Jared Essig ben Noah made a $150 donation in honor of Yithro Cohen Midian
9 months ago
Last summer I pledged to donate to the Jewish community a $ amount for Sukkot and Jewish festivals, equal or greater to what I would spend on Edomite music festivals. Later that summer, the Almighty sent a rain that flooded the absurd "burning man" festival, in answer to prayers. For Sukkot I gave $200 to Rav Weisman, the mohelpdx.org, and now gift $150 to the Sabbath tent, in honor of psalm 150. "Kol ha neshama, tehalel Yah - Hallelujah!".
This is in gratitude for God's answer to prayer, and a sign to fulfill your role as "kingdom of priests" by bearing light to the gentile nations, to give thanks to the Eternal One on the Harvest festival, since the prophecy is that all nations will do this in Jerusalem someday. For Jews, there are additional commandment to dwell in a Sukkah as a memorial of the exodus, which is not required for Noahides, God-fearing gentiles, but which gives you an opportunity to bear this witness, and to teach them their part of the Hallel songs, ("Let those who fear God say ..."), and to teach them to abandon the Egyptian and Roman inspired idolatry and immorality that is still widespread in the world today.
Only after you draw people to the holy festivals of Shavuot Sukkot, should you bother to go out to the idolatrous festivals to call people to repentance. Please use the money for biblical festivals and for new moons, and teach non-Jewish spiritual seekers the seven Noahide laws. If I go to any of these idolatrous festivals this summer, like Oregon's County Fair, it will be to do this, proclaiming that I'm "GRATEFULLY ALIVE", and nullifying the deadheadedness, absurdity , and unnatural stupidity that takes root in these places. May we all have success in getting through these dire straits, preparing for Elul, and completing our teshuva.
B'hatzlacha,
גרעד בן נח