Chag Pesach Sameach - Happy Passover from Sephardim Hope International

Happy Passover 2013

Chag Pesach Sameach

From Sephardim Hope International

Shalom!

Chag Sameach Pesach!

What exciting times we are living in! We are getting ready to celebrate our beautiful home Seder soon! We are also helping in doing other community Seders and be with our Jewish community Seder family! We are looking forward to sharing this special season of our deliverance.

Hag Sameach from our home in the South Bay of San Francisco!

Happy Pesach

And this day shall become a memorial for you, and you shall observe it as a festival for the L-RD, for your generations, as an eternal decree shall you observe it. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove the leaven from your homes ... you shall guard the unleavened bread, because on this very day I will take you out of the land of Egypt; you shall observe this day for your generations as an eternal decree. - Exodus 12:14-17

Reflections on Pesach 2013

Passover, or Pesach, begins on the 15th day of the month of Nissan (E'rev Pesach March 25th this year, lasting for 8 days in diaspora until sundown of March 31st).

Passover is the first of the Spring Feasts, followed thereafter by Shavu'ot, fifty days later---for the giving of the Torah! Pesach also represents the firstfruits, or beginning of the barley harvest in Israel. Below is our heart warming home video put together by our son and our grand-daughters' participation! Thanks Grandpa!

Passover Explained in 3 Minutes.flv with our family!

Passover recounts our Hebrew people's freedom and deliverance from Egypt after 400 years. When a new Pharaoh arose "that did not know Joseph", our Hebrew people went into slavery. Ha Shem raised Moshe as a deliverer, along with his brother Aaron to help in this mighty exodus from Egypt. This brought not only plagues to the Egyptians, but a mighty parting of the Red Sea of deliverance! Miracles and manna followed!

Probably the most significant observance related to Pesach involves the removal of chametz (leaven) from our homes before the Feast begins. We are working at home on this commanded mitzvah. This commemorates the fact that when the Jews left Egypt in a hurry, they did not have time to let their bread rise, hence the use of matzah!

(See Sephardic Passover Customs )...good thing we like rice and corn products and lots of matzah!

This season of our deliverance is also a symbolic way of removing the "leaven of the heart" (arrogance, pride) from our own soul realm. May kindness and faith increase in our lives. Forgiveness is also a powerful virtue.

As the B'nai Anousim continue to awaken, our emails are getting more frequent, with questions from all over the world. Our people are crying out for deliverance from their lost identities. Ha Shem continues to be our strength and help. More and more are making aliyah! /Baruch Ha Shem.

Thank you for sharing in this very special time of our people. There is a new government coalition now in Israel. May Aliyah continue and increase to the Negev!!! we pray for favor and more educational opportunities. May more Jewish communities reach out to their lost brethren, ready for their return.

Thank you for your support of SHI, for purchasing our music, downloading and purchasing our new book! Many are taking their DNA tests! (see link below for this)

Thanks for inviting us to come to share, sing, encourage and for your prayers to Ha Shem for us. You are dearly appreciated as we stand together for our people.

Anusim Awake! New Book!

Below is the link to our new book. If you would like to be encouraged by its shared story, we invite you to go to our weblink!

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or you may order from BarnesAndNoble.com or Amazon.com

Music for the Jewish Soul:

Our educational website is available for articles and also music, links for aliyah information and also allows you to sample my music . We appreciate those who are downloading and purchasing music and offers. This helps us to keep going! Thanks for caring, sharing and writing!

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Check Out Our Website for DNA Testing Now!

If you are also looking for DNA testing to check for Jewish roots within your own family, we have partnered with FamilyTreeDNA and developed our own "SHI Group Project" where you can join and test your DNA for Jewish genealogical roots through this fine company. This company has now expanded even more!

There have been some extraordinary DNA matches in our SHI group and information can be accessed by ordering your DNA kit. This kit includes a swab...for the scraping of the inside of the mouth...for an easy collection of your DNA.

The "Anusim Names Project" will allow you to register your family name, some possible Jewish heritage history to add to our SHI data base and we try to answer all inquiries personally and promptly. Thank you for your support of this project as several hundred of you have registered.

So for now, stay well and blessed. Enjoy your families during this wonderful time of remembrance of freedom. As we say at the end of our Seder,

La Shanah haba'ah bi Yerushalayim!

(next year in Jerusalem!)

Loving Shalom,

Dona Gracia Serrano Fenn (Hannah Bat Yosef)

Sephardim Hope International, President

Awakening The Sephardim To The Negev! www.SephardimHope.org

Sephardim Hope International is a benevolent international non-profit organization to bring the message of the Sephardic Anusim Jews (the descendents of the forcibly converted ones) from Spain to the awareness of the world. This is a prophetic message of hope and part of the story of Biblical Zionism.

Sephardim Hope International is also a support to the nation of Israel working in partnership with other organizations bringing aid and comfort to Jerusalem and the Jewish people.

Sephardim Hope International is a tax-deductible 501 (c)3 charitable organization (pending) formed for the above purpose. Donate tax-free to help support Sephardim Hope International in this endeavor of education, benevolence and helping the B'nai Anusim to make Aliyah to Israel.

To donate by regular mail please use the address at the bottom of this newsletter. You may also donate securely on-line by clicking here. Or you may call (408) 422-5498 and ask for Drake Fenn to donate by phone.

Despertando a los Sefardies al Negev www.SephardimHope.org
Sephardim Hope International (La Esperanza Sefardita Internacional) es una organización caritativa internacional, sin lucro ni beneficio, formada con el propósito de que los judíos sefarditas de España hagan que el mundo entero despierten ante esta realidad, ya que este es un mensaje profético de esperanza y forma parte de la historia del sionismo bíblico.

Sephardim Hope International es al mismo tiempo un apoyo a la nación de Israel, que trabaja juntamente con otras organizaciones, trayendo ayuda y consuelo a Jerusalén, Israel y al pueblo judío.

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