Foundation Course - Class 3 New Format

Check and make sure we are recording cuz we should be now at this point. And we are recording. Good. All right, so let me start us with prayer this morning and then we'll jump right into the slides, avinu, malkeinu, father and our King. We come before you this morning and we are so thankful for the opportunity to be able to learn a little bit more about your word about who you are the truth of your good news, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile lower. Thank thankful for that Lord. Help us to learn this morning, how to contextualize what we do in the Jewish Community to be able to reach them with a good news and Messiah. That's what we're all about here. Lord is to be able to win those who are the lost sheep of the House of Israel. And also, the seat to be a light to the nation's Lord help us to do that this morning and we give you all the praise and all the glory and she was named. Amen. All right, so I'm going to have my folder right next to me here as I go through these slides, because I think it's important as a couple of details that might be in the folder that we don't have. So this, this lesson here is on Jewish Customs, moedim leadership vision and involvement part one. So you can probably imagine I'm probably going to get there all these slides, but we'll see how we do today. I will see how far we get. So we're going to Jump Right In first of all, the Jewish customs. And so one of the first ones that a lot of people know about Jewish Customs or it's something they see is something called a yamaka yamaka. It's how you're actually supposed to pronounce that. But in Texas, we usually say, yamaka, it just comes out like Yamaha, but yamaka, so, and that is a Yiddish word. So, if you never heard yarmulka before, it's actually a Yiddish word. And there's also I got them all here. Might only back. There's also the Hebrew word, which is keep, and the plural for that is keep Haute. So I'm about to show my cup of cheer. Oh, maybe I don't have it on here. These are a couple different types of boat. As you get off. There's different flavors. I've got one in my office that Shannon gave me, that's Dallas. Cowboys, don't judge me. But I love my big Dallas Cowboys fan, but I don't wear it. Cuz, you know, all the I just get persecuted when I do that. So I won't wear that one out. Here it is.

Dallas Cowboys. I mean it's as large as their Stadium things, huge but it is another yamaka. Let me also just while I'm looking over here, just tell you about a couple of books that are not on our reading list, but I would recommend highly that you at some point. Get these and these are this is these are the first two books. I read the miss, any movement, back in the mid-90s and their Barney Cashton. Who great guy, he's a, he's in San Diego and it's God's appointed times and God's appointed Customs. So, if you've not read these books, they are absolutely wonderful books and barn. He's a great guy. He goes through all this and just explain the different holidays, how you do things are things you can eat songs that are sung just really good. So when we talk about God's appointed times the word that we use, their is moed. Or pluralismo Adine. And so, I literally means God's appointed times. So a lot of times a festival or a feast is a hog. So, you'll hear somebody says hog sameach which basically means joyous. Feast, when you hear somebody say hog, sameach off, in a couple of weeks. You're going to hear a lot of people say it, l'shana Tova or Shana Tova for short, and that is to a good year, or just straight Goodyear, Shana meaning year and Tova from La Quinta in my toe, behold. How good Tove is, the is the Hebrew word for good? So, just a couple of things there around that. So you'll hear some of that as we go. And I'll walk to that as we as we go through the slides today. So, yamaka, there is no command in the tour to wear a kippah or yamaka. It's actually something that we don't see in the Torah, but it's customary to wear one in the synagogue or a holy place. And it's, it's part of tradition. And two other things we do that. That are not necessarily in the tour and you're going to ask why we do it. And I'm going to sing the song, tradition, tradition, some things we do, listen to, there's nothing wrong. And I want you to get this clear in your head. There's nothing wrong with your additional things, as long as they do, not go against what's in the New Testament. And we said that before and it's very important for us to realize that that's okay. And so we're going to be an ass as a Jewish person. We're going to do those things as end of the Jewish people, even though I'm a gentile, you know, Dayton's got a tie on today and a nice-looking. Jackie looks good. If I was at a church in San Diego and I wore what he's wearing today. I may look a little different out of place because they're all going to wear shorts board shorts and Hawaiian shirts. Cuz as soon as the service is over there, going to go to the beach and I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying that's their culture if I was in a place like that and got call me to the Midwest and that everybody wore a suit and tie. Guess what? I'm going to I'mma start wearing a suit and tie because we're going to try to meet where the culture is in the contacts that the cultures in. So that's what we do. It's meant to remind us that guys are 40 and that he is above us. So, that's kind of the idea behind that. And this is a beautiful picture Gentiles wearing them is actually as a sign of respect and you will probably see if you if you saw some of the things that happened around 9:11 some of the terrible things that happen. A lot of Jewish funerals go see a lot of the Statesman and some of the folks are not Jewish up come in and I'll wear one and just it kind of let you know, too, because there's so many different types. There are a couple other things around. Keep hope that we were just kind of want to talk about and that is if you were going to be doing a

