The Blessing for the Sun

blessings to all I thank G__D for his creation and hope that positive radiations of blessings reach us all Reply

The blessing of the Sun 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. Reply

Blessing of the Sun 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! Reply

Dear 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! Reply

Blessings and Bickering 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!

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Why can't we belive both 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. Reply

Re: carbon dating 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. Reply

Exiamine the facts Mistakes Where?? You don't want to accept my point of view, so you put it down to mistakes. Reply

Beauty of HaShem's world 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. Reply

examine the facts Where is the moderator?
To many mistakes in your comments, dear forensic Reply

Blessing for the Sun Very informative, and beautifully done. Thank you for the reverence shown to the one true creator of the heavens and the earth. Reply

Examine the facts Respectfully. You surely do not belive what you have just typed. I work as a forensic scienctist, your explaination of carbon dating is, I am sorry rubbish Reply

Birkat Ha Chamah Sounds like an easy mitzvah. One blessing plus one shehechianu, and that is it.
So what is all the hooplah about? Reply

Blessing of the Sun How lovely to bless the sun. Ihave never heard of this before, but I think it is a beautiful custom. What a lovely, informing video! Thank you so much for bringing somehing new into my life. Reply

Examine all the facts Confused, true it would seem that carbon dates proves an older date but there are a few problems with carbon dating. For carbon dating to be entirely accurate one needs both the present carbon content and the original carbon content. The original content is only an estimate based on similar substances. That is to say that scientists base the carbon dating of dinasours on the carbon contents of birds or reptiles. I was taught that being many (maybe millions or more years) years off is acceptable in carbon dating. Also 6, 000 years is suppoused to be from the time of Adam. The 6, 000 years itself was a calculation and could be flawed based on other interpretations. The only way to be sure is to have been there (ie be G-d). Reply

beautiful It was a blessing to learn a new Mitzvah. I hope they will be celebrating somewhere near us. Reply

Confused It is simply unbelevable that all who responded to my comments really believe that the earth is ONLY 6000 years old. Prove it. You can't can you. But science can prove that the earth is most certainly NOT only 6000 years old. Show me your evidence, your firm evidence. Furthermore religion has managed to produce war, hardship, and an endless debate about whos particular understanding you want to accept. My religion is the religion of charity, I help all people, of any colour, religion, or creed not just my own People, and yes I am Jewish, and pround of it too, but I will not accept ridiculous statments like the eart his only 6000 years old. Science deals with observation someone commented. So what about all the medical advances, all the engineering advances, are they all JUST observations. Come on get into the REAL world. Reply

Blessing for the Sun - video segment Lovely to see this. Thank you. it's very beautifully presented. A blessing !
i am hearing disabled and wish that i could read closed captions (in english ) of what the announcer is saying. But even with this handicap, i can see the visuals and with my ear mics "on" can listen (as much as I am able to the music and the announcer's soothing voice. Reply

Perth Australia Can you please tell me when am I to see this in Perth W.A Australia Reply

thankyou jem thankyou JEM for once again bringing to life via video the special mitzvah of Birchat Hachama and for hearing the rebbe's insights re the above and the forsight of the rebbe re: solar energy as a solution to our energy crisis Reply