Folk dancing celebration during the feast of Shavuot in a Galilean kibbutz, 1960s
Shavuot is a Jewish holiday that celebrates the giving of the Torah to the Jews at Mount Sinai and is especially known as an early summer harvest festival. In biblical times Shavuot (meaning "weeks" in Hebrew) marked the beginning of the new agricultural season and may have had pagan roots. In Exodus 34:22 is written: "And you shall make for yourself a Festival of Weeks, the first of the wheat harvest, and the festival of the ingathering, at the turn of the year". Another name for Shavuot is Yom HaBikurim (meaning “Day of the First Fruits") which comes from the practice of bringing fruits to the Temple on this holiday to thank God.
Acts 1:10-11 (NKJV) -
And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”
A gigantic monument at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee, as well as several mysterious structures, including a gigantic stone wheel and a moon-shaped monument, were recently found in northern Israel.
SUNDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO “2 Gospel Songs by Sam Cooke” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0azkZ751hSg Two of my favorite gospel songs made popular in the early 1950s by Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers. "Touch the Hem of His Garment" re-tells the amazing story of the chronically ill and socially outcast woman who touches the hem of Jesus's garment (His prayer shawl) to be healed (Matthew 9:20-21)--the more you learn about this story the more fascinating it becomes.
"Jesus Gave Me Water" is the story about the Samaritan woman who meets Jesus at Jacob’s Well, a public watering place near Mount Gerizim (a place of spiritual significance). Jesus was en route to Galilee, having just finished a lot of work in “respectable Judaea” and taking a break in “unrespectable Samaria,” home of racial half-breeds looked down upon by Pharisees and Romans. Jesus sat down by the well while the disciples went to buy bread. When a solitary gentile woman came to draw water, he broke at least two social and religious rules when he asked her to give him a drink. A strange conversation followed, untwisting the barriers between natural and spiritual, literal, and eternal, condemnation, and redemption. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0azkZ751hSg
Then said Jesus unto them, "Be not afraid. Go tell My brethren to go into Galilee, and there shall they see Me."
— Matthew 28:10 | Third Millennium Bible (TMB)
Third Millennium Bible, New Authorized Version, Copyright 1998 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.
Cross References: Matthew 14:27; Matthew 26:32; Matthew 28:5; Matthew 28:7; Matthew 28:9; Matthew 28:16; John 20:17
The Jordan River National Park is a great place to explore & hike the many footpaths whilst being surrounded by the beauty of God’s Creation, as you walk beside the River Jordan and through its offshoots.