty oceans, with storms that rise again. Wake up stand up, reach into heaven gate, the place we know of beginnings, the place we have a date (clandestine). Wake up stand up, know we're going home, we are part of destiny, we are part of this home. Mighty oceans love you, the place we call our home. Because our Father took us to the devoted storm. And we are going to Mother, she is here to preach, the laws of love that gives us, the way to our seats (sit and reflect using our hearts). <br />
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Wake up, stand up, know we're going home. the laws of love will guide us, when we trust our hearts. There is clearly devotion, the heart of one and two, the dance of a marriage, the dance that gifts us clues. She is here to guide us, the love of a woman's heart, and man he is here to show us, the dance we can start. Play with the music play with your friends, but when it's time to come on home, let us pray again. <br />
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Wake up stand up, know we're going home, know your rights within us, for we have more to learn. And when we receive our Brothers and sisters stand by us, then we are going to the law (law of love, over the red rolling hills), the land of paradise. Wake up stand up, know what way to go, the right (heart) wing leads us homeward, when we follow law. </i></b><br />
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ז וְחֶזְוֵי רֵאשִׁי, עַל-מִשְׁכְּבִי; חָזֵה הֲוֵית--וַאֲלוּ אִילָן בְּגוֹ אַרְעָא, וְרוּמֵהּ שַׂגִּיא. 7 Thus were the visions of my head upon my bed: I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.<br />
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<b><i>(When king Nebuchadnezzar dreampt he visioned, like all dreams. This is a type of walking in dark space, the place of heaven is born from the inside of a round vessel, the Oneness is round like a sacred circle of life, joining beginning to ending. <br />
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A tree represents the tree of life. The leaves reach up towards the sky to reach for the light and nutrition, representing the red road, the flesh. And the roots reach down to search for water and nutrition, representing the blue road, the soul. The dew is created when the light of fire (purification), from above our sun, and the water of the heart that flows (blessings), from below, join together and steam or dew is created. This is an intermingling like a marriage is, when two unite as ONE, this is the law of unification. The midst is the mist of the dew or do. When we water mist is the heart our tears and when we create dew with fire or do with our flesh we become united within ourselves. <br />
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The tree teaches us the marriage of unification, the one where two stands apart, now together again. This is done with the trunk, the wood which brings the two together, and this uniting is the law, the law of love, the red road, and the law of transmission or the voice of song, the blue road. When these two roads are united by the trunk, a sun or son is born, and the child of the dream is risen to take his place. (he is light, she is darkness, our flesh is always he, and our souls are always she, when we speak of luminosity or numinosity, however all of us may have either male or female counter parts within our souls and flesh)<br />
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The earth is round like our heads, where we have all our senses. We see (two eyes), we sea (third eye or vision like dreams). Hearing with two ears, the sounds of the world. Tasting, with tongue for speaking our voices up like angels. Does it taste good? The spoken word of G_ah_d, the god in each of us. For we are created in the image of "I am" the tree of life (micro). And we are part of the tree "we are" (macro). Galaxy, universe, man, animals, plants, rocks, as you can see, each is of this oneness universe and each is part of a greater universe. This is the perfection of </i></b><b><i>G_ah_d</i></b><b><i>'s flowing and knowing, as we are eternal creatures of the same and ONE, the beginning to the end. Look at the nose, it is ONE, yet divided by two nostrils, just like </i></b><b><i>G_ah_d</i></b><b><i>, where there is light and darkness. The nose helps us to taste as well as breathe. Breathing is the to and fro (heart of the soul) and which gifts us the capacity of living life (flesh of the rainbow colors, the sacred four directions). The teeth, are lined up like rows of seeds, that can crush like the earth with it's weight, but also delivers us nutrition, like our earth again. <br />
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We are perfect in all ways. Inside the head, we have our thoughts, the place where dreams come alive. In King Nebuchadnezzar's dream, he envisioned a tree towards the heights of greatness. As we are all Greatness, every part of </i></b><b><i>G_ah_d</i></b><b><i> is greatness, for we are perfect like the seed, the small and the big, however our shape, we continue to exist and reclaim our throne to Greatness like a King has. This is why we are called Kings Men or Kinsmen to finally relatives, because we are all related to everything else, the theory of relativity by Einstein shares this with us, that all things bend where rolling hills are part of a wave form, and this is our journey along the wave of the to and fro of the breath and heart beat that knows. It is related to the next and makes us relatives to each other, from the ant to the sky, for we are all related where all things have a spirit, where the soul and the flesh cross, to be the rising sun, the dream. We are Greatness in the image of "I am".)</i></b><br />
