The Exodus of the Jewish people from slavery led by our champion, Moeshe, prophet and servant of Hashem; פסח , unleavened bread and the congregation; the perseverence, courage, and faith of the Jewish people; תורה and the fury, majesty, and safety of Hashem. For the Passover observance to be absolutely compliant with Hashem's Laws: requires the kosher slaughter of a lamb on erev Passover, and after sundown, Passover first day, removing all chametz from the home, then roasting the lamb, baking unleavened bread, and meal must include bitter herbs. The leftover lamb must be eaten or thrown out before sunrise. All carbohydrates must be only unleavened bread (meaning no yeast in wheat or flour; no potato, noodle, rice, bean or legume) for seven days. King David ordered his songs to be sung and the order comes from mouths of his prophets. The last day of Passover is a solemn day of memorial and congregation, and it is recommend to abstain from any work. The above requirements are maximum efficiency and completely satisfactory Jewish orthodoxy. The warfighter is not permitted to fully observe the Shabbos, and commit to orthodoxy, and the seventh day of Passover solemn day can be for the civilian to thank the warfighter with solemnity, staying solemn to recognize the warfighter sacrificing their time, lives, and holy rest for collective democracy and public safety. It would be important for the seven days to discuss all the events of the Passover, the hardships of the Hebrews laboring in Egypt, all the miracles performed by Hashem, Moeshe's selfless leadership, the strength of the Jewish people, and the necessity of the congregation for our wellbeing. Passover does not have to be overly ritualistic to be observant to Hashem's Law; in our era of rapid and fantastic change and modernization, we should abandon unnecessary and medieval customs like the Haggadah, and instead embrace the mitzvah of reinvigorating purpose and meaning for the Jewish people. Our forefathers, the Jews of Judea before exile, had no need of Talmuddic rituals and followed Hashem's law in their true and simple meaning. Anything not required by Hashem, as written in Torah, Neviim, Ketuvim, especially practices that divide us or burden us, need to be rejected so we all may embrace faith and unity as one Israel. Anyone who mandates restrictions or actions that are outside of Hashem's Law are breaking Hashem's Law. Any emphasis on supernatural concepts in Jewish practice is breaking Hashem's Law. Shatter your idols because they are more trouble than they are worth. Learning on the Shabbos is labor and breaking Hashem's Law and the mind can use a holy day of rest. Hashem requires all to be silent before Him and the reading of His testimony. [Note: wine is not mentioned in Hashem's testimony at any point in regard to the Feast, and thus is optional, or for a special passover Shabbos, pairing your candlelighting with the wine blessing and blessing of unleavened bread. Read the story of Sodom and stay sharp during wartime.] In english: 1. candle: "Baruch atah adonai eloheynu malech ha olam, asher kid shenu b'mitzvozav vitzivanu li hadlich ner shel Shabbat;" 2. wine: "Baruch atah adonai elohenu malech ha olam, asher kid shanu b'mitvozav, boray pre ha gaffen; 3. unlevened bread: "Baruch atah adonai elohenu malech ha olam asher kid shanu b'mitzvozav, shel lo ha erez." Praise the LORD our God, creator of the universe who commanded for us to have holy Sabbath; ~ who created the fruit of the vine; ~ who commanded for us no bread. We want as a people to reduce the dependency of Jewish observance on the institution, which fractures Judaism into secularism and fundamentalism, and instead emphasize Jewishness in the home with family. Hashem has commanded for us many events that we only observe as one congregation, and that the Houses open on shabbos and the rosh of the months. Recipe for making unleavened flatbread fresh and in a hurry • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour • ½ teaspoon salt • 1 tablespoon dried oregano • 1 teaspoon dried rosemary or dill • 2 tablespoons olive oil • ½ cup water 1. Combine the flour, salt, oregano, rosemary, dill. 2. Stir the oil and water into the dry ingredients until the mixture forms a dough. 3. Knead the dough for about 3 minutes, until it forms a smooth ball. 4. Divide the dough into 4 pieces and roll each one into a ball. 5. Tallit 1 Place the dough balls on an ungreased surface. 6. Roll each piece of dough out to 1 cm thickness. 7. Heat a skillet over medium heat. 8. Cook each dough round one at a time for 2 minutes per side or until they appear golden brown. The bread can be stored on the counter for 2 weeks. Shma Israel, adonai elohenu adonai echad In which the LORD commands Moeshe and Aron to declare the LORD's passover to the nation of Israel. (12:1-18 שמות) ¹And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: ²’This month will be to you the beginning of months; it will be the first month of the year to you . ⁴ Speak you to all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth day of this month they will take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’houses, a lamb for a household; ⁵Your lamb will be wiyout blemish, a male of the first year; you will take it from the sheep, or from the goats; ⁶ and you will keep it to the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will kill it at dusk. ⁷And they will take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses where they will eat it. ⁸And they will eat the meat in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they