Shabbat

Lighting two candles on Friday night after sunset is done to represent the beginning of Shabbat. Shabbat is the day God rested out of the seven days he was “making” Earth, so the Jewish people rest from sunset of Friday night to sunset of Saturday night to respect that (Siegel). We light the candle to stay connected to God as the flame (fire) is…

him and tried to mend what had been broken by saying he was sorry. At first, Reuven wanted nothing to do with Danny,but Reuven’s father convinced him to accept Danny’s plea for forgiveness. Eventually Danny and Reuven became close after going to Shabbat services together and studying Talmud together. Despite their differences in culture, family life, and ambition Danny and Reuven both enjoy baseball and have the same basic beliefs in the Jewish…

generation that argue the points of Jewish laws, philosophies, and other principals for Jews to live by. Jews have countless holidays and traditions that come with those holidays, but the few most significant holidays are Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Shabbat, and Passover. Rosh Hashanah is the mark of the Jewish new year and also marks the beginning of the high holy days and the 10 days of awe where Jews are supposed to go out and beg for forgiveness from those whom they’ve mistreated, and on Rosh…

well equipped to handle. My experiences make me well suited to train future counselors. One of the programs that I helped run and execute falls into the Judaics branch of camp. As part of our new Shabbat electives, I planned hour long song sessions for campers who wanted to learn more Jewish music on Shabbat. I'm very proud of the work I've done as the song leader integrating…

Raising children to have Christian values in a PC (politically correct) culture is challenging. Attending church services and sending children to Bible camp is enough; in as much, as Satan is attacking the very fiber of the nuclear family. The schools out of fear of their funding being cut perpetrate the misinformation handed to them by the government and the mainstream media bombards children encouraging promiscuity and disrespect for authority as acceptable behavior. Most families are now…

After receiving the topic of this paper I knew there was only one person I wanted to interview. I choose Lola because I have never met anyone who fully embodied her beliefs and culture the ways she does. Besides that, Lola’s culture and childhood were drastically different from my own upbringing, and I was curious to see how different they were. As a Catholic-American who grew up in Mid-West, Lola’s French-Canadian and Jewish heritage offered a window into two cultures I knew little to nothing…

Life was hard for Jewish people who lived in Europe, and many of them, including my ancestors, left Europe to come to the United States of America. It was not easy to make money, and the living conditions were not suitable in today’s standard; you had to be a strong person to survive. There were many reasons for immigration to the United States, and each story is unique to the individual in which it belongs. My paternal great-great-great-grandfather on my grandmother’s side, Charles Newfeld…

place in the Torah, the Old Testament, while Christians honour events from the New Testament. To put into perspective, an important holiday for Jews is called Shabbat, the Sabbath, which is part of the Law of Moses. Although Christians do celebrate Shabbat, they do so on Sunday, which is against the Law of the Torah. Jesus himself celebrated Shabbat as the…

the verdict”. During the Days of Awe Jews try whatever they can to redeem themselves and get forgiveness from god . By the end of Yom Kippur one hopes they have been forgiven by god . Prayer Service Yom Kippur prayer service is unique compared to Shabbat or Yom Tov which have four prayer services. Yom Kippur has five prayer…

and so did Rizhka, the both of them take care of each other with each other’s companimish. When Rizhka gave birth to a young calf, the calf had to be given away because there was not enough room for two animals. Haya Fruma took in a blind man for Shabbat dinners and the man had a light to him and he shared his knowledge with her and with his knowledge he removed the darkness in her…