tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10494827.post113427833227871488..comments2023-08-06T11:27:32.984-04:00Comments on on chanting: 238. Countdownalto artisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07101176587462737940noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10494827.post-1135386384138535652005-12-23T20:06:00.000-05:002005-12-23T20:06:00.000-05:00aa, thanks, no I meant your words...I read hc and ...aa, thanks, no I meant your words...I read hc and would have asked him direct. I'd like to comment on the intrinsic history of festivals....but let me not, but let me just say that the festivals of the OT rule precendant. End of comment.Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658952413441149677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10494827.post-1135251877670821512005-12-22T06:44:00.000-05:002005-12-22T06:44:00.000-05:00George, thank you for visiting, and setting me str...George, thank you for visiting, and setting me straight... we rarely do the entire reading at my synagogue, and I made an incorrect assumption. (I should put a big disclaimer at the top of this blog: "*All facts presented here are probably wrong!"<BR/><BR/>Rachel, so interesting (these things get me unduly excited, as well...) Maybe one day someone will discover the big piece of fabric from which the threads of all our religions have been drawn.<BR/>--aa.alto artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07101176587462737940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10494827.post-1135238807054487032005-12-22T03:06:00.000-05:002005-12-22T03:06:00.000-05:00I have only just found your blog, and I find it fa...I have only just found your blog, and I find it fascinating. I am slowly working my way through it.<BR/>I just wanted to offer a correction to where you say that we only read the first eight days of sacrifices on Hanukah, and not the full twelve. Actually, on the last day, days eight thru twelve are read.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13169109978694892927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10494827.post-1134939077015568582005-12-18T15:51:00.000-05:002005-12-18T15:51:00.000-05:00Very interesting... (and thanks for visiting my bl...Very interesting... (and thanks for visiting my blog!)<BR/>--aa.alto artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07101176587462737940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10494827.post-1134937812527727232005-12-18T15:30:00.000-05:002005-12-18T15:30:00.000-05:00I've always suspected that Ramadan and Ellul were ...I've always suspected that Ramadan and Ellul were the same observance... a sacred month... ending on Yom Kippur, the only we day we pray the Amidah five times just like the muslims do.Michael Steinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12836272340266206986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10494827.post-1134442935712269652005-12-12T22:02:00.000-05:002005-12-12T22:02:00.000-05:00p.s. Ayekah, I assumed, maybe incorrectly, that yo...p.s. Ayekah, I assumed, maybe incorrectly, that you asked about pasting my words...if you meant HC's, I don't presume to answer for him!<BR/>--aa.alto artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07101176587462737940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10494827.post-1134442646837316802005-12-12T21:57:00.000-05:002005-12-12T21:57:00.000-05:00Of course, and thank you!HC (if I may be so inform...Of course, and thank you!<BR/><BR/>HC (if I may be so informal), very interesting. Makes a lot of sense, especially since I've been learning about mythological/pagan origins of Bible stories in my Me'ah course.<BR/><BR/>I'm sure there's some significance to 2 = 5. I can imagine some ancient rabbi stroking his long beard and going on at great and repetitive length about the gematria (mystic numerical value, since letters = numbers in Hebrew) of all the letters in the words "goat" and "oxen," when you add them up and divide them by some other mystical number, and then perhaps add them to a third number, and therefore you get the reason why we must dip the green vegetable in salt on Passover, or something along those lines.<BR/>--aa.alto artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07101176587462737940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10494827.post-1134441411355996212005-12-12T21:36:00.000-05:002005-12-12T21:36:00.000-05:00That is too good.....May I copy and paste that to ...That is too good.....May I copy and paste that to read to my class this week?Lorihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658952413441149677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10494827.post-1134350519638247382005-12-11T20:21:00.000-05:002005-12-11T20:21:00.000-05:00I remember reading somewhere that the reason that ...I remember reading somewhere that the reason that many different religions observe "a cycle of days" for their holdays is because the very earliest religions were based on seasonal changes and the slow movement of celestial objects. These were gradual processes, not sudden events, that required a number of days leading up to a final moment. <BR/>(Is there any significance to the fact that 2 oxen are equal to 5 of most other animals?<BR/>Surely, it wouldn't be by weight. Even one ox would weigh more than any 5 goats.)HCaldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16354357968513795866noreply@blogger.com