The two most powerful days of the Jewish calendar are Rosh Hashanah, New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, Ashura in Hebrew. In the Talmud it is written that all mankind will pass before God’s throne like sheep and their fates for the coming year are written; On Yom Kippur their fates are sealed. The Jews were taken over by Babylonian/Persian/Zoroastrian religious customs during their exile and now you see their results. Jews also wear white robes (which they are also buried in), copied by our Imams. Rosh Hashanah falls on the first of Tishri, usually in September, the ninth month of the year (Ramadan, guess what? The ninth month of the year), and for TEN DAYS their thoughts are about mortality, sin and repentance, and redemption. At midnight on the Saturday before Rosh Hashanah the Jews attend a service called Selikhot, where they recite the thirteen divine attributes of God’s mercy, and these penitential prayers are said before each dawn until Rosh Hashanah starts. Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown with festive meals, candle lighting and synagogue services. When the last day arrives the observant Jew will implore God to hear their pleas as the “Gates of Heaven” close (Muslims believe that angels are close to the earth and listen to their requests for forgiveness of past sins, more money or where to find a sixteen year old virgin to marry now that their wife has passed away after forty years of servitude to them). Apparently it is quite an emotional time for the Jews who reach a crescendo with the chanting of various phrases like “blessed be the Name of God’s Sovereignty forever”, “Adonai is God” and do not forget “Next year in Jerusalem”. The details may be different but you must admit there is something akin to what some Muslims do at the abomination added to fasting of “I’tikaff” which is attending the mosque for ten days continuously for the men, while some of the women “hold up” in a room at home is not what is advocated in the Quran. In Judaism a traditionally observant Jew will build himself a booth or hut called a Sukkah during the “Feast of Booths” (Sukkot) according to:- Bible, Leviticus, Chapter 23:- 23:33 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. 23:35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 23:36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. 23:37 These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: 23:38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD. 23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. 23:41 And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: 23:43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God. 23:44 And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD. I’tikaff and Sukkot, and they hate Jews when their religious practices are based on many of theirs. Jawaid Ahmed
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 12:37:57 +0000
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