tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7506646030839366482024-03-19T09:47:59.979-07:00"Sharing The Word Of God"Sharing The Word Of God...A personal relationship and walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.Rev. Ed Sarnellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329332707317714605noreply@blogger.comBlogger626125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750664603083936648.post-53522350703857779712016-04-21T10:38:00.001-07:002016-04-21T10:41:27.256-07:00Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is? Can We Discern The Signs Of The Times.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: blue;"><span class="text Matt-16-1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; left: 0px; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">16 </span>Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven. </span><span class="text Matt-16-2" id="en-NKJV-23675" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">2 </span>He answered and said to them, <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“When it is evening you say, ‘<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">It will be</i> fair weather, for the sky is red’;</span> </span><span class="text Matt-16-3" id="en-NKJV-23676" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">3 </span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">and in the morning, ‘</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">It will be</i><span style="line-height: 24px;"> foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites!</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">discern</i> the signs of the times.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Mark-13-2" id="en-NKJV-24720" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">2 </span>And Jesus answered and said to him, <span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;">“Do you see these great buildings? Not <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">one</i> stone shall be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span class="text Mark-13-3" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">3 </span>Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John, and Andrew asked Him privately, </span><span class="text Mark-13-4" id="en-NKJV-24722" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">4 </span>“Tell us, when will these things be? And what <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">will be</i> the sign when <span style="color: blue;">all these things will be fulfilled?”</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text Luke-21-8" id="en-NKJV-25835" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue;"><span class="versenum" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "arial"; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; position: relative; top: 0px; vertical-align: top;">8 </span><span style="line-height: 24px;">And He said: </span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">“Take heed that you not be deceived.</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">He,</i><span style="line-height: 24px;">’ and, ‘The time has drawn near.’ Therefore</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">do not go after them.</span></span></div>
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<span class="text Luke-21-8" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; line-height: 24px;">So I ask myself," SELF, how can we discern the signs of the times?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">Step#2.</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> <span style="color: blue;">"Not</span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">one </i><span style="line-height: 24px;">stone shall be left upon another that shall not be thrown down."</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Step#3. "</span></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: blue;">For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;">He,</i><span style="line-height: 24px;">’ and, ‘The time has drawn near.’ Therefore</span><span style="line-height: 22px;"> </span></span></span><span class="woj" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 24px;"><span style="color: blue;">do not go after them."</span></span></div>
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<span class="passage-display-bcv" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: blue; display: inline; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px;">Jesus said,"I Am The Truth," I ask myself, "SELF!", The Truth about Who, What, When, Where, Why? Please read along with me...</span></h1>
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when meaning the God of Israel, is mostly grammatically singular. Even in
Genesis 1:26 "Then God said (singular verb), 'Let us make (plural verb)
man in our image, after our likeness'", <i>Elohiym</i> is
singular. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Gesenius" title="Wilhelm Gesenius"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Wilhelm Gesenius</span></a> and other Hebrew
grammarians traditionally described this as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralis_excellentiae" title="Pluralis excellentiae"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">pluralis excellentiae</span></a> (plural of
excellence), which is similar to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralis_majestatis" title="Pluralis majestatis"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">pluralis majestatis</span></a> (plural of majesty, or
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I believe we humans generally understand Christian hope
as wishful thinking, as in "I Sure hope something good and not bad will
happen." This is not what we read in our Bibles, when we read our Bibles
it says Christian hope means: The biblical definition of hope : Faith, Confidence,
Assurance, Trust, Expectation, Anticipate, Freedom from Fear and Anxiety to
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<sup><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif;">6 </span></sup><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif;">being confident of this very thing, that He who hath begun a good
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560. apelpizo ap-el-pid'-zo from 575 and
1679; to hope out, i.e. fully expect:--hope for again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1679. elpizo el-pid'-zo from 1680; to
expect or confide:--(have, thing) hope(-d) (for), trust.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1680. elpis el-pece' from a primary elpo
(to anticipate, usually with pleasure); expectation (abstractly or concretely)
or confidence:--faith, hope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2070. esmen es-men' first person plural
indicative of 1510; we are:--are, be, have our being, X have hope, + (the
gospel) was (preached unto) us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4276. proelpizo pro-el-pid'-zo from 4253
and 1679; to hope in advance of other confirmation:--first trust.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4328. prosdokao pros-dok-ah'-o from 4314
and dokeuo (to watch); to anticipate (in thought, hope or fear); by
implication, to await:--(be in) expect(-ation), look (for), when looked, tarry,
wait for.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5049. teleios tel-i'-oce adverb from 5046;
completely, i.e. (of hope) without wavering:--to the end.<o:p></o:p></div>
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982 batach baw-takh' a primitive root; properly, to
hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=2620">2620</a>);
figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure:--be bold (confident, secure,
sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to)
trust.<o:p></o:p></div>
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983 betach beh'takh from <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=982">982</a>;
properly, a place of refuge; abstract, safety, both the fact (security) and the
feeling (trust); often (adverb with or without preposition) safely:--assurance,
boldly, (without) care(- less), confidence, hope, safe(-ly, -ty), secure,
surely.<o:p></o:p></div>
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986 bittachown bit-taw-khone' from <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=982">982</a>;
trust:--confidence, hope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2342 chuwl khool or chiyl {kheel}; a primitive root;
properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e.
(specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear;
figuratively, to wait, to pervert:--bear, (make to) bring forth, (make to)
calve, dance, drive away, fall grievously (with pain), fear, form, great,
grieve, (be) grievous, hope, look, make, be in pain, be much (sore) pained,
rest, shake, shapen, (be) sorrow(-ful), stay, tarry, travail (with pain),
tremble, trust, wait carefully (patiently), be wounded.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2620 chacah khaw-saw' a primitive root; to flee for
protection (Compare <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=982">982</a>);
figuratively, to confide in:--have hope, make refuge, (put) trust.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2976 ya'ash yaw-ash' a primitive root; to desist,
i.e. (figuratively) to despond:--(cause to) despair, one that is desperate, be
no hope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3175 yachiyl yaw-kheel' from <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=3176">3176</a>;
expectant:--should hope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3176 yachal yaw-chal' a primitive root; to wait; by
implication, to be patient, hope:--(cause to, have, make to) hope, be pained,
stay, tarry, trust, wait.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3689 kecel keh'-sel from <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=3688">3688</a>;
properly, fatness, i.e. by implication (literally) the loin (as the seat of the
leaf fat) or (generally) the viscera; also (figuratively) silliness or (in a
good sense) trust:--confidence, flank, folly, hope, loin.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4009 mibtach mib-tawkh' from <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=982">982</a>;
properly, a refuge, i.e. (objective) security, or (subjective)
assurance:--confidence, hope, sure, trust.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4268 machaceh makh-as-eh' or machceh {makh-seh'};
from <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=2620">2620</a>;
a shelter (literally or figuratively):--hope, (place of) refuge, shelter,
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4723 miqveh mik-veh' or miqveh (1Kings 10:28)
{mik-vay'}; or miqvet (2 Chron. 1:16) {mik-vay'}; from <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=6960">6960</a>;
something waited for, i.e. confidence (objective or subjective); also a
collection, i.e. (of water) a pond, or (of men and horses) a caravan or
drove:--abiding, gathering together, hope, linen yarn, plenty (of water), pool.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5452 cbar seb-ar' (Aramaic) a primitive root; to
bear in mind, i.e. hope:--think.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5453 Cibrayim sib-rah'-yim dual from a root
corresponding to <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=5452">5452</a>;
double hope; Sibrajim, a place in Syria:--Sibraim.<o:p></o:p></div>
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7663 sabar saw-bar' erroneously shabar (Nehemiah
2:13, <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=15">15</a>)
{shaw-bar'}; a primitive root; to scrutinize; by implication (of watching) to
expect (with hope and patience):--hope, tarry, view, wait.<o:p></o:p></div>
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7664 seber say'-ber from <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=7663">7663</a>;
expectation:--hope.<o:p></o:p></div>
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8431 towcheleth to-kheh'-leth from <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=3176">3176</a>;
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8615 tiqvah tik-vaw' from <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=6960">6960</a>;
literally, a cord (as an attachment (Compare <a href="http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=hebrewlexicon&isindex=6961">6961</a>));
figuratively, expectancy:--expectation ((-ted)), hope, live, thing that I long
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Christian hope is "confident expectation." a firm assurance regarding things that are
unseen, unclear and unknown (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Romans%208.24-25" target="_blank">Romans
8:24-25</a>;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Hebrews%2011.1" target="_blank">Hebrews
11:1</a>,<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Hebrews%2011.7" target="_blank">7</a>).
Hope is a fundamental component of the life of the righteous (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Proverbs%2023.18" target="_blank">Proverbs
23:18</a>). Without hope, life loses its meaning (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lamentations%203.18" target="_blank">Lamentations
3:18</a>;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Job%207.6" target="_blank">Job
7:6</a>) and in death there is no hope (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Isaiah%2038.18" target="_blank">Isaiah 38:18</a>;<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Job%2017.15" target="_blank">Job 17:15</a>).
The righteous who trust or put their hope in God will be helped (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Psalm%2028.7" target="_blank">Psalm 28:7</a>),
and they will not be confounded, put to shame, or disappointed (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Isaiah%2049.23" target="_blank">Isaiah 49:23</a>).
The righteous, who have this trustful hope in God, have a general confidence in
God's protection and help (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Jeremiah%2029.11" target="_blank">Jeremiah
29:11</a>) and are free from fear and anxiety (<a href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Psalm%2046.2-3" target="_blank">Psalm 46:2-3</a>).<o:p></o:p></div>
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guys, just a brief update on world events...</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"End
times", "Eschaton", and "Last days" .<o:p></o:p></span></i></u></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">End time</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (also called end times, end of
time, end of days, last days, final days, or eschaton) is a time period described
in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschatology" title="Eschatology">eschatologies</a> of the
dominant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_religion" title="World religion">world religions</a>,
both <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_religion" title="Abrahamic religion">Abrahamic</a> and
non-Abrahamic.<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrahamic_faiths" title="Abrahamic faiths">Abrahamic faiths</a> maintain a linear <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology" title="Cosmology">cosmology</a>, with end-time scenarios containing
themes of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation" title="Transformation">transformation</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redemption_(theology)" title="Redemption (theology)">redemption</a>.
