It is from the jewish calendar
207761
Issachar is one of the sons of Jacob not a month in the Jewish calendar. But you can check out http://www.jewfaq.org/calendar.htm for a listing of the Jewish calendar and it's Roman calendar equivilent.
10713
a portion of the torah.
362482
Jesus was both Jewish AND Israeli.
195428
Catholic religious holidays and feast days are pretty spread out throughout the year, not just in or near winter.\n\nI believe Jewish holidays are too.  Two of the major ones, Yom Kippur and Roshashana, are in the early fall.
544266
hold on... i've seen places where you can read some midrashim online... gotta find it though\n\nhere:\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tmm/index.htm\n\napparently adam and chava looked 20 when they were created :)
145205
No but some years back in San Francisco I saw a partial exhibit which included the whole scroll of the book of Isaiah. Awesome! It was laid out under temperature control ed glass. I cannot read Hebrew so I could not read it for myself.
241516
Jews use many books, but I think you are talking about The Tanakh.
193481
It means "Jehovah" in Hebrew.  Haven't heard of the song but would love to.
636597
http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm
383516
the holiday is called Sukkot. very cool holiday. it is on the 15th of tishri. you can read about sukkot here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukkot
444786
well I learn something every day, when I got married I didn't know any jews so didn't invite any to the festivities, but I suppose as Saturday is the sabbath, it could come into conflict with turning up at a church when they should be at the synagoge.  Now I do know a few jews and will ask them why not.  They are an honest crowd and will give me a truthful answer.................
193315
:}\nKlien is a Jewish name
256415
1st:  It's God's Sabbath, not the Jew's:\n\nExo 20:10  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God...\n\n2nd:  It was not established for the Jews but for man.\n\nMar 2:27  And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: \nMar 2:28  Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath. \n\n3rd:  Yes, A is the correct answer:  Lev 23:32  It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest... from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
565958
The current definition of the Jewish calendar is generally said to have been set down by the Sanhedrin president Hillel II in approximately C.E. 359. The original details of his calendar are, however, uncertain. \n\nThe Jewish calendar is used for religious purposes by Jews all over the world, and it is the official calendar of Israel. \n\nThe Jewish calendar is a combined solar/lunar calendar, in that it strives to have its years coincide with the tropical year and its months coincide with the synodic months. This is a complicated goal, and the rules for the Jewish calendar are correspondingly fascinating. \n\nLunisolar calendars use months to approximate the tropical year. Examples are the Jewish and Chinese calendars. Since 12 months are about 11 days shorter than the tropical year, a leap month (also called intercalary month) is inserted about every third year to keep the calendar in tune with the seasons. The big question is how to do this. A simple method is to just base it on nature. In ancient Israel, the religious leaders would determine the date for Passover each spring by seeing if the roads were dry enough for the pilgrims and if the lambs were ready for slaughter. If not, they would add one more month. An aboriginal tribe in Taiwan would go out to sea with lanterns near the new moon at the beginning of spring. If the migrating flying fish appeared, there would be fish for New Year's reunion dinner. If not, they would try their luck next month.
464338
Yom Kippur  is the Jewish holiday of the Day of Atonement. It falls on the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tishri, the seventh of the Religious Calendar. (Leviticus 23:27-28) The Bible calls the day Yom HaKippurim (Hebrew, "Day of the Atonements"). It is one of the Yamim Noraim (Hebrew, "Days of Awe"). The day is commemorated with a 25-hour fast and intensive prayer.\nclick here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur#Observances
93900
Gematria, a kind of Jewish numerology involving turning letters from the Bible into numbers
136823
The whole eight days are not Yomin Tovin, or holidays, just the first two days and the last day. His business was closed, you are not entitled to pay if the company was shut down. He is probably Orthodox or a very observant Conservative Jew. The same applies to Rosh Hashana, Shavous, Shemini Atzeres, Simcha Torah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot.