jew question

Like it's the one day of the year when the jewish nation can clean the slate, so to speak, with YHWH?

can this "church" answer jew question?

Doesn't that holiday have to do with atonement?

Like it's the one day of the year when the jewish nation can clean the slate, so to speak, with YHWH?

-- BAF, Friday, November 18, 2005 8:34 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

That's Yom Kippur.

Rosh Hashana is New Year's Day for the Jews.

You're supposed to celebrate and/or go to a My Bloody Valentine concert on that day.

bring on the jew questions!

OK, what's up with the foreskin thing?

Under Jewish law circumcision is a mitzva aseh ("positive commandment" to perform an act) and is obligatory for Jewish-born males, and some Jewish male converts. It is only postponed or abrogated in the case of threat to the life or health of the child.[20] It is usually performed by a mohel on the eighth day after birth in a ceremony called a Brit milah (or Bris milah, colloquially simply bris), which means "Covenant of circumcision" in Hebrew. It is considered of such religious importance that the body of an uncircumcised Jewish male will sometimes be circumcised before burial.[21]

Y is this nite diffrnt from all other nites?

Is "jew" a race or a religion or both, and if both, how does that work exactly?

On all other nights we eat all kinds of breads and crackers...
Why do we eat only matzoh on Pesach?

Matzoh reminds us that when the Jews left the slavery of Egypt they had no time to bake their bread. They took the raw dough on their journey and baked it in the hot desert sun into hard crackers called matzoh.

On all other nights we eat many kinds of vegetables and herbs....
Why do we eat bitter herbs, maror, at our Seder?

Maror reminds us of the bitter and cruel way the Pharaoh treated the Jewish people when they were slaves in Egypt.

On all other nights we don't usually dip one food into another....
Why do we dip our foods twice tonight?

We dip bitter herbs into Charoset to remind us how hard the Jewish slaves worked in Egypt. The chopped apples and nuts look like the clay used to make the bricks used in building the Pharaoh's buildings.

We dip parsley into salt water. The parsley reminds us that spring is here and new life will grow. The salt water reminds us of the tears of the Jewish slaves.

On all other nights we eat sitting up straight....
Why do we lean on a pillow tonight?

We lean on a pillow to be comfortable and to remind us that once we were slaves, but now we are free.

It's a religion as well as an ethnicity. It works pretty controversially, depending who you ask.