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[Today is Tishri 1 - Rosh Hashanah ("Head of the Year");
Bible reading: Gen. 21:1-34; 1 Sam 1:1-2:10; 1 Thes. 4:13-18]

Bible Prophecy Research
Jewish Feasts & Festivals Study: Rosh HaShanah
Submitted by: research-bpr@philologos.org (Moza)
Date: Sep, 1998
URL: http://philologos.org/bpr/files/Jewish_Feasts/js002.htm

Rosh HaShanah

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month,
shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy
convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer
an offering made by fire unto the LORD." (Lev 23:23-25)

The seventh Hebrew month is called Tishri which corresponds to
September/October. Tishri is also the first month on the Jewish civil
calendar.

The following are all the different names used to describe the first
day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar:

Rosh HaShanah (New Year)

Yom Teruah (The Day of the Awakening Blast or The Day of the
Awakening Shout)

Feast of Trumpets Yom HaDin (Day of Judgment)

Yom HaZikkaron (Day of Remembrance)

Yom HaKeseh (Day of the Hiding or Hidden Day)

This feast is celebrated over two days because of the difficulty in
olden times of making sure that everyone marked the new moon on the
same day. To make sure nobody missed it, two days were appointed.

Tradition states that this is the birth day of Adam (could the second
Adam, Jesus, have been born on the same day?).

One of the symbolic references to this day corresponds with the fact
that when a King begins to reign he is heralded with trumpets. On
this day, trumpets are blown all day long (some commentators say 100
times).

The gates of heaven are supposedly opened on this day.

The resurrection of the dead will take place on Rosh HaShanah
according to the Talmud, (Rosh HaShanah 166).

Yom Teruah can be interpreted to mean "The Day of the Awakening
Shout."

[For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are
alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them
which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with
a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God:
and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet
the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore
comfort one another with these words. (1 Thes 4:15-18)]

There are three trumpets that have a name: the first trump, the last
trump and the great trump. Each has a specific day in the year: first
trump is associated with Pentecost, last trump is associated with
Rosh HaShanah and the great trump is associated with Yom Kippur.

[In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and
we shall be changed. (1 Cor 15:52)]

"When the Shofar is blown on Rosh HaShana, three different types of
noises are sounded. The first is a 'teki'ah.' This sound is one long
continuous burst. The second sound is called a 'shevarim.' It
consists of three shorter blasts. The third sound is the 'teruah.'
The teruah is a set of nine short bursts of sound, a staccato blast.
The Gemora in Rosh HaShana tells us that these later two sounds are
meant to sound like crying: '. . . drawing a long sigh. . . uttering
short piercing cries.' The Ben Ish Chai writes that these sounds are
meant to contrast with the tekiah. The tekiah, he explains, is a
sound of triumph and joy, while the shevarim and teruah are sounds of
pain and suffering. Because of the opposing feelings they represent,
when one blows the shofar, he is not to connect the tekiah with the
others, by blowing the sounds with the same breath."

This is the only day in the whole year that was referred to as the
hidden day or the day that no man knows.

[But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of
heaven, but my Father only. (Matt 24:36)]

The trumpet is blown throughout Elul (the month before Rosh HaShanah)
except for the last day. The trumpet is silent because much about
Rosh HaShanah is concealed and shrouded in mystery and Satan is not
to be given notice about the arrival of Rosh HaShanah.

One custom for this day is to avoid sleeping, especially during
evening and morning hours.

On this day you are to bow, bend the knee and prostrate yourselves in
awe and thanksgiving. This is unusual as Jewish custom does not
include many instances of kneeling or prostration.

"Three books opened - that of life, for those whose works had been
good; another of death, for those who had been thoroughly evil; and a
third, intermediate, for those whose case was to be decided on the
Day of Atonement (ten days after Rosh HaShanah on Yom Kippur), the
delay being granted for repentance, or otherwise, after which their
names would be finally entered, either in the book of life, or in
that of death."

[He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and
I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will
confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. (Rev 3:5)]

The customary greeting for Rosh HaShanah is--"Shanah tovah tikatevu"
("May you be inscribed [in the book of life] for a good year") and on
Yom Kippur--"Chatimah tovah" ("[May you have] a good sealing [of your
destiny in the book of life]"). Tradition states that on Rosh
HaShanah "God opens the heavenly books and judges the people
according to their works, writing in them who will die and what kind
of life the living will enjoy during the coming year. The Ten Days of
Penitence (Rosh HaShanah through Yom Kippur) are thought of as
offering an opportunity for repentance that will influence God to
change these fates for the better. But on Yom Kippur these fates are
fixed or 'sealed.'"

[And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books
were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life:
and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in
the books, according to their works. (Rev 20:12)]

The following is one of the prayers in the liturgy on Rosh HaShanah:

"We will celebrate the solemn holiness of this day, how awesome and
fearsome it is. On this day your rulership is lifted up, your throne
is established in mercy, and you sit upon it in truth. Truly you
alone are judge, arbiter, discerner, witness, recorder, sealer,
inscriber and reckoner; and you remember all forgotten deeds. You
open the book of records and it reads itself, and everyone's
signature is there.

"The great shofar is sounded, the still small voice is heard, and the
angels tremble with fear as they procalim: 'Behold! The Day of
Judgment!' Even the armies of heaven are to be brought to judgment,
for in your sight even they are not innocent. You cause all who come
into the world to pass before you like a flock of sheep. Like a
shepherd seeking out his flock and causing them to pass under his
staff, you cause every living soul to pass before you; you count,
reckon and review every creature, determining its lifetime and
inscribing its destiny.

"On Rosh HaShanah it is inscribed, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed:
how many will pass away and how many will be born, who will live and
who will die; who will die prematurely and who will live out his
days; who will perish by fire and who by water; who by sword and who
by wild animals; who by hunger and who by thirst; who by earthquake
and who by plague; who by strangling and who by stoning; who will
have rest and who will wander about; who will be at peace and who
will be tormented; who will be at ease and who will be bothered; who
will become poor and who will become rich; who will be brought low
and who will be raised up."

Taken from: Hebraic Heritage Ministries
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2175/index.html

Greg Killian
http://members.aol.com/gkilli/home

The Temple: Its Ministry and Services by Alfred Edersheim
http://philologos.org/__eb-ttms/default.htm

Yom Tov - Project Genesis: Torah on the Information Superhighway
http://www.torah.org

Jewish New Testament Commentary
by David Stern

The Four Freedoms

Four historical freedoms are mentioned by Rabbi Eliezer in connection
with Rosh Hashana:

1.On Rosh Hashana it was Divinely decreed that the long barren Sarah,
Rachel and Chana would bear children.
2.On Rosh Hashana Yosef was released from prison.
3.On Rosh Hashana our ancestors in Egypt were released from their
work as slaves.
4.In the month of Rosh Hashana -- Tishrei -- the final redemption of
our people will take place.

The source for all these freedoms is the shofar. Just as the sound of
the shofar on Yom Kippur of the yovel year signals the freedom of
Hebrew slaves, so does the shofar blast on Rosh Hashana every year
signal freedom from the evil inclination which causes man to sin.

Freedom from the power of evil is the wellspring for all of the
aforementioned four freedoms. Human bondage is not limited to chains.
Physical handicaps, political oppression and economic dependence are
all forms of bondage. It was only natural then that on Rosh Hashana,
the day of freedom from sinful desire, three great women should be
released from the physical handicap of childlessness. This pattern is
repeated with the release from political oppression, expressed in
Yosef's release from prison in which he was so unjustly incarcerated.
It reaches national proportions when our ancestors are released on
Rosh Hashana from the bonds of economic dependence on their Egyptian
slavemasters.

But the ultimate national freedom is yet to come, and it too will be
ushered in with the sound of the shofar. "And it shall come to pass
on that day the great shofar will be blown" (Yishayahu 27:13). This
is the sound of the shofar which will mark both the end of Israel's
subjugation to other nations and human subjugation to the temptations
of evil.