In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>, the term "end of days" makes
reference to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Age" title="Messianic Age">Messianic Age</a>, and
includes an in-gathering of the exiled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora" title="Diaspora">diaspora</a>, the coming of the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Messiah" title="Jewish Messiah">mashiach</a></i>, <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_eschatology#.22The_world_to_come.22" title="Jewish eschatology">olam haba</a></i>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techiyat_hamaysim" title="Techiyat hamaysim">resurrection of the Tsadikim</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> traditionally depicts the end
time as a period of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribulation" title="Tribulation">tribulation</a> that
precedes the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming" title="Second Coming">second coming</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ" title="Jesus Christ">Christ</a>, who will face the emergence of
the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist" title="Antichrist">Antichrist</a> and usher in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_God" title="Kingdom of God">Kingdom of God</a>. However, some Christians
believe that the end time represents the personal tribulation experienced
before they are enlightened with the Word of God.</span><sup><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time#cite_note-1">[1]</a></span></sup><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> In
Islam, the<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawm_al-Qiy%C4%81mah" title="Yawm al-Qiyāmah">Yawm al-Qiyāmah</a></i> or <i>Yawm
ad-Din</i>, the Day of Judgement, is preceded by the appearance of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi" title="Mahdi">Mahdi</a> atop
a white stallion. With the help of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_in_Islam" title="Jesus in Islam">Isa</a> (Jesus), the Mahdi will then triumph
over <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masih_ad-Dajjal" title="Masih ad-Dajjal">Masih ad-Dajjal</a> (the
false messiah).<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Non-Abrahamic faiths have more
cyclical world-views, with end-time eschatologies characterized by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_disintegration" title="Social disintegration">decay</a>,
redemption and rebirth. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a>, end time is
foretold</span><sup><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch">by whom?</a></i>]</span></sup></u><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><u> as when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalki" title="Kalki">Kalki</a>,
the final incarnation of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu" title="Vishnu">Vishnu</a>, descends atop a
white horse and brings an end to the current <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Yuga" title="Kali Yuga">Kali Yuga</a></i>. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha" title="Buddha">Buddha</a> predicted
that his teachings would be forgotten after 5,000 years, followed by turmoil.
A <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva" title="Bodhisattva">bodhisattva</a></i> named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya" title="Maitreya">Maitreya</a> will appear and rediscover the
teaching of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma" title="Dharma">dharma</a></i>. The ultimate destruction of the
world will then come through seven suns.</u><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lies and Deception seems to be the first rule of thumb! Yes, we choose to believe in the bag of tricks Governments and large corporations feed us. We tell ourselves, Oh come on, there are all kinds of conspiracy theories that are out of this world! We do not really believe all that stuff do we? Lets take a look at the simple things that we all share and experience in our life time. It all begins here in the United States of America at a very early age now days. We watch, see, read, touch, smell and listen to every gizmo that technology has provided in an instant. Technology has exceeded our wildest hopes and dreams, all information in the world given to us in a moment! We sat for hours watching Star Trek hoping for a better future. Yet it seems the world in which we live in is no friendlier or kinder for all the advances we have made. We should ask ourselves," selves are we happier today than we were when we were young children"? And just how do we achieve such love, joy, health and happiness again? <br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Isaiah 17: Destruction of Damascus</span></h2>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">In the Bible....please read along with me...the bible tells us of a horrible series of events that
will take place in the lands of Israel and Syria. One of these events
is the disappearance of Damascus as one of the premiere cities in the
world. The oldest continuously inhabited city on the planet, Damascus
has witnessed at least 5,000 years of human history, and some historians
believe the city actually dates back to the seventh millennium BC. In
fact, Paul was on the road to Damascus when Christ first appeared to
Him, an event that transformed not only his life, but the course of
human history.
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">In the very near future, Damascus will once again play a major role in
human events. The prophet Isaiah provides us with God’s commentary on a
future conflict between Damascus and Israel, and in so doing, he
reveals certain prophecies which have been partially fulfilled in the
past. However, the ultimate fulfillment of Isaiah 17 remains in the
future. The current existence of Damascus, which will one day cease to
be a city, as well as the historical absence of the coalition of nations
prophesied to attack Israel and be destroyed by God, is proof that
Isaiah 17 prophesies events yet future.
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">This is what God revealed to the prophet Isaiah:
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“This message came to me concerning Damascus: ‘Look, Damascus will
disappear! It will become a heap of ruins. The cities of Aroer will be
deserted. Sheep will graze in the streets and lie down unafraid.
There will be no one to chase them away. The fortified cities of Israel
will also be destroyed, and the power of Damascus will end. The few
left in Aram will share the fate of Israel’s departed glory,’ says the
Lord Almighty.” Isaiah 17:1-3 (NLT)
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">These opening verses paint a bleak picture. The city of Damascus will
become a heap of ruins, utterly destroyed. Few, if any, buildings will
be left standing. The once great city will be devoid of human life and
will become home to all manner of wildlife in the absence of humans to
chase them away.
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">According to these verses, the cities of Aroer, which are located on the
northern bank of the Arnon River just east of the Dead Sea, will also
be deserted. However, the passage doesn’t say they will be destroyed in
the same manner as Damascus, just that they will be deserted. It may
be that people simply flee these cities out of fear.
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">In addition, many of the fortified cities in northern Israel will also
be destroyed. Those few who remain in Aram, 38 miles south southeast of
Damascus, will share the fate of these northern Israeli cities.
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“‘In that day the glory of Israel will be very dim, for poverty will
stalk the land. Israel will be abandoned like the grain fields in the
valley of Rephaim after the harvest. Only a few of its people will be
left, like the stray olives left on the tree after the harvest. Only
two or three remain in the highest branches, four or five out on the
tips of the limbs. Yes, Israel will be stripped bare of people,’ says
the Lord, the God of Israel.” Isaiah 17:4-6 (NLT)
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">The breadth and scope of destruction is clearly illustrated as God
describes the Israeli landscape as stripped bare of people. Only a
small fraction of people either choose to stay in the land or else
survive what is a massive holocaust, leaving only a few inhabitants who
struggle in poverty.
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“Then at last the people will think of their Creator and have respect
for the Holy One of Israel. They will no longer ask their idols for
help or worship what their own hands have made. They will never again
bow down to their Asherah poles or burn incense on the altars they
built.” Isaiah 17:7-8 (NLT)
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">As a result of this event, the people of Israel will once again turn to
God Almighty. Currently, the nation of Israel is predominantly secular
in nature. Other biblical passages infer that this will change as the
prophesied rebuilding of the Temple in the last days indicates a
spiritual resurgence among the Jews of Israel. Nevertheless, this
passage clearly indicates the people of Israel will turn away from all
false idols and gods.
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Knowing that this will happen, we must ask: why does it happen? The answer is found in the verses that follow:
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“Their largest cities will be as deserted as overgrown thickets. They
will become like the cities the Amorites abandoned when the Israelites
came here so long ago. Why? Because you have turned from the God who
can save you – the Rock who can hide you. You may plant the finest
imported grapevines, and they may grow so well that they blossom on the
very morning you plant them, but you will never pick any grapes from
them. Your only harvest will be a load of grief and incurable pain.”
Isaiah 17:9-11 (NLT)
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">The devastation that overshadows Israel will come about because Israel
has “turned from the God who can save them.” All the hard work
performed prior to this event will be lost. Those who have been
distracted by the things of this world will be disappointed, for they
have forgotten God, and by putting faith in the things of this world,
they will ultimately be disappointed. Their only harvest will be “a
load of grief and incurable pain.” This grief will be brought to a
climax when, in the midst of their suffering, the nation of Israel faces
an imminent invasion:
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“Look! The armies rush forward like waves thundering toward the shore.
But though they roar like breakers on a beach, God will silence them.
They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind or like dust whirling
before a storm. In the evening Israel waits in terror, but by dawn its
enemies are dead. This is the just reward of those who plunder and
destroy the people of God.” Isaiah 17:12-14 (NLT)
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">While Syria and Israel lie in ruin, the enemies of Israel will view her
suffering as an opportunity to invade, their ultimate goal to destroy
her forever. However, God has a different plan in mind, and He will
destroy these invaders Himself. A more in depth illustration of this
attack is foreseen in Psalm 83:
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“O God, don’t sit idly by, silent and inactive! Don’t you hear the
tumult of your enemies? Don’t you see what your arrogant enemies are
doing? They devise crafty schemes against your people, laying plans
against your precious ones. ‘Come,’ they say, ‘let us wipe out Israel
as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.’ This
was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against
you – these Edomites and Ishmaelites, Moabites and Hagrites, Gebalites,
Ammonites, and Amalekites, and people from Philistia and Tyre. Assyria
has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Do to
them as you did to the Midianites or as you did to Sisera and Jabin at
the Kishon River. They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying
corpses fertilized the soil. Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and
Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, for they
said, ‘Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!’ O my
God, blow them away like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind! As a
fire roars through a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze, chase
them with your fierce storms; terrify them with your tempests.
Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O Lord. Let them
be ashamed and terrified forever. Make them failures in everything they
do, until they learn that you alone are called the Lord, that you alone
are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.” Psalm 83 (NLT)
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">So how do we know that Psalm 83 describes the same scene envisioned in
Isaiah 17? Let’s compare the two. Here’s how the intentions of
Israel’s enemies are described:
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Plunder & Destruction</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“This is the just reward of those who plunder and destroy the people of God.” Isaiah 17:14 (NLT)
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Destruction</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“They devise crafty schemes against your people, laying plans against
your precious ones. ‘Come,’ they say, ‘let us wipe out Israel as a
nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.’ This was
their unanimous decision.” Psalm 83:3-5 (NLT)
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Plunder</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“for they said, ‘Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!” Psalm 83:12 (NLT)
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Here’s how the fate of Israel’s enemies are described:
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“They will flee like chaff scattered by the wind or like dust whirling before a storm.” Isaiah 17:13 (NLT)
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“O my God, blow them away like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind!” Psalm 83:13 (NLT)
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">From the description of their fate alone, it is reasonable to conclude
that the armies of Isaiah 17:12 are the same nations who sign a treaty
against the Lord in Psalm 83:5-8. Below is a list of those nations and
their modern geographical equivalents:
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Edomites = Jordan / Parts of the West Bank</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Ishmaelites = The Arab people</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Moabites = Jordan / Parts of the West Bank</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Hagrites = Jordan / The Arab people</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Gebalites = Lebanon</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Ammonites = Jordan</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Amalekites = Southern Israel / Gaza</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Philistia = Gaza</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Tyre = Lebanon</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Assyria = Syria / Parts of Turkey and Iraq</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">The Descendants of Lot = Jordan</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">By studying the geographical history of these ancient people and places,
we can uncover which nations they currently compose. According to
Psalm 83, in the aftermath of the destruction of northern Israel and
Damascus, Israel will be invaded by armies from Jordan, the West Bank,
Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza. All of these locations are heavily populated
by the enemies of Israel today.
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">An Expanding War?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">But are the nations cited in Psalm 83 the only nations involved in this
attack? It’s quite possible that additional conspirators are named in
the Book of Ezekiel. Isaiah 17 and Psalm 83 might well foreshadow the
war of Gog and Magog.
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">In Ezekiel 38-39, an enormous coalition of nations, “a vast and awesome
horde” – will roll down on Israel “like a storm and cover the land like a
cloud” Ezekiel 38:9 (NLT). This prophesied future war in Ezekiel has
many similarities to Isaiah 17:12-14. Both prophets foresee a time when
enemy armies rush toward Israel while she awaits unprepared. Both
prophets foresee God’s instantaneous destruction of Israel’s enemies.
And in both scenarios, the marching armies intend to plunder and destroy
the people of Israel:
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Destruction</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“You will say, ‘Israel is an unprotected land filled with unwalled
villages! I will march against her and destroy these people who live in
such confidence!” Ezekiel 38:11 (NLT)
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Plunder</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“But Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish will ask, ‘Who are
you to rob them of silver and gold? Who are you to drive away their
cattle and seize their goods and make them poor?’” Ezekiel 38:13 (NLT)
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Plunder & Destruction</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">“This is the just reward of those who plunder and destroy the people of God.” Isaiah 17:14 (NLT)
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Could the events predicted in Isaiah 17 and Psalm 83 be a catalyst for
the war of Gog and Magog prophesied in Ezekiel 38-39? Although it is
not a certainty, the possibility can not be completely ruled out.
