This coming week, our family will be joining in on the traditional Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, which means “Rejoicing in the Torah.” As Wikipedia explains, this holiday celebrates the completion of another year of reading through the Torah. A Torah-reading schedule was instituted in the days of Ezra, after the return from the Babylonian [...]

Here is a fun study on the biblical Day of Atonement! In our house, we took one week to do this study. Memory Verses – “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not [...]

The following is a quote from the introduction to a wonderful book, Celebrate the Feasts of the Old Testament in Your Own Home or Church, by Martha Zimmerman. I thought it was very good… “Hey, Mom! You’re right! Habakkuk is in the Bible.” Sure that I was hearing things, I called back to our twelve-year-old [...]

Just as the sixth day of the week is the preparation for the seventh, the Sabbath, so also the sixth month of the year is the preparation for the seventh, the month of the fall feasts.  Well, we’ve just started Elul, the sixth month of the year.  Only a month to go! What feasts are [...]