Vay'hi Erev, Vay'hi Voker

וַיְהִי-עֶרֶב וַיְהִי-בֹקֶר












There was evening
and there was morning

We thank you LORD
for bringing on the evening
and bringing on the morning

♡

 Holiday Reflections

Morning Photos from Long Island, my "home town" where I visited over the holidays.
The Jewish Holidays, which are the Biblical Fall Feasts, and every Shabbat, and each day on the Hebrew calendar,  always start in the evening at sundown, and end the next day sunset, so the day starts in the evening and goes to sundown the next evening.  We can see where that began as expressed in the first chapter of Genesis, where God begins each day by bringing it into existence from evening to morning.

And there was evening
and there was morning.

At the end of all the feasts, after we scrolled back the Torah and listened to the reading of the beginning of Genesis, those words "vay'hi erev, vay'hi voker" came to life in a new way.  It's very exciting at the very end of the cycle to hear the last Torah portion read and then right after to hear the first chapter begin again and read from Genesis.  When the service finsished there was a wonderful "kiddush", spread of bagels and beautiful breakfast out on a banquet table.  When I reached for a bagel, and saw all the good foods, I felt the love of God and how He desires us to live each day in abundance.  His mercies new every morning as He invites us to partake in His goodness. And asks us to find those to whom we can share it with.