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Today’s Headlines
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Looking at today’s geopolitical landscape, it’s not difficult to
envision the scenario outlined in Isaiah 17 and Psalm 83. Syria has
been adamant in its demand that Israel surrender the Golan Heights,
threatening war if Israel fails to comply. Meanwhile, the summer 2006
war between Israel and Hezbollah has apparently convinced leaders in
Damascus that Syria can be victorious in a conflict with Israel by
simply overwhelming the tiny nation with rocket attacks. From a greater
perspective, it has convinced the entire Islamic world that Israel
isn’t the militarily invincible nation they once thought.
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Syria’s rocket technology is far more advanced than that deployed by
Hezbollah, and Syria is known to possess chemical weapons, including the
highly lethal VX and Sarin gases. If Syria miscalculates and attacks
Israel with these weapons, the Israeli response will be swift and
devastating. Israel is armed with nuclear weapons, and if its survival
is put in question, it will not hesitate to use them.
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">If this happens, a mortally wounded Israel will become an irresistible
target for her enemies. The surrounding Muslim nations will see an
opportunity to destroy her, while Russia will see an opportunity to
seize the upper hand in the oil rich Middle East.
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">Today, the most virulent enemies of Israel reside in the very places
named in Psalm 83 – Hamas in Gaza, the Palestinians in the West Bank and
Jordan, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Syria leadership and its Axis of
Evil partners in the city of Damascus.
</span></b><br />
<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">As of this writing, the rise of Isis in the Middle East and the escalation of War through out the Middle East. Can we see the conditions are ripe for the fulfillment of Isaiah 17 and Psalm 83...</span></b></div>
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means: 60 (sixty) is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number" title="Natural number"><span style="color: blue;">natural number</span></a> following <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_(number)" title="59 (number)"><span style="color: blue;">59</span></a> and preceding <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/61_(number)" title="61 (number)"><span style="color: blue;">61</span></a>. Being three times twenty, 60 is called
"three <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_(number)" title="20 (number)"><span style="color: blue;">score</span></a>" in some
older literature. Add 10 years, “and ten”. This is 60 years and 10 years equals
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verse in regards to the age of a human being and then applying it to the Israel
Nation. We really do not know if this scripture applies to Israel as a Nation.
We will have to study more and watch as history unfolds.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be
fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut
off, and we fly away.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth
leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at
the doors.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be
fulfilled.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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So I ask myself, “What does this all mean?” Does this mean that "ALL THESE
THINGS" (Bible Prophecy) will "TAKE PLACE" (be fulfilled) after
May 14, 2018 which when we apply the above numbers to ISRAEL as a nation and
then to ISRAEL the Nation as the GENERATION. I really do not know, all I know
is 90% of Bible prophecy has already been fulfilled. Coincidences, sure, maybe,
no one really knows. Very interesting information anyway we choose to see it.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The 'Fall Feasts'- are yet to be fulfilled- meaning we need to read more and
study.<br />
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The '70th Week of Daniel' is seven years long - more exactly 2,550 days. We
need to read more and study more.<br />
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Matthew 24</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the
temple.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall
not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying,
Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming,
and of the end of the world?</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all
these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be
famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are the beginning of sorrows.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">9 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then shall
they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated
of all nations for my name's sake.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">10 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then
shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one
another.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And many
false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">12 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">13 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But he
that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">14 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And this
gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all
nations; and then shall the end come.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">15 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When ye
therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the
prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">16 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then let
them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let him
which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Neither
let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">19 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And woe
unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">20 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But pray
ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">21 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For then
shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to
this time, no, nor ever shall be.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">22 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And except
those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the
elect's sake those days shall be shortened.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">23 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then if
any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">24 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For there
shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and
wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">25 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Behold, I
have told you before.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">26 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wherefore
if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold,
he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">27 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For as the
lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also
the coming of the Son of man be.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">28 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">29 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Immediately
after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon
shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers
of the heavens shall be shaken:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">30 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then
shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the
tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the
clouds of heaven with power and great glory.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">31 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And he
shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather
together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">32 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now learn
a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth
leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">33 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at
the doors.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">34 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Verily I
say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be
fulfilled.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">35 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heaven and
earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">36 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But of
that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
only.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">37 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But as the
days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">38 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For as in
the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and
giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">39 </span></sup><span style="background: black; color: white; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And knew
not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of
the Son of man be.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Interesting information that effects us all...Nuclear Weapons...President John F. Kennedy made a speech and he said..."There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, (NOTE: Today there are 40 countries that have nuclear capacity), including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. . . I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the fu<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">ture of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war." Third Nixon-Kennedy Presidential Debate, October 13, 1960<br /><br />"The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent the arms race from spreading to new nations, to new nuclear powers and to the reaches of outer space." State of the Union Address, January 30, 1961<br /><br />"In the thermonuclear age, any misjudgment on either side about the intentions of the other could rain more devastation in several hours than has been wrought in all the wars of humanity." Report to the American People on the Berlin Crisis, July 25, 1961<br /><br />"Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable. Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us...Zechariah 14:12<br />King James Version (KJV)<br />12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.</span></b></div>
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28. (Chapter 24:1) Behold YHWH will empty the earth and make it a waste and twist in reverse its face and scatter<br />29. its inhabitants. (2) And it shall be as it is with the people so with the priest and as to the servant so to the lord, as to the hand maid<br />30. so to the mistress and as the buyer so the seller and as the lender so the borrower and as the receiver of interest so to the one who pays<br />31. to him. (3) The land shall be completely emptied and altogether plundered, because YHWH has spoken<br />32. this word. (4) The earth mourns and fades away the world system droops and fades away<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=750664603083936648" name="c19"></a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">Column XIX Isaiah 24:4 to 25:3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">1. (Continue 24:4) The highminded {&people&} of the earth wilt. (5) And the earth is polluted by those who inhabitant it. because<br />2. they have transgressed the Torah and have altered the statutes and have violated the eternal covenant. (6) Therefore <i>His</i> oath has devoured<br />3. [m..+the earth] and those dwelling in it as the offenders, on this account the inhabitants of the earth are scorched and there is a remnant of men<br />4. a very small. (7) The fresh pressed grape juice mourns and the vines wilt, all the joyful hearts sigh. (8) It ceases<br />5. <i>even</i> the mirth of tambourines, the noise of joy stops, the mirth of the harp ceases. (9) with a song<br />6. they shall not drink wine and strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. (10) The disoriented city is shattered, barred are<br />7. all the houses from entering. (11) A cry for wine in the outskirts, all joy is darkened,<br />8. mirth is rolled away <i>from</i> the land. (12) Desolation <i>only</i> remains in the city and destruction strikes<br />9. the gate. (13) Because thus shall it be in the midst of the land in the middle of the people it shall be like the shaking of an olive tree<br />10. like gleaning when the vintage is finished. (14) They shall life up their voice, they shall sing about the majesty of<br />11. YHWH, [<i>Q end verse here</i>] They shall cry out from the sea. (15) Therefore glorify YHWH in the valleys <i>and</i> in the isles of the sea<br />12. the name of YHWH God of Israel. (PP)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">13. (16) From the corners of the earth we have heard songs, Beauty <i>shall be</i> to the righteous, I am thin. I am <i>very</i> thin,<br />14. woe is me the traitors betray and the clothing of the betrayers is their treachery (17) Fear and the pit<br />15. and the snare are upon you O inhabitant of the earth. (18) and it shall be that the one fleeing from the sound of the fear shall fall<br />16. into the pit, and the one coming up out of the pit shall be captured by the snare because the windows<br />17. from the highest are opened and the foundations of the earth quake. (19) It is altogether broken up<br />18. <i>even</i> the earth. The earth is split wide open and is repeatedly shaken. (20) The staggering<br />19. of the earth shall be like the reeling of a drunkard and the shaking of a shed and her transgressions shall be a weight upon her<br />20. and she shall fall and shall not rise again. (PP)</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript" style="background-image: none; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Manuscript">texts</a><b> discovered between 1946 and 1956 at </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Khirbet <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Qumran">Qumran</a></i><b> in the </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank" style="background-image: none; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="West Bank">West Bank</a><b>. They were found in caves about a mile inland from the northwest shore of the </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea" style="background-image: none; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Dead Sea">Dead Sea</a><b>, from which they derive their name. The texts are of great historical, religious, and linguistic significance because they include the earliest known surviving </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_manuscript" style="background-image: none; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Biblical manuscript">manuscripts</a><b> of works later included in the </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" style="background-image: none; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Hebrew Bible">Hebrew Bible</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon" style="background-image: none; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Biblical canon">canon</a><b>, along with extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late </b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple_Judaism" style="background-image: none; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;" title="Second Temple Judaism">Second Temple Judaism</a><b>.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">The texts are written in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Hebrew language">Hebrew</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_language" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Aramaic language">Aramaic</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Greek language">Greek</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataean_language" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Nabataean language">Nabataean</a>, mostly on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchment" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Parchment">parchment</a> but with some written on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Papyrus">papyrus</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Bronze">bronze</a>. The manuscripts have been dated to various ranges between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/408_BC" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="408 BC">408</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCE" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="BCE">BCE</a> and 318 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Era" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Common Era">CE</a>. Bronze coins found on the site form a series beginning with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hyrcanus" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="John Hyrcanus">John Hyrcanus</a> (135-104 BCE) and continuing until the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish-Roman_War" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="First Jewish-Roman War">First Jewish-Roman War</a> (66–73 CE).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">The scrolls have traditionally been identified with the ancient <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_religious_movements" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Jewish religious movements">Jewish sect</a> called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essenes" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Essenes">Essenes</a>, although some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests in<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Jerusalem">Jerusalem</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zadokites" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Zadokites">Zadokites</a>, or other unknown Jewish groups.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Due to the poor condition of some of the Scrolls, not all of them have been identified. Those that have been identified can be divided into three general groups: (1) some 40% of them are copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible, (2) approximately another 30% of them are texts from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple_Period" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Second Temple Period">Second Temple Period</a> and which ultimately were not <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_the_Hebrew_Bible_canon" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Development of the Hebrew Bible canon">canonized in the Hebrew Bible</a>, like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Book of Enoch">Book of Enoch</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilees" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Jubilees">Jubilees</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Tobit" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Book of Tobit">Book of Tobit</a>, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_Sirach" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Wisdom of Sirach">Wisdom of Sirach</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms_152%E2%80%93155" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Psalms 152–155">Psalms 152–155</a>, etc., and (3) the remaining roughly 30% of them are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectarianism" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Sectarianism">sectarian</a> manuscripts of previously unknown documents that shed light on the rules and beliefs of a particular group or groups within greater Judaism, like the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Rule" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Community Rule">Community Rule</a>, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Scroll" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="War Scroll">War Scroll</a>, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habakkuk_Commentary" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="Habakkuk Commentary">Pesher on Habakkuk</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rule_of_the_Blessing" style="background-image: none; text-decoration: none;" title="The Rule of the Blessing">The Rule of the Blessing</a>.</span></b></div>
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Rev. Ed Sarnellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329332707317714605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750664603083936648.post-18475081190709755092013-11-07T08:43:00.000-08:002015-06-02T15:04:51.138-07:00Jewish holidays<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2013<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="1847508119070975509"></a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH HOLIDAYS<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><u1:p></u1:p>REV. ED SARNELLA<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">1. WORK FORBIDDEN ONLY ON THE FIRST DAY
IN ISRAEL, OR THE FIRST TWO ELSEWHERE.</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">2. IN
ISRAEL, AND FOR REFORM CONGREGATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, SIMCHAT TORAH IS ON
THE SAME DAY AS SHEMINI ATZERET.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">3. WORK
IS FORBIDDEN ONLY ON THE FIRST AND SEVENTH DAYS IN ISRAEL, AND ELSEWHERE ALSO
ON THE SECOND AND EIGHTH.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">4. CELEBRATED
ON 27 NISAN. IF THIS DATE FALLS ON A FRIDAY, THE OBSERVANCE IS MOVED TO THE
PREVIOUS THURSDAY. IF IT FALLS ON A SUNDAY, OBSERVANCE IS MOVED TO THE
FOLLOWING MONDAY.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ROSH HASHANAH (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ראש השנה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">,
LITERALLY "HEAD [OF] THE YEAR"), IS THE </span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year" title="New Year"><span style="text-decoration: none;">NEW YEAR</span></a> ALTHOUGH
THE REAL NAME FOR THIS FEAST OF THE LORD IS CALLED YOM TERUAH (</span><span style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">יום תרועה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, LITERALLY
"DAY [OF] SHOUTING/RAISING A NOISE") OR THE FEAST OF
TRUMPETS ACCORDING TO THE CORRECT BIBLICAL CALENDAR OF THE 1ST AND 2ND
TEMPLE PERIOD, NOT ROSH HASHANAH. IT IS THE FIRST OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HIGH HOLY DAYS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OR YAMIM
NORA'IM ("DAYS OF AWE") WHICH USUALLY OCCUR IN THE EARLY AUTUMN
OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">NORTHERN
HEMISPHERE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.