Get it. So, if you're going to be doing a high holiday services like Yom, Kippur, or you're going to do usually at Passover seder. During those holidays. You'll see men wear white as opposed to darker colored keep oat. And so, the difference there is just around the holiday and there's not really any Rhyme or Reason around it. It's just part of the, it's nothing in the Torah that says you do that. But it goes back to at least, for those who are leading the service with the levitical priests would have worn and a sense of a Hino white. So that's what that kind of comes from. But a lot of this came out of second century of rabbinic traditions and it's probably reaction to some degree because of anti-Semitism. So that's, that's a big part of it. All right. So that's our coupon for the day. Now, the next thing is the tallit. And so, you may hear at all, eat, you may hear Tallis. That's the word that used. You usually, with those Folks up, north Austin, Aziz those from New Jersey, Mike's, a Tallis. How you doing? So that might happen. So, this is a beautiful garments worn and you, I would recommend you even go out and YouTube this and just see how different people put the, the, the Tolley on. But this is the Torah. And so, it says, here, speak to b'nai Israel, say to them, that they are to make themselves seat seat. So the fringes on the, on the Garment down here at the bottom. The CT, one of the things you want to do is kind of, make sure you run your fingers through those and get them all straightened out for you. Put it on. On the corners of the Garment throughout the generations than they are to put a blue Cordon HTC. So some of these do have blue chords blue thread running down on each one. It will be your own seat seat. So, whenever you look at them, you will remember all the mits vote of our own. I, and do them and not go spying out after your own hearts and your own eyes prostituting yourself. So, you can see how, what a serious deal. This is the bottom line is every time a Jewish man puts us on the ideas remembering what God has done in his Commandments. Okay, so that's what that's about. So our Holocaust here and this is different from congregation to congregation are Holocaust here. The Way We Walk is we allow Jewish men and gentlemen to where the tally to the tallest, tallest, tallest. Oh, okay. So there you'll see, and I love the way, if you see or Gabba, Jesse, how he does his We'll talk about that in a minute. I wear my very simplistically, there's a lot of different ways. You can put it on. If you're going to wear traditional garments, you need to respect those garments. And so, that's what's very important about what we do is we we, we do respect days and, and so it's important for us to realize that that's a, that's an important piece of of Judaism and Jewish practice that Ali is always worn with a kippah. And meaning that you're at your usual and I can see somebody wearing a tie late and not have a yamaka on or turkey pot pies. We said before, that's the Yiddish word. But keep ties is Hebrew. And finally the tall Adidas warm during a service, but not to be worn in the restrooms. So if you'll see if you, if you want down the hall and you see are are restrooms right there. You'll see a coat rack. That's really not a coat rack at the tale track. We just renamed it. And so that's what that's for. You wonder why the world is? The reason why is because we don't wear the tall eat inside, okay. So when men will put this on what they were, there's a lot of ways to do it and and I'm sure. You know, Lee catch are some other ways he seen it or how he puts his on. But but one of the things that men will do is they'll take the crown of it, which is the front part of this the crown and they'll read what's on their end. So, what once they do that blessing, they read that they'll save in. This is the blessing Brooke of time or not at all. He knew, melekh ha-olam, I share cuz it shiny, but Mitzvah Tabatha Vaughn new, like he's a tough but see seats. Okay, and so everybody get that, no problem, right? You got the translation blessed. Are you Lord? Our God is Sanctified us with your Commandments and commanded us to wrap ourselves in the seats. And one of the things that you'll see happened because I wear my pretty simplistic. Like, I usually do this in the back room when nobody's around. Then I usually put it on my head and say that and I'll wear it. But you'll see like Jessie and you'll see Rabbi Ron and others. They will do theirs and they will actually take it. And they'll, they'll put it over in those raped. The whole thing, over them. And then they'll pull up the four corners of the Garment. And that's important because that's The things I talk about doing it is making sure that you had those four corners and you'll see, man, who wear CC all week long, that you'll see them down the corners and you'll see that they have the four corners of the Garment covered. And so that's what's important about this. Once again, it's very it's a very important things, it to be respectful to these. We recommended if you are a gentile and you're going to wear that that you do that respectfully let a Jewish person help you or go you too, but if you don't understand exactly how that that works. So once again, this is not legalism to us. This is us being in contacts to what we do around a Jewish synagogue, right? Yes, ma'am.

