Every twenty-eighth year in the springtime, Jews gather in public to recite The Blessing of the Sun--one of the rarest and least-known practices in Judaism.
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I thank G__D for his creation and hope that positive radiations of blessings reach us all
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Watching the video I was strangly moved. I shared this information with friends as we spent the day getting ready ready for the first night of Passover and felt in awe as the Sun truly reveal itself as we watched the sunset leaving the sky blessed with many colors annoucing the end of the day and the beginning of Pesach. Thank you for sharing this moving ritual. G-d willing I will still be alive to participate in the cermony 28 years from.
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Once again, I can not thank-you enough for that beautiful, awe inspiring video from Brisbane, Australia. I could not attend a public ceremony since I am in a cast, but thank G-d, the video was a mini service which brought tears to my eyes! I was able to follow the Birkat Hachamah prayers, right in the comfort of my home and it was as if I were in synagogue. Everybody, have a sweet Pesach. And may G-d continue to bless this organization and continue to educate us. It goes beyond words, to depict what a blessing this website it!
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Dear Confused,
Please don’t get lost into the belief that the application of science means that the big bang/evolution (etc…) theories are correct.
I myself am a computer scientist (engineering business intelligence applications for many years now) and believe me I love and live science; the application of science that is.
Don’t kid yourself that by me making these extremely advanced systems that this now means that science has now proved that the earth is 7 zillion billion trillion years old.
Science is meant for the application of it’s ideas not for truth; understand this.
Ironically the masses were more in tune with the concepts of time/space/matter/consciousness using philosophy rather the modern coarse application directed science.
Wishing you a Happy Pesach!
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Blessed art Thou, O L-rd our G-d, who allows for the freedom of Your people to choose to argue back and forth on such a blessed time.
On living such a life that I have so far, must I be reduced to crying tears of sadness while celebrating something so sacred and beautiful as remembering the beginning of time; all because G-d's people can't even agree about what time is and HOW it began? Can we not understand that yes, indeed, we count the 5,769 years as we know it from Adam (meaning, of course, man/kind), but, indeed know that the world before this blessed arrival took much longer (as science has shown)
Blessed Creator, I beg of Thee, grant us peace in our day -- beginning with peace amongst ourselves!
How do you think the rest of the world sees us when quibbling goes on and lines are drawn? It's the curse of ego! "I'm right and you're wrong" is all I've heard between the proper remarks of the beauty of this piece reminding us of how important G-d's creation is!
Shame
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If you look at how the Torah explains the birth of the universe, it does follow scientific principles. I need to ask what defines a year. You could believe time in the Torah and that it is 6000 years since creation but, explain how long a year is in belief time. All of this has been stated b-4 but we could believe in both Torah and science.
We know that many of the writings in the Torah can be explained with science. We can believe in miracles such as the 10 plagues and we can see that science can prove the fact that the miracle did happen just as described.
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another explanition is that, when G-d created the world, the world wasnt created as for example-a little seedling that grew into a tree, the world was created as if it had been there for a long time, full grown adult trees were created...therefore yes carbon dating will find the world 'older' than it is.
so when do you believe the world was created?
our (for you said you are a jew too) torah tells us SPECIFIC dates since the world was created....if you look in the torah theres no way to doubt it.
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Mistakes Where?? You don't want to accept my point of view, so you put it down to mistakes.
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This lesson brought about a soothing pause in the hectic preparation for Pesach. Watching the beautiful scenery, listening to the quiet music and hearing the gentle words eased the stress of this period.
Thank you.
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Where is the moderator?
To many mistakes in your comments, dear forensic
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Birchas Hachama: Blessing of the Sun (7:57) |
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Reb Levik’s Nigun – Blessing of the Sun (1:15) |
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Birchas Hachama (2:00) |
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Christchurch, New Zealand (2:00) |
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Brisbane, Australia (29:34) |
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The Western Wall, Israel () |
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Kenwood, England (23:42) |
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Long Island City, New York, USA (17:07) |
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Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA (19:47) |
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (16:25) |
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