Archive for May 14th, 2025
We Are Partners With God
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025When blessing a holiday, we recite the blessing that God sanctifies Israel and the time. This is to teach us that God gave us the ability to set the calendar & He will abide by our decisions. It is a partnership. Share on Facebook
How To Sanctify God’s Name
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025The way to sanctify God’s name is to do something moral and/or ethical in his name. It is not necessarily an obvious commandment. It could be giving a grieving grandmother gloves on a cold night. Share on Facebook
About the Author: Shlomo Bar-Ayal is an Israeli-American, or an American-Israeli (I could never get that right) who is unabashedly pro-Israel, pro-US and a great guy.
He has an open mind to opinions that he agrees with.
Besides blogging on whatever he feels like blogging about on any given day he enjoys learning Talmud, davening, being the candyman in his synagogue, smoking his tobacco pipe, giving tours at the Grand Lodge of New York, being involved in Freemasonry, and partaking in an adult beverage every now and then