Yeah, that's very, very traditional thing to and I will tell you and there are actually women to do. We're totally totes. In other synagogues are Halle here. Is that we don't do that, but you'll, you will see it occasionally, but yes, head coverings. A lot of women do that. That's a part of culture in a lot of places to be honest.

Right, right. So it, so I would just say, generally speaking. Usually people don't do what the Lord says to do. I will tell you that there are all sorts of different rules and all sorts of different synagogues. We just don't do that here, to be honest. So, yep. All right. What about the, the Sabbath or the Shabbat or Shabbos? Sometimes you'll hear it called that. I used to love this one. I'm not going to tell you who it was, but he used to call me all the time to say Good Shabbos cuz he couldn't say the word Shabbos. And so I started calling Richard right by Richard and I'd say Good Shabbos to him and he would laugh but the word Sabbath Shabbat plural Shopper tote and so we'll talk about the Sabbath a little bit while we are in the Sabbath right now. Obviously the Jewish status starts at sundown on Friday night ends at sundown on Saturday night. I bet probably everybody in the room already knew that but it is a common to start Shabbat on Friday night with an air of Shabbat meal and clothes. She bought on Saturday with. Abdallah. So hadala is and I didn't bring my set in with me this morning, but it's a separation of the Sacred from the rest of the week. And so when we do that, we will usually do a few things. We will have a cup of wine. We will have us spices of Spice Box. We will have a a big, beautiful candle that's in her woven and we'll do the different blessings for that. And if we do that, we separate the sacred from the secular. Until we do that, there's different blessings that we do with that around the the wine around the spices around the fire and there's a couple other blessings to. And basically then we finish that with saying shavua, Tov to a good week. We may sing the song. There's a lot of other things you can sing eliyahu, lot of different things that we do. And so that's that's also a traditional thing. I didn't put that in the slides, but it's something that we do a lot of times. It will meet up here on Saturday night sometimes and have a special service and we will do a hub dollar service at that point and usually sing Debbie Friedman song which is Beautiful song, everyone at CBS and courage to sanctify the day, and join us for Shabbat services at CVM and whether that's in person or online, we believe in sanctifying today and that looks different for different people. And once again at different, people are going to have a different ways of how they do that, but it's important for us to set apart that time. This is what it says in Hebrews. Let us consider one another in order to stir up. Love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as is the manner of somebody exhorting, one another and it's so much more as you see the day approaching there's different thoughts about what that means, the day, meaning the great day of the Lord when he returns, it could mean the day coming up as she bought, but what you can argue for sure because this is absolute fact is the word assembling there. You might have heard the word knesset before, you know, that word is used a lot in, in in Israel. Not just for their governmental Authority, but for assembling as a congregation, I will tell you the denomination, the Assemblies of God, probably got to the closest is now, they name their their, their movement, the Assemblies of God, because they use that same word. You know what that word is on the Greek there. The word is synagogue. If you go look that up in the Greek, the word there is a synagogue, a witch looks just like synagogue because it is and did. If you didn't know, this synagogue is actually a Greek word. It's actually a Greek word. And so, we came to set a guy came about after the war and during the Babylonian captivity. That's when the whole thing came out. But it's origin out of Babylon, at really came of the idea of the Greek word of it, became the word synagogue. And so, when you see that and you look it up in Greek, it's really a crazy thing. And I can't remember if I put that in the slides are in the module or not. But that we talked about. Yeah, I did. So epicenter go, gay is the word there, that's using a proposition right before the word synagogue. And when you do that, it means assembling. So at the synagogue, a means to assemble. All right, so it's the verb form of the noun synagogue. All right. So now this is where it gets fun. We get into the moedim here and I love this because every year and Becky and I have been doing this for 27 years. She's been doing it longer, but I will tell you, every year, when we have the fall feasts. I learned something new. I learned some a lot of things. New one thing. I learned this year that I didn't know before. Is that the Feast of Purim? We call it parents here in Texas. The casting of lots. That Feast is actually in the Book of John. It's mentioned in the Book of John. And so, I will give you that context next week, but it's actually, they are so, very interesting. It says, it's just a great feast happen among the Jews. And there's no, he always blames the face. He always names them. And