Pesach

Two Community Seders, one at Temple Judea and the other one at Temple Beth Tikva. Versatile Gourmet Caterers, does it again, with well organized and delicious Seder meals. With lots of organized staff, the meals were carried out in an efficient manor. With boiled eggs and salt water, gefilte fish [...]

י'ג בניסן תשס"חAnnwyn 14I woke up in the middle of the night last night with a vision imprinted upon my mind. In the vision, I was sitting at my office desk working on all the extra work that has been put upon me recently (which, by the way, I am successfully making my way through this immense sea of work). Ceridwen, the archetypal Celtic goddess of prophecy and transformation, walked through the doorway into my office. She had a look of controlled anger about her, as if she was restraining herself mightily against some injustice. She also had a halo, like the one she wears in my bronze statue of her cauldron and she (shown, click to enlarge). With Ceridwen's appearance, came the words "warning" and "the writers" (ה-כותבים).The two messages were one essential communicatio

Yesterday I was actually nostalgic for a time when I was a “Mrs. Lieutenant.” That time was the first week of May in 1972 right before my husband got out of the army. Before leaving our three-bedroom quarters in the U.S. Army’s Perlacher Forst housing section of Munich, Germany, we had to pass inspection for our quarters. This meant that everything – and I mean everything – had to be spotless. Not just spotless on the outside, but spotless on the inside too. We did what most officers did – hired a special cleaning team to ensure that we would pass inspection. The team descended like a host of locusts – and our quarters easily passed inspection. Worth every penny, and I’ve never again seen anyone clean that thoroughly. I thought of the cleaning team yesterday

DEN JUDISKA PÅSKEN firas just nu denna weekend en vecka framåt. En verkligt bra guide för att lära mera är den här sajten, som har allt för hela familjen. Ta en titt här: Passover April 20 - April 27, 2008 HUR MYCKET VET DU om den judiska påsken? Judiskt påbrå eller inte, vad minns du och vet du? Berätta gärna i kommentaren nedan om vilket resultat du fick... Här är de 10 spännande frågorna: Passover Quiz VÄRLDENS absolut bästa film om Pesach är BREAK FREE som älskas av små, unga & gamla: Video (01:33) BERÄTTA... om resultatet på de 10 frågorna, och... BERÄTTA gärna något minne du har från din pesach, din påsk, i ditt liv - oavsett om du har judiskt påbrå eller inte eller är kristen. Det finns hur gott om plats nere på Kommentarplats. Shabbat Shalom.T

י'א בניסן תשס"חAnnwyn 12I openly wore a pentacle at work today.Later, having dinner this evening with my parents, my father came right out and asked me between bites, "Are you studying to be a witch?""Actually, I am, " I said, "I'm a Jewish witch. A kabbalist, a shaman ...""What's that?" my father asked regarding the latter descriptor."You know ... a mystic ...""Oh, you mean, a witch," he said with a small chuckle, then the conversation went on to other topics.My children have all known for quite some time now that I am a Jewitch. But, I've never actually straight up informed my parents of my interest in combining witchcraft with Judaism.I am totally out of the broom closet!I have indeed been liberated this Pesach.

With Pesach around the corner, we at Gourmet Caterers are getting ready. We provide an order form, where individuals can order seperate items, or the whole Seder meal can be ordered. We also cater large Seders at Synagogues and for large groups of people. Some of our delicious food items this year [...]

 RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL: CHUMASH CANDESCENCE: PESACH PARASHAT       CHUMASH CANDESCENCESPECIAL PARASHA "SEGMENTS" =EXODUS 33:12-34:26 andNUMBERS 28:19-25SHABBAT CHOL HA MOED PESACH RABBI ARTHUR SEGAL"Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dried Bones""God ...set me down in the valley, which was full of bones...they werevery  abundant... they were very dry...Oh dry bones, hear the word of the Lord:I  will bring spirit into you and you shall live. I shall put sinews...and flesh...and skin over you. I open your graves and raise you from your graves...and I shall bring you to the Land of Israel."   This quotation is from this week's Haftorah found in Ezekiel 37:1-14. It was established as thisSabbath's reading from the Prophets due to its parallel to Passover, our

Today is Pesach Sheini and it’s important to know the day’s relevance to a Jew in the 21st century.  Pesach Sheini was an opportunity for those who could not make it to the Beis Hamikdash for various reasons in order to bring the Korban Pesach on Pesach to bring it one month later. The... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

A beautiful Passover story of 2 Chasidic Rebbes who survived the Holocaust. The Extra Matzah Rabbi Eliezer Zusha Portugal (1896-1982), the Skulener [pronounced skoo-LEH-ner] Rebbe, was the Chassidic Rebbe from a small town, Sculeni, in what was then northeastern Romania (now Ukraine). Toward the... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

Just a quick post as I'm feeling tired out after spending all day on an essay question: "Must the Jewish liturgy change?" I don't want to discuss it now...LOL I just wanted to say have a good Pesach. Pesach chag sameach! This post goes out to my friend Miriam who is celebrating Pesach in Eretz Yisrael! For Gentiles who might be reading this Pesach is the Hebrew name for Passover and commemorates G-d's miraculous rescue of the Jews from Egypt. The Christian holiday Easter takes a lot from Pesach (not the eggs, fluffy bunnies or its possibly pagan origins of course!) The Last Supper might have been a Passover Pesach Seder. Anyway, Pesach starts at sunset tomorrow. Have a good one.... Leshana Haba B' Yerushalayim!"May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer" (Psalm 19:14)

Say it isn't so Joe.Saturday, March 24, 2007Sanhedrin plans for sacrifice of sheep (full article)RELIGION NEWS SERVICEIn a donated apartment concealed among the narrow streets of the Jerusalem suburb of Nahlaot, 13 Orthodox Jewish men meet every Tuesday to debate matters of Jewish law. They are the management team of a larger developing Sanhedrin, or religious court, in Israel.They plan to sacrifice sheep on the Temple Mount on the day before or one month after Passover, which will start at sundown April 2. Either date is permissible under Jewish law. "If the government will not resist," said Rabbi Dov Stein, 68, a member of the group, "we will do it."The Passover sacrifice is the latest of more than 40 legal decisions issued by the modern Sanhedrin.The Sanhedrin bought a herd of 12 sheep - 110 to 150 pounds each - from a farm in southern Israel. Anyone wanting to eat of the sacrifice can pay seven shekels ($1.67) for an 8-to-10-gram slice, the minimum required by Jewish law, Stein sa

Why don’t Ashkenazim eat Kitniyos on Pesach? This is what I’ve read on the subject. Kernals of grain occasionally mix in with Kitniyos. Some Kitniyos can be ground into flour and made into bread, and this could lead to confusion regarding grain-bread and Kitniyos-bread. Poor quality... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

This is important for all you coffee drinkers out there. Make sure your coffee has an OUP for Passover. Arutz Sheva Rabbi Shmuel Singer - overseer of the Orthodox Union’s “Kosher for Passover” certification program - writes that the OU has changed its policy regarding coffee on... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]