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What is Ramadan? An Explanation by Yusuf Islam. Rosh Hashana – FEAST OF TRUMPETS « Elena's Israel Blog. Yom Teruah/Rosh HaShannah – Jewish Year 5772: Sundown 9/28/11-Sundown 9/29/11 The Feast of Trumpets“The LORD said to Moses, ‘Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the LORD.’’”

Leviticus 23:23-25 The Bible calls this feast Yom Teruah, the Day of Sounding the Trumpets. Today it is more commonly known as Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year. To understand the significance of Yom Teruah is to understand the subsequent festivals of Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Traditionally, sounding the trumpet or shofar (ram’s horn) meant that the Children of Israel were to take note—whether a battle call, a call to assemble at the Tabernacle, or other major event, the Jewish people knew to give great importance to the call. Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days of Tishri. Click to hear the shofar This festival occurs in the Fall. Like this: OUR WESTERN WALL--A GREAT MOMENT. Old Jerusalem and the Western Wall. A singular ancient reminder and a singular modern symbol. When the Romans destroyed the second Temple in 70 BC in massive retaliation against the upstart Jews, they sought to totally erase everything important to Jews from the land.

This one wall was left probably because it was deemed an unimportant outer wall on the western side of the Mt. Moriah, the Temple Mount. Nevertheless, this vestige of the Second Temple is the holiest site of Judaism. From 1948 until 1967, despite a Jordanian promise to allow Jews to visit the Kotel (literally the “wall” in Hebrew), NO JEWS ALLOWED. Those photos are a bit ahead of my story. Before we have an opportunity to spend time at the wall, David, our Margaret Morse guide takes us through the Heritage Exhibit where we graphically see how Herod had the Temple constructed. King Herod began construction of the Second Temple in 19 BCE.

Deep in the ground in the tunnel along the wall is a chapel for women. Pictures Judaism. Judaism 101. TALMUD. Name of two works which have been preserved to posterity as the product of the Palestinian and Babylonian schools during the amoraic period, which extended from the third to the fifth century One of these compilations is entitled "Talmud Yerushalmi" (Jerusalem Talmud) and the other "Talmud Babli" (Babylonian Talmud).

Used alone, the word "Talmud" generally denotes "Talmud Babli," but it frequently serves as a generic designation for an entire body of literature, since the Talmud marks the culmination of the writings of Jewish tradition, of which it is, from a historical point of view, the most important production. The Name. "Talmud" is an old scholastic term of the Tannaim, and is a noun formed from the verb "limmed" = "to teach. " In the second place, the word "talmud"—generally in the phrase "talmud lomar"—is frequently used in tannaitic terminology in order to denote instruction by means of the text of the Bible and of the exegetic deductions therefrom. Relation to Midrash.

The Gemara.