this is the only place he doesn't end when you go and look at the historical context. The next passage is Passover. So in the chronological order of holidays, it's going to be her dream and then you're going to see Passover. So it's very interesting that it's mention. They're all right. So I love this. It says been on and I spoke to Moses saying Speak to b'nai Israel and tell them. These are the appointed Modine. Sometimes you're going to see that spelled slightly, different moedim with an e or Mona Dean with a. A means either appointed times or appointed places. Okay. It's a very close word in Hebrew. These are the appointed Modine with honor and I which you are Proclaim to be holy convocations, my madine, so we have quite a list here. And as I go through these, I will probably pass for questions when we get done with this, but let me just get through the last. First of all I put in the book and this is why I put this in here. I put the different verses are in Leviticus 23 to kind of correlates and correspond with where we go. Everybody always wants to know how do I find out about the feast? Well, besides the Barney cast the book I showed you. One of the places I would recommend you do is go sit down and read Leviticus 23. It's not a long chapter, just read the entire chapter and see what is listed in. Leviticus 23 23. And when you see that you'll see that the Litany of all the different moedim, the holidays that are there, until we're going to try to run through some of these and talk about them as we go pesach or pass over. So when we say Passover, will use the Hebrew word pesach, which is very much like Pascal, anybody from a, from a Latino background in here. Okay. So what is the, what is the Spanish word for Easter? Pasqua. Yeah, so you can already see where King James messed it up. I mean bless his soul, but King Jimmy wrote Easter in the King James Bible. There's no Jewish person to celebrate Easter. I promise you that did not happen. So that mistake there is actually a misprint and it should have been to work Passover. The only one all the rest of the different translations. Got it. Right when you look it up, but it's that were passed for the idea pasta in the Greek is very close to the Spanish word that we use. Whether you know, it's the it's the Castilian Spanish or it's it's the it's the Tex-Mex. We speak here either one. So it's going to be the same word. And so that's where we get it from. So it's Tessa and that's the word for pass over that we use the second when there is unleavened bread. And so you'll see in that passage. I showed you that passover's there and then followed by the Feast of unleavened bread. For 7 days. You would eat matzah for 7 days. After that one comes first fruits bickering and you'll see in some places. In here. We mentioned what that correlation is to your shoe at. And there's also a handout in your notebook, that explains this all me correlation to your shoe and the different feast and the Fulfillment. We won't get into that today, but but it's a good reading. Then after the Karim, we come to a Shop Low. By the way, bickering is one of those words like Hanukkah. If you ask somebody how to spell Hanukkah, they're going to give you seven different ways to spell Hanukkah. OK. Google for the Double K with no CH on the front. That's just mine. But that's either. It's just everywhere you go. It's going to be a little different. So bickering, the same way, sometimes just eat with 2K. Sometimes you see 1K different ways to spell Jabba. What is up with what we know as Pentecost? And so the Feast of Weeks also because we talked about chabua being a week, Shavuot being a plural for weeks. So it's the Feast of Weeks or the Feast of Pentecost, but it's known as shovel out. That's when the robot came and traditionally. That's also when the Torah was given so we will celebrate those things and we will talk about that or being given and the ruach, the Holy Spirit accept her to both of those things. Alright, you almost here or why Rosh Hashanah. So this is always a fun when you get to because there's a lot of different things around the house that we have to explain it in the class of don't really have time to completely unpack it but young Tarawa is the levitical name for the holiday and Rosh Hashanah is the name that's taken on through tradition over the years. So you'll hear us a Rosh Hashanah. And like I said earlier, you'll hear Shana Tova l'shana Tova. You'll hear those different things blessing, people for a good year. But Rosh Hashanah means head of the year. That's what it means. Interesting thing about that. And then we give you a little history and you'll kind of see where this came from because all of us were born a tradition to some degree. Why do you make the type of pancake you make on Sunday morning for your kids? Well, that's cuz Grandma made it this way. You know, why do you do this? Why there's Traditions that come about in your family. And so this is a tradition that came about Jewish Family Rosh Hashanah and how it got named young through all the holidays, at the Feast of the blowing of the trumpet, the paralyzed, the sound made by a shofar and you'll hear different ones that are made to Kia, shivering to renew. Are the three that we use during the Rosh Hashanah service. So, the day of the blowing of the trumpets is what that