Tonight
starts the Jewish High Holy Days
with Rosh Ha'Shanah (literally, the Head of the year). Many people
mistakenly think this is the New Year on the Hebrew calendar. Actually the
Jewish new year or first month happens in the spring. The Hebrew month of Nisan, begins the Hebrew/Jewish
calendar. People will greet you with Happy New Year, but this is the seventh
month. Maybe this time period had some agricultural or fiscal importance in
ancient times. The Hebrew greeting, L'Shanah
TOVah, To a Good Year, a TOV
year! Remember, TOV also means, “Words, Thoughts and Actions that Preserve
Life, Protect Life, Make Life More Functional and Increases the Quality of Life.”
But the TOV doesn't stop there! Read Rabbi Leynor’s latest blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2015/09/tov-to-left-of-me-tov-to-right-of-me.html
The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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