Category: Judaism & Torah

• The Festival of Trees

  

  Due to various demands, I had to take an impromptu vacation from blogging. I partially wrote the following blog on Monday, January 17, 2022. I apologize for the late posting, but better late than never. Today was glorious! It was cloudy all day, but there was a lot of sunshine inside my home. Mike and I…

  Thejourneyblog

  January 23, 2022

  Judaism & Torah, Thoughts on Awareness

  Birthday of Trees, date-palm, Eretz Yisrael, fruits, righteous, Sabbatical Year, Seder, Torah, Tree of Life, Tu Bishevat, Tzadik Katamar

• A Little Taste of Heaven

  

  The spices or besamiym give us a little fragrance of heaven. It is not uncommon to compare pleasant aromas to heaven. Whoever came up with the phrase, “It smells like heaven,” might very well have been drawing inspiration from the Havdalah service. 

  Thejourneyblog

  December 20, 2021

  Judaism & Torah

  Havdalah, Shabbat