ROSH HASHANAH IS A TWO-DAY CELEBRATION, WHICH BEGINS ON THE FIRST DAY OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TISHREI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. THE DAY IS
BELIEVED TO BE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE CREATION OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ADAM AND EVE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, THE FIRST MAN
AND WOMAN, AND THEIR FIRST ACTIONS TOWARD THE REALIZATION OF MANKIND'S ROLE
IN <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_in_Judaism" title="God in Judaism"><span style="text-decoration: none;">GOD</span></a>'S WORLD. ROSH HASHANAH CUSTOMS INCLUDE
SOUNDING THE <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shofar" title="Shofar"><span style="text-decoration: none;">SHOFAR</span></a> (A
HOLLOWED-OUT RAM'S HORN) AND EATING SYMBOLIC FOODS SUCH AS APPLES DIPPED IN
HONEY TO EVOKE A "SWEET NEW YEAR".<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">YOM KIPPUR (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">יוֹם
כִּפּוּר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span>, IPA: </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">[</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ˈ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOM KI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ˈ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PU</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ʁ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">]</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, OR </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">יום
הכיפורים</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span>), ALSO KNOWN AS DAY OF
ATONEMENT, IS THE HOLIEST DAY OF THE YEAR FOR THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH PEOPLE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur#cite_note-1"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[1]</span></a> ITS
CENTRAL THEMES ARE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ATONEMENT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">REPENTANCE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. JEWISH PEOPLE
TRADITIONALLY OBSERVE THIS HOLY DAY WITH AN APPROXIMATE 25-HOUR PERIOD OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">FASTING</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND
INTENSIVE <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_services" title="Jewish services"><span style="text-decoration: none;">PRAYER</span></a>, OFTEN SPENDING MOST OF THE DAY IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SYNAGOGUE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> SERVICES.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SUKKOT, SUCCOT OR SUKKOS (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">סוכות</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">OR </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">סֻכּוֹת</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span> SUKKŌT OR SUKKOS, FEAST OF
BOOTHS, FEAST OF TABERNACLES) IS A </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BIBLICAL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH HOLIDAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> CELEBRATED
ON THE 15TH DAY OF THE MONTH OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TISHREI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (VARIES FROM LATE SEPTEMBER TO LATE OCTOBER). IT
IS ONE OF THE THREE BIBLICALLY MANDATED FESTIVALS </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHALOSH REGALIM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ON WHICH
HEBREWS WERE COMMANDED TO MAKE A PILGRIMAGE TO THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. IT FOLLOWS
THE SOLEMN HOLIDAY OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">YOM KIPPUR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, OR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE HOLIDAY LASTS SEVEN DAYS (EIGHT IN
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DIASPORA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">). THE FIRST
DAY (AND SECOND IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DIASPORA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">) IS A SABBATH-LIKE YOM TOV (HOLIDAY) WHEN WORK IS
FORBIDDEN, FOLLOWED BY THE INTERMEDIATE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">CHOL HAMOED</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHEMINI ATZERET</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. THE HEBREW
WORD SUKKŌT IS THE PLURAL OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SUKKAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, "</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BOOTH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OR </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TABERNACLE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">", WHICH IS A WALLED STRUCTURE
COVERED WITH SCHACH (PLANT MATERIAL SUCH AS LEAFY TREE OVERGROWTH OR
PALM LEAVES).<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE SUKKAH IS INTENDED AS A REMINISCENCE
OF THE TYPE OF FRAGILE DWELLINGS IN WHICH THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ISRAELITES</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> DWELT
DURING THEIR 40 YEARS OF TRAVEL IN THE DESERT AFTER THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">EXODUS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> FROM
SLAVERY IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">EGYPT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. THROUGHOUT
THE HOLIDAY, MEALS ARE EATEN INSIDE THE SUKKAH AND SOME PEOPLE SLEEP THERE AS
WELL. ON EACH DAY OF THE HOLIDAY, MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD RECITE A BLESSING
OVER THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">LULAV</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (CLOSED
FROND OF THE DATE PALM TREE, BOUND WITH BOUGHS AND BRANCHES OF THE WILLOW AND
MYRTLE TREES) AND </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ETROG</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (YELLOW
CITRON) (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">FOUR SPECIES</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">).<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ACCORDING TO THE PROPHET </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ZECHARIAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MESSIANIC ERA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> SUKKOT
WILL BECOME A UNIVERSAL FESTIVAL AND ALL NATIONS WILL MAKE PILGRIMAGES ANNUALLY
TO </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JERUSALEM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> TO
CELEBRATE THE FEAST THERE.(</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ZECH 14:16-19</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">)<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHEMINI ATZERET (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">שְׁמִינִי</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">עֲצֶֽרֶת</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> –
"EIGHTH [DAY OF] ASSEMBLY"; SEFARDIC/ISRAELI PRON. SH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ə</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MINI
ATZÈRET; ASHKENAZIC PRON. SHMINI-ATSÈRES) IS A </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH HOLIDAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. IT IS
CELEBRATED ON THE 22ND DAY OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW MONTH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TISHREI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IN
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">LAND OF ISRAEL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, AND ON THE
22ND AND 23RD OUTSIDE THE LAND, THAT USUALLY COINCIDES WITH LATE SEPTEMBER
AND/OR EARLY OCTOBER EACH YEAR. THE FESTIVAL OF SUKKOT IS CELEBRATED
FOR SEVEN DAYS AND THUS SHEMINI ATZERET IS LITERALLY
THE EIGHTH DAY, BUT IT IS A SEPARATE YET CONNECTED HOLY DAY DEVOTED
TO THE SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF THE JEWISH FESTIVAL OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SUKKOT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, WHICH IT
DIRECTLY FOLLOWS. PART OF ITS DUALITY AS A HOLY DAY IS THAT IT IS
SIMULTANEOUSLY CONSIDERED TO BE AND CELEBRATED AS BEING BOTH CONNECTED TO
SUKKOT, YET ALSO BEING A SEPARATE FESTIVAL IN ITS OWN RIGHT.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">OUTSIDE THE LAND OF ISRAEL, THIS IS
FURTHER COMPLICATED BY THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ADDITIONAL DAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ADDED TO ALL BIBLICAL HOLIDAYS
EXCEPT </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">YOM KIPPUR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. THE
FIRST DAY OF SHEMINI ATZERET THEREFORE COINCIDES WITH THE EIGHTH DAY OF SUKKOT
OUTSIDE OF ISRAEL, LEADING TO SOMETIMES INVOLVED ANALYSIS AS TO WHICH PRACTICES
OF EACH HOLIDAY ARE TO APPLY.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE CELEBRATION OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SIMCHAT TORAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IS THE
MOST DISTINCTIVE FEATURE OF THE HOLIDAY, BUT IT IS A LATER RABBINICAL
INNOVATION. IN ISRAEL, THE CELEBRATIONS OF SHEMINI ATZERET AND SIMCHAT TORAH
ARE COMBINED ON A SINGLE DAY, AND THE NAMES ARE USED INTERCHANGEABLY. IN
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DIASPORA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, THE
CELEBRATION OF SIMCHAT TORAH IS DEFERRED TO THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SECOND DAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OF THE
HOLIDAY. COMMONLY, ONLY THE FIRST DAY IS REFERRED TO AS SHEMINI
ATZERET, WHILE THE SECOND IS CALLED SIMCHAT TORAH.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">KARAITES</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SAMARITANS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ALSO
OBSERVE SHEMINI ATZERET, AS THEY DO ALL BIBLICAL HOLIDAYS. HOWEVER, IT MAY
OCCUR ON A DIFFERENT DAY FROM THE CONVENTIONAL JEWISH CELEBRATION, DUE TO
DIFFERENCES IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">CALENDAR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> CALCULATIONS.