will eat it. ⁹ Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards. ¹ ⁰ And you will let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remain of it until the morning you will burn with fire. ¹¹And thus you will eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you will eat it in haste—it is the LORD’s passover. ¹³ when I smite the land of Egypt. ¹⁴And this day will be to you for a memorial, and you will keep it a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you will keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever. ¹⁵ Seven days you will eat unleavened bread; and the first day you will put away leaven out of your houses; ¹⁸ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at sundown, you will eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at sundown. (12:1-18 שמות) In which Moeshe instructs the requirements of the Feast of Unleavened bread ordaining it as a yearly tradition to remind the Jewish people of the miracles and mercy of Hashem. (16:6-8 דברים) ⁶ but at the place which the LORD tour God will choose to cause His name to live in, there you will sacrifice the passover offering at evening, at the going down of the sun, at the season that you came forth out of Egypt. ⁷And you will roast and eat it in the place which the LORD your God will choose; and you will turn in the morning, and go to your tents. ⁸Six days you will eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day will be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God; you will do no work then. (16:6-8 דברים) In which the LORD shows Ezekial the Prophet a miracle and promises Israel He will return us to the land He gave to our father, Jacob, and Israel is forever ruled by Hashem's prince David. (37:10-25 יחזקאל ) ¹ ⁰ So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up on their feet, an exceeding great host. ¹¹Then He said to me: ‘Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; Shma, they say: our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cleanly cut off. ¹² Therefore prophesy, and say to them: thus says the Lord GOD: Shma, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, Shma Israel; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. ¹³And you will know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, Shma My people. ¹⁴And I will put My spirit in you, and you will live, and I will place you in your own land; and you will know that I the LORD have spoken, and performed it, says the LORD.’ ¹⁵ And the word of the LORD came to me, saying: ¹ ⁶ And you, son of man, take you one rod, and write on it: For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions; then take another rod, and write upon it: For Joseph, the rod of Ephraim, and of all the house of Israel his companions; ¹⁷and join them for you one to another into one rod, Tallit 2 that they may become one in your hand. ¹⁸And when the children of your people will speak to you, saying: Will you not tell us what you mean by these? ¹ ⁹ say to them: thus says the Lord GOD: Shma, I will take the rod of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them to together with the rod of Judah, and make them one rod, and they will be one in My hand. ² ⁰ And the rod where you write will be in your hand before their eyes. ²¹And say to them: thus says the Lord GOD: Shma, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land; ²²and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one king will be king to them all; and they will be no more two nations, neither will they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all; ²³ so will they be My people, and I will be their God. ²⁴ and My servant David will be king over them, and they all will have one shepherd; they will also walk in Mine ordinances, and observe My statutes, and do them. ²⁵And they will live in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers lived; and they will live there, they, and their children, and their children’s children, forever; and David My servant will be their prince for ever. יחזקאל 37:10-25( ) In which the LORD instructs Ezekial for the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the Temple of Jerusalem. (45:21-24, 46:1 יחזקאל) ²¹In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, you will have the passover; a feast of seven days; unleavened bread will be eaten. ²² And on that day will the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin-offering. ²³And the seven days of the feast he will prepare a burnt-offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams wiyout blemish daily the seven days; and a hegoat daily for a sin-offering. ²⁴And he will prepare a meal-offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil to an ephah. ²⁵In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, in the feast, will he do the like the seven days; to the sin-offering as well as the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering as well as the oil. ¹Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that looks toward the east will be shut the six working days; but on the shabbat it will be opened, and in the day of the new moon it will be opened. (45:21-24, 46:1 יחזקאל) In which King David's son Hezekiah governed Jerusalem and has Passover feast. (29:1-2, 29:20-27; 30:5- ) דבדי הימים ב 27 ¹ Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old; and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Abijah the daughter of Zechariah. ²And he did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done. ³He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. ² ⁰ Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD. ²¹And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he-goats, for