The Book Of Esther Explained On Purim night, there you are in the synagogue, listening to the Megillah reading, a story you’ve known since childhood, and perhaps you’re kind of… bored? Reading the Megillah year after year feels a bit like being back in primary school. But that’s because the story we learn as a child shouldn’t be the story…
Firstfruits was a Jewish feast held in the early spring at the beginning of the grain harvest. It was observed on Nissan 16, which was the third day after Passover and the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Firstfruits was a time of thanksgiving for God’s provision. Leviticus 23:9-14 institutes the firstfruits offering. The people were to bring…
The Bible tells us that the Israelites were to eat only unleavened bread every year during Passover as a commemoration of the Exodus from Egyptian bondage. Since the children of Israel left Egypt hastily, they did not have time for the bread to rise, so it was made on that very first Passover without leaven, also known as yeast. In…
Passover Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew, is one of Israel’s most sacred and widely observed holidays. The ‘Hagadah’ (the telling of the story) is told during the Seder (meal) and comes straight out of the book of Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. There are a number of important rituals, including a traditional Passover meal known as a seder, the removal of…
So what do you think….is there truly a line in the sand that the Holy One is drawing? Do we feel that way simply because of the state of the chaos in our world? Maybe…maybe it’s a bit of both. God is always drawing a line in the sand…for you and for me – for everyone. And that proverbial line…
Why are you getting this email? During this past year, many things have transpired….one of them being that my website crashed and unfortunately, I was unable to retrieve any of it – including those who had subscribed to my newsletter each week. Today…..I fired up an old unused hp and low and behold it had an old IAF newsletter contact…
It has been a couple days over a month since my mother (blessed be her memory), a Princess Warrior of the Most High God slipped from this time realm to the next. It still seems impossible that this is a reality. My reality. My life has been intertwined with hers for almost 71 years now…71 years. That also seems…
Throughout the years, from the mid 1980’s to now 2023, it has been a culmination of lows and highs, ups and downs miracles and seeming disasters….but every single ounce of it was worth the trip! In a week I will be crossing the golden years into … what? … not sure what they call being 71, but inside I still…
As time marched on … and we found ourselves in a new century – and the world did not fall apart nor did all the computers go to death-con one….we geared up to continue the search for the truth! My passion was not abated one little bit. It was time to get moving and see what the Father had in…
In 1993 my mother, Veronica “Mickey” Frierdich (of blessed memory) and I traveled to Israel all by ourselves! it was an amazing experience full of excitement, discovery and blessings! We left St. Louis and took a long round-about journey till we landed in our destination of the ‘land’. Our first layover was in Toronto….than in England where we stayed two…