Homemade Bagels and Breaking the Fast

It is to be a statute to you forever, that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you are to afflict your souls, and do no kind of work---both the native-born and the outsider dwelling among you.  For on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you.  From all your sins you will be clean before ADONAI.  It is a Shabbat of solemn rest to you, and you are to afflict your souls.  It is a statute forever.   

---Leviticus 16:29~31

The Holy Day of Yom Kippur is a day of fasting that is a `statute forever` given in the Scriptures.
 (see scripture above)  It is for  all who choose to follow His commandments, both "the native born and the outsider dwelling among you."!    Isn`t that so amazing and wonderful!!  As I write this, I think of another scripture that also refers to the `native born` and `the outsider`, speaking of those `who are far` and those `who are near`, which says,

Shalom, shalom to him who is far and to him who is near,
says ADONAI, `and I will heal him.`   --from Isaiah 57:19

Then repeated in Ephesians,

And He came and proclaimed shalom to you who were far away and shalom to those who were near---for through Him we both have access to the Father by the same Ruach.  So then you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with God`s people and members of God`s household.      ---Ephesians 2:17~19

Even here in Japan there will be a day before long when those who were once far, will be brought near, and many will know ADONAI and Salvation in Yeshua! And observe the feast days and Shabbatot together!   I look forward to it even this year at Sukkot!  May it be so!

All nations you have made will come

and bow down before You, my Lord,

and they will glorify Your Name.

---Psalm 86:9

Enjoy the days leading up to Sukkot and the continuation of the Fall Feasts!

Meanwhile, please try a homemade bagel from our break-fast.  Where I grew up in New York it was always a tradition to break the fast with bagels and lox and cream cheese!  So I try to re-enact that  with homemade bagels here in Japan!

Blessings and Shalom, to you who are far and to you who are near!

Love,

Shayndel



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homemade NY bagels, made in Japan

Bagels Recipe, HERE
also pictured: Sweet Noodle Kugel, recipe HERE

Bagels for Breaking the fast

A break-the-fast after sundown on Yom Kippur ends the Ten Days of Awe (see previous posts below!).   Ending this High Holy Days period is like coming out of a long Shabbat, so there is a sadness to the ending.  But after the fast and the period of coming clean in our hearts through reflection and repentance there is also a readiness to eat ...

The bagels and everything are prepared beforehand, so at the end of a Yom Kippur service we set the table and are ready to eat!  When I was growing up in New York, our break-the-fast meal was always bagels and lox and the things that go with that.  Did I say I'm from New York?  Yes, its a special place to be on the Jewish Holidays and the bagels are famous for being the best.

So here I am in a small city on the southernmost island of Japan, determined to have a "New York bagel".  How to do that?  With God, nothing is impossible!  I made them!  I wanted to make it like the break-fasts I remember as a child. 

Although I was sad to exit from this long Shabbat rest, after the days of repentance I feel lighter.  And at the same time very full from these feast days, not only feasting on food, but most of all on the word of God!

May ADONAI bless you and keep you!
ADONAI make His face to shine on you
and be gracious to you!
May ADONAI turn His face toward you 
and grant you shalom!

---Aaronic Blessing, Numbers 6:24~26 

Bagels recipe can be found here