Month: September 2010

How is it to live in Rocket City?

Deuteronomy 16:13-15

"You shall make the festival of succos for a seven day period, when you gather in from your threshing floor and from your wine vats. You shall rejoice on your festival – you, your son and your daughter, your slaves, your maidservants, the Levite, the proselyte, the orphan, and the.
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Sukkot 2010

...On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the Festival of Sukkot, seven days for the L-RD. -Leviticus 23:34 The Festival of Sukkot begins on Tishri 15, the fifth day after Yom Kippur; this year it falls on September 23. It is a drastic transition, from the most solemn.
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It’s Just A White Lie

We have been working on the war boxes. We put the final touches on the list and were comparing the prices from different suppliers. We now have the final list with their cost and from what venders we will purchase them from. It seemed all pretty cut and dry, rather.
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Sderot Through Wendy’s Eyes

From time to time we get volunteers that come for a while to help and to love those we serve here in Sderot. Wendy came and spent a year with us, packing food and vegetable bags, delivering food, setting up programs for us on the computer, basically what ever we.
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This Weeks News

It has been a while since the last news article, thing had been relatively quiet. With peace talks in the works and terrorists wanting to shoot them down them before they get off the ground, thing are starting to pick up, to escalate, old wounds reopened, "Tseva Adom" sounding again..
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Numbers 22:29

"And the donkey said to Balaam, 'Am I not your donkey, on which you have ridden all your life long to this day? Is it my habit to treat you this way?'” The story of Balaam and his donkey is one of those stories we read and maybe miss the.
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Meet Saida

Saida is in her eighties. She is a widow and lives alone. She had a caregiver a while back but the caregiver robbed her of her savings and left. We met her three weeks ago for the first time, although she had come for help in previous weeks. We were.
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Just A Thought

I was once told, “Without G-D we can’t, without us He won’t.” The partnership between G-D and man is limited, we perform the small tasks while G-D the majority of the work. We dig the ground and plant the seed, G-D does all the rest. With the exception of our.
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Projects We Are Working On

For Rosh Hashanah we packed up seven hundred and thirty five pounds of apples and pomegranates, bottles of wine, honey and honey cake into two hundred and eighty baskets; wrapped them with some nine hundred feet of plastic wrap. We were able to give gift baskets to those who we.
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Yom Kippur

"And L-RD spoke to Moses, saying: Also, on the tenth of this seventh month, this is a day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. And you shall afflict your souls and offer a fire offering to L-RD. And you shall do no work in that same.
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