Judaism and Hanukkah Matt Mariande REL/134 Dr. Kathleen Ramsey October 6, 2010 HANUKKAH: * * The time of the year of the holy day(s) * -Hanukkah is a winter time festival * -Celebrated on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev. * The Jewish calendar is primarily lunar, with each month beginning on the new moon. * - * * * The historical origin of the holy day(s): -Also known as, the Feast of Dedication or the Feast of Lights. -Hanukkah celebrates the rebellion of Jewish freedom fighters, known as the Maccabees. The Maccabees were a group of warriors who fought back against Antiochus, a Syrian ruler, who desicrated the holy site of the Second Temple and tried to force
In 1:14 and 1:16 it may represent a twelve hour period. Additionally, Haley points out that in several other passages a day means the entire Christian era, or beyond the Lord’s second coming. Finally, Haley supports his variable day theory with 2 Peter 3:8 which states to the Lord a day is like a thousand years. Haley’s main
SDA recommends vegetarianism and condones abstinence from pork, shellfish and other foods that are considered unclean in Leviticus. Also, alcohol and tobacco are prohibited, but you can drink as long as you do not drink to be drunk. Church services usually follow an evangelical schedule. During the week, prayer meetings are usually conducted on Wednesday and children attend Adventist schools. SDA practice baptism by full immersion into a pool of water as similar to Baptists.
I ate tuna for lunch and now I do not feel well, so the tuna made me ill. ___ Post hoc ergo propter hoc 3. If you enjoy a social drink, it could lead to you becoming an alcoholic, so you probably should never drink. __ Hasty generalization 4. Even though this is the first week of class, I can tell this is going to be a very easy course. __ Hasty generalization
Eventually in 1967, he opened his first Chick-Fil-A location in Atlanta. Chick-Fil-A serves freshly prepared, nutritious foods in mall locations, stand –alone restaurants, drive-thru only restaurants as well as Chick-Fil-A Dwarf House, and Truett’s Grill full service restaurants. The company was built upon his strong Christian beliefs. Till this day, the chain is not open on Sundays due the command that the seventh day is a day of rest. Their Christian philosophy also influences their keys to success; which are to listen to the customer, focus on getting better before trying to get bigger, and to put emphasis on quality (“Chick-fil-A: Press Releases”).
Each day of the festival a ram’s horn called the Shofar is blown. If Rosh Hashanah falls on the Shabbat progressive Jews will still blow the horn whereas the Orthodox procession will not. Orthodox Jews will also stay in the synagogue all day whilst the Progressive Jews will only attend a morning, afternoon or evening service. During the ‘Great Aleinu’ Orthodox Jews will lie flat and face down on the ground as a sign of respect, Progressive do not. Speech… The Rosh Hashanah Festival marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year, it is held on two days in September.
Johnson is less worried on what Friedman thoughts are on the social disconnection of the connected age (414). Johnson says that technology has brought us close to people who are so far away. He also thinks that Friedman’s argument has some truth to it, but doesn’t fully agree with him. In Johnson’s first example he talks about the subway system and how people would ignore each other with their newspaper or their books. Johnson also states that he “rode the bus for about 15 years before APPLE introduced the iPod.” and says nothing has changed
We expect teens and young adults to stay completely away from alcohol and never have one drink until their 21st birthday. Rather we should gradually teach kids and young adults good drinking habits, and how to drink maturely. This way when they enter college they will not become chronic drinkers because they have been taught how to drink sensibly. This process has been very effective in foreign countries. There the act of drinking is seen as natural and normal.
Even occasional use among that age group almost tripled the chances of developing Melanoma” (“Tanning Beds”). However, teenagers rarely take these statistics into account and rarely apply sunscreen or wear a hat outdoors because they believe that they will never contract skin cancer from a “harmless” ten minutes in a booth or a half hour out in the
2. Problem (American pregnancy Association) American Pregnancy Association states that abstinence prevents the transmission of sexually transmitted disease 100% of the time when appropriately practiced and consistently. For most Americans, we preach and teach abstinence to our teens but, do we practice what we preach? The problem we have with abstinence, as adults, is “Why should I?” However the question should be, “why not?” As adults we often fail to act as adults should. We often use being adults as a get-out-of-jail free