(Rosh Hashana 11a-b)

See also: Trumpet Judgments

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Subject: [BPR] - Thousands of Palestinians clash with Israeli troops
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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 12:14:21 -0400

Thousands of Palestinians clash with Israeli troops

                 September 30, 2000
                 Web posted at: 5:14 a.m. EDT (0914 GMT)

                 In this story:

Palestinians accuse Israelis of 'religious war'

Israeli border guard killed

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Thousands of Palestinians clashed with Israeli
soldiers across the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem on Saturday.

Scores of Palestinians were injured by Israeli fire. Black smoke from burning
tires rose into the air and streets were littered with rocks as helmeted Israeli
troops fired rubber bullets and some live rounds at demonstrators.

Palestinian Cabinet members had designated Saturday a day of mourning
after a deadly clash between Israelis and Palestinians on Friday. U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan had urged the region's leaders to try to end
the violence in Jerusalem.

"He expressed his concern over the recent violence ... and urged the leaders
to do everything they can to reduce tensions, restore security and continue
to work towards a peaceful settlement of the remaining issues that divide
them," U.N. spokesman Fred Eckhard said.

Annan on Friday telephoned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to express his concern about the violence
that has followed Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon's visit to the holy site
that the Jews call the Temple Mount.

The Muslims call the site Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary.

Sharon's visit on Thursday, which included a group of Israeli legislators,
triggered two days of clashes that have claimed at least four lives and left as
many as 200 people injured.

Earlier Friday, the Palestinian Cabinet, which met in Ramallah, announced
Saturday would be a day of mourning. Friday's violence had erupted after
Muslim noon prayers at the holy site.

The site became a bloody battlefield as rock-throwing Palestinians and
Israeli police armed with rubber- coated bullets clashed in the hours leading
up to the Jewish New Year.

Earlier, an Israeli soldier was killed in the West Bank city of Kalkilya, and
violence spread across the region throughout the day.

It was the second day of violence in the ancient city, spurred by the failure of
the Mideast peace negotiations to resolve one of the most contentious of
issues: the final status of Jerusalem and the sacred sites within its walled
Old City.

The site is home to Judaism's holiest site, the Western Wall of the biblical
Temple, and two mosques -- Al Aqsa and Dome of the Rock -- that mark the
spot where tradition has it that the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven.
 

The Palestinians want east Jerusalem as the capital of their state, while the
Israelis demand that the city remain undivided and under their control. As for
the Temple Mount, neither side will grant the other sole control, and both are
uneasy with shared control.

Palestinians accuse Israelis of 'religious war'

Friday's mayhem apparently began shortly after the noon Muslim prayers
when Palestinian youths began pelting Jewish worshippers at the Western
Wall -- the only remaining portion of the Temple, torn down nearly 2,000
years ago and Judaism's holiest spot.

The Palestinians also hurled rocks at Israeli police who at first huddled
behind long plastic shields and then fired the rubber-coated bullets. Police
sources said some snipers used live ammunition, targeting protesters they
identified as endangering the lives of police officers.

Israeli police said a sermon during the afternoon prayers incited the
Palestinians to violence, while the Palestinians blamed the Israelis.

"What happened is a pre-planned massacre," said Palestinian peace
negotiator Ahmed Qureia. "It is proof that Israel should not have a security
presence in Jerusalem."

A round of violence on Thursday at the same spot followed a visit by Sharon,
the hawkish Likud Party leader. His visit was interpreted by some
Palestinians as an act of "religious war."

Sharon, following Friday's violence, said on CNN that "Israel cannot afford
that an Israeli citizen will not be able to visit part of his country, not to speak
about the holiest place for the Jewish people."

Israeli border guard killed

Tear gas and more rubber-coated bullets stopped stone-throwing Palestinian
protesters at the entrance to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, held sacred
by Christians as the site of Jesus' birth. At least three protesters were
wounded.

More clashes erupted near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in Gaza, not
far from a spot where two bombs killed an Israeli soldier and wounded
another earlier this week.

