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I hope you are in good health. Thank you for a nice letter and for pictures. We have
new-born -- a little beautiful child, female, called Kitan.
Also thank you for your help and I hope you will write me more. I am very sorry to you
because I am late to answer your letter, but I have cause. I made accident when I rode motorcycle
with taxi. I slept twenty days in hospital, eighteen in my home because my leg winded. But now I
am all right. Thank my God, Jesus, now I work in the store. All my family send to you the warm
wishes. I shall send you picture of baby Kitan.
Sincerely,
Abu Saiim
Thank the Lord that another son of Abraham, though he was the son of Ishmael, son of a
beedwoman, came to know Jesus!
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APPENDIX
The Jewish high and holy days, feast days, or celebration days follow.
First, we must remember that the Jewish year is a lunar year, which is shorter than the solar
year by ten days and twenty-one hours. The year is divided into twelve lunar months of
twenty-eight or twenty-nine days each. Then, to equalize the difference between the lunar and solar
years, about every three years an extra month is added after the twelfth month, which is March.
This thirteenth-month year is the Jewish leap year. Just speaking of a regular year, the year 1972 in
the Jewish calendar is dated 5733. This is 5733 years from the time Moses began to record the
book of Genesis.
The first time in the year when there is visible joy and real celebration is during the Feast
of Esther in February The celebration starts at sundown, for the Jewish day starts at sundown and
ends at sundown the next day. It is called Purim, or the casting of lots. (Remember the story of
Haman.) In Israel Purim has taken on much of the same outward celebration in the streets as
Halloween has here. The children dress up in masks and unusual clothes. Some borrow their
mothers' clothes At purim every Jewish girl who goes to Hebrew school, spires to become Queen
Esther.
In March, usually about the same time as the Gentile Easter, comes Pesach, or Passover.
The first day of Passover in 1972 was the thirtieth of March. For seven days the Jews celebrate
their deliverance from Egypt by the hand of Moses, and for seven days they do not eat bread or any
food with leavening in it.
Following the Passover comes Shavouth, usually in May, the fiftieth day after Passover.
This is the Feast of Weeks. "And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat
harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end" (Exodus 34:22). For Christians, Shavouth is
the day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the upper room in Jerusalem.