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ח רְבָה אִילָנָא, וּתְקִף; וְרוּמֵהּ יִמְטֵא לִשְׁמַיָּא, וַחֲזוֹתֵהּ לְסוֹף כָּל-אַרְעָא. 8 The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth.<br />
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<i><b>(When a tree grows it extends outward to reach out to relatives. And when we join with others we grow in strength through bonds of marriage as well as bonds of relatives. When we feel strong, we can do anything including riding the waves of heaven, the spiritual soul's journey. And when we take this flight we can flow from the beginning to the ends where they unite to be the sacred circle of life. The height reached or extended into another's space of brotherhood or hand of god, the gift of giving. And the sight saw, or to and fro, the breath and heart which do unite to be the "I am", the dream, the sister who teaches you to unite what is separate, the gift of receiving. <br />
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Remember when we see with our eyes of light space (earth) and when we sea with our vision of dark space (heaven). We are the strong tree of life, which journeys from heaven the beginning to the end which is earth, where we experience death. Yet the journey of life in heaven is eternal and our souls never die. In death, we learn lessons and transformation. In life, we learn to negotiate and know destruction, to arise again, like a seed. Each travel and transmit along the wave where the song of angels do sing, and this includes you as well as the extending towards relatives and the law of love that binds us to each other, creating oneness in all life. We journey and exist, therefore I am the dream!)</b></i><br />
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</div>ט עָפְיֵהּ שַׁפִּיר וְאִנְבֵּהּ שַׂגִּיא, וּמָזוֹן לְכֹלָּא-בֵהּ; תְּחֹתוֹהִי תַּטְלֵל חֵיוַת בָּרָא, וּבְעַנְפוֹהִי ידרון (יְדוּרָן) צִפְּרֵי שְׁמַיָּא, וּמִנֵּהּ, יִתְּזִין כָּל-בִּשְׂרָא. 9 The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was food for all; the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the branches thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.<br />
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<i><b>(Leaves represent relatives. Each of us are a leaf or a relative and when we have family, we begin to extend outward like growth on a tree. Many times in songs of the heart, leaves are mentioned, and the branches join together the many leaves from the same base or trunk of the tree, united in the law of love and flowing like the a wave of communication. Also if a leave is fair, then we are true to the light of our flesh and song of our hearts. Fairness is when we treat all our relatives like family. We care for their needs and we tend to suffer for the ones we love. Now as evolution is changing from the second phase of evolution, the world of flesh or light, to the third phase of evolution's folding, the world of flesh or light with soul or dark. Together we join as ONE, our selves are married to ONE true road, when we do what we say, we become Elders to the world, and we follow our dream born within, the light from within, the yellow illumination of the sun rising and setting. </b><br />
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<b>Another point of reference is the color of the leaf, most leaves are green when they are fair, not are they just born, often lighter in color, but a darker color of green which represents the flowing of the transmission, the journey along the wave, the transmission of our voice, coming from within. The native peoples speak the star language meaning of images. And they often call the journey of life, "where the green grass grows". Green is the soul, which leads the way, like heaven leads the way along the river of life of the flowing. The fair leaf is the soul who is leading the right way of living, or the soul of heaven speaks to the flesh of earth to lead us on the right path towards the middle way, where the flowing of life along the wave form "transmission". The journey moves into abundance unfolding, like a blossom, where the golden yellow light or birth of a dream is born. Yellow is the middle color seen when traveling down the center of the soul's flight, as many people speak of the yellow cords that bind us together. We see yellow only when we are free to flight and not bond down to the lessons or at the edges of the river bank but flowing down the middle of the river. Not right, not left, but down the middle where the two join as one, the birth of a dream or even the birth of a child.<br />
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When there is plenty of fruit, then the blossoms have unfolded, where many dreams have shown through and were successful to the transmission form the wave of continuation, like a family tree expresses. Having enough food for the soul for all. As we start in heaven, we reflect to the earth below, here when we have enough sustenance for our souls, then we have enough for our flesh and bellies as well. This is why we need trust and have faith, when it seems we have not enough in our lives. But with prayer and faith our sustenance will grow, to produce us with plenty to gift us with what we need for another day. Having enough for all, depends on our trusting the ONENESS or </b></i><b><i>G_ah_d</i></b><i><b> of the eternal growing from beginning to the end of the sacred circle.<br />
