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Fifty days after Passover, the Jewish people celebrate the holiday of Shavuoth. Originally one of the three pilgrimage festivals of ancient times, the holiday has come to represent the giving of the Law (Torah) at Mount Sinai. Like most Jewish holidays,...
Hodges: All about Pentecost and the Holy Spirit’s vital role By Corey J. Hodges Special to The Tribune Published May 26, 2012 12:13AM MDT Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. Pentecost originally was a Jewish holiday known as the Feast of Weeks, observed 50 days after Passover. It became known as Pentecost, a Greek word meaning 50th. The celebration marked the end of the spring harvest, when God’s people ...
Shawn Green enjoyed quite the professional baseball career: In 13 seasons, he clubbed 328 home runs, drove in 1,070 runs, batted .283, was a two-time All-Star and retired in 2007 holding or sharing seven Major League records. The former Dodger also twice refused to play on Yom Kippur.
Shavuot – the Festival of Weeks — is the second of the three major festivals with both historical and agricultural significance (the other two are Passover and Sukkot). Agriculturally, it... Read more »
We commonly identify idolatry as the worship of nature, statues or pictures. But idols also can be ideas and they often surface in the realm of politics, the writer says.
It was Clayton Christensen?s Sandy Koufax moment. Just as Koufax, the Brooklyn Dodgers ace and an observant Jew, refused to start Game 1 of the 1965 World Series because it fell on Yom Kippur, management guru Clay Christensen refused to play in the championship game of the UK?s equivalent of the NCAA tournament because the ...
KIRYAS JOEL, N.Y. (AP) — Thousands are expected to gather at a Hasidic Jewish enclave in upstate New York for a holiday celebration. The village of Kiryas Joel (keer-YAS' JOE'-ell) will hold its annual traditional bonfire to mark the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer (log bah-OH'-mer) on Wednesday night.
A story is told of a distinguished rabbi who on the day before Yom Kippur entered the synagogue and began to beat his chest, crying aloud, “Oh, HaShem, I am unworthy in your sight; I am nothing, absolutely nothing!” As he loudly proclaimed his humility, another equally distinguished rabbi entered …
Each year on Yom Kippur, we read lines from this week’s Torah portion that teach us about appropriate observance during this High Holy Day. And within this reading we find the defining line, “It shall be a Sabbath of Sabbaths for you, and you shall afflict yourselves [v’initem et nafshotaichem]; it is an eternal decree” (Leviticus 16:31). Although we are not eating or doing anything that affirms ...
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