What's the name of the sandstorms that comes before Passover in Israel?
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Hamsim.\nThe name comes from 50 (in hebrew: Hamishim).  The winds are "supposed" to blow 25 days in the spring and 25 days in the fall.
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Air currents will certainly transport small sedimentary grains.  Dry clay particles are small enough to be held in suspension by the wind.  Sand grains can be moved by a process known as saltation: bouncing grains along the ground or over other grains.  It is by this process that sand dunes migrate.  A storm will move tons of material in this way.  \n\nAs sand grains are moved, they bounce and chip against each other and any exposed rock, breaking off small fragments and rounding the grains in their turn.
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There's lots of stuff blowing up from lots of places.  Dust storms in the Sahara desert blow tons into the Atlantic ocean.  Volcanos in the southwestern Pacific will color the North American skies.  The atmosphere has a lot of currents.  The jet stream is one, prevailing winds are another.\n\nThe earth has bands of atmospheric rotation.  I live in a zone called the prevailing westerlies.  Most of the winds tend to flow in a west to east direction.  If you are in North America, that Scandinavian pollen will have traveled the width of Asia, at its widest, raining down all along the way.  This shows the global nature of this zone of air flow.\n\nSomethings are simply too big for those zones to contain, in 1883 when Indonesian volcano Krakatoa exploded, its ash was seen in England.  May I suggest an article by Timothy Miner in the May 1, 2003 issue of Flying Safety.  Not all pollen, dust, pollutants travel that far.  Some are not as aerodynamic as others, and sometimes winds are not as strong when the pollination is taking place.  Still, there are times when smoke, ash, pollen, and other things can travel long, long distances when they are usually confined to very short areas.\n\nIf you have ever seen photos of great dust storms, consider that we call them sand storms, but the sand is only blowing up a very few feet from the ground.  Those enormous clouds of dirt are the dust the wind carries high into the air, taking them miles and miles away from their source, while the original sand the dust was shaken out of has fallen but a few fee from its original disturbance.  Pollen works that way too.
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Eiman \nhamza- ya'-mim-alef-noon\nإيمان
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The Hebrew letters would spell out yud shin vov ayin, actually. There might be a hay after that also, I'm not sure.
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Darude Sandstorm is an old trance record. Check out trance if that it what you are after\n\nOther tracks like sandstorm:\n\nFragma: Toca's Miracle\nWilliam Orbit: Barber's Adagio For Strings\nSasha & Darren Emerso: Scorchio\nJosh Wink & Lil' Loui: How's Your Evening So Far?\nTimo Maas: Der Schieber \nArmin: Communication \nWestBam vs. Red Jerry: Wizards Of The Sonic
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Leonids mid-November \nGeminids mid-December \nUrsids late December
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Ken. Gaarti b' aretz l' shne yomim.\n(Yes. I lived in Israel two years.)\n\nSalaam!\n\n...And many other countries.
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I don't know if they officially record them and I've never heard it called a 'haboob' here, but I would say that the giant dust storms you describe that produce a moving wall of dust hundreds of feet high and miles across occur in the Phoenix area about about once every two or three years.\n\nThey always occur in the summer during our monsoon period (late June through late August).  Most wind storms create some blowing dust (sometimes quite severe), but it is usually localized and there is no clear boundary where the dust ends.  \n\nBut every so often when the conditions are just right, a large storm front will sweep across the entire city and push a wall of dust before it that looks just like a giant brown ocean wave.  You can actually seen the boundary between the clean air and dust - it is kinda freaking looking.  A moment before it hits you, the air is clear and mostly still and then you are suddenly in high winds and visibility that requires headlights in a matter of seconds.\n\nAgain, I don't know any official statistics, but during my 15 years in the valley, I have probably seen it happen 4 or 5 times.
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yes i do. my family says three blessings while lighting them on the first night. the other nights we only say two because the third is a "first time" blessing.  we always put the hanukia in our window because it is a way we show the world the miricle that happened. i dont know exactly what is tradition or culture but we also make potato latkees (baked in OIL). we do get and give presents but that has no real meaning to hannukah. that happens because of assimilation. we play dreidal also. if you have ever seen one the four letters on it stand for "neys gadol hayah sham" that translates to "a great miricle happened there". the game is just for fun but you play for gelt. if you spin a "nun" nothing happens. a "gimel" you get all the gelt that is in the middle. a "hey" means you get half and a "shin" means you put one piece of gelt in. the songs are always fun to sing with family and friends.\n\nif you want to know more just search or "hannukah" "chanukkah" "hanuka" or any other spelling you know. the only real way is to write it in hebrew
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Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in all of Judaism, and was central to the kapparah (covering) of the sins of Israel. They placed a scarlet thread on the door of the temple. The scarlet thread miraculously turned white if Adonai (Hebrew for God of gods) accepted the sacrifice, thus indicating that He forgave the sins of the people. If the thread did not turn white, then they were sad, as their sins were not forgiven.
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Below is a good link to a lot of Jewish Calendars. It has a wide selection, some downloadable.\n\nhttp://www.nmmc.net/Guide/HebrewCalendars.html
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it might be sandstorm by derude
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Maher-shalal-hash-baz (Isaiah 8:1)\n\nmy dad taught me that when I was a kid and I never forgot :)
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Yes! It has been performed in Israel a few times. Artificial raining is performed by sending a plane into the clouds and 'seeding' them. You can find everything there is to know by clicking the source link below.
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Try these Links:\nhttp://preciousholidays.homestead.com/Passoverprep.html\n\nTHIS IS LIKELY WHAT YOU WANT.., just scroll down the page till you see "ROAST LAMB" This link is the Print Page so dont freak out should the Print Option pop up.\nhttp://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts+About+Israel/Israeli+Cuisine/The+Diverse+Israeli+Table+-+Part+6-+An+Abundance+o.htm?DisplayMode=print
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Sadly, your question neglects an important detail...\n\n...the Israelites were specifically allowed to choose either a lamb or a GOAT for Passover, both in Egypt and for later commemorations.\n\n(Exodus 12:5) The sheep should prove to be sound, a male, a year old, for you. You may pick from the young rams [male sheep] or from the goats.