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Jewish Feasts

Articles and resources on Jewish liturgy and prayer, feasts and sacred times: their meaning, what they commemorate, how they are celebrated, what they foreshadow, and how they are related to Christian and Catholic life, faith and worship.

The Feasts of Israel: Foreshadowing the Messiah

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Written by: André Villeneuve
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 14 August 2016
  • Judaism
  • Messiah
  • Jewish Feasts

The Jewish FeastsThe Feasts of Israel commemorate God's deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt and his care for them during the Exodus. Yet the feasts also foreshadow God's salvation plan for humanity in Christ. This essay examines the significance of these feasts for the Jewish people as well as their messianic and typological fulfillment in Christ.

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The Sabbath: A Sanctuary in Time

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Written by: André Villeneuve
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 16 December 2015
Shabbat CandlesWhen I first moved to Israel, I was stunned to hear about the many prohibitions that bind orthodox Jews in their observance of the Sabbath day. Like many Christians who first encounter these practices, I couldn’t help but wonder: isn’t this legalistic approach to the Sabbath just like the pharisaic one that Jesus so severely criticizes in the Gospels? At the same time, I was fascinated by the earnestness with which religious Jews observe the seventh day, especially when compared to the fading role of Sunday as day of rest in most culturally Christian countries.

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The Jewish Holidays, Holy Week & the Ascension

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Written by: Richard Reinhardt
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 22 September 2012
  • Judaism
  • Jewish Feasts
  • Catholic Jews
  • Christian Feasts

Rosh HashanahThe four holidays of this coming holiday season correspond to the events of Holy Week and the Ascension. They are a figure of the great salvific events which mark the last days of Jesus’ human presence in this world.  The Christian Jew participates in those saving events, and immerses himself in the Christian mysteries of salvation as he celebrates the Jewish holidays.

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How Jesus Perfected the Passover Seder

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Written by: Richard Reinhardt
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 29 March 2012
  • Jesus
  • Jewish Feasts
  • Torah
  • Passover

Jesus at the Last SupperWhen Jesus distributed the matzo to the disciples saying, “This is My Body,” He perfected and updated the Biblical commandment to eat matzo on the Seder night, so that the commandment to eat matzo we received at Mt. Sinai would teach us how to respond to G-d as He revealed Himself through the Incarnation and the Cross.

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Purim and Lent: Haman Hung, Christ Crucified

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Written by: Richard Reinhardt
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 28 February 2012
  • Jewish-Christian
  • Jesus
  • Jewish Feasts
  • Christian Feasts

Jews celebrating PurimPurim is a day of ecstatic rejoicing, which the Jews celebrate as both a sign of G-d’s enduring love and a promise of their final salvation. There’s nothing in the holiday that contradicts Christian faith, except for one thing: it usually falls out smack in the middle of Lent.

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The Feast of Hanukkah

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Written by: Catholics for Israel
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 26 December 2011
  • Judaism
  • Jewish Feasts

HanukkahHanukkah commemorates the 164 BCE rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after its desecration by the Seleucid Kingdom, under Antiochus IV - and the re-establishment of religious freedom for the Jewish people after a period of harsh repression.

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Rosh Hashanah and the New Year Feasts of Israel

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Written by: Travelujah
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 28 September 2011
  • Judaism
  • Jewish Feasts

Apples and honey are traditionally eaten for Rosh HashanahThe period preceding the Jewish New Year is marked by special penitential prayers, recited before the regular morning prayers, and the blowing of the ram's horn (shofar in Hebrew) after the morning prayer service...

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Elul: The Penitential Season

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Written by: Rabbi David Ebstein
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 08 September 2011
  • Judaism
  • Jewish Feasts

Jews blowing the shofar in the synagogue on the month of ElulAccording to an ancient collection of legends (Pirkei d'Rabbi Eliezer-The Teachings of Rabbi Eliezer), the beginning of the Hebrew month of Elul marks the beginning of an especially solemn period of forty days that concludes with Yom Kippur.

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The Feasts of Israel

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Written by: Travelujah
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 08 September 2011
  • Judaism
  • Jewish Feasts

Jewish FeastsMany Christians do not realize that the seven feasts which God commanded in Leviticus 23 are still observed by their Jewish neighbors. The feasts, as given to Israel, have a multi-faceted significance. First, there was the seasonal aspect of each holiday, involving agricultural activities in the land; then the feasts were to be a memorial of God's dealings with the people of Israel; and, finally, there may be prophetic symbolism. Many Christians see parallel in God's dealings with Israel and with the Church.

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Tisha b'Av and the God who Suffers

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Written by: Richard Reinhardt
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 09 August 2008
  • Israel
  • Jewish-Christian
  • Jewish Feasts
  • Catholicism

Romans carrying away the menorah from the TempleThis coming Saturday night begins the fast of Tisha b'av on which we mourn the destruction of both the first and second Temples. According to the midrash, the messiah was born on Tisha b’av, when the first Temple, the Temple of Solomon, was destroyed. Something happened when the Temple was destroyed that kicked off the final redemption.

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Why the Catholic Jew Rejoices on Passover

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Written by: Richard Reinhardt
Category: Liturgy & Prayer (Jewish)
Created: 17 April 2008
  • Israel
  • Jewish-Christian
  • Jewish Feasts
  • Catholic Jews
  • Catholicism

Passover Why should the Jew who has been saved by Jesus celebrate his redemption from Egypt? What meaning could the statement in the Haggadah that we should regard ourselves as having participated personally in the Exodus, possibly have for him?  What can the redemption from Egypt give him that he has not already received through the Cross?  

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