You are my brothers and sisters in the faith, and I love you as brothers and sisters in the Messiah. I just want you to understand that sometimes you hurt me unintentionally, because you’re not aware of what it’s like to be in the place where I am. I will not hold it against you, [...]
Tag Archives: Jewish
Stop doing what? and what for?
Still ruminating over the Sabbath question – been chewing over it ever since I recently found that I’d got the wrong end of the stick about the concept of “work”, and that the original instruction in the Bible was not just “avoid hard work and have a rest”. (see the P.S. in my recent post [...]
Yes, I’ve been having a lovely Sabbath
Being Jewish means that whatever you do, there will always be some fellow Jews who think you’re not observant enough, and some who think you’re way over the top. I’ve been having a lovely, relaxing day today. A quiet day in. My husband’s been out so I’ve had the house to myself and I could [...]
Why would such a nice idea stress me out?
I was at an interview last week and one of the questions I was asked was: what sort of things stress you out? The next day I got a good example of that by email. I’ve been accepted to go on this course, the first session is a whole day on a Saturday (I already [...]
What does a church look like anyway?
It was funny hearing someone British describe a visit to my Messianic fellowship back home in Israel. “It was just an ordinary building, it didn’t look like a church at all, just a building right in the middle of an industrial estate.” Ok, I do know what she meant and I understand where she’s coming [...]
It’s just a matter of perspective
It all started from talking about Chinese New Year, how it’s a lunar calendar so their new year falls on a different date each year according to the Gregorian calendar, and I said, oh yes, it’s the same with us, the Jewish year is lunar too, and the Chinese lady said that in Hong Kong they have calendars showing both dates and I said, oh yes, we do that in Israel, we have calendars showing the Hebrew date as well as the other one and then, later on, one of the English people said to me:
So is Jewish New Year a moveable feast?
No, I said, as I always tell people: Jewish New Year is on the same date every year, on the first day of the month of Tishrei. It may look to you as though it moves, but that’s because you’re using a different calendar, that’s all.
What the hell is religion good for?
I’ve been drafting this on and off for a while, ever since I came across a post online that said: “Religion is for people who don’t want to go to hell when they die”, and then compared it unfavourably with “spirituality” – a term which I feel people use in so many different ways that I [...]
omg, to die for
Hanukkah starts this evening, and we’ll be lighting pretty candles and thanking God for his great miracles. But this year I decided to do something I’d never done before, and I’ve started reading through the book of Maccabees, refreshing my mind about stuff we’d been told at school, stuff which can easily get forgotten in [...]
