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Showing posts with label olive oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olive oil. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
"Like Olive Shoots Around Your Table" ✡ King David's Olive Tree
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Israel365 - "Whoever is among you of His entire people - may his God be with him - and let him go up to Jerusalem."
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Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat is devoted to bringing today's words from the book of Ezra to life, as he says: “The vision I have for the city is to return Jerusalem to the role it played two and three thousand years ago as a world center -- a destination for pilgrims and believers throughout the world.”
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Hijab vs. Niqab: How Should Women Dress in Public?“…For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” (I Samuel 16:7)
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Did you guess all of the Seven Species? Count them here: “A Land of wheat, barley, grape, fig and pomegranate; a Land of olive oil and honey.” (Deut. 8:8). Tomorrow on Tu B’shvat (the new year of the trees) we eat from the foods that are mentioned here, so if you have a chance, see if you can find a pomegranate to enjoy!
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Learn More About our Biblical and Inspiring Tour this May »
A Beautiful Winter View of Israel
Stunning aerial video of the beautiful mountains and towns of Israel covered in snow this winter.
Watch »
Hijab vs. Niqab: How Should Women Dress in Public?“…For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” (I Samuel 16:7)
Read More »
75% off Israel Calendar
Enjoy our inspiring Israel Calendar featuring gorgeous photos of the Land of Israel, along with all major Jewish holidays, weekly Torah portions and Shabbat candle lighting times.
Get it now for 75% off! »
Today's Israel Photo
Join us in Israel this May 2014 and you'll see the Bible come to life like never before.
Check Out our Trip Itinerary Here »
Yesterday's Photo Trivia
Did you guess all of the Seven Species? Count them here: “A Land of wheat, barley, grape, fig and pomegranate; a Land of olive oil and honey.” (Deut. 8:8). Tomorrow on Tu B’shvat (the new year of the trees) we eat from the foods that are mentioned here, so if you have a chance, see if you can find a pomegranate to enjoy!
Thank You
Today's Scenes and Inspiration is sponsored by Kenneth Mathews of Reston, Virginia. Thank you!
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"I Love Your Posts"It’s great to hear from so many of you - stay in touch and let us know where in the world you are enjoying Israel365!
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I am in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia in the USA. I have been following you for a few years. I really enjoy it. Love Israel! Joann B.
Shalom,
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
What is Hanukkah (Chanukah)? (Nov. 27-Dec. 5, 2013)
Chanukah occurs in the Hebrew calendar month of Kislev. This year, 2013 the date is November 27-December 5.
Chanukah -- the eight-day festival of light that begins on the eve of the 25th of the Jewish month of Kislev-- celebrates the triumph of lightover darkness, of purity overadulteration, of spirituality over materiality.
More than twenty-one centuries ago, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks), who sought to forcefully Hellenize the people of Israel. Against all odds, a small band of faithful Jews defeated one of the mightiest armies on earth, drove the Greeks from the land, reclaimed the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and rededicated it to the service of G-d.
When they sought to light the Temple's menorah (the seven branched candelabrum), they found only a single cruse of olive oil that had escaped contamination by the Greeks; miraculously, the one-day supply burned for eight days, until new oil could be prepared under conditions of ritual purity.
To commemorate and publicize these miracles, the sages instituted the festival of Chanukah. At the heart of the festival is the nightly menorah (candelabrum) lighting: a single flame on the first night, two on the second evening, and so on till the eighth night of Chanukah, when all eight lights are kindled.
On Chanukah we also add the Hallel and Al HaNissim in our daily prayers to offer praise and thanksgiving to G-d for "delivering the strong into the hands of the weak, the many into the hands of the few... the wicked into the hands of therighteous."
Chanukah customs include eating foods fried in oil -- latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiot (doughnuts); playing with the dreidel (a spinning top on which are inscribed the Hebrew letters nun, gimmel, hei and shin, an acronym for Nes Gadol Hayah Sham, "a great miracle happened there"); and the giving ofChanukah gelt, gifts of money, to children.
Click here for the complete story of Chanukah, and here for a comprehensive "How To" guide for the observances and customs of Chanukah.