a sin-offering for the kingdom and for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aron to offer them on the altar of the LORD. ²⁵ And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of the LORD by His prophets. ² ⁶ And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. ²⁷And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt-offering on the altar. And when the burnt-offering began, the song of the LORD began also, and the trumpets, together with the instruments of David king of Israel. ⁵So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Be'ersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover to the LORD, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem; for they had not kept it in great numbers according as it is written. ⁶ So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying: ‘You children of Israel, turn back to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that He may return to the remaining of you that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria. ⁷And be Tallit 3 not you like your fathers, and like your brothers, who acted treacherously against the LORD, the God of their fathers, so that He delivered them to be an astonishment, as you see. ⁸Now be you not stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that His fierce anger may turn away from you. ⁹ For if you turn back to the LORD, your brothers and your children will find compassion before them that led them captive, and will come back into this land; for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away His face from you, if you return to Him.’ ¹ ⁰ So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun; but some laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. ¹¹ But divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. ¹² Also in Judah was the hand of GOD to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of the LORD. ¹³ And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation. ¹⁴And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron. ¹⁵ Then they killed the passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month; ²¹And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments to the LORD. ²²And Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites that were well skilled in the service of the LORD. So they did eat throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace-offerings, and giving thanks to the LORD, GOD of their fathers. ²³And the whole congregation took counsel to keep other seven days; and they kept other seven days with gladness. ² ⁶ So there was great joy in Jerusalem; for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem. ²⁷Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to His holy habitation, even to heaven )דברי הימים 30:5-27( King David's songs for the leader, with string-music. (4;24;31 תחלים) Baruch atah adonai elohenu melech ha olam asher kid shanu b'mitzvozav, boray pre ha King David shel b'ni Israel. ¹ A Psalm of David. ² Answer me when I call, Shma GOD of righteousness, You who did set me free when I was in distress; Be gracious to me, and hear my prayer. ³ ⁰ you sons of men, how long will my glory be put to shame, In that you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? ⁴ But know that the LORD has set apart the godly man as His own; The LORD will hear when I call to Him. (4:1-4 תחלים) ¹The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulless there; The world, and they that live there. ² For He has founded it on the seas, And established it on the floods. ³Who will ascend into the mountain of the LORD? And who will stand in His holy place? ⁴He that has clean hands, and a pure heart; Who has not taken My name in vain, And has not sworn deceitfully. ⁵He will receive a blessing from the LORD, And righteousness from GOD of his salvation. ⁶ Such is the generation of them that seek after Him, that seek Your face, of Jacob. (24:1-6 תחלים) ¹In you, my LORD, have I taken refuge; let me never be ashamed; deliver me in Your righteousness. ³ Incline Your ear to me, deliver me speedily; be You to me a rock of refuge, even a fortress of defence, to save me. ⁴ For You are my rock and my fortress; thus for Your name's sake lead me and guide me. ⁵Bring me forth out of the net that they have hidden for me; For You are my stronghold. ⁶ Into Your hand I devote my spirit; You have redeemed me, my LORD, GOD of truth. )תחלים 31:1-6( In which King Solomon says the blessing for the congregation of Israel in memory of his father King David when Solomon builds the Temple of Jerusalem King David commanded him to build. (8:14-24 א )םיכלמ ¹⁴And the king turned his face around, and blessed all the congregation of Israel; and all the congregation of Israel Tallit 4 stood. ¹⁵And he said: ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to David my father, and has with His hand fulfilled it, saying: ¹ ⁶ Since the day that I brought forth My people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that My name might be there; but I chose David to be over My people Israel. ¹⁷Now it was in the heart of David my father to build a house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. ¹⁸But the LORD said to David my father: Where it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart; ¹ ⁹ nevertheless you will not build the house; but your son that will come forth out of your loins, he will build the house for My name. ² ⁰ And the LORD has established His word that He spoke; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD, the God of Israel. ²¹And there have I set a place for the ark, in where the covenant of the LORD is, which He made with our fathers when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.’ ²²And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven ; ²³and he said: ‘LORD, the God of Israel, there is no God like You, in heaven above, or on earth beneath; who keeps covenant and mercy with Your servants, that walk before You with all their heart; ²⁴who has kept with your servant David my father that which You did promise him; You spoke with Your mouth, and has fulfilled it with Your hand, as it is this day. )א םיכלמ 8:14-24( In which Ezra and Nehemiah governor of Jerusalem hold the Feast of Unleavened Bread when Jews returned from Babylon during Xerses reign and built the second Temple of Jerusalem. (6:19-22 צזרה ) ¹ ⁹ And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month. ² ⁰ For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure; and they killed the passover lamb for all the children of the captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves. ²¹And the children of Israel, that were come back out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves to them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, did eat, ²²and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; for the LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the House of GOD, the God of Israel. In which Abraham saw the LORD destroy the city of Sodom but which the LORD allowed Lot the Moab to escape (19:1-29 בראשית) ¹And the two angels came to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom; and Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he fell down on his face to the earth; ² and he said: 'Shma now, sirs, turn aside, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and rest all night, and wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way.’ And they said: ‘No; but we will rest in the broad place all night.’ ³ And he urged them greatly; and they turned to him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. ⁴But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house around, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. ⁵And they called to Lot, and said to him: ‘Where are the men that came in here this night? bring them out to us, that we may know them.’ ⁶ And Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him. ⁷And he said: ‘Please my brothers, do not so wickedly, ⁸ now, I have two daughters that have not known man; let me, please bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes; only to these men do nothing; for as much as they are come under the shadow of my roof.’ ⁹ And they said: ‘Stand back.’ And they said: ‘This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will need play the judge; now will we deal worse with you, than with them.’ And they pressed sore on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. ¹ ⁰ But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and the door they shut. ¹¹And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great; so that they wearied themselves to find the door. ¹²And the men said to Lot: 'Is there any here any besides son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whoever you have in the city; bring them Tallit 5 out of the place; ¹³ for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before the LORD; and the LORD has sent us to destroy it.’ ¹⁴And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said: ‘Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city.’ But he seemed to his sons-in-law as one that joked. ¹⁵And when the morning arose, then the angels rushed Lot, saying: ‘Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters that are here; or you will be swept away in the iniquity of the city.’ ¹ ⁶ But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful to him. And they brought him forth, and set him wiyout the city. ¹⁷And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said: ‘Escape for your life; look not behind you, neither stay you in all the Plain; escape to the mountain, or you will be swept away.’ ¹⁸And Lot said to them: ‘Oh, not so, my lord; ¹ ⁹ now, your servant has found grace in your sight, and you have magnified your mercy, which you have shown to me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, or the evil overtake me, and I die. ² ⁰ Now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one; let me escape there, is it not a little one, and my soul will live.’ ²¹ And he said to him: ‘See, I have accepted you concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. ²² Hurry you, escape there; for I cannot do any thing until you come there.' Thus the name of the city was called Zoar . ²³ The sun was risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. ²⁴Then the LORD caused to rain on Sodom and on Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; ²⁵and He overthrow those cities, and all the Plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. ² ⁶ But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. ²⁷And Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the LORD. ²⁸And he looked out toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all that was Zoar, ² ⁰ and the land of the Plain, and שמע the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. ² ⁹ And it came to pass, when the LORD destroyed the cities of the Plain, that the LORD remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. ³ ⁰ And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; ³³And