Dolores Jones

Immediately after the breaking of the fast on Yom Kippur, the sound of hammers tapping can be heard in Jewish neighborhoods. A start is made in building the temporary booth or SUKKAH, in a backyard or on a balcony, which will be the center of the week-long Festival celebration. The booths, or sukkot, symbolize the temporary shelters that housed the Israelites during their forty-year journey through the wilderness en route to the Promised Land. A sukkah must have at least three walls and be big enough to eat a meal inside it. The main message of the sukkah lies in the fact that it is a temporary dwelling. It reminds us that our lives on earth are also temporary and just as God protected, guided and provided for His people on their precarious travels through the wilderness, so our Father will care for us as we undertake our tenuous journey through this world. As His children, we can joyfully, in complete faith and trust, rest in the knowledge that our true shelter is found in His constant Presence. …

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Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year—the day on which we are closest to God. It is the Day of Atonement—"For on this day He will forgive you, to purify you, that you be cleansed from all your sins before God" (Leviticus 16:30).

In Biblical times, when the Temple was standing, Yom Kippur was the one day of the year when the Cohen Gadol, the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies and performed the atonement ritual on behalf of the entire community before the Ark of The Covenant. The High Priest wore white robes on Yom Kippur—today as both an act of remembrance of the Temple services, and to symbolize the purity that represents God’s cleansing, we wear white also. We also refrain from wearing leather and excessive outer adornments such as jewelry and other fine things to symbolize that neither wealth nor poverty divide us, but we are all equal before the eyes of God. …

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In just 8 days, the Palestinians will be making a unilateral move to abandon the Peace Process and declare statehood.   They will request the borders to be the 1967 lines. They would control Jerusalem, or most of it, for sure the Old City and the Temple Mount. …

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The festival of Rosh HaShanah, literally the ‘Head of the Year,’ marks the start of the Hebrew calendar year. This year it falls on 29th September and commences the year 5772.  It is the first celebration of the Fall Festival cycle that we refer to as the High Holidays, which includes Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. The fall holiday cycle ends with the final festival of Sukkot. The Bible refers to the holiday as Yom Ha-Zikkaron (the Day of Remembrance) or Yom Teruah (the Day of the Sounding of the Shofar). The holiday is instituted in Leviticus 23:24-25. “Speak to the people of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of complete rest, a holy convocation commemorated with trumpet blasts.” …

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It is often said that a woman of faith should not at all be concerned with outer beauty (citing 1Peter 3:1-6), that inner beauty is all that matters. Any or excessive efforts at outer adornment are all vanity. But what kind of “beauty” is Peter referring to?

Peter uses Sarah as the example of beauty, and the one that all godly women should emulate. He mentions these things as regards women and ties them all to Sarah: …

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