is. And that was true all the way through until Babylonian captivity. And the only place you see Rosh Hashanah is actually in the Book of Ezekiel. And you see Ezekiel talk about Rosh Hashanah. Why Rosh Hashanah? Where did that come from? And where did develop it came once again? Just looks like we got the synagogue. We got Rosh Hashanah out of that time. Where the Jewish people are in captivity and there was an Acadian phrase that was used that was very similar and in they just translated in Hebrew and it became head of the year because the acadians the Babylonian people celebrated the New Year twice. They celebrated in the spring and they celebrate in the fall. Why do I say that? Because the biblical New Year is in, in March or April? It said the month of Nisan. That's not a car. That's a month. The month of Nisan. 1st of Nisan is the beginning of the year from a Jewish calendar perspective. But history, the seven-month is the Civil New Year. If you will based on what happened and the akkadian celebrate above and so Jewish, people begin to celebrate more, this one to shree. And so all those names by the way, you're not in the Bible. When you see tishri, you might see a few of them here and there and Daniel cuz there's some a few things but you're not going to see him in the Torah. They're going to stay on the 1st on the 15th that 14th day of the first month. That's why I watch Lord of the Lamb. The 15th day you celebrate unleavened bread bubble on its own all the different things. On the first day of the seventh month, is the blowing of the shofar on the 10th day of the month. The day of atonement. So it's going to say that the seventh month or first month we get those different names from that same Babylonian tradition. So that's where they come from this morning. So when you hear Nissan or a Dar or history or some other month, those are coming from that, that tradition. So that's where Rosh Hashanah comes from. So it's part of Jewish tradition to celebrate the New Year in the fall and it's also in the Torah that it's actually in the spring. So it's very interesting there. And then, of course, we all mess it up here in America cuz we celebrate on January 1st. So happy New Year three times a year. If that's your if that's your thing. All right. Yom Kippur the holiest day of the year day of atonement. And in the Scripture, it actually says, Yom Kippur in. So because it's really the day of atonement Matt's. You probably haven't thought about that. But there's always two goats involved, right? But the debit own mind, is what we call it. But in the in the Hebrews actually Yom Kippur dream. And that when you hear this year, I think it's but I was going to sing this year, kol nidre and when you hear kol nidre, you'll hear the phrase kippa-ring when he sings it. Sukkot Sukkot is probably one of the most fun holidays. It is the Feast of booze or a sukkah, which is a temporary dwelling made of branches trees. That's a sucker. Floral is Sukkot. So that's where you get the phrase Sukkot from Feast of booze, or Feast of Tabernacles is what it's called. And so we went, we can read about that the scriptures in there. Talking about going out, making an offering staying in dwelling above the stars. All those are below the stars. All those things that you see in that passage in 23 about Sukkot and there's other places to about Sukkot, but that's a fun. We're going to go to Brackenridge Park this year. You can join us if you like you can even also even just come up for the day if you're not, if you're not a camper and I'm not a camper we're glampers. So we're going to be glamping in an RV. And so when that kind of thing happens, we all get together. Have a great time. It's a very low-key affair. And if we just love getting together and celebrating God's feast. Shemini, atzeret and simchat Torah. This is a very interesting one. This is also so many out there. It is also, mentioned this 8th day of assembly and that's the last day on Sukkot, and it's also mentioned in the Book of John and he says it, when the great day came, the great, the great 8th day, does they say? But it's a great day, came that caused the great day. And so it's the last day of Sukkot. And so this is very interesting in American rabbinic, Judaism. Usually, they'll celebrate as many out there it and simchat Torah, separate days and Israel. It's kind of back to back, like a mess together. And so we kind of do it in the Israeli format. So, what we'll do, is we will gather together on that Tuesday night. I think it's the 28th of September. I could be wrong this year, but it's pretty close to that. And so that Tuesday night will get get together and we will gather for a great assembly and then we will go ahead and celebrate sympathy. Which will actually roll the Torah. Scroll will read from the last portion and Deuteronomy 32, 31, 32, or 32 33. I can't remember which one it is the last portion and then we will roll the scroll all the way back to Bear sheet Genesis 1:1 and where we both portions, that night really fun. It's really fun. Unless you're rolling the Torah, scroll, when there's pressure and you're like, got to get this thing lined up, just perfect. So that's, that's all the big holidays that we see the MoMA team that are in the. That portions only pause for just a second for any questions before we jump into the next part.

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That's, that's hilarious. But he's ever been to a Jewish wedding. You'll definitely know about. What time is the Tish? They'll have all sorts of wild turkey and other things like that. I don't think we're going to be doing that one, bro. Just checking now, but Residence Inn point. We do we did in the beginning of epicyte way. Back in the day. We actually started with Errol schubot. We actually did a pair of Shabbat service and so we didn't do anything on Sunday morning and then over the years that kind of mashed. A lot of that you were standing on around here. We'll have a pair of Shabbat service and that's what they'll be doing. I know Ivar guitar player a lot of time she'll do some things called you about Kira when they get together on Friday night and they do a lot of singing and chill. Actually going to some of the synagogues and help them on the on the price on the not. There'd be no,, praise team, but on their worship team there that they'll help them do that, and then she'll come back to us on the Shabbat morning. So a lot of that happens, it's a beautiful thing. This is an interesting thing to Brooke, a shame and Dallas. They have a Shabbat morning service and then they have get there. If they call it Sunday school. They have Sunday school on Sunday morning, and it's both basically Hebrew school. And a lot of synagogues do that too. So, I have a service on Friday night, and then I'll have Sunday school on Sunday morning and they'll do Tori teaching others. Hebrew teaching and so, it's kind of neat. All right. So this one, everyone is encouraged to celebrate Jewish life cycle events and the minor holiday. So we're going to jump into some of that. Today is a great day to talk about this cuz today and service. We have a bat mitzvah daughter of The Commandments and a bar mitzvah. It's interesting. We don't call it a Ben. That's what I call the bar mitzvah. So the word Ben and Barb are interchangeable between Aramaic and Hebrew. And so we use the bar mitzvah phrase, but we're going to have a bat mitzvah today. For Layla, Holloway who her name? By the way means night. So we say Lyla Tov good. Good evening means evening or night. So we also do weddings and funerals. We can talk about some of those Traditions. Some of the beautiful things you see in weddings. A lot of times people sit on the wrong side of the Jewish wedding to wear to go. They also the beautiful thing of the circling of the Bride around the groom seven times this thing that will stand under call the hookah, I get to brag on the fact that my wife. Can I have the first wedding about Messiah, using a hopa? And it was at Braeswood Assembly of God, that's very hilarious. Because we didn't have a building. We were still roaming. Jewish people all around the city. And so we met at Braeswood for that wedding. It was so cold. Anybody here in 1989. We had a great freeze of 89. Yeah, that was my wedding day. So you're welcome. So anyhow, we stood under a chuppah. Now a lot of traditional weddings will have four poles and men will come in and I'll be at Ali time to that, and I'll carry it in. And this is very Unholy for me to say, I'm sorry, but just go Google some of those and watch some of their hilarious. You just see a guy lock, his knees for 2 hours and then just all the sudden just Fall over and you'll see your like it's very funny. I'm sorry, that's really rude of me to say, but it does happen and we are standing there for a long time. My encouragement. Is it in me, ever ask you to hold their pull over there. Hope for their wedding. Don't lock your knees, just kind of uniflex. So that's a beautiful picture of of their first home. And that's what it kind of represents. Is that the bride and groom's first home is, is right there, a beautiful thing. All right, so, weddings and funerals Hanukkah, so we'll talk about the minor face. I love Hanukkah, the Feast of dedication usually happens in November and December. Also in the scripture, John 10, it was winter and it was the Feast of dedication. You should was in Solomon's Colonnade. You can read about it there and he talks about that. He is the light of the world and so we make a lot of these correlations. I do not want to burst anybody's bubble. My wife not back there right now. I'm going to tell the story. So let me tell you about the Santa Claus version of Hanukkah, okay. Now, listen, I don't want to mess anybody up, and I want this to upset you, my wife in this room. I can't tell the story. So, around Hanukkah. There's a lot of oil, lot used, and there is this beautiful picture of how, when Antiochus epiphanes desecrated, the Temple of the maccabean Revolt happen, and it came in and then they cleaned up the temple and he found only enough oil for one day in the miracle. Was that oil lasted for eight days? Okay, that is the miracle of Hanukkah, okay.

