The first mitzvah the Jew were given as a nation , was to establish a Jewish calendar based on the monthly lunar cycle. Every month the High Court in Jerusalem would hear testimony from witnesses who saw the new moon, at which point the court would then establish the day as Rosh Chodesh - the beginning of the new month.
Today in the absence of the High Court in Jerusalem, we follow a perpetual calendar that was set some 2000 years ago. But even the calendar we use today still uses the same guidelines as our ancestors' calendar did, following the lunar calendar ensuring that all holidays occur at their appropriate times.
The reason the mitzvah to establish a calendar was chosen as the first of all 613 mitzvahs to be given to the Jewish people, is to remind us that mitzvahs are human activities. The only way to perform a mitzvah is by physically engaging with it, and only then does it have spiritual ramifications. We can't meditate on a mitzvah, we need to actually do it.
So with a calendar, G-d shows us how even the most spiritual activities of the Jewish people, such as observing the festivals set forth in the Torah, depend on human involvement. The new month must be determined by a human court, and so all of our mitzvahs must be as practical and down to earth as possible.
Shabbat Shalom
Dedicated by Edwardo and Marta Hanono
Thank you, because it is a joy to appreciate the affection and support received in the opportunity that the Almighty has given us by sharing and receiving instructions in the Synagogue through Rabbi Stephen Texon who listens to our faith to know and love our Lord according to the Torah.
Arriving at this immense and blessed house of the Lord has brought into our lives countless blessings that open the way for us to achieve our hopes and love for our friends, or rather our brothers in the faith that only Hashem taught us and led us here.
Through the Rabbi we received the helping hand who has guided us and taught us the best that we have learned in our Jewish faith, a person with special gifts, our Rabbi and guide Stephen Texon who with patience and dedication has taken us by the hand instructing us, calmly and apologizing for our mistakes or lack of knowledge.
I am here to say thank you to Stephen Texon, kind and patient Rabbi, who with great knowledge of what we must learn takes us by the hand teaching and guiding us, on every Saturday with his preaches and teachings, deliver his love and faith in our hearts to the greatness of out God.
Excellent Rabbi with a heart full of love and tenderness for those of us who seek faith and the world of our Torah.
Blessed is the Lord that brought us it this sacred place, with true friends and believers to be part of this beautiful family today and that only in the name of Hashem have we come to feel this love and happiness in our lives by reaching his preaching’s.
It is not easy, Rabbi Texon strives every week to bring us his messages, his opinions, his examples of faith and his love to this congregation; to Judaism that he passionately professes and gives him the fortitude so that every week his word arrives to educate us and achieve greater wisdom.
Today, we are gathered here to express with love and heart THANK YOU in capital letters, because we have the immense joy of celebrating together a date that cannot pass without saying to Rabbi Stephen Texon CONGRADULATIONS, and because we are together with you to say HAPPY BIRTHDSY to our teacher and Rabbi, to whom we are very grateful and on his day we are wishing him all the health, peace and prosperity that we know he deserved in the company of his beloved wife and all his loved ones….
From our hearts may his wishes always be fulfilled and may the Lord grant him the peace and wisdom that emanates from faith and a good heart. Thank you Rabbi Stephen Texon.
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