In east Jerusalem, Palestinians burned at least two Israeli vehicles and
hurled three firebombs at a Jewish seminary.

The conflicts underscored the precarious nature of the Mideast peace talks,
which have already passed a September 13 deadline that was to have seen
an agreement on Jerusalem and the establishment of the Palestinian state.

The Palestinian council voted just before the deadline to delay the statehood
declaration, hoping that the two sides could come up with an agreement
satisfactory to them both.

CNN Correspondent Jerrold Kessel, The Associated Press and Reuters
contributed to this report.

Video clips available

http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/09/30/israel.violence.02/index.html

From: moza@butterfly.mv.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Killer fever claims more lives in Saudi Arabia
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Killer fever claims more lives in Saudi Arabia

Saturday, September 30, 2000
 http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2000/09/09302000/reu_fever_32079.asp

Saudi Arabia said today that five more people have died from Rift Valley
Fever, raising to 74 the official toll from the disease in the kingdom and
in neighbouring Yemen.

A Saudi Health Ministry statement, quoted by the official Saudi Press
Agency, said a total of 43 people there had died among the 201 who
contracted the viral disease which broke out around three weeks ago.

It is thought to be the first outbreak of the disease outside Africa, where
it originates. It is transmitted by mosquitoes or by human contact with
infected animals.

Yemeni Health Minister Abdullah Abdul Wali Nasher said Friday night that
there had been no new deaths in his country since Wednesday, when he put the
official toll at 31. Some 117 others had also contracted the disease.

"The situation is now under control," Nasher told state-run television.

The two Arab states, which are working together and with the help of
international experts and organisations to fight the disease, had earlier
said the disease had claimed 69 lives.

On Monday, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation said it had reports
of at least 74 deaths in both countries, while newspapers and local medical
sources had said that more than 200 people have died.

The Rome-based body has said it was the first known outbreak of Rift Valley
Fever outside Africa.

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Subject: [BPR] - A short history of biblical time
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Shophar_Sho_Good")
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 11:45:42 -0500

Face to Faith
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,375335,00.html

A short history of biblical time
Special report: religion in the UK

Mordechai Beck
Saturday September 30, 2000

A new year in September sounds like a lunatic idea, but September 29 2000
corresponds to the first night of the Jewish new year 5761, in years
numbered from the six days of creation described in the Book of Genesis.
The disparity lies in the sun and the moon. Whereas the west follows the
solar calendar of Christendom, and the Muslim world bases its calendar on
the lunar cycle, the Jewish rabbis fixed the Hebrew calendar between the two
cycles, thus establishing a means by which the annual, biblically-based
festivals would always fall roughly in the same time slot.

While the solar calendar (rooted in the circling of the earth around the sun
at about 292m miles a year) is 365 days in length, the moon takes about 11
days fewer to circle the earth in the same 12-month period. Ergo, in a short
time, the discrepancy would become acute and widen with each successive
year.

The specific problem addressing the rabbis of the Temple period was how to
square this with the biblical directive that Passover, which celebrates the
Israelites emergence from Egyptian slavery, was to be a "spring festival"
(Exodus 34:19). Since the moon-based month was central to the new nation, if
the lunar cycle was followed exclusively, Passover would gradually move away
from its biblical origins.

A further complication is that there is no calendar per se in the Bible.
True, years, months, weeks and days are mentioned in reference to special
occasions, and the commands relating to sabbaths and festivals. But except
for the odd hint, such as Passover falling in the "the month of spring" or
"the second month of Ziv", in the time of Solomon, and the reference to
certain months in the scroll of Esther, there is no systematised structuring
of time.

It was only with Rabbi Hillel, in the 3rd century CE, that the calendar was
finally formalised. Hillel lived two centuries after the destruction of the
second Temple (70CE) and the subsequent exile of the Jews from Israel,
(particularly after 135CE), and there was an obvious need to fix the Hebrew
calendar to help Jews remain united in the widening framework of the
dispersion.