Could be an urban legend. Okay. Be honest with you. That's probably why she doesn't want me to tell. Tell you it's a beautiful picture. It is beautiful, and we do it for dishes. But here's where you can find the true story of Hanukkah going to read 1st and 2nd Maccabees. It is a part of the Apocrypha, which is in the Catholic Bible, but it is the intertestamental. And you'll discover that when they found that and don't say anything about this, oil lasting for 8 Days. Miraculously, what they do say is that they did get some oil and they lit the lamp and they celebrated suit coat for 8 days. How long does Sukkot last 8 days? And so that's why we had this eight days of Hanukkah, please. I don't want to burst your bubble. Keep eating oil. Keep eating the donuts, do all that stuff. It's great. I'm just telling you there is another side to that story. That's the historical story of it. If there was oil that lasts for 8 Days, Brook a sham. I think it's a beautiful picture. But if you really go ask any Rabbi and he said, Tell me about Hanukkah and he'll say. Well and so that's the kind of aspect of it with a beautiful picture is is that they rededicated the Temple. And so for us as Believers, we can use this time to also think about rededicating our Temple, to service to the Lord, love it. Lots of donuts. Lots of fried potatoes, latkes. Maybe you don't like yours with sour cream, but I do, I like mine with anything to be honest. Brisket also works real. Well, I just love Lucky's as you can probably tell by my friend, alright? Primor / of the story of Esther beautiful story and this is usually a, a holiday celebrated in March and you'll see this beautiful picture and this is the time where everybody gets to come and dress up as their favorite character. Until the dress up is making Mordecai, they'll dress up as King of Prussia where s or maybe Queen Esther. And if you're just really in a radical, you're going to dress up as Haman. All right, so the bad guy. And so we've People would come, here. It is dark Heyman before in a Darth Vader outfit and had the whole thing. We've seen it all and so it's really kind of a cool time to spend with the kids. Sometimes will do a carnival this year. We are because covid was still kind of Mewtwo doing its thing. We did the outdoor movie deal and showed VeggieTales Esther and showed one night with the King this year. It was kind of fun. And so we always will do something like that and celebrate. It will also do the the fast of Esther will just tell everybody about that fast day, and we will do that as community. And then, the, the feast if you will, after the fast, we will enjoy that time together. And like I said, lots of folks will be dressed up for that. Good, good, minor Feast that we celebrate here, as well. Alright, then there's also some things that come into play because we are apart of wanting to me real quick. Okay, we're we're we're part of wanting to bless Israel. And so when we do that we want to also do things that course, corresponding correlate with what's going on in Israel. So what you'll see here is different things that we celebrate Yom hazikaron in Israel, Memorial Day, depending on where the calendar is April or May and a real quickly.