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When the beasts of the field have shadow under it, we are blessed that we have shade, for the shadow is the to and fro of the waning and waxing of our moon, whom reflects for us in the changing times, where stillness guides our way. Reflection is what we do with our hearts, we cry for tears of joy and tears of sorrow creating a path to discovery and knowledge or wisdom. We are animals, a beast, and we are driven by our desires, yet if we listen to our stillness and reflect with prayer, wisdom guides us along the middle road, the dream. The fowls of heaven dwelt in the branches is our flesh, carried by the flight of our dreams unfolding, where we join together with relatives. Thus leaves on the tree of life gift us the journey along the wave of lights, creation or the unfolding of the dream, the blossom. WE live inside our flesh, like the birds dwell in the branches, where the laws are given, the law of love. Here we are nourished by both the soul which guides us, but the flesh too which offers us fruits of wisdom living out our dreams.)</b></i><b></b><br />
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י חָזֵה הֲוֵית בְּחֶזְוֵי רֵאשִׁי, עַל-מִשְׁכְּבִי; וַאֲלוּ עִיר וְקַדִּישׁ, מִן-שְׁמַיָּא נָחִת. 10 I saw in the visions of my head upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven.<br />
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<b><i>(Again, vision is both by sight of luminosity and by sight of numinosity, we embrace our visions, as teachers guiding us forward along the path of life. A head is round beginning and ending to greet each other, like when heads collide, to kiss using love or when we use our heads as a tool to destruction or creation, depending on the day and persons we may be around, the relative to our space. A bed is a place where we lie down, to view the stars, the lights of heaven's birthing ground or a place to sleep and rest, where we dream to view the darkness, the embrace of earth's death and destruction. Like now we are moving from the second phase of evolution to the third phase where the two (mother-dark, father-light) join together to be three (mother-heart, father-flesh, child-dream is born), the reflection of our resting place, stillness. <br />
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Behold a watcher! These are our guardians and teachers who guide us down the journey of life. Just like when we watch people at what they do. Some even say, "I am people watching". This offers us wisdom as receive all of what our relatives greet and meet together as we become stillness or heavenly action of receiving. Guardians of the numinous flowing or heaven come in all shapes and sizes, just like our earthly realm provides us with. And each have a heavenly name and sacred four directions with rainbow colors or tools. Guiding is an action of giving as well as motion or transiting, what we call our voice. Now a watcher is stillness like heaven and a holy one is motion like earth, where both start from heaven and descend to earth where the beginning and the end greet one another to become whole, the sacred circle of life. One more thing, when we bless it is an action, we are blessed it is an action, but when we bless and are blessed by others we are breathing or journeying on the wave of the blue, the song of me and you, the heart knows, the to and fro where the billows blow us forwards. <br />
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But what makes us united is when we travel both roads, the giving and receiving, then we are one dream and we are able to do what we say, as only Elders do. As most of the world at this phase of evolution do not do what they say, because they are not yet recognizing their own souls. We were heading to the top of the hill, and now we are descending down from heaven, to receive our souls to guide us homeward, upon heaven and earth. Not just the light of earth, but the soul of heaven too. <br />
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How do we know what is blessed and what is not? What is holy one is blessing-giving and the watcher is guiding-receiving. These are the paths to an end, the sacred one, "I am" where we start in heaven and end back in heaven again after death, to begin all over again to join where we started again, to start another journey again.) </i></b><br />
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</div>יא קָרֵא בְחַיִל וְכֵן אָמַר, גֹּדּוּ אִילָנָא וְקַצִּצוּ עַנְפוֹהִי, אַתַּרוּ עָפְיֵהּ, וּבַדַּרוּ אִנְבֵּהּ; תְּנֻד חֵיוְתָא מִן-תַּחְתּוֹהִי, וְצִפְּרַיָּא מִן-עַנְפוֹהִי. 11 He cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.<br />
