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Hello Grafted In Readers, Today Is October 25 in my corner of blog land. October in my life history continues to present some memorable events: My first piano gig occurred in October when in college, I was introduced to the woman who would become my wife in October, my parents were married in October, my dad is in declining health this October at age 94, and for the past thirteen Octobers, I have observed the beginning of a new cycle in reading The Torah. It's a new beginning! Thus I am pasting the Hebrew Word Study for this date from Chaim ben Torah.org on having a hunger for God! May it reach your soul as it has mine. Thanks too for dropping by. ---------- Chaim Bentorah HEBREW WORD STUDY – A BLEATING LAMB – TA’ROG תערג Taw Ayin Resh Gimmel As the deer panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: When shall I come and appear before God?" Psalm 42:1,2 How I can sense the heart of David to know o...

Hello Grafted in Reader, Today is Tuesday, Oct. 15 in my corner of blog-land. It is also the second day of the festival, Feast of Tabernacles or Booths on the Jewish faith calendar. This feast is seven days in length and recalls God caring for the Exodus when they wandered in the wilderness forty years. So too, God cares for us in our respective life periods. I am quietly observing this feast, as my aging father in another state is moving from independence to semi-dependence. He is going on age 95, and is a very real reminder that we don't have qualities of infallibility. I will be visiting him later this week for three days. Our health column from the Mayo Clinic this week offers some info about infections. Did you know viruses or viri are smaller than bacteria? According to the Mayo newsletter, Housecall, Viruses require a host albeit person, plant, or animal. Once comfy inside, they get assertive and order the cell machinery to make more of them. The common cold, T...

Hello Grafted In Readers, Today, on the Jewish Calendar is Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement. For those of us who practice faith with the Jewish calendar in mind, it is a very "proper" feeling day and also one of personal vulnerability before our Creator. We profess one God, and not to be that god. We admit that we as human beings slight others, gossip when we should not, fantasize about the "what if" in our personal lives to an extent that may be harmful, ask forgiveness and aid to turn from those things which hinder us and our world, and literally beg Hashem to be loving and kind, merciful is the theological word. It is October 9, 2019. An article recently in "Breaking Israel News" cites that more Christians around the world are starting to embrace observing Yom Kippur to not only identify with Israel, but also observe the Holy Day and its implications. So, if you are among those observing today as Yom Kippur, Fear not. God is not willing that you or ...

Not Another Episcopal Church Blog: Episcopal Decline: Living it Locally : The statistics reported by the Episcopal organization are further confirmation of what we have been witnessing and discussing on these page...