In the time of the Talmud, (1st-5th centuries CE), there was even a
semi-secret committee, HaVa'ad Ha'ibur, which made the final pronouncements
affecting the times of the new moon and subsequent festivals.

Hillel's decisive calculations set for the next 1,700 years the shape and
form of the Jewish year, and, by the time the teenage Rambam (Moses
Maimonedes, 1135-1204) published his first book on the mathematical
equations underpinning the calendar, it had received universal accep tance.
Thus the Hebrew calendar, a rabbinic invention, played a major role in
unifying a wandering people.

Yet if the biblically-based calendar has Passover as its starting point,
what of Rosh Hashana, the new year? The answer is that there is more than
one new year in the calendar.

The Hebrew calendar is divided into two cycles - the months of Tishri to
Elul (roughly September to August) is a spiritual cycle, which begins with
the declaration that "today the world was born" and ends in "I am my
beloved's and my beloved is mine" - in Hebrew, an acrostic of the name of
the last month, Elul, expressing the longing to return to God.

Against this - exactly six months apart - is the cycle beginning in Nisan
and ending in Adar (roughly April to March), which focuses on the material
world, from the Exodus to the salvation of the Jews through Mordechai and
Esther from the hands of Haman and his cohorts.

While these two cycles are superimposed one upon the other, there is a
continuous tension between them. Whereas the spiritual cycle stresses ways
in which events and situations reoccur - day after day, year after year -
the material cycle underlines the uniqueness of events in historical time.
The former is based on the daily temple service, on sacrifice, prayer,
blessing the moon and the festival cycle; the latter highlights the
once-only events of Jewish history - the Exodus, the giving of the Torah on
Sinai, the stories of Hanuka and Purim and, latterly, of the Holocaust and
Israel's independence.

These cycles are clearly rooted in the equinoxes, identical with the spring
and autumn of the solar calendar. In this, they reflect the universal theme
of death and renewal. The sages thus assigned the spring equinox to the
people of Israel, and the autumn equinox to the whole cosmos, transforming
Rosh Hashana into a new year for all God's creatures.

Mordechai Beck is a journalist and writer living in Jerusalem

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Subject: [BPR] - Honduran Bible reading law provokes teacher fury
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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 11:48:24 -0500

Honduran Bible reading law provokes teacher fury
September 28, 2000
Web posted at: 10:59 PM EDT (0259 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/09/28/religion.honduras.reut/index.html

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Sept 28 (Reuters) -- Honduras' Congress has approved
a law forcing schools to have the Bible read out before class every day,
setting off a storm of protest on Thursday from teachers and even the
church.

Critics said the new legislation, approved by Congress on Wednesday, flew in
the face of the Central American nation's Constitution, which states that
education must be secular.

Even the Catholic Church, to which 95 percent of Honduras' 5.5 million
people belong, slammed the measure as a return to mediaeval times.

"In Honduras, education is secular and we can't just ignore the
Constitution," said father Ovidio Rodriguez, deputy to the Archbishop of
Tegucigalpa.

"It's our task to announce the reign of Jesus Christ, but we can't invade
all areas because, in a plural society, respect for freedom of conscience
prevails," he added.

The law, approved by a majority in the 128-seat Congress, states that the
Bible must be read out loud at schools every day 10 minutes before the start
of classes.

Teachers fumed. "This is a step back in the advances in education that we
have made," said Arnaldo Pinto, President of the Federation of Honduran
Teachers Association (FOMH).

Coritza Diaz, another FOHM leader, said teachers would not comply with the
new law.

