Time to Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles!

Shalom friends! Tomorrow night at sundown marks the beginning of the Feast of Tabernacles, the seventh (and final) annual feast of Israel.  What an incredible celebration it is!  (Be sure to read to the end for a special invitation to celebrate!) Yesterday, we reviewed the fall feasts, beginning with the Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur …

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Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles …what Does it All Mean?

If you study Jewish culture and tradition, you are likely aware that we're in the midst of the fall feasts of Israel.  There are 7 major feasts, originally prescribed in Scripture, but lived out in either secular context or rabbinic context by most Jews.  The first three (Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread and Feast of …

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Yom Kippur: Shadow or Substance?

Sundown this evening will mark the beginning of the most solemn day on the Hebrew calendar: Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).  Ten days of awe follow the recently celebrated Rosh Hashanah (Jewish civil new year) and lead into Yom Kippur.  These have been days in which the Jewish people have prayed, fasted and examined their …

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Amir Tsarfati: Live in Southern California

West Coast friends, you have several opportunities to catch Amir Tsarfati's live events in Southern California in the next few days. For the rest of us, it appears several of those events will be live streamed, so we also have the opportunity to hear the latest from Amir.  (He is founder of Behold Israel, and …

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