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<i><b>(He-the light cried out, which means the flesh used a voice to speak about the journey, the transmission over rolling hills of time, to make known. As we hewn, we create a path, to begin again. If we cut down a tree we destroy the trees ability to receive from the flesh, the world of light. We are not near our relatives and all the leaves fall down and are buried, leaving us without the embrace of giving or the hands of </b></i><b><i>G_ah_d</i></b><i><b> the Oneness, but we are left with fruit that scatters, the very seeds of life that provides us with new growth. Yet the animals who have the beast within (desire-to want), go to different places to seek sustenance and the birds without (yearning- to give) have to fly from relatives to seek sustenance. The branches of extending and the trunk of law have been taken away, in order that we journey to new worlds from old dreams and to transmit a signal along a wave form, to swell in our hearts and to seek and follow love again and again.</b><br />
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<b>To put under is to forgive, to fly away is to be free, these are the gifts we cherish and hold dear to each and everyone of us, including the mighty and the small. We are all relatives who journey together to grow and teach, to receive and love, to be the dream of "I am". The green grass that flows, the journey of life begins in the crystalline stone river, where the dark and the light travel together, where heaven is parts of the sum or whole, this is the path of the hewn! Here the sound of where angels do sing, like the rushing river. The rainbow clan flowing brotherhood, with the laws of sisterhood, where love unites the way to conform to principles of moral behavior.)</b></i><i></i><br />
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יב בְּרַם עִקַּר שָׁרְשׁוֹהִי, בְּאַרְעָא שְׁבֻקוּ, וּבֶאֱסוּר דִּי-פַרְזֶל וּנְחָשׁ, בְּדִתְאָא דִּי בָרָא; וּבְטַל שְׁמַיָּא יִצְטַבַּע, וְעִם-חֵיוְתָא חֲלָקֵהּ בַּעֲשַׂב אַרְעָא. 12 Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even in a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth;<br />
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<b><i>(When the stump is left in the earth's center darkness, or what is often called the lower heaven "to put under", where purification has occurred with fire flowing like lava and forgiveness has entered the stream. Here the root continues to receive sustenance from within. With the band of iron , which has a "ev" or mean excitation energy often called electron volts is 286. These numbers speak this story, the communicating, uniting and transmitting holy perfection, the blessed sacred way! Iron is an element which is part of a whole and is needed to be with others to unite, it seeks and searches out the other. (gives off electrons freely?)<br />
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Brass is an alloy, which is a sum of a whole, however brass has another meaning also, since it is made up of copper and zinc. Brass is subject to dezincification, which means, when exposed to water what is left is copper. This metal turns green, like old brass plumbing fittings. It's journey transforms and changes to become the green. And green is the field of grass, that is where the river flows, and our souls know which way to go, guiding us towards the dream from within. By the way, zinc is crystalline formation and is the stone river that we journey upon. An interesting note is that copper is soft, pliable and high conduction to electron discharge, which means, it relieves us in times of stress, like being near water, our path the soul journeys, the blue of you and me, relatives, the leaves on a tree.<br />
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Now when iron and brass come together, we call this a copper alloy which has high strength, good formability and relatively high electrical conductivity. Iron strengthens the brass, especially when in a band form, when bonded together. Here we have the soul's motion, of feelings through water and the flesh's motion through crystalline formations, the perfect structure, crystals, with the relief of the heart with tears of joy and pain, where we journey unified as one band (rainbow colors), the eternal circle of life that begins and ends within heaven, the numinous flowing of the darkness, where stars are born, your dream, through the purification process of fire. This story reminds us to be blessed, both receiving and giving, united down one flowing, the eternal marriage of soul and flesh when reborn, journeying, death and resurrection. Wow, isn't God just perfect yielding strength and conductivity. <br />
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Remember the tender grass is the place of our home, the four sacred directions, where the flowing occurs. Where is it, but in a field, where it is open and free to blow in the wind. Our wind goes to and fro, the place of knowing when we pray. When the four directions in the house of god is united with the two directions of the to and fro, our unification allows us six sides, the Star of David. Here is the perfect crystalline river, where the green grass flows, the house where our heart is! Mother Earth is our Rock, our home, where our hearts journey.<br />
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When the crystalline rock river is wet with dew, it fills up. The swelling of a heart makes us feel. Feeling is our emotions of all the greatness of existence, and makes life interesting when we speak our voice to the world. Now life wouldn't be boring if we did not have change or seasons in time. Just like our evolutionary process we are going through right now. Remember heaven is our feelings, the darkness of where our hearts live, inside the flesh, just like the to and fro lives inside the stone river of our soul. <br />
