Signing off soon for 2 days of Rosh Hashanah.

To all my brothers and sisters I say Shana tova u'metuka v'chatima tova ♥️🇮🇱🍯🍎

To the Jews who might not observe the Jewish day of Judgement and New year, I ask that you at least perform the simple mitzvah of hearing the sound of the shofar being blown at a synagogue near you, trust me it will do wonders when it touches your soul, just close your eyes and listen. A Jew can never and should never hide from who he is.

Chag sameach 🥳

Wow amazing!!

After 1 year of not working the land due to the Shmita year that we were in, religious farmers are tilling the land right now at night.

The sabbatical year (Shmita), is the seventh year of the seven-year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah in the Land of Israel and is observed in Judaism. Basically we Jews are commanded from the Torah to let the land rest every 7 years so as to not deplete it's resources, we let the land rest. The 7th year has now ended as we are in a new Jewish year from Rosh Hashana that we just celebrated. In today's greedy world this is unheard of as big business prefers profits but will ultimately destroy the land. The Jewish farmers in Israel who observe 1 year of not producing anything should be commended as this is not an easy task, it requires absolute faith and they succeed always from it.

This is one of my favourite prayers we sing on Yom Kippur in the very last service known as the Ne'ila. We will sing this next week. The prayer is called "El nora alila". We sing it differently to the way it is in this video but with as much positive energy, plus it has my friend Yoni Sharon in it on darbuka drum and percussion.

I posted about him before:
https://t.me/DocumentingIsrael/1047
https://t.me/DocumentingIsrael/6327
https://t.me/DocumentingIsrael/7899

A moment ago I just posted one of my favourite prayers we sing in the Yom Kippur service, well here is my other favourite prayer we sing on Yom Kippur during the Slichot service called "Ya Shema Evyonecha"

This video also has my friend Yoni Sharon drumming on Darbuka in it.

See the other song I posted here:
https://t.me/DocumentingIsrael/9775

To dispel the very misunderstood assumption by many Jews that Yom Kippur is a sad or depressing day or a day in which one should feel guilt, I strongly recommend you re-learn what Yom Kippur is about. It is in fact a very uplifting day, I am at my highest point of being on a natural spiritual high on this day. Don't believe me? Come see what it's like in a Mizrachi synagogue on Yom Kippur, it's like a party minus the food and drinks. Listen to how Charlie Harary explains it in more detail.

There is a striking Mishna at the end of Tractate Ta’anit, “Rabbi Shimon ben Gamaliel said, "Never were there more joyous festivals in Israel than the fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur, for on them the Women of Jerusalem used to go out dressed in white garments… and thus they went out and danced in the vineyards." The women would go out to the fields to find partners.

So it's time you changed your mind about Yom Kippur.

Watch it here on YouTube if you prefer.