From: Chabad.org
Monday, October 28, 2013
Menorah - the seven-lamp (six branches) lampstand
On occasion I like to share artwork I have gathered. This set is of menorahs, the seven branch candlestick that represents Israel and the Jews. We love menorahs and have several in our home.
If you have a good photo or artwork that you'd like to share, please send to me:
loveforhispeople@gmail.com. Or post in the comment section.
Ahava (Hebrew word for love),
Steve Martin
Love For His People
P.S. And then when Hanukkah comes, we can share Hanukkias - the nine branch candlestick.
The menorah (Hebrew: מְנוֹרָה [mənoːˈɾaː]) is described in the Bible as the seven-lamp (six branches) ancient Hebrew lampstand made of gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by Moses in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem. Fresh olive oil of the purest quality was burned daily to light its lamps. The menorah has been a symbol of Judaism since ancient times and is the emblem on the coat of arms of the modern state of Israel.
The menorah willow consisted of a base and a shaft with six branches, beaten out of solid gold. The six branches curved to the height of the central shaft so that all seven lamps at their apexes were in a straight line.
The Hebrew Bible, or Torah, states that God revealed the design for the menorah to Moses and describes the construction of the menorah as follows (Exodus 25:31-40):
31 And you must make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work the lampstand is to be made. Its base, its branches, its cups, its knobs and its blossoms are to proceed out from it. 32 And six branches are running out from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from its one side and three branches of the lampstand from its other side.
33 Three cups shaped like flowers of almond are on the one set of branches, with knobs and blossoms alternating, and three cups shaped like flowers of almond on the other set of branches, with knobs and blossoms alternating. This is the way it is with the six branches running out from the lampstand. 34 And on the lampstand are four cups shaped like flowers of almond, with its knobs and its blossoms alternating. 35 And the knob under two branches is out of it and the knob under the two other branches is out of it and the knob under two more branches is out of it, for the six branches running out from the lampstand.
36 Their knobs and their branches are to proceed out from it. All of it is one piece of hammered work, of pure gold. 37 And you must make seven lamps for it; and the lamps must be lit up, and they must shine upon the area in front of it. 38 And its snuffers and its fire holders are of pure gold. 39 Of a talent of pure gold he should make it with all these utensils of it. 40 And see that you make them after their pattern that was shown to you in the mountain.
The branches are often artistically depicted as semicircular, but Rashi may be interpreted as saying they were straight, and Maimonides, according to his son Avraham, held that they were straight; other authorities, possibly including Ibn Ezra, say they were round. (See however the Zayis Ranan there who understands the Even Ezra to mean they were straight, while extending in a semicircle arount the stem.)
Archaeological evidence, including depictions by artists who had seen the menorah, indicates that they were neither straight nor semicircular but elliptical.
Until 2009, the earliest preserved representation of the menorah of the Temple was depicted in a frieze on the Arch of Titus, commemorating his triumphal parade in Rome following the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 CE.
In 2009, however, the ruins of a synagogue with pottery dating from before the destruction of the Second Temple were discovered under land in Magdala owned by the Legionaries of Christ, who had intended to construct a center for women's studies.
Inside that synagogue's ruins was discovered a rectangular stone, which had on its surface, among other ornate carvings, a depiction of the seven-lamp menorah differing markedly from the depiction on the Arch of Titus, probably carved by an eyewitness to the actual menorah present at the time in the Temple at Jerusalem. This menorah has arms which are polygonal, not rounded, and the base is not graduated but triangular.
Inside that synagogue's ruins was discovered a rectangular stone, which had on its surface, among other ornate carvings, a depiction of the seven-lamp menorah differing markedly from the depiction on the Arch of Titus, probably carved by an eyewitness to the actual menorah present at the time in the Temple at Jerusalem. This menorah has arms which are polygonal, not rounded, and the base is not graduated but triangular.
Representations of the seven lamp artifact have been found on tombs and monuments dating from the 1st century as a frequently used symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people.
It has been noted that the shape of the menorah bears a certain resemblance to that of the plant Salvia palaestina. (Wikipedia)
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