KARAITES AND SAMARITANS DO NOT INCLUDE THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">RABBINICAL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> INNOVATION OF SIMCHAT
TORAH IN THEIR OBSERVANCE OF THE DAY.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SIMCHAT TORAH OR BETTER SIM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ḥ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ATH
TORAH (ALSO SIMKHES TOREH, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">שִׂמְחַת</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">תּוֹרָה</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, LIT.,
"REJOICING OF/[WITH THE] TORAH") IS A JEWISH HOLIDAY THAT CELEBRATES
AND MARKS THE CONCLUSION OF THE ANNUAL CYCLE OF PUBLIC </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TORAH READINGS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, AND THE
BEGINNING OF A NEW CYCLE. SIMHAT TORAH IS A COMPONENT OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BIBLICAL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH HOLIDAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHEMINI ATZERET</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ("EIGHTH
DAY OF ASSEMBLY"), WHICH FOLLOWS IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE FESTIVAL OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SUKKOT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IN THE
MONTH OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TISHREI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (OCCURRING
IN MID-SEPTEMBER TO EARLY OCTOBER ON THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">GREGORIAN CALENDAR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">).<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE MAIN CELEBRATION OF SIMHAT TORAH
TAKES PLACE IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SYNAGOGUE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> DURING
EVENING AND MORNING SERVICES. IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ORTHODOX</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AS WELL AS MANY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">CONSERVATIVE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> CONGREGATIONS,
THIS IS THE ONLY TIME OF YEAR ON WHICH THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TORAH SCROLLS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ARE TAKEN
OUT OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ARK</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">AND READ
AT NIGHT. IN THE MORNING, THE LAST </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PARASHAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DEUTERONOMY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND THE
FIRST PARASHAH OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">GENESIS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ARE READ IN THE SYNAGOGUE. ON EACH OCCASION, WHEN
THE ARK IS OPENED, THE WORSHIPPERS LEAVE THEIR SEATS TO DANCE AND SING WITH THE
TORAH SCROLLS IN A JOYOUS CELEBRATION THAT CAN LAST FOR SEVERAL HOURS.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE MORNING SERVICE IS ALSO UNIQUELY
CHARACTERIZED BY THE CALLING UP OF EACH MALE MEMBER (IN SOME ORTHODOX, AND IN
THE MAJORITY OF NON-ORTHODOX CONGREGATIONS, MALE AND FEMALE MEMBERS) OF THE
CONGREGATION FOR AN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ALIYAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> THERE IS
ALSO A SPECIAL ALIYAH FOR ALL THE CHILDREN (UNDER 13 OR 12 FOR BOYS
AND GIRLS)<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HANUKKAH (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">/</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">ˈ</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="text-decoration: none;">H</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ɑ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ː</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">N</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ə</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="text-decoration: none;">K</span></a></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ə</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">/</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HAH-N</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ə</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">-K</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ə</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">; </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">חֲנֻכָּה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span>, TIBERIAN: </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ḥ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ĂNUKKĀH,
USUALLY SPELLED </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">חנוכה</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">,
PRONOUNCED </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">[CHANU</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ˈ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">KAH]</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MODERN HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">; A
TRANSLITERATION ALSO ROMANIZED
AS CHANUKAH, CHANUKKAH OR CHANUKA), ALSO KNOWN AS
THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS AND FEAST OF DEDICATION, IS AN
EIGHT-DAY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH HOLIDAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> COMMEMORATING
THE REDEDICATION OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HOLY TEMPLE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SECOND TEMPLE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">) IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JERUSALEM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AT THE TIME OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MACCABEAN REVOLT AGAINST THE
GREEKS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OF
THE 2ND CENTURY BCE. HANUKKAH IS OBSERVED FOR EIGHT NIGHTS AND DAYS, STARTING
ON THE 25TH DAY OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">KISLEV</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ACCORDING
TO THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW CALENDAR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, WHICH MAY
OCCUR AT ANY TIME FROM LATE NOVEMBER TO LATE DECEMBER IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">GREGORIAN CALENDAR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE FESTIVAL IS OBSERVED BY THE KINDLING
OF THE LIGHTS OF A UNIQUE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">CANDELABRUM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, THE NINE-BRANCHED </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MENORAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OR HANUKIAH, ONE
ADDITIONAL LIGHT ON EACH NIGHT OF THE HOLIDAY, PROGRESSING TO EIGHT ON THE
FINAL NIGHT. THE TYPICAL MENORAH CONSISTS OF EIGHT BRANCHES WITH AN ADDITIONAL
RAISED BRANCH. THE EXTRA LIGHT IS CALLED A </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHAMASH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">שמש</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">,
"ATTENDANT") AND IS GIVEN A DISTINCT LOCATION, USUALLY ABOVE OR
BELOW THE REST. THE PURPOSE OF THE SHAMASH IS TO HAVE A LIGHT
AVAILABLE FOR PRACTICAL USE, AS USING THE HANUKKAH LIGHTS THEMSELVES FOR
PURPOSES OTHER THAN PUBLICIZING AND MEDITATING ON THE HANUKKAH IS FORBIDDEN.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TU BISHVAT (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">טו
בשבט</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">)
IS A MINOR </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH HOLIDAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, OCCURRING ON
THE 15TH DAY OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW MONTH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHEVAT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (IN 2013,
TU BISHVAT STARTED FROM SUNSET ON 25 JANUARY AND FINISHED AT NIGHTFALL ON 26
JANUARY). IT IS ALSO CALLED "ROSH HASHANAH LA'ILANOT" (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ראש
השנה לאילנות</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">), LITERALLY
"NEW YEAR OF THE TREES." IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL THE DAY IS CELEBRATED
AS AN ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS DAY AND TREES ARE PLANTED IN CELEBRATION.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PURIM (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: PÛRÎM "</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">LOTS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">", FROM
THE WORD PUR, RELATED TO </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">AKKADIAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> PŪRU) IS A </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH HOLIDAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> THAT
COMMEMORATES THE DELIVERANCE OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> PEOPLE IN THE ANCIENT </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PERSIAN EMPIRE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> FROM A
PLOT TO DESTROY THEM. THE STORY IS RECORDED IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BIBLICAL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BOOK OF ESTHER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (MEGILLAT
ESTHER).<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF ESTHER, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HAMAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, ROYAL </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">VIZIER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> TO
KING </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">AHASUERUS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (PRESUMED
TO BE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">XERXES I OF
PERSIA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">),
PLANNED TO KILL ALL THE JEWS IN THE EMPIRE, BUT HIS PLANS WERE FOILED BY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MORDECAI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND HIS
ADOPTED DAUGHTER QUEEN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ESTHER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.
THE DAY OF DELIVERANCE BECAME A DAY OF FEASTING AND REJOICING.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PURIM IS CELEBRATED BY GIVING RECIPROCAL
GIFTS OF FOOD AND DRINK (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MISHLOACH MANOT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">), GIVING
CHARITY TO THE POOR (MATTANOT LA-EVYONIM), A CELEBRATORY MEAL (SE'UDAT
PURIM), AND PUBLIC RECITATION OF THE SCROLL OF ESTHER (KRIAT HA-MEGILLAH),
ADDITIONS TO THE PRAYERS AND THE GRACE AFTER MEALS (AL HANNISIM). OTHER
CUSTOMS INCLUDE DRINKING WINE, WEARING OF MASKS AND COSTUMES, AND PUBLIC
CELEBRATION.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PURIM IS CELEBRATED ANNUALLY ACCORDING
TO THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW CALENDAR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ON THE
14TH DAY OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW MONTH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ADAR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (ADAR II
IN LEAP YEARS), THE DAY FOLLOWING THE VICTORY OF THE JEWS OVER THEIR ENEMIES.
IN CITIES THAT WERE PROTECTED BY A SURROUNDING WALL AT THE TIME OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JOSHUA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, PURIM IS
INSTEAD CELEBRATED ON THE 15TH OF THE MONTH ON WHAT IS KNOWN AS </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHUSHAN PURIM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, SINCE
FIGHTING IN THE WALLED CITY OF SHUSHAN CONTINUED THROUGH THE 14TH. TODAY,
ONLY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JERUSALEM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> CELEBRATES
PURIM ON THE 15TH.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PASSOVER,
OR PESACH (FROM: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">פֶּסַח</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span> IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">YIDDISH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">), </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TIBERIAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">[P</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ɛ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SAĦ]</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> , </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MODERN HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: /</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ˈ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PESAΧ/ PESAH,
PESAKH, YIDDISH: PEYSEKH, PAYSAKH, PAYSOKH) IS AN IMPORTANT </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BIBLICALLY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">-DERIVED </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH FESTIVAL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH PEOPLE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> CELEBRATE
PASSOVER AS A COMMEMORATION OF THEIR LIBERATION OVER 3,300 YEARS AGO BY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">GOD</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> FROM
SLAVERY IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ANCIENT EGYPT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> THAT WAS
RULED BY THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PHARAOHS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, AND THEIR
BIRTH AS A NATION UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MOSES</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. IT COMMEMORATES THE STORY OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE EXODUS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AS
DESCRIBED IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW BIBLE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ESPECIALLY
IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BOOK OF EXODUS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, IN WHICH
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ISRAELITES</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> WERE
FREED FROM SLAVERY IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">EGYPT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PASSOVER COMMENCES ON THE 15TH OF
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW MONTH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">NISAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND LASTS
FOR EITHER SEVEN DAYS (IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ISRAEL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">)
OR EIGHT DAYS (IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DIASPORA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">). IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JUDAISM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, A </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> COMMENCES AT </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DUSK</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND LASTS UNTIL THE FOLLOWING
DUSK, THUS THE FIRST DAY OF PASSOVER ONLY BEGINS AFTER DUSK OF THE
14TH OF NISAN AND ENDS AT DUSK OF THE 15TH DAY OF THE MONTH OF NISAN. THE
RITUALS UNIQUE TO THE PASSOVER CELEBRATIONS COMMENCE WITH THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PASSOVER SEDER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> WHEN THE
15TH OF NISAN HAS BEGUN. IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">NORTHERN HEMISPHERE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> PASSOVER TAKES PLACE IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SPRING</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AS
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TORAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> PRESCRIBES
IT: "IN THE MONTH OF [THE] SPRING" (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">בחדשהאביב</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">EXODUS 23:15</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">). IT IS ONE OF
THE MOST WIDELY OBSERVED </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH HOLIDAYS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">IN THE NARRATIVE OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE EXODUS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, THE BIBLE
TELLS THAT </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">GOD</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> HELPED
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ESCAPE
FROM THEIR SLAVERY IN EGYPT BY INFLICTING </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TEN PLAGUES</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> UPON THE
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS BEFORE THE PHARAOH WOULD RELEASE HIS ISRAELITE SLAVES; THE
TENTH AND WORST OF THE PLAGUES WAS THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DEATH OF THE EGYPTIAN FIRST-BORN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE ISRAELITES WERE INSTRUCTED TO MARK
THE DOORPOSTS OF THEIR HOMES WITH THE BLOOD OF A SLAUGHTERED SPRING LAMB AND,
UPON SEEING THIS, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD KNEW TO PASS OVER THE
FIRST-BORN IN THESE HOMES, HENCE THE NAME OF THE HOLIDAY. THERE IS SOME
DEBATE OVER WHERE THE TERM IS ACTUALLY DERIVED FROM. WHEN THE PHARAOH
FREED THE ISRAELITES, IT IS SAID THAT THEY LEFT IN SUCH A HURRY THAT THEY COULD
NOT WAIT FOR BREAD DOUGH TO RISE (LEAVEN). IN COMMEMORATION, FOR THE DURATION
OF PASSOVER NO </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">LEAVENED BREAD</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IS EATEN,
FOR WHICH REASON IT IS CALLED "THE FESTIVAL OF THE UNLEAVENED
BREAD". THUS </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MATZO</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (FLAT
UNLEAVENED BREAD) IS EATEN DURING PASSOVER AND IT IS A SYMBOL OF THE HOLIDAY.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HISTORICALLY, TOGETHER WITH </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHAVUOT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ("PENTECOST")
AND </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SUKKOT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ("TABERNACLES"),
PASSOVER IS ONE OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THREE PILGRIMAGE FESTIVALS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (SHALOSH REGALIM) DURING WHICH THE
ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">KINGDOM OF JUDAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> MADE A PILGRIMAGE TO THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SAMARITANS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> STILL