they made their father drink wine that night; ³⁷And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab. (19:1-37 )בראשית In which Nahum the Prophet predicts the false prophet Maimonides of Babylon, and the indignity and profanity of the Talmud, and thus Hashem promises to keep His word. (1:11-14;2:8-14;3:1-10 נחום ) ¹¹Out of you he came from, that devised evil against the LORD, that counselled wickedness. ¹²So says the LORD: Though they are in full strength, and likewise many, even so will they be cut down, and he will pass away; And though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more. ¹³And now will I break his grip from off you, and will burst your bonds to pieces. ¹⁴ And the LORD has given commandment concerning you, that no more of your name be made; out of the house of your god will I cut off the graven image and the molten image; I will make your grave; for you become worthless. שמע ⁸Pity the bloody city! ⁹ But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water; yet they flee away; ‘Stand, stand’; But none look back. ¹ ⁰ You take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, rich with all precious vessels. ¹¹She is empty, and void, and waste; And the faces of them all have gathered blackness. ¹⁴ And the voice of your messengers will no more be heard. ¹ It is all full of lies and rapine; the prey don't depart. ²Shma! the whip, and shma! the rattling of the wheels; because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her witchcrafts. ⁵Shma, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, שמע and I will uncover your skirts on your face, and I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. ⁹ Ethiopia and Egypt were your strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were your helpers. ¹ ⁰ Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. ¹¹ You also will be drunk, you will swoon; you will also seek refuge, because of the enemy. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar, lay hold of the brick mould. ¹⁵There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off, it will devour you like the canker worm; Make yourself many Tallit 6 as the canker worm, make yourself many as the locusts. ¹ ⁶ You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven; the canker worm spreads itself, and flies away. You are crowned like the locusts, and your marshals like the swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the walls in the cold day, thy shepherds slumber, king of Assyria, and there is none to gather them. ¹ ⁹ There is no assuaging of your hurt, your wound is grievous; and on who has your wickness not been passed on to? פסח שמח ¹¹For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber will answer it. הבקוק 2:11( ) Amos the Prophet warns against the evils of tyrants, idoltry, and religious institutions ruled by injustice )עמס 1-9( ¹ ⁰ Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorites. ¹¹And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites. Is it not even so, children of Israel? Says the LORD. ¹²But you gave the Nazirites wine to drink; and commanded the Prophets, saying: ‘not prophesy.’ ¹³ Shma, I will make it creak under you, as a cart creaks that is full of sheaves. ¹ Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up out of the land of Egypt, saying: ² You only have I known of all the families of the earth; Therefore I will visit on you all your iniquities. שמע ⁶ Will evil befall a city, and the LORD had not done it? א ⁷ For the Lord GOD will do nothing. But He reveals His counsel to His servants the Prophets. ב ⁸ The lion has roared, who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken. שמע ¹⁵ Hate the evil, and love the good, And establish justice in the gate; ג ²¹ I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies. ד ² ⁶ So will you take up Siccuth your king and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which you made to yourselves. ה ⁹ And it will come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they will die. ז ¹⁴ Shma, for I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel, says the LORD, the God of hosts; and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the Brook of the Arabah. צ ¹ ⁶ He says: prophesy not against Israel, and preach not against the house of Isaac; ¹⁷ thus says the LORD שמע ⁴ And though they go into captivity before their enemies, then will I command the sword, and it will slay them; and I will set Mine eyes on them for evil, and not for good. ה For Yom HaShoah and in memory of the Israeli bricha movement of WWII, where Jews of Israel would sneak Holocaust survivors into Jerusalem, when the UK made it illegal for Jews to enter Jerusalem. )בעדיאה( ¹¹ In the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, even you was one of them. ¹² But you should not have gazed on the day of your brother in the day of his disaster, neither should you have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither should you have spoken proudly in the day of distress. ¹³ You should not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; Shma, you should not have gazed on their affliction in the day of their calamity, or have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity. שמע ¹⁴ either should you have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that escape; neither should you have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. ¹⁵For the day of the LORD is near on all the nations; as you have done, it will be done to you; your dealing will return on your own head. 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