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This the same with the small and great, as said, let his portion be with beasts. Again his is the light of earth, which is only part of the whole and when dew of water joins, the darkness of heaven, we become whole. But even greater yet is the grass of earth, the place we call our home, where the heart roams is where do travel over rolling hills in time, to enjoy seasons like our four sacred directions of space. Hey space is the place with Grandmothers embrace!)</i></b><br />
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יג לִבְבֵהּ מִן-אנושא (אֲנָשָׁא) יְשַׁנּוֹן, וּלְבַב חֵיוָה יִתְיְהִב לֵהּ; וְשִׁבְעָה עִדָּנִין, יַחְלְפוּן עֲלוֹהִי. 13 Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.<br />
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<b><i>(When a man's heart of intelligence is changed to a beast's heart of emotions, then we are separated from ourselves journey upon journey as we ascend to learn about the darkness. For the seven colors of darkness, the second phase of evolution, shall pass over him to then go into the light again, to be holy and sacred to receive his intelligence again the song of brotherhood, where the new growth reaches into the light like the branches. The tree begins to form young new leaves, blossoms unfold to spring along the journey and to bear fruit once more. Like the off spring of generations who multiply to spread outward like branches to provide shelter, shade and sustenance for the multitudes.)</i></b><br />
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<b><i>(Matter is the light of the embrace, the hands of </i></b><b><i>G_ah_d</i></b><b><i> who serve, the watchers who look after you. And the sentence by the word or a law of love upon the rolling hills are the holy ones who await for purification of the soul, who receive the blessings. And when we ride the waves, we make our journey along the crystalline stone river , where the green grass grows is a swelling in our heart (sss-the law of love).<br />
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When we know the purpose of our lives, the name gifted for your mission (to receive the heart) and the tools of light (to give the embrace), your intent, these are the knowing of the Most High ruleth, the ONENESS, the complete of the whole of one, from heaven to heaven along the journeys path. This is the kingdom of luminosity, the man. Here we enjoy the light as true embrace,not just a dream, but a world that is touching and feeling. Giving is the will of man, to be a living brotherhood and receiving is the living sisterhood of uniting broken hearts. This world offers us purpose, intent, and sacredness within the dream who are able to "receive the gift". <br />
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The Great Spirits are our Relatives who love us, they offer to us all their kingdom as an heir to their throne, as kings-men. However we must be able to receive their wealth and abundance! For even Kings follow the leaders, Great Spirit father (earth, male, lightness, mission) and Great Spirit mother (heaven, female, darkness, embracing. Sometimes the throne of Holy Heaven, Elders call the Counsel of Larks, a district in four sacred directions, would be Great Spirit Uncle-Grandmother/one before two, united flowing dance (heaven and earth: order of sacred directions, child, dream, and re-birthing song) <br />
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When one learns to be like a child, innocent and pure because of sacred and moral ways, he become the lowliest, the servant slave. When you cross the red with blue and yellow rises, to lead you to wisdom, where being complete is all that matters, lives the dreaming. When whole as one within and we are able to shine the white light, completing the sacred directions of the crystalline stone river, purified and holy at all times, we can receive. This is the Native American Four Directions symbol of sacredness, Red, Blue, Yellow, and White, the colors of our Skin represent the universe. Blessings and holiness keep us purified and safe. Receiving is the blessing of the giver, the hands of God. <br />
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Let us receive our Great Spirits into our lives. Let us receive brotherhood into our lives. Let us receive sisterhood into our lives. These are the treasures of the meek, to receive, to be complete, the whole of One. Servants who receive the care of others, receive the gold and riches of this world, the very abundance brotherhood brings, when law of the heart, sisterhood brings. Let us be joined together as ONENESS CLAN, the Rainbow Warriors of Prophecy!</i></b><br />
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טו דְּנָה חֶלְמָא חֲזֵית, אֲנָה מַלְכָּא נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר; 15 This dream I king Nebuchadnezzar have seen.<br />
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<b><i>(Become complete in your self, when the red, blue, yellow give the white light, which then you are whole and become the whitey. I am the dream, the King, kinsman, relative, the servant slave. Welcome to the Dawning, where the Green Grass flows and the Yellow grains of abundance do grow. All your dreams come true!) </i></b><br />
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