Holocaust Remembrance Day~ Remember

 

I will also set up a place for My people Israel and will plant them, so they may dwell in their own place and not be disturbed again.  Nor will the children of wickedness afflict them anymore as in the past, since that day I commanded judges to be over My people Israel.  So I will give you rest from all your enemies.   2Samuel 7:10~11 (from this week`s Haftarah reading)

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. 　The task of eternal remembrance is given to us.  We must remember and not distort the memory of the atrocities that were done that led to the mass murder of six million Jewish people as well as around four hundred thousand non-Jews, and preserve their memory and their bravery through unimaginable circumstances that they endured.

In remembering may we also pray for our world and hearts of people that this terrible hatred and anti-Semitism which we still see will be eradicated.

Now Israel is a state where Jewish people can learn Hebrew and live the dream of having a Jewish state. 

May our people Jew and Gentile alike stand with the State of Israel in unity.  In prayer, in provision, in Love,  and honor the memory of our beloved brethren.

Much Love　❤️

Shayndel

 

 

 

In Remembrance of Yom HaShoah--Holocaust Remembrance Day

I am always full of words when posting but for this post I really don't have words but the more I go through the years on the Torah cycle the more connected I feel to the 6 million Jewish people and souls who were horribly murdered during the Holocaust and the importance to remember.

I am posting a page from my Torah Lesson for kids that I started during the time of quarrantine, and at the start of the lesson wanted to pause and dedicate our Torah lesson to those souls.  By remembering may it be certain that it can never happen again and may anti-Semitism in all forms be rooted out---pulled out from the roots---from our world.

Blessings and Shalom to all.

Love
♡
Shayndel

 note: illustrations are from the internet

Bread of Salvation, Dance of Joy

I love Shabbat mornings, as there is a divine light that shines on everything in a way that is different than on all the other mornings of the week.  This day, Yom Shabbat (Hebrew for `the Sabbath day`), is a weekly appointment to meet our Creator, and to spend time in rest with Him!! He tells us throughout the Torah and throughout all the scriptures about the Shabbat! From the first book of Genesis all the way to the book of Revelation we know that the seventh day was set apart as Holy by the Creator of Heaven and Earth. 

To know this day has such a place, a structural pillar in time,  in the eternal rhythms of Creation and that each of us is given the commandment  to keep and remember it, is such a blessing to `enter` it each week!  As Yeshua says, Shabbat was made for man, not man for the Shabbat!! Hallelujah! 

So this morning when I finished breakfast, I saw the challah with light around it, and felt the bread of Joy was today the bread of Salvation.

The Challah Cover just draped casually into place over the bread.  When I saw how the folds fell, it had a feeling of a Japanese kimono.   I had the sense of Yeshua`s presence, not only in my heart, but in a physical way, here,  in Japan, in this `metaphor` of the draped bread!  Can you see that in the photo in the top of post?  I didn`t `pose` the cloth, but that is how it was draped.

Here in Japan I came to Salvation in Yeshua.*   It was the great surprise of my life.  Why here?   I wasn`t looking for Him.  His word says to seek His face, but I never read those words until I was already found.  Since that time-- it was three years ago---, I search and I knock and want to know Him more and more.  Shabbat is such a special time to put `worldly` cares aside, and to delight in the Bread of Salvation.

Love and Blessings!

Shabbat Shalom!
Delight in the Shabbat!

Shayndel

Worship the One who made heaven and earth and sea and springs of water.  

 ---Revelation 14:7

*Salvation = Yeshua.