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Subject: [BPR] - Headlines re: Israel (9/29-30/00)
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Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:11:14 -0400

Headlines re: Israel

Sep 30, 2000
     13:00: Three more Palestinians die in clashes, raising Saturday toll to 12
     12:30: Egypt fears Palestinian-Israeli violence could run out of control
     12:22: [P] 8 Palestinians Killed in Clashes
     12:20: Thousands of Egyptian students protest Israeli "massacre" in Jerusalem
     12:20: Israelis and Palestinians agree on ceasefire
     12:10: Arafat says Israelis "shoot to kill" Palestinians: Abdel Meguid
     12:00: Islamic body condemns Israeli "butchery" in Jerusalem
     12:00: Five Palestinians dead, hundreds injured in clashes with Israeli army
     11:50: Albright calls for halt to Isreal-Palestinian violence
     11:40: BEIT EL, West Bank - Israeli army, Palestinians declare
     11:30: Israeli army showing "maximum restraint": Barak
     11:00: Fifth Palestinian dies in clashes with Israelis
     10:50: Ambulance driver dies in Palestinian-Israeli shootout
     10:30: Palestinian refugees angered by Israeli "massacres"
     10:20: Syrian-based Palestinians condemn Jerusalem violence, want peace talks stopped
     10:10: Gaza residents seek fresh water as taps run salty
     09:50: Second Palestinian teenager dies in clashes with Israeli troops
     09:40: No peace without Jerusalem handover, Gulf papers say after bloodshed
     09:20: Mideast condemnation spreads over Israeli violence in Jerusalem
     09:10: Israeli soldier, border policeman slightly wounded in clashes
     08:40: Romanian universities examined in bogus diploma scam
     08:30: Palestinian demonstrators shoot at Israeli troops
     07:50: Hamas leader calls on all Muslims to defend Jerusalem holy sites
     07:30: Palestinians say one dead, 217 injured in West Bank, Gaza clashes
     07:00: London condemns violence between Israel and the Palestinians
     06:40: Arafat arrives in Egypt amid continuing Palestinian-Israeli violence
     06:20: Fifteen Palestinians injured in clashes with Israeli army in Bethlehem area
     06:10: Twenty-five Palestinian youths injured by Israeli army fire in Gaza Strip
     05:40: Israeli Arab among Palestinians killed in Friday Jerusalem clashes
     05:20: Six Palestinian demonstrators lightly wounded in Hebron clahes

Sep 29, 2000
     22:40: Annan urges Barak and Arafat to ease tensions in Jerusalem
     20:40: Violence in Jerusalem: President Clinton could intervene
     20:00: Islamist group threatens revenge against Israel for Jerusalem deaths
     20:00: Palestinians say seven dead, 220 hurt in Jerusalem clashes
     19:40: Peace process further threatened as Israelis, Palestinians killed
     19:40: Egypt blames Israel for "bloody events" in Jerusalem
     19:00: Palestinian minister accuses Barak of "premeditated crime"
     18:30: EU "extremely worried" by violence in Jerusalm
     18:20: Five German tourists injured by Palestinian stone-throwing in Jerusalem
     17:20: Kofi Annan calls for "restraint" between Israel and Palestinians
     17:06: [P] 4 Palestinians Dead Following Clash
     16:50: Sharon's Israel Trip Criticized
     16:40: Albright speaks to Arafat, Ben Ami after Temple Mount violence
     15:40: Bruised and bloodied, Palestinians point finger at Sharon
     15:00: [P] Five Palestinians die in Temple Mount clashes, over 200 wounded
     15:00: Barak says further effort necessary to reach agreement with Palestinians
     12:06: Barak says Temple Mount clashes result of Palestinian incitement
     11:30: Israel holds up entry of turbines to Gaza after bomb attacks
     11:00: Israeli dies following shooting in West Bank
     10:10: Two killed as Israelis, Palestinians clash in Jerusalem mosque compound
     09:40: Two Palestinians killed in Jerusalem mosque compound clash: Palestinians
     09:00: Netanyahu would beat Barak in election: poll
     08:20: Yasser Arafat condemns anti-Israel attack in West Bank
     05:30: Lebanese bishop appeals to compatriots to return home from Israel
     04:40: Two Israelis wounded in West Bank attack by Palestinian policeman

From: moza@butterfly.mv.com

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Subject: [BPR] - Free Virtual Old Jerusalem CD ($6.95/$9.95 shipping)
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 17:04:59 -0400

Free New Year's CD

                   A Happy and Healthy New Year From TES
                       For all of your Judaic software needs...

 Virtual Old City Jerusