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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.
Rosh Hashana – FEAST OF TRUMPETS « Elena's Israel Blog
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.
OUR WESTERN WALL--A GREAT MOMENT
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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.