MAKE THIS PILGRIMAGE TO </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MOUNT GERIZIM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, BUT ONLY MEN PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC WORSHIP.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover#cite_note-8"><span style="text-decoration: none;">[</span></a><u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">YOM HAZIKARON LASHOAH
VE-LAG'VURAH (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">יום</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">הזיכרון</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">לשואה</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ולגבורה</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">;
"HOLOCAUST AND HEROISM REMEMBRANCE DAY"), KNOWN COLLOQUIALLY IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ISRAEL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND
ABROAD AS YOM HASHOAH (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">יום</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">השואה</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">) AND IN
ENGLISH AS HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY, ORHOLOCAUST DAY, IS OBSERVED AS
ISRAEL'S DAY OF COMMEMORATION FOR THE APPROXIMATELY SIX MILLION JEWS WHO
PERISHED IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HOLOCAUST</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AS A
RESULT OF THE ACTIONS CARRIED OUT BY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">NAZI GERMANY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND ITS ACCESSORIES, AND FOR THE
JEWISH RESISTANCE IN THAT PERIOD. IN ISRAEL, IT IS A NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY. IT
WAS INAUGURATED IN 1953, ANCHORED BY A LAW SIGNED BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF
ISRAEL </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DAVID
BEN-GURION</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND
THE PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">YITZHAK BEN-ZVI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. IT IS HELD ON THE 27TH OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">NISAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (APRIL/MAY),
UNLESS THE 27TH WOULD BE ADJACENT TO </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHABBAT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, IN WHICH CASE THE DATE IS SHIFTED BY A DAY. IN
OTHER COUNTRIES THERE ARE DIFFERENT COMMEMORATIVE DAYS—SEE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">YOM HA'ATZMAUT (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">יום
העצמאות</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> YŌM HĀ-</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ʿ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">A</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ṣ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MĀ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ʾ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ū</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">Ṯ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">
LIT. "INDEPENDENCE DAY") IS THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">NATIONAL DAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ISRAEL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, COMMEMORATING
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ISRAELI
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IN 1948. IT IS CELEBRATED ON </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">5TH OF IYAR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ACCORDING
TO THE HEBREW CALENDAR. YOM HA'ATZMAUT IS PRECEDED BY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">YOM HAZIKARON</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, THE ISRAELI
FALLEN SOLDIERS AND VICTIMS OF TERRORISM REMEMBRANCE DAY.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">LAG BAOMER (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ל״ג
בעומר</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">), ALSO KNOWN AS LAG
LAOMER, IS A </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> HOLIDAY
CELEBRATED ON THE 33RD DAY OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">COUNTING OF THE OMER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, WHICH OCCURS ON THE 18TH DAY OF
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW MONTH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">IYAR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THIS DAY MARKS THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HILLULA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (CELEBRATION,
INTERPRETED BY SOME AS ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH) OF RABBI </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHIMON BAR YOCHAI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, A </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MISHNAIC</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> SAGE AND
LEADING DISCIPLE OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">RABBI AKIVA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IN THE
2ND CENTURY, AND THE DAY ON WHICH HE REVEALED THE DEEPEST SECRETS OF</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">KABBALAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IN THE
FORM OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ZOHAR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (BOOK OF
SPLENDOR), A LANDMARK TEXT OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH MYSTICISM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. THIS ASSOCIATION HAS SPAWNED SEVERAL
WELL-KNOWN CUSTOMS AND PRACTICES ON LAG BAOMER, INCLUDING THE LIGHTING OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BONFIRES</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, PILGRIMAGES
TO THE TOMB OF BAR YOCHAI IN THE NORTHERN ISRAELI TOWN OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MERON</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, AND VARIOUS
CUSTOMS AT THE TOMB ITSELF.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHAVUOT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (OR </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHOVUOS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> ,
IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ASHKENAZI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> USAGE; SHAVU</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ʿ</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">OTH IN
CLASSICAL AND MIZRAHI HEBREW (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">שבועות</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">,
LIT. "WEEKS"), KNOWN AS THE FEAST OF WEEKS IN ENGLISH AND
AS PENTECOST IN GREEK, IS A </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH HOLIDAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> THAT OCCURS ON THE SIXTH DAY OF
THE HEBREW MONTH OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SIVAN</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (LATE MAY
OR EARLY JUNE).<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHAVUOT COMMEMORATES THE
ANNIVERSARY OF THE DAY </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">GOD</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> GAVE
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TORAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> TO THE ENTIRE
NATION OF ISRAEL ASSEMBLED AT </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MOUNT SINAI</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, ALTHOUGH THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE
GIVING OF THE TORAH (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">MATAN TORAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">) AND SHAVUOT
IS NOT EXPLICIT IN THE BIBLICAL TEXT. THE HOLIDAY IS ONE OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHALOSH REGALIM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, THE THREE
BIBLICAL PILGRIMAGE FESTIVALS. IT MARKS THE CONCLUSION OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">COUNTING OF THE OMER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE DATE OF SHAVUOT IS DIRECTLY LINKED
TO THAT OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PASSOVER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TORAH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> MANDATES
THE SEVEN-WEEK </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">COUNTING OF THE
OMER</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">,
BEGINNING ON THE SECOND DAY OF PASSOVER AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY SHAVUOT.
THIS COUNTING OF DAYS AND WEEKS IS UNDERSTOOD TO EXPRESS ANTICIPATION AND
DESIRE FOR THE GIVING OF THE TORAH. ON PASSOVER, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WERE
FREED FROM THEIR ENSLAVEMENT TO </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">PHARAOH</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">; ON SHAVUOT THEY WERE GIVEN THE TORAH AND BECAME A
NATION COMMITTED TO SERVING GOD.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">THE WORD SHAVUOT MEANS WEEKS AND THE
FESTIVAL OF SHAVUOT MARKS THE COMPLETION OF THE SEVEN-WEEK COUNTING PERIOD
BETWEEN PASSOVER AND SHAVUOT.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HASIDIC</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> THOUGHT, THE
WORD SHAVUOT "WEEKS" IS INTERPRETED AS ALSO AN ACRONYM
FOR SHAVUOT, BIKKURIM, ATZERET, AND TORAH.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
<h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 16.8pt; margin: 0.25in 0in 9pt;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SHAVUOT IS ONE OF THE LESSER KNOWN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH HOLIDAYS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AMONG </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SECULAR JEWS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IN
THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH DIASPORA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, WHILE THOSE
IN ISRAEL ARE MORE AWARE OF IT.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ACCORDING TO </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JEWISH LAW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, SHAVUOT IS
CELEBRATED IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ISRAEL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> FOR ONE
DAY AND IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DIASPORA</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (OUTSIDE
OF ISRAEL) FOR TWO DAYS. </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">REFORM JUDAISM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> CELEBRATES ONLY ONE DAY, EVEN IN
THE DIASPORA.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TISHA B'AV</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HELP</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">·</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">INFO</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">) (LIT.
"THE NINTH OF </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">AV</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">") (</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HEBREW</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">: </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">תשעה
באב</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><span dir="LTR"></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">OR </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">ט׳</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">באב</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">), IS AN
ANNUAL </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">FAST DAY</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JUDAISM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> WHICH
COMMEMORATES THE DESTRUCTION OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">FIRST</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">SECOND TEMPLES</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IN </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">JERUSALEM</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND THE
SUBSEQUENT EXILE OF THE JEWS FROM THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">LAND OF ISRAEL</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">. THE DAY ALSO COMMEMORATES OTHER
TRAGEDIES WHICH OCCURRED ON THE SAME DAY, INCLUDING THE ROMAN MASSACRE OF OVER
100,000 JEWS AT </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BETAR</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> IN 132
CE. INSTITUTED BY THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">RABBIS OF 2ND-CENTURY PALESTINE</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, TISHA B'AV IS REGARDED AS
THE SADDEST DAY IN THE JEWISH CALENDAR AND A DAY WHICH IS DESTINED FOR TRAGEDY.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">IN ADDITION TO THE BASIC </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">FIVE PROHIBITIONS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, ALL
PLEASURABLE ACTIVITY IS FORBIDDEN. THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> WHICH MOURNS THE DESTRUCTION
OF JERUSALEM IS READ IN THE SYNAGOGUE, FOLLOWED BY THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">KINNOT</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, A SERIES OF
LITURGICAL </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">DIRGES</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> WHICH
LAMENT THE LOSS OF THE TEMPLE AND JERUSALEM. AS THE DAY HAS BECOME ASSOCIATED
WITH REMEMBRANCE OF OTHER MAJOR CALAMITIES WHICH HAVE BEFALLEN THE JEWISH
PEOPLE, SOME KINNOT RECALL EVENTS SUCH AS THE MURDER OF THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">TEN MARTYRS</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">, THE
DECIMATION OF NUMEROUS MEDIEVAL JEWISH COMMUNITIES DURING THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">CRUSADES</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"> AND THE DESTRUCTION
OF EUROPEAN JEWRY IN THE </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">HOLOCAUST</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;">.<u1:p></u1:p></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 2.4pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h2>
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Rev. Ed Sarnellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329332707317714605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750664603083936648.post-34701212835649872982013-09-20T14:44:00.002-07:002013-09-20T14:45:26.680-07:00Why is it so Important to Study "Bible Prophecy"?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><i>Why is it so Important to Study "Bible Prophecy"?</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Bible
prophecy confirms the divine inspiration of Scripture. Bible prophecy
exalts God above all others as the only One who knows the end from the
beginning. We are exhorted to listen to and heed Bible prophecy.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Prophetic declarations exalt God and confirm the divine inspiration of Scripture:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Isaiah 46:9-10</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>Remember
the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I
am God, and there is none like me. I make known the end from the
beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say: My purpose
will stand, and I will do all that I please.</i></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Over one fourth of the Bible consists of Bible prophecy:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">In
addition to the Old Testament books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and
Daniel and the twelve Minor Prophets, a good portion of the Psalms and
many other passages such as Genesis 49 record future events.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">In
the New Testament, four books - I and II Thessalonians, Jude,
Revelation, as well as many passages in the Gospels and in the other
epistles deal with prophecy.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Second Coming of the Lord is mentioned 318 times in the New Testament.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Salvation is the only subject referred to in the New Testament more frequently than the Second Coming.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The
ordinance of communion is only recorded twice in the thirteen epistles
of Paul, but the return of Christ is mentioned fifty times.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The
Bible contains 1,817 individual predictions concerning 737 separate
subjects found in 8,352 verses. These numerous predictions comprise 27
percent of the 31,124 verses in the whole of the Scriptures.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We are exhorted to listen to and heed prophecy:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">2 Peter 1:19</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">And
we have the word of the prophets made more certain, and you will do
well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place,
until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Revelation 1:3</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Blessed
is the one who reads the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those
who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is
near.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">All
of the Feasts of the LORD were appointed times which not only
commemorated historical events that took place for the nation of Israel,
but also are prophetic pictures that foreshadowed Christ. Jesus Christ
fulfilled the spring cycle of biblical festivals in His First Advent by
instituting the New Covenant at the Passover; being entombed during the
Feast of Unleavened Bread; resurrecting on the Festival of Firstfruits;
and sending the promised Holy Spirit at Pentecost.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Heavenly Father forgive us our sins, open our spiritual eyes and ears to your truth. Amen </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Against Christ, or an opposition Christ, a rival Christ. The word
is used only by the apostle John. Referring to false teachers, he says (1 John
2:18, 22; 4:3; 2 John 1:7), "Even now are there many antichrists."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(1.) This name has been applied to the "little horn" of
the "king of fierce countenance" (Dan. 7:24, 25; 8:23-25).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(2.) It has been applied also to the "false Christ's"
spoken of by our Lord (Matt. 24:5, 23, 24).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(3.) To the "man of sin" described by Paul (2 Thess.