About to put this on the notes, but just so, you know, if you ever wondered every year, why in the world Passover is in march, sometimes we're in April. Sometimes why are these different holidays? Running around different places because those different Jewish month, so it's months are 29 days. Maybe 30, but on leap year they add a second dad or second month. And so you'll see on leap year. You'll see some some shifting of those dates. And so, that's why we see that happen were April April, April March, or something along those lines. You'll see some shifting of the calendar. It's because it goes by the lunar calendar. And just, I want to mention that, cuz I know you'll see on here. I'll say, April, May or June something, and maybe another month of July August. That's the reason why. Young hearts mood Israel Independence Day, and it's also celebrating April, May time frame. You owe me to wish Alliance Jerusalem day. Jerusalem was finally made it a completely independent Yom, hashoah very, very important day Holocaust. Remembrance. We try to use the word show a here, cuz Holocaust is a very, it's boy, it's a tough word. It's just a tough tank thing. And so we will do this at Yom Kippur. We will actually light the candles and remember those who died in the show up and so we will do that at Yom Kippur, but we also remember this when it takes place in April or May Yung hustla. Tisha b'av, this is the 9th of August a day of fasting. This is when lots of terrible things, in history happened to the Jewish people of the destruction of the temple. The outcasting of Jewish people from Spain, all sorts of different tragedies happened in usually that's around. July, August time, frame. And then Tu bishvat, so this is basically the new year for trees. It's the Jewish Arbor Day. Usually, celebrated around January February. So we in line with what's going on in Israel. We will also do those things. All right, so I think in the reading, when you see, I got 20 minutes left, I got 17 minutes left. I got a lot to cover here. If you can go ahead and read through the section of why we point the Torah why we bow. It should be in the notes there and I'm going to go ahead and get to the next section here real quick. First of all me. Ask her any questions. Yes, ma'am.

Oh, yeah, so that the law service the closing of the gates. Yeah, so I didn't put that up there. That is basically at the end of Yom Kippur when we've been fasting, we will have what's known as the closing of the gate service and a closing of that Shabbat. It's a high Shabbat and when we do that, we will use you concluded with a trumpet blast and then we will tell people, you can now break your fast until will do that by celebrating some liturgy will read Psalm, 145, a couple other places that will do some liturgy from sing some songs. And then we usually eat this year because of covid. First ones to hear the story. We're not going to do a break fast meal. But if you come that night, there's a possibility that you can win a gift card to a restaurant. So we're going to hand out some gift cards at nights and tell you to go support, your local eateries in break fast with some friends or family that night because we just we feel like we're trying to be careful with covid-19 to be careful. Even this morning, all the bagels are packaged in an independently. And we're just trying to sit not send mixed messages. And so we have a potluck and you bring Aunt Minerva's stew over from your house and I'll bring stuff for my house. We don't know it, just we're crossing all sorts of stuff there. So we're trying to be very careful this year, but that's what the nail Services. Good question. All right, let's move on. This is this is the easy part of the show. So different folks in our team. I want introduce you to our staff and some folks Augustine. I will be playing the part of Augustine. He's much better looking in from South America. And so he's not here this morning. So I'll have to play his part. His beautiful bride, Miranda sometime. You need to go. Just ask the story of how they met. It is a ridiculous story. You ever heard of First Love at First Sight. There it is. Right there. I'm just going to leave you with that. Let him fill in the blank. I'll tell you one more thing. He stepped off the stage after giving his testimony Passover, and he looked at her and saw her. Anyway, she's going to be my wife. And he went there to do some self and guess what? They were married 7 8 9 months later. Julia our office manager. She, if she found out, I put that picture up there. She would kill me. So Donovan Sue is our administrator and head of our schammasch are what we call our deacons here. And that's his beautiful. Lovely bride Sue. Richard and Patsy Freeman. Our Founders and Rabbi Emeritus. He's also my father-in-law and mother-in-law Yours Truly in my beautiful bride. Melanie and John Stafford, John is over Usher's. Melanie is over our children meant children's ministry. And also she's now our event and moedim coordinator. So she's helping us get a lot of that stuff, coordinated Xavier, and Nancy benavidez, our youth ministry. Jessie and Misty post, he's our Gabba. He's responsible for a lot of the Liturgy and setting up all the tour meetings and then Misty as well and he's one of our schammasch Ralph and Doris Liao. Remember to worse in your prayers Doris just lost her sister cat and she just passed away so she's not here. Sean Akasha derickson, schammasch as well. And I I threatened them. I threatened him. I said I need a picture. I need a picture of it and give me pictures of this is Todd and Suzanne white. So there they are.