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Everybody wants spirituality. To be a good person means to walk in G-d's ways. How does that translate to reality? The only guidebook to spirituality that has stood the test of time is the Hebrew Bible. The Bible says that the Jews will be a light onto the nations. But if you are not a born Jew, you have to convert, which is not so easy!! If you do convert, it is a lot of work to be a Jew (three times a day prayer, keeping kosher, observing the Sabbath).

This blog will show you how to be Jewish without the work!!

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

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Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement.

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Today is 139th Hebrew birthday of Izhak Ben-Zvi born Nov 24, 1884 and the 70th anniversary of his swearing-in as Second President of the State.

A lecture and tour led by Tirza Rabinovich will give participants an insight into Ben-Zvi's life, the hut that served as his private living quarters, and the larger hut that was used for presidential purposes. The event at Yad Ben-Zvi begiins at 10 AM today

The Three Musketeers at the Kotel

The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember.

The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave.

"Does the moon rise and set because the earth is spinning, or because the moon is orbiting the earth?"

That is actually a REALLY good question with an interesting answer! 😁 The Moon actually orbits the other way, west to east.

So to answer your question, yes, the Moon rises in east and sets in the west due to the Earth's rotation, yes that's true. BUT! If the Earth stopped rotating, the Moon would go the other way about a half a degree per hour. It would rise in the west, stay in the sky for about *two weeks,* and then set in the east.

Isn't that weird?

Everything in the sky *appears* to go around the Earth at about 15 degrees per hour, or roughly once a day, due to Earth's rotation. So the Sun, the stars, the planets, and the Moon appear to go around about fifteen degrees per hour. But it reality, NOTHING does it right. The Moon "backs up" a half degree per hour, making it's total hourly progress about 14 and a half degrees. The stars move roughly an extra degree each day due to the Earth's orbit around the Sun. The Sun appears to speed up and slow down because of the eccentricity of Earth's orbit, so it rises and sets a few seconds earlier and later each day, speeding up and slowing down throughout the year, changing the overall length of the day/night cycle. And of course, the Moon and the planets all orbit around something else as we discussed, so they also appear to move among the stars at different rates. And of course, the stars themselves have their own proper motion too, so over the course of millennia they will move around compared to each other as well! EVERYTHING in the sky MOVES!!! 😁

So even though the Earth turns once per day, *nothing* in the sky moves exactly on that schedule. Everything in the sky also moves AROUND the sky too, at various rates, in various directions, and for various reasons. The sky only *appears* to be fixed and turning exactly once per day.