2:3, 4, 8-10).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">(4.) And to the "beast from the sea" (Rev. 13:1;
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">He is often referred to as Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadr. The title <i>Sayyid</i> ("Mr."
or "Sir") <span style="background: yellow;">is generally used
among Arabs to denote persons descending directly from the Prophet Muhammad</span>,
through his daughter Fatimah's marriage with Ali. Thus a great deal
of respect is paid by the Muslims to the Sayyids throughout society. The
al-Sadr family has a clear and distinct lineage that can be traced
directly to Muhammad. The lineage is traced through Imam Jafar
al-Sadiq and his son Imam Musa al-Kadhim, the sixth and seventh
Shi‘a Imams respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Western media often refer to Muqtada al-Sadr as a
"firebrand" or "militant" cleric, but his formal
religious standing is comparatively low, at a mid-ranking Shia religious rank
perhaps reflecting his young age, and he does not claim the title of <i>mujtahid</i> (the
equivalent of a senior religious scholar) or the authority to issue fatwas (religious
edicts). In his youth, he was more preoccupied with videogames than Islamic
studies which earned him the nickname "Mullah Atari". In early
2008, however, al-Sadr was reported to be studying to be an ayatollah,
which would greatly improve his religious standing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Family<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Muqtada al-Sadr is the fourth son of a famous Iraqi Shi‘a cleric,
the late Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. He is also
the son-in-law of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Muqtada al-Sadr is of Iraqi and Lebanese ancestry.
His great-grandfather is Ismail as-Sadr. Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, Muqtada
al-Sadr's father, was a respected figure throughout the Shi'a Islamic world. He
was murdered, along with two of his sons, allegedly by the government of Saddam
Hussein. Muqtada's father-in-law was executed by the Iraqi
authorities in 1980. Muqtada is a cousin of the disappeared Musa al-Sadr,
the Iranian-Lebanese founder of the popular Amal Movement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Positions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Muqtada al-Sadr gained popularity in Iraq following the toppling
of the Saddam government by the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Al-Sadr has on
occasion stated that he wishes to create an "Islamic democracy".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Al-Sadr commands strong support (especially in the Sadr City district
in Baghdad, formerly named <i>Saddam City</i> but renamed after
the elder al-Sadr). After the fall of the Saddam government in 2003, Muqtada
al-Sadr organized thousands of his supporters into a political movement, which
includes a military wing known as the <i>Jaysh al-Mahdi</i> or Mahdi
Army). The name refers to the Mahdi, a long-since disappeared Imam who
is believed by Shi'a Muslims to be due to reappear when the end of time
approaches. This group has periodically engaged in violent conflict with the
United States and other Coalition forces, while the larger Sadrist movement has
formed its own religious courts, and organized social services, law
enforcement, and prisons in areas under its control.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">His strongest support comes from the class of dispossessed Shi‘a,
like in the Sadr City area of Baghdad. Many Iraqi supporters see in him a
symbol of resistance to foreign occupation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Always Watching...Rev. Ed Sarnella<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sharing an Ancient Song. A
Psalm of Asaph.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6090"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1 O God, do not keep silence;</span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6079" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Do not hold your peace or be still, O God!</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6078" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2 For behold, your enemies make an uproar;</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6077" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Those who hate you have raised their heads.</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6076" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3 They lay crafty plans against your people;</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6075" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6074"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">They consult together
against your treasured ones.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4 They say, "Come, let
us wipe them out as a nation;</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6073" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6072"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">let the name of Israel be
remembered no more!"</span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6071" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5 For they conspire with one accord;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Against you they make a covenant-</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Moab and the Hagrites,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Philistia with the
inhabitants of Tyre;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">8 Asshur also has joined
them;</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6065"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">They are the strong arm of
the children of Lot. Selah</span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6063"><b id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6062"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The above nations named in today's modern language, are:</span></b></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6060"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Edom & Moab are southern
and middle Jordan. </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6058"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ishmaelites, Hagrites, and
Amalekites are descended from Hagar and Ishmael, and settled in southern Jordan
and Saudi Arabia. Amalekites being solely in Egypt.</span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6057" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6056"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Ammon is northern Jordan.
Its capital today is still Ammon. </span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6055" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Gebal & Tyre are in Lebanon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Philistia is Gaza. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6052"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Asshur is northern Iraq and
western Syria (Assyria) </span></span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6050"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">So in reading and study we
see that Asaph is pleading for deliverance from a coalition which intends to
wipe Israel from the map, who sounds like this?</span></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6049" style="margin-bottom: 8.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1377813258534_6048"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">One thing I like to do is
look at the bible's prophecies and read what God has to say. </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> We know that in the latter days all nations
will be against Israel. (Zechariah 12:3). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also know by reading in Ezekiel 38-39
another, different coalition attacks Israel while Israel is dwelling securely.
We know that battle is going to take place in the latter days because it says
so in Ezekiel 38:16. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We are watching and we shall
see how it goes.</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Love, Peace and Joy in Jesus
Christ!</span></div>
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<b><u>"We are the Reason the Temple is Not Rebuilt" So what is so interesting about the Temple? Please read along with me...:)</u></b></h2>
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<b><u> </u></b> Rabbi Chaim Richman, the leading authority on the red heifer, says the temple will be built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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Rebuilding the temple will be an important fulfillment of Bible
prophecy. It will be integral to the seven-year (end-times) treaty with
Israel. After all, the rebuilt temple shows up in Jesus' warning to His
Jewish followers in Matthew 24:15 ("the holy place"); and it appears in
Paul's revelation that the "man of sin" (a.k.a. the beast of Revelation)
will enter into the temple (after killing God's two prophets) and set
himself up to be worshiped as God.<br />
In addition, Daniel 9:27 shows us how important the rebuilding of the
temple will be to the fulfillment of end-times Bible prophecy. Here is
what that verse says:<br />
"Then they shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; but in
the middle of the week they shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.<br />
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The Temple is not yet....<br />
Love, Peace and Joy in Jesus Christ<br />
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So what does the Bible say about Damascus Syria?<br />
In Isaiah 17:1-3...Please read along with me...:)<br />
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<u><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">"Consequences!", Galatians 6:8"</span></u></h2>
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Galatians 6:8</span></h3>
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<span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>For
he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he
that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.</span><br />
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<span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="font-size: large;">So what does this mean? Does it really matter? Who cares? I just do not have time for this! </span></span><br />
<span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"> I will read with you to help...we can make time to read together...:)</span><br />
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<li><span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Define Soweth: </span><div class="subhead">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Strong's G4687 - <em>speirō</em>
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<span class="lexTitleGk" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">σπείρω</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197"> </span>1) to sow, scatter, seed</span></li>
<li><span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="background-color: black;">Define Flesh: </span></span><div class="subhead">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Strong's G4561 - <em>sarx</em>
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<span class="lexTitleGk" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">σάρξ</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">1) flesh (the soft substance of the living body, which covers the bones and is permeated with blood) of both man and beasts</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">2) the body</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a) the body of a man</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">b) used of natural or physical origin, generation or relationship</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">1) born of natural generation</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">c) the sensuous nature of man, "the animal nature"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">1) without any suggestion of depravity</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">2) the animal nature with cravings which incite to sin</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">3) the physical nature of man as subject to suffering</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">3) a living creature (because possessed of a body of flesh) whether man or beast</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">4)
the flesh, denotes mere human nature, the earthly nature of man apart
from divine influence, and therefore prone to sin and opposed to God.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="background-color: black;">Define Reap: </span></span><div class="subhead">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Strong's G2325 - <em>therizō</em>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">1) to reap, harvest</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">2) proverbial expression for sowing and reaping</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">3) cut off, destroy</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a) as crops are cut down with a sickle</span></div>
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<li><span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="background-color: black;">Define Corruption: </span></span><div class="subhead">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Strong's G5356 - <em>phthora</em>
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<span class="lexTitleGk" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">φθορά</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">1) corruption, destruction, perishing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a) that which is subject to corruption, what is perishable</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">b) in the Christian sense, eternal misery in hell</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">2) in the NT, in an ethical sense, corruption i.e. moral decay</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="background-color: black;">Define Spirit: </span></span><div class="subhead">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Strong's G4151 - <em>pneuma</em>
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<span class="lexTitleGk" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">πνεῦμα</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">1) the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a) sometimes referred to in a way which emphasises his personality and character (the "Holy" Spirit)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">b) sometimes referred to in a way which emphasises his work and power (the Spirit of "Truth")</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">c) never referred to as a depersonalised force</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">2) the spirit, i.e. the vital principal by which the body is animated</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a) the rational spirit, the power by which the human being feels, thinks, decides</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">b) the soul</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">3)
a spirit, i.e. a simple essence, devoid of all or at least all grosser
matter, and possessed of the power of knowing, desiring, deciding, and
acting</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a) a life giving spirit</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">b) a human soul that has left the body</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">c) a spirit higher than man but lower than God, i.e. an angel</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">1) used of demons, or evil spirits, who were conceived as inhabiting the bodies of men</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">2) the spiritual nature of Christ, higher than the highest angels and equal to God, the divine nature of Christ</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">4) the disposition or influence which fills and governs the soul of any one</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a) the efficient source of any power, affection, emotion, desire, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">5) a movement of air (a gentle blast)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a) of the wind, hence the wind itself</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">b) breath of nostrils or mouth</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197" style="background-color: black;">Define Life Everlasting: </span></span><div class="subhead">
<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Strong's G2222 - <em>zōē</em>
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<span class="lexTitleGk" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">ζωή</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">1) life</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a) the state of one who is possessed of vitality or is animate</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">b) every living soul</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">2) life</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a)
of the absolute fulness of life, both essential and ethical, which
belongs to God, and through him both to the hypostatic "logos" and to
Christ in whom the "logos" put on human nature</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">b)
life real and genuine, a life active and vigorous, devoted to God,
blessed, in the portion even in this world of those who put their trust
in Christ, but after the resurrection to be consummated by new
accessions (among them a more perfect body), and to last for ever.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">Strong's G166 - <em>aiōnios</em>
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<span class="lexTitleGk" style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">αἰώνιος</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">1) without beginning and end, that which always has been and always will be</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">2) without beginning</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">3) without end, never to cease, everlasting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="background-color: black;">Yes it matters...:) </u></span></div>
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Galatians 6:8</span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span class="text Gal-6-8" id="en-KJV-29197"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>For
he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he
that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">For he that scatters seeds to his flesh (the soft substance of the living body, which covers the bones and is permeated with blood) of both man and beasts, shall reap, harvest, corruption, destruction, perishing; but he that scatters seeds to the "Spirit of Truth.": the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">a) sometimes referred to in a way which emphasises his personality and character (the "Holy" Spirit)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">b) sometimes referred to in a way which emphasises his work and power (the Spirit of<u> "Truth"</u>) Shall of the Spirit,"Truth!", reap -<u> harvest Life-everlasting: </u><u>without end, never to cease, everlasting.</u></span></div>
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<u><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">I want this life, do you?</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Matthew 13 </span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-1" id="en-KJV-23541"><span class="chapternum">13 </span>The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side.</span></span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-2" id="en-KJV-23542"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>And
great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a
ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-3" id="en-KJV-23543"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-4" id="en-KJV-23544"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-5" id="en-KJV-23545"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-6" id="en-KJV-23546"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-7" id="en-KJV-23547"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-8" id="en-KJV-23548"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-9" id="en-KJV-23549"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-10" id="en-KJV-23550"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-11" id="en-KJV-23551"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>He
answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the
mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-12" id="en-KJV-23552"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>For
whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more
abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even
that he hath.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-13" id="en-KJV-23553"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-14" id="en-KJV-23554"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>And
in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye
shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and
shall not perceive:</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-15" id="en-KJV-23555"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>For
this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing,
and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with
their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their
heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-16" id="en-KJV-23556"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-17" id="en-KJV-23557"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>For
verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have
desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to
hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-18" id="en-KJV-23558"><sup class="versenum">18 </sup>Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-19" id="en-KJV-23559"><sup class="versenum">19 </sup>When
any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then
cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his
heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-20" id="en-KJV-23560"><sup class="versenum">20 </sup>But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-21" id="en-KJV-23561"><sup class="versenum">21 </sup>Yet
hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when
tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is
offended.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-22" id="en-KJV-23562"><sup class="versenum">22 </sup>He
also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word;
and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the
word, and he becometh unfruitful.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-23" id="en-KJV-23563"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>But
he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word,
and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth,
some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-24" id="en-KJV-23564"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-25" id="en-KJV-23565"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-26" id="en-KJV-23566"><sup class="versenum">26 </sup>But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-27" id="en-KJV-23567"><sup class="versenum">27 </sup>So
the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not
thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-28" id="en-KJV-23568"><sup class="versenum">28 </sup>He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-29" id="en-KJV-23569"><sup class="versenum">29 </sup>But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-30" id="en-KJV-23570"><sup class="versenum">30 </sup>Let
both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will
say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them
in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-31" id="en-KJV-23571"><sup class="versenum">31 </sup>Another
parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like
to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-32" id="en-KJV-23572"><sup class="versenum">32 </sup>Which
indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the
greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air
come and lodge in the branches thereof.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-33" id="en-KJV-23573"><sup class="versenum">33 </sup>Another
parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven,
which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole
was leavened.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-34" id="en-KJV-23574"><sup class="versenum">34 </sup>All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-35" id="en-KJV-23575"><sup class="versenum">35 </sup>That
it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will
open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept
secret from the foundation of the world.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-36" id="en-KJV-23576"><sup class="versenum">36 </sup>Then
Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his
disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the
tares of the field.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-37" id="en-KJV-23577"><sup class="versenum">37 </sup>He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-38" id="en-KJV-23578"><sup class="versenum">38 </sup>The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-39" id="en-KJV-23579"><sup class="versenum">39 </sup>The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-40" id="en-KJV-23580"><sup class="versenum">40 </sup>As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-41" id="en-KJV-23581"><sup class="versenum">41 </sup>The
Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of
his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-42" id="en-KJV-23582"><sup class="versenum">42 </sup>And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-43" id="en-KJV-23583"><sup class="versenum">43 </sup>Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-44" id="en-KJV-23584"><sup class="versenum">44 </sup>Again,
the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which
when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth
all that he hath, and buyeth that field.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-45" id="en-KJV-23585"><sup class="versenum">45 </sup>Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-46" id="en-KJV-23586"><sup class="versenum">46 </sup>Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-47" id="en-KJV-23587"><sup class="versenum">47 </sup>Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-48" id="en-KJV-23588"><sup class="versenum">48 </sup>Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-49" id="en-KJV-23589"><sup class="versenum">49 </sup>So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-50" id="en-KJV-23590"><sup class="versenum">50 </sup>And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-51" id="en-KJV-23591"><sup class="versenum">51 </sup>Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-52" id="en-KJV-23592"><sup class="versenum">52 </sup>Then
said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the
kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which
bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-53" id="en-KJV-23593"><sup class="versenum">53 </sup>And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-54" id="en-KJV-23594"><sup class="versenum">54 </sup>And
when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their
synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath
this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-55" id="en-KJV-23595"><sup class="versenum">55 </sup>Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-56" id="en-KJV-23596"><sup class="versenum">56 </sup>And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-57" id="en-KJV-23597"><sup class="versenum">57 </sup>And
they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not
without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="text Matt-13-58" id="en-KJV-23598"><sup class="versenum">58 </sup>And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.</span></span></b><br />
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<span class="text 1Pet-1-23" id="en-KJV-30398" style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum">23 </sup>Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.</b></span><br />
<span class="text 1Pet-1-24" id="en-KJV-30399" style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum">24 </sup>For
all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:</b></span><br />
<span class="text 1Pet-1-25" id="en-KJV-30400" style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum">25 </sup>But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.</b></span><br />
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<span class="text 1Pet-1-25" id="en-KJV-30400" style="font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: white;">Love, Peace and Joy in Jesus Christ...:) </b></span><br />
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<span class="text 2Tim-3-1" id="en-KJV-29855" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; font-size: 1.25em; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">3 </span>This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.</b></span></div>
<span class="text 2Tim-3-2" id="en-KJV-29856" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">2 </sup>For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-3" id="en-KJV-29857" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">3 </sup>Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-4" id="en-KJV-29858" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">4 </sup>Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-5" id="en-KJV-29859" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">5 </sup>Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-6" id="en-KJV-29860" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">6 </sup>For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-7" id="en-KJV-29861" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">7 </sup>Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-8" id="en-KJV-29862" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">8 </sup>Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-9" id="en-KJV-29863" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">9 </sup>But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-10" id="en-KJV-29864" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">10 </sup>But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-11" id="en-KJV-29865" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">11 </sup>Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-12" id="en-KJV-29866" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">12 </sup>Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-13" id="en-KJV-29867" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">13 </sup>But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-14" id="en-KJV-29868" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">14 </sup>But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-15" id="en-KJV-29869" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">15 </sup>And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-16" id="en-KJV-29870" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">16 </sup>All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:</b></span><br />
<span class="text 2Tim-3-17" id="en-KJV-29871" style="color: white;"><b style="background-color: black;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-size: 0.75em; vertical-align: top;">17 </sup>That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.</b></span></div>
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Rev. Ed Sarnellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09329332707317714605noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750664603083936648.post-76926606234488888762012-08-05T14:04:00.002-07:002014-09-29T12:09:02.101-07:00"Always Remember" He was thinking of you!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="text Matt-27-1" id="en-KJV-24131" style="background-color: white;"><span class="chapternum" style="bottom: -0.1em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 0.8em; position: relative;">27 </span>When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-2" id="en-KJV-24132" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">2 </sup>And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-3" id="en-KJV-24133" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">3 </sup>Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-4" id="en-KJV-24134" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">4 </sup>Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-5" id="en-KJV-24135" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">5 </sup>And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-6" id="en-KJV-24136" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">6 </sup>And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-7" id="en-KJV-24137" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">7 </sup>And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-8" id="en-KJV-24138" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">8 </sup>Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-9" id="en-KJV-24139" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">9 </sup>Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-10" id="en-KJV-24140" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">10 </sup>And gave them for the potter's field, as the Lord appointed me.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-11" id="en-KJV-24141" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">11 </sup>And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-12" id="en-KJV-24142" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">12 </sup>And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-13" id="en-KJV-24143" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">13 </sup>Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-14" id="en-KJV-24144" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">14 </sup>And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-15" id="en-KJV-24145" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">15 </sup>Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-16" id="en-KJV-24146" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">16 </sup>And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-17" id="en-KJV-24147" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">17 </sup>Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-18" id="en-KJV-24148" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">18 </sup>For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-19" id="en-KJV-24149" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">19 </sup>When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-20" id="en-KJV-24150" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">20 </sup>But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-21" id="en-KJV-24151" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">21 </sup>The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-22" id="en-KJV-24152" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">22 </sup>Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-23" id="en-KJV-24153" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">23 </sup>And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-24" id="en-KJV-24154" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">24 </sup>When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-25" id="en-KJV-24155" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">25 </sup>Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-26" id="en-KJV-24156" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">26 </sup>Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-27" id="en-KJV-24157" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">27 </sup>Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-28" id="en-KJV-24158" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">28 </sup>And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-29" id="en-KJV-24159" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">29 </sup>And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-30" id="en-KJV-24160" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">30 </sup>And they spit upon him, and took the reed, and smote him on the head.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-31" id="en-KJV-24161" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">31 </sup>And after that they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his own raiment on him, and led him away to crucify him.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-32" id="en-KJV-24162" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">32 </sup>And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-33" id="en-KJV-24163" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">33 </sup>And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-34" id="en-KJV-24164" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">34 </sup>They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-35" id="en-KJV-24165" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">35 </sup>And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-36" id="en-KJV-24166" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">36 </sup>And sitting down they watched him there;</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-37" id="en-KJV-24167" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">37 </sup>And set up over his head his accusation written, <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">This Is Jesus The King Of The Jews</span>.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-38" id="en-KJV-24168" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">38 </sup>Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-39" id="en-KJV-24169" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">39 </sup>And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,</span></div>
<span class="text Matt-27-40" id="en-KJV-24170"><b><u style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="vertical-align: top;">40 </sup>And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross. (Added by me)- ALWAYS REMEMBER HE IS THINKING ABOUT YOU!</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="text Matt-27-41" id="en-KJV-24171" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">41 </sup>Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said,</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-42" id="en-KJV-24172" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">42 </sup>He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-43" id="en-KJV-24173" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">43 </sup>He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will have him: for he said, I am the Son of God.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-44" id="en-KJV-24174" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">44 </sup>The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-45" id="en-KJV-24175" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">45 </sup>Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-46" id="en-KJV-24176" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">46 </sup>And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-47" id="en-KJV-24177" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">47 </sup>Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-48" id="en-KJV-24178" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">48 </sup>And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-49" id="en-KJV-24179" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">49 </sup>The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-50" id="en-KJV-24180" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">50 </sup>Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-51" id="en-KJV-24181" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">51 </sup>And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-52" id="en-KJV-24182" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">52 </sup>And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-53" id="en-KJV-24183" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">53 </sup>And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-54" id="en-KJV-24184" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">54 </sup>Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-55" id="en-KJV-24185" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">55 </sup>And many women were there beholding afar off, which followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-56" id="en-KJV-24186" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">56 </sup>Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedees children.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-57" id="en-KJV-24187" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">57 </sup>When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-58" id="en-KJV-24188" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">58 </sup>He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-59" id="en-KJV-24189" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">59 </sup>And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-60" id="en-KJV-24190" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">60 </sup>And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-61" id="en-KJV-24191" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">61 </sup>And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-62" id="en-KJV-24192" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">62 </sup>Now the next day, that followed the day of the preparation, the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate,</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-63" id="en-KJV-24193" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">63 </sup>Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-64" id="en-KJV-24194" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">64 </sup>Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-65" id="en-KJV-24195" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">65 </sup>Pilate said unto them, Ye have a watch: go your way, make it as sure as ye can.</span></div>
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<span class="text Matt-27-66" id="en-KJV-24196" style="background-color: white;"><sup class="versenum" style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top;">66 </sup>So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.</span></div>
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