Month of Av
The Hebrew month of Av (or Menachem-Av, the consoler of Av) is the fifth of the twelve months of the Jewish calendar. The name Av means “father.” It derives from the root which means to will or desire.
Religious beliefs and practices
News, articles, and daily documents on religions, beliefs, and practices in the mystical and spiritual realm.
Bein HaMetzarim The Three Weeks
We call the three weeks that fall between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av (Saturday, July 16, 2022, to Saturday, August 6, 2022) the days of narrowness. From the sunset of Saturday, July 16, 2022, to Saturday, August 6, 2022, begins three weeks in which the Shechinah withdraws and the Light reaches us in its maximum intensity.
Hanukkah Festival of Lights
Jews around the world celebrate Hanukkah, or the Feast of Lights, which begins tonight with the lighting of the first candle of an eight-branched candelabra and the tasting of traditional sweets called Sufganiyot.
Patron Saint Festivities in Maracaibo
The International Fair of La Chinita is an annual celebration that awakens a social, spiritual and human interest of unparalleled transcendence. Travel back in time to 1921 when the Zulia Corporation for the Coronation of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá was established and construction work commenced on the modifications of the Chiquinquirá Basilica
Saint Martha of Betania
Martha was the sister of Mary and Lazarus and they lived in Bethany, a small town about four kilometers from Jerusalem, near the Mount of Olives. Jesus lived in Galilee but when he visited Jerusalem he used to stay at the house of these three disciples in Bethany…
Shabbat definition judaism
When the laws are learned profoundly and applied within a Jewish lifestyle, Halachah becomes not a restriction but a direction. And when coupled with the beauty of remembering, this pairing opens up a limitless world, a world of infinite depth and opportunity.