Branch of Israel

In 2010 my wife and I did a One New Man Passover with Sid Roth. Below is the haggadah he outlined for me. He told me, the whole service should reflect Yeshua (Jesus). We want each and everyone of you to be able to celebrate it this year yourself, as well as all the coming years ahead. We need to be ready to celebrate/practice for the final feast that we all will partake in with Yeshua in His Glorious Kingdom.  Hope that you all can enjoy and have fun with it, and remember to celebrate it with Yeshua in the middle of it. Chag Semeach (Happy Holiday)!

Before moving to Israel we celebrated Shabbat with a group of people in our home every Friday evening. We always opened our meetings with the lighting of the candles, and then had communion with my wife's wonderful ( I cannot emphasize this part enough ) homemade challah. After this, if God did not already take over the meeting we might worship, or talk a little about something God had shown one of us, discuss different scriptures, or even do a teaching. In one of our meetings a 10 year old boy taught us from the book of Habakkuk and what the Lord showed him it meant. Whatever we did, we never tried to put God in a box, and He always showed up faithfully every time. That is why no two meetings were ever the same.

Recently my wife and I were at a beach in Kiryat Chaim ( click on the location link below this article ) after Shabbat, where we stood and watched a crowd of people, mostly adults, dance in a large circle ( see photo ). It reminded me of dances like The Freeze and Line Dancing . As if on cue, everybody knew the dance routine to each song, and it appeared as if no two dances were identical. I was told that they learn these dances from kindergarten age.

There are some things that I have been learning since living here in Israel that I was not aware of before. Because they are so new to me, I have decided to let Wikipedia do the explaining this time. As most of you know, the month of April ended with Passover and it turns out that there is one holiday that Israeli's make a big deal out of. On the last day of Passover there is a celebration called Mimouna .  It is my understanding that it originally came from Morocco. Either way,  businesses close down and everyone enjoys this day with cookouts and get togethers.  I thought that I was the only one who got excited about getting to eat bread again after Passover, but here it is a common thing obviously.  Now we all know why they like to have this celebration.

The Passover season is finally upon us and we can celebrate one of most momentous feasts talked about in the Bible. It is also one of the more enjoyable holidays by both Jews and Christians alike. Even though the two groups differ only in one area, the Jews choose to keep it yearly (Lev. 23:4), whereas, the Christians go one time. Consider this feast as part of the cycle of blessings ( see Keeping the Feasts ) which should be kept yearly if we want to walk in them. As is with every tradition, things always get added to or taken away from. In the case of Passover it was added to quite a bit from its original inception. Let's look and see what happened.

Recently I was on my way to the Ministry of Interior to apply for Aliyah, after having been there a few times before. As I was going to transfer buses the Lord spoke to me saying “ meet Me at the wall. ” I said, “ Lord can’t you talk to me here? ” Considering He is omnipresent. "Why the wall?" I asked. All I heard was “ less distractions. ”

Generally when we think of a blessing we usually think of it as something that is a standard to say or to do. Like the Catholics bless with the signing of the cross over people so as to sanctify them, the Jewish people raise their hands spreading their fingers apart representing the Hebrew letter shin ( the first letter of the Hebrew word for Almighty ). Others believe that it is to be an exclamation like, "bless you brother/sister" , or "I am so blessed."  But does anyone really know what it means? This is the problem because we tend to use words in our vocabulary without checking them out. We hear our kids do it all the time. They use slang words because they want to be cool like their friends, but really have know clue what they are saying. The body of believers do it as well.