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Worshipping The Creator Of The Heavens and The
Earth.......The
אל [EL/G-d] of
אַבְרָהָם
[Avraham/Abraham] יִצְחָק [Yitzchak/Isaac]
and יַעֲקֹב
[Ya'akov/Jacob/Y'israel]
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Most High" in a way you may have never
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Because, "When
Ye Seek Him, You Will Find Him".
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Rosh Chodesh and the
Greeks
by Rabbi Dr Raymond Apple
It seems a strange mitzvah to oppose.
There is a tradition
that amongst the ways the Greeks
attacked Judaism was to seek to
eradicate Kiddush HaChodesh, the
determination of the new moon. Looked at
in isolation it seems a strange
mitzvah to oppose.
To target Rosh HaShanah, Yom
Kippur or Pesach, to attempt to abolish
Shabbat and Kashrut - this might
have been the more obvious way to go.
But Kiddush HaChodesh? Surely it
is one of the least essential Jewish
practices.
The Greeks knew what
they were doing. It always seems to
happen with anti-Semites that the aspect
of Judaism they ridicule and attack is
unfortunately well chosen. Kiddush
HaChodesh is an example. It is a
practice on which hangs the whole of the
Jewish calendar and, hence, the whole
pattern of Jewish observance. Jews who
lose touch with the calendar lose their
Judaism. A life without Jewish events
loses Jewish identity.
Rabbi Samson Raphael
Hirsch put it positively. "The catechism
of the Jew," he said, "consists of his
calendar."
The dates a Jew holds
sacred show you what that Jew believes
in. Rosh HaShanah means the belief in
Creation and a Creator. Yom Kippur means
personal responsibility for one's deeds.
Sukkot is Divine protection. Pesach is
freedom for every human being. Shavu'ot
is moral law. Without the calendar there
is no Judaism.
The
aspect of Judaism that they ridicule and
attack is unfortunately well chosen.
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