October 3, 2012
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Fall Feast Pictures
More pictures of our fall feast, just for fun!
On Yom Kippur, we *FINALLY* got our mezuzah put up by the door. I chose not only to put the traditional verses in it from Torah, but some from the New Covenant in Messiah, as well.NoTe: I’m putting something amazing about the Shema in the comments.
Kol Nidre means crackers and water, all three meals,
and wearing all white. Next year I get a white tablecloth, too.NoTe: Everyone was allowed to forego the fast, but they all wanted to participate.
So I made sure the littles got cheese or peanut butter on their crackers
and apple juice, as well, to make it easier/tastier for them.
Assembling a Sukkah! Baby O has good form while helping!
This is the time of year my nativity comes out, too.
((I made and painted this set when I was 16, so it’s rather special.))
Lydia made paper chains for our Sukkah…
Here it is, all ready for our pizza picnic supper!
Our lulav was kind of hodged of substitutions…
a lemon, corn stalk, verbenum branch,
and some willow kindly donated by Brian’s Aunt Barb.
Preparing for our first night of sleeping in the sukkah…
Note the willows hanging so nicely! Thank you, Aunt Barb!
The morning of Sukkot – our colors are really starting to come out.
Waking up in the booth… what a fun festival this is!Sukkot – Day 3!!
Comments (5)
shema? in which comments?
Cute pictures – we had to go with a lemon too- and some other subsitutes. ah well! looks good
So, you don’t do a full fast? ‘Cause…it nearly did me in this year. Crackers would have helped……
And, yeah…:tapping foot: What comments???
ETA: Your mezuzah is pretty! What verses did you add?
:kisses: Ephesians 2:19-22 are the verses I added.
:kisses: I progressively did less. I started with crackers/water for supper the evening of, then did just water for breakfast, then did nothing after that until after sundown, for our feast. But I don’t see how making yourself lightheaded could be beneficial to anything, y’know?
:kisses: Oh, CRAP, I… shiny… and forgot! It was something about the Shema (what is put in the mezuzah) that I read in TorahClass that FLOORED me, this week. Here, let me get that:
“The focus of Deuteronomy chapter 6 centers on verses 4-9 and especially verses 4 and 5. Verses 4 and 5 are considered so important to the faith of Yehoveh worship that it has been given a separate title: The Shema.
“The Shema goes by another name as well: Hear O Israel. So fundamental to the basis of the entire Torah (and to Christian principles) is the Shema… And for those who say (mistakenly) that Jesus Christ came to distance Himself and His followers from the Torah (despite His forceful statement of Matthew 5:17-19 to the contrary), listen to this passage from the Gospel of Mark (also present in the other Synoptic Gospels), Mark 12: 28 – 30:
“NAS Mark 12:28 And one of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is one Lord; 30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
“Now, listen to Deuteronomy 6:4,5: NAS Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one! 5 “And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
“Yeshua was of course quoting the Shema; He was quoting the Torah. But to listen to most Evangelical church leaders today one would think everything Jesus did was to essentially say, “throw away everything you ever knew, I’m going to give you brand new laws and commands that replace all that came before”.
“Further, notice that Jesus also doesn’t drop “Israel” from this statement, nor does He replace it with “church”. It occurs to me that usually when we’re asked what the greatest command is, we have been well trained enough to know it; so we immediately respond with “love the Lord with all you heart, mind, and strength”. Since we are but quoting Messiah, why is it that we intentionally MISQUOTE Him? Why do we start quoting halfway through that statement? Why do we simply drop the “Hear O Israel the Lord is our God, the Lord is One” that precedes it?
“Therefore, gentile Christians, if we’re going to say that there are commands that are for Israel, and that these are separate from commands that are for “the Church”, then along with disposing of the 10 Commandments (which were given to Israel as part of the Law) intellectual honesty compels us to also throw out this Torah command from Jesus to love God AS the God of Israel.
“Just so I’m not misunderstood: I am stating emphatically that there are NOT separate commands and gospels for Israel versus for the Church and that of course the 10 Commandments and the Shema are for the Church just as they are for Israel. I am also stating that it is heartbreaking and infuriating that for so many centuries institutional Christianity has chosen to falsely declare the abolishment of Torah, supposedly to be replaced with Jesus’ establishment of a whole new religion completely apart from the Hebrew faith; a religion by, of, and for gentiles. We have been led down (and have EASILY accepted) a crooked path; and the fruit of that acceptance is the enactment of a whole series of false doctrines that have led to the Crusades, the Inquisition, the re-establishment of Secular Humanism and the Holocaust.
“And now in our time our beloved church has become powerless, self-absorbed, and prosperity-oriented all the while it ignores the impact of the prophetic rebirth of Israel and the return of Jerusalem to the control of the Hebrews. We have seen the Christian institution move towards outsourced ministry, a watered down but diversely tolerant gospel, a Jesus who is separate from the Father, a denial of sin and evil, and the observance of paganized holidays while ignoring those that the Lord Himself has declared holy.
“The Shema ought to be a wake-up call to God’s people; all of God’s people.”
:kisses: Isn’t that AMAZING?!?!?!?!
YES! That floored me, both when I first read it, and now. I wish the church would pull their heads OT and READ what they supposedly believe.
It never made sense to me that christians will tell you that the OT laws don’t apply anymore but in the same breath will tell you that the 10 Commandments are “rules” that are essential to keeping their faith. Apparently they don’t realize that the 10 Commandments are a summary of the entire Law and the “Love thy neighbor as thyself” is a one line statement to sum everything up. I go around and around with my christian friends over this.