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When Do You Celebrate Shavuot?

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Kevin in Surveys (Closed).
Updated on June 9, 2010

According to our survey of 158 respondents, 43% favored a non-traditional celebration of Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks, citing the date as determined according to the Sadducean/Boethusian/Karaite reckoning, which always places Shavuot on the “Sunday” 50 days after the seventh-day Shabbat (Saturday) during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. However, though this option constituted the majority [...]

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Happy New Year???

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Kevin in "Holidays" & "Feasts".

It’s what everyone all over the world isn’t saying today… and why should they? After all, it’s the middle of March, and nothing around us offers even a hint that a new year has begun. Indeed, most of us haven’t even a clue that a new month has arrived (“Rosh Chodesh,” or New Moon), much [...]

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Determining the Calendar

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Kevin in "Holidays" & "Feasts".
Updated on March 28, 2010

I would like to share a recent exchange I had with one of our enews subscribers who questioned the manner in which we determined the date of Passover this year. A little background for those of you unfamiliar with the nature of the debate: it centers on the reliability of the established Jewish Calendar versus [...]

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Behold the Lamb Messianic Haggadah

Posted on March 1, 2010 by Kevin in Milestones, What's New.

We are very excited to announce the release of the newly revised (and hopefully final!) edition of Behold the Lamb, a Scripture-based Haggadah for a modern, Messianic Passover memorial ‘avodah (Hebrew for “service”, “rite”, or “ceremony”).
The Passover experience facilitated by Behold the Lamb is an uncommon, untraditional departure from the usual Passover seder, set apart [...]

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For a Time Such as… Puriym?

Posted on February 18, 2010 by Kevin in "Holidays" & "Feasts".
Updated on March 15, 2010

Just before the renewal of Israel’s annual calendar, the last month of the year hosts the Feast of Puriym, as birthed out of the events reported in the book of Esther.
The story of Esther and the Jews living in Persia takes place around 500 BC, near the end of Israel’s expulsion to Babylon. The historical [...]

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