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Parasha Miketz (At the End): From Prison to the Palace

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Pharaoh has two related prophetic dreams that cause him intense anxiety. When his magicians and wise men cannot interpret the dreams, Pharaoh’s butler suddenly remembers the uncanny abilities of the Hebrew slave Joseph (Yosef). Joseph, in a perfect balance of humility and boldness, tells Pharaoh that he is unable to interpret the dream, but God can and will do it. Despite years of hardship and adversity, Joseph has lost none of his confidence in God.

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Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles): The Festival for Both Jew and Gentile

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Sukkot is one of three pilgrimage festivals called Shelosh Regalim (three pilgrimages) in which the Jewish People were to go up to the Temple in Jerusalem together as a nation. Today, many Christians from the nations come every year to Jerusalem to celebrate Sukkot together with Israel in a beautiful foreshadowing of what will take place after the Lord returns and establishes His Messianic reign on earth.

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Fast of Tammuz: Is the Temple Mount Holy?

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Tzom Tammuz (Fast of Tammuz / 17th of Tammuz) memorializes the breaching of Jerusalem's walls by Nebuchadnezzar after a long siege that brought starvation to those inside Jerusalem’s walls. On this day, the priests in the First Temple stopped offering the Tamid (Perpetual Offering) because the walls were breached, and they had run out of lambs for the offerings. Within weeks, the First Temple was destroyed and all the houses burned. The majority of the Jewish people were taken captive.

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Counting the Omer and Yeshua’s Soon Return

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After the appointed festivals of Pesach (Passover) and Bikkurim (First Fruits), which occurred on the second day of Passover, we entered into a period called Sefirat HaOmer, or Counting the Omer (Sheaf). The Torah commands the Jewish People to count seven weeks (49 days) from the time of this wave offering until the evening of the festival of Shavuot. Shavuot occurs on the fiftieth day.

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Yom HaShoah: Remembering the Six Million Who Died in the Holocaust

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As the sun set last night, all places of public entertainment closed, and Israel began its annual remembrance of the six million lost souls who were sacrificed on the Nazi altar of hate and genocide. At Yad Vashem—The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem—a special ceremony was held at the “Warsaw Ghetto Square” as the flag was lowered to half-staff and Holocaust survivors lit six torches symbolizing the six million murdered innocents.

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