8 days and nights celebration which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.

http://youtu.be/xKWm0Ilwukw

Hey, its also held close to the xmas season...

If God, how could it be for He is omnipotent and omniscient. How could he ever err, hence overestimate himself?

If man, the same...for man was created according to God's image...any imperfection would be a question on God's infinite knowledge.

What you are is how you charted your destiny by the choices you made...ever since that time when God gave daddy and mommy <free will> in the garden of eden.

It was never about God's or Man's overstatement of his ability.

<lamont> your sounding like someone <Kkderek> knew:

<Lonely eccentric people usually have some kind of neurosis that make them find some scapegoats for their life, or project their failures and anger to somebody or some group of people. I know some people like that..>

What I have advised & offered
have no expiration dates.

Zei gesunt.
Sta bene.
Be well.

Post Scriptum:
You might wanna send this holiday thought
my high school Latin teacher taught us:

Pax tibi
Pax mundi

Peace to you
Peace to the world

to possibly send
when the holiday season is'n fullswing
whether youre wearin' a yarmulka or a
Santa hat...which can also be a yarmulka ;)

you do what you have to do poco a poco

You live in Israel.
Wd/ you try to get me the Pentateuch,
ea/ bk/ of Moses is published like
a tabloid newspaper;headlines, editorials,breaking news,&cet laid out like a newspaper page
w/ many type fonts, on pulp-like paper.

Ea/ bk/ is covered w/ tan paper,
as is as large as a tabloid newspaper.

It was publ. in Israel decades ago, but
I'm hoping itz available.

Please call around & see.
Bookstores & teachers.
Out-of-print book-searchers...

I appreciate any help.

I'll pay any expenses you incur
via international money order.

I'll also reciprocate by doing a
mitzvah for you in the U.S.
--family, friends, Lady GaGa photo
signed, 'To my one & only boychik'
...whatever -- if you locate that specially packaged
version of The 5 Books, or not.

Deal ?? Lemme know !!

Even tho' Lubavitch erects a giant iron
electric Menorah annually on the rolling White House lawn, they know, you know, & I know the festival Chhhhanukah izza considered a minor 'holiday' - & always was...like Purim. [Purim/The only bk of the Tanach not mentioning God.]

To make Jewish kids feel more 'cheered up'- 'included' schools put an electric menorah next to a mini-tinseled-goldem-angel-topped Christmas tree...set on the counter in the main office of a public school. I remember this grades 7-12, & a;so singing all the Christmas carols at auditorium assemblies & if anything exposed me to great music as a wonderful part of life.

Christmas time I go to several churches - they know me well - to hear Schubert, Mendelsohn, Bach, Handel, & cet in the joyous setting they were meant to be heard - not the formally-stuffy concert hall.

The deep irony of schools displaying a menorah & Christmas tree is that the symbol for this minor Jewish festival
izza Menorah--which is a MAJOR Jewish religious symbol--it pre-dates the Mogen David aka Star of David, which geometric double-triangle was on the battle shields of David. 2x6 points = 12 tribes of Israel.

[EN PASSANT ~
[On Shabbat/Shabbos: Ea/ loaf of challah bread has 3 braids. [2 loaves used Fri/nite + 2 loaves used Sat/=(3+3)+(3+3)=12 TRIBES.

The Menorah is a prominent part of the design on the massive iron gates of the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel's parliament.

The Christmas tree/Tannenbaum/
is not a sanctified religious symbol.
It is not kosher for Christians.
[Ov cawz I use <kosher> metaphorically. [I mean, that useage is IN the langwich
[Al Capone: Iz this Canadian boot-legged whiskey kosher?? [--i.e., izzit the pure, unadulterated, real stuff ?? [The metaphor goes back even further than Alphonse.

Back to the thread...
The geometric Cross, & the Crucifix
(Jesus on the Cross) are true religious
Christian symbols.

But I digress...
Try yr/ best to snag that pulp-tabloid-newspaper Pentateuch & I'll compensate you for yr/ efforts, if you locate a set, or dont.
So consider it win-win for you.
I'm just delighted i have you as a contact in the Promised Land -which was the name of the travel agency that first got us to Israel,

...when you cd/ still tour the Sinai, all the way down to the tip, to the sapphire colored waters washing the pristine white sands on the beach of Sharm-el-sheikh.

Thank you kindly, again, for any help you can offer.

(Wow...Imagine that.)

--That boring, eh ?!

You also have difficulty

You mean, if you are the Arch Bishop?

No they didn't delete your posts.

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the <Christian> clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.

<lamont> a jew remember?...hence pharisee is spot on. Bishop pertains to a Christian clergy.

The first five books are known as the Torah.

We also believe in all the other books in what the Christians call <The Old Testament>.

We don't believe that Jesus was the Messiah.

Well, thanx for reassuring me.
I just dint go back far enuf.

You see, to me it was OBvious why it
was never a problem for him to be
virulent anti-Semitic,

because their were literally no bonds he had to break: the 2 basic bonds to the Jewish religion's God were never forged/created.

When Gorbachev allowed Russian Jews to emigrate to Israel, they underwent circumcision in hospitals.. Until then, Russia forbade circumcision: they knew how important that ritual was.

Note: The earliest a boy can be a Bar Mitzvah is 13. But if he chooses, he can do it anytime later in life: just read his given portion in the Torah, that is the ritual making him a bar Mitzvah.

No party necessary, w/ excesses like having Moses w/ two tablets sculpted in chopped liver.

Have a rabbi, though, check the words you will use to make the 2 points I suggested...& I wd/ also credit him.

Just to make sure itz all kosher.

Judaism seems cool. But Bobby would search green pasture somewhere else?

BOBBY AND RELIGION:

Bobby first tuned in on the elder Armstrong while still in his late teens. Lonely and despairing after he muffed his chance to become world champion at 19—Bobby found strength in the church's teachings and has adhered to them closely ever since. He turned to the church in the crisis he faced after Reykjavik. Verging on nervous exhaustion after his two-month battle with Spassky and the match organizers, Bobby decided that the last thing he wanted after his triumph was the world that lay at his feet. In the large and outwardly peaceful community that surrounds the Armstrong headquarters, he saw a safe setting where he could unsnarl his nerves and find the normal life that he had sacrificed to competition and monomania.

In the long run, Fischer got more interested in girls than religion.

Not long after he arrived in Pasadena, the 31-year-old Bobby confessed to a high church official thaEDt he wanted to meet some girls. There is a rigid rule against dating between church members and nonmembers like Bobby, but the official allowed that in Bobby's case the rule would be suspended. What sort of girls did he like? Bobby said that he liked "vivacious" girls with "big breasts." A suitable girl was discovered and Bobby began to date her frequently.

BOBBY AND THE PHILIPPINE STRONGMAN: