Carrie and I subscribe to myzmanim.com. It is great. We can print out the whole year with all the prayer times, sunrise, sunset, earliest tallit, latest Sh’ma, all kinds of great information. It is printed according to the lunar calendar and at the top it even tells you whether or not you are on daylight savings time.
This morning Carrie and I were discussing how it seemed dark later in the morning and she remembered that we generally would have set our clocks back already, but now it is in about three weeks. I commented that we were actually on daylight savings time now and would be going back to standard time to which she informed me that she was born on ‘real’ time, being born in November. I informed her that I also was born on ‘real' time and she let me know that I wasn’t. “You were born in August, time changes in the spring and fall. August is in the summer.” She was right. I was not born during ‘real’ time. Maybe that’s why I have so much trouble scheduling.
This made me think though about our walk in faith. We came into modern Christianity and after several years started finding out that the things we believed and did weren’t exactly the way things started. I began questioning where what we believed came from. I don’t know about you, but our house was not a exactly Gan Eden during those examining days.
I started studying Greek because I didn’t like the translators seeming agendas. I didn’t get to far. Hebrew kind of took its place. That’s going a little better. Carrie started reading every book she could come across about church history. It is rather amazing the things that we don’t know about our faith. How can two thousand years be wrong? How indeed!
So here we are ‘born’ during daylight savings time and trying to figure out ‘real’ time. We’re walking somewhere between Judaism and Christianity trying to place Yeshua into the context of 1st century Judaism along with the text of the apostolic writings. These are exciting times. On occasion discussions get a little deep and maybe a little excited. But what could be better than speaking of the ways of G-d? It would have been much easier to be born into the understanding our brethren had during the first century instead of having to try to sort it out though.
Fortunately, we do have a great number of teachers who are searching out our roots and helping to give context to our faith. May the L-RD bless them with wisdom and discernment.
May we always remember that we are not alone. There are multitudes of small fellowships throughout the world returning to the ways of Torah and the faith of our Messiah. Bezrat Hashem (with the help of the L-RD) we will never stop striving to find our way back to where we belong.
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