Articles tagged with "feast"

Kathy's Faith Walk

Submitted by: MarilynLeff, December 20th, 2009 Topic: Community Forums

This holiday season is one of feasts

I am glad the holiday season is here. I like the music and the light displays in yards. I like the carolers and the game nights, the faith gatherings and the food. But for me, and many like me, the holiday season began back in October, not with Halloween, but rather, with Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and Feast of Tabernacles.



Sukkot makes joyful noise

Submitted by: Messianicmiriam, October 11th, 2009 Topic: Community Forums

Hands clapping, voices raised in song, bongos pounding, guitars strumming open chords, tambourines shaking wildly — this was the opening scene of the Feast of Tabernacles at Olive Tree Messianic Temple on Saturday night.



The succa and the swastika

Submitted by: MarilynLeff, October 11th, 2009 Topic: Education Forums

Succot, 1936. The newly appointed German consul-general to Jerusalem, Herr Walter Doehl, stood at his office window hung with an extravagantly tasseled swastika banner, and gazed with curiosity at the sight of clusters of bearded Jews, all draped in prayer shawls and resplendent in the styles and furs of late-medieval Poland, entering and exiting a ramshackle foliage-thatched booth on the other side of the Street of the Prophets where his legation was situated, each clutching what seemed to him to be a lemon and a palm frond. 



Hanukkah

Submitted by: TMC, February 13th, 2008 Topic: Hillel Forums

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the re-dedication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt of the 2nd century BCE.