Then Adonai appeared to him at Mamre’s large trees while he was sitting in the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day
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Please let a little water be brought so you can wash your feet, and make yourselves comfortable under the tree.
And let me bring a bit of bread so that you can refresh yourselves—
Genesis 18:1~5 (exerpts)
Firstly, Shabbat Shalom!!
Secondly, the photo above is from the past week`s Shabbat, a testimony from Japan. We were blessed to participate in this years Shabbat Project in the Shabbat of `Vayera`.
Yay! We did it! For the 3rd year I participated in the Shabbat Project.
It is a worldwide initiative where Jewish people all around the world join in to keep the Shabbat together. They encourage hosting events like Challah bakes, Friday night dinners, learning from the Parsha, or other ways to put in action a gesture of hospitality to reach out to others to celebrate the Shabbat and share God`s love by coming together at the Shabbat Table! I love this initiative and have had a tradition of making a Challah in the shape of the Hebrew Letters spelling Vayera for this special Shbbat. And this year added to that a community dinner on Friday night. Every year it is held on the Parsha of Vayera.
That is the Torah Portion where the LORD appears to Abraham in front of his tent on a hot day and sends angels to tell Abraham and Sarah that they will have the long awaited child and seed from which the Nation of Israel would be established. Abraham and Sarah always were ready to entertain guests and share about the truth of the one true God.
Vayera means `and He appeared`. My Vayera prayer according to that word is, `May the LORD appear to us this Shabbat`. May He appear to all those who know Him and to those who do not know Him yet!
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| In between the rising of the dough, Aimei and I pray from our AHAVA prayer sheet, the week pictured is in Parsha Vayera. |
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| For the past 2 years, this year is my third year, we have participated from Japan in
the worldwide initiative to `Keep Shabbat Together` which is called the
Shabbat Project. We do the `challah portion` together on `zoom` from two different parts of Japan. Please join us next time!! |
To be continued ....
Love,
❤️
Shayndel
The Sabbat worldwide project is a great initiative! You should be proud of your participation in it!
ReplyDeleteHi Duta, Thank you for your encouraging and enthusiastic reply. Yes, I agree! Will hope to join in again next year!
DeleteThey had a lot of participants from Israel: "more than 100 municipalities (in Israel) ran programmes, partnering with NGOs and volunteers to host more than 1,400 community-wide events."
Blessings to you and Shabbat Shalom!
Hi Shayndel, I like to hear of the Jewish celebrations as I was born of a Jewish mother whose parents were both Jewish. A few weeks back, on October 25th I had a dream that my husband and I were attending a Jewish festival.
ReplyDeleteHi Brenda, Thank you for sharing. I hope that you can enjoy to celebrate or attend a Shabbat or festival, like in the dream! Blessings and Shalom!
DeleteI enjoyed reading all about the Shabbat Project. Shabbat Shalom.
ReplyDeleteThank you Joyful for your visit and sharing in the event by reading. I`m glad you enjoyed it. Already it is a new Shabbat! Love and Blessings.
DeleteShabbat Shalom!!
This makes me want to make Challah! 😊
ReplyDeleteHI Sandi, Thank you.
DeleteI think you are becoming a good challah maker. Let me know how it comes out if you do! Blessings! Love!