• Posts Tagged ‘Moses’

    Tu B’Shvat

    by  • January 30, 2012 • Articles, Holidays & Events

    Early Jewish pioneers

    By: Jerry Lepre Tu B'Shvat is a Jewish new year of or for the trees; Hebrew is like Latin in the sense that the letters can also act like numbers, so the TU in Tu B’Shvat is the number 15 and the Shevat is the month Shevat, so Tu B’Shvat literally means the 15th...

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    Church of Transfiguration

    by  • January 23, 2012 • Articles, Sites

    Church of Transfiguration Israel 1957

      By Jerry Lepre Church of Transfiguration: Sun-Fri 8am-noon, 2-5pm, closed Saturday and during services. Cost is fee During the Byzantine age (300 C.E. to around 600 C.E.) tradition began to associate Mount Tabor with the miracle of the Transfiguration of Jesus; the church theologian Origen (184 C.E. 253/4 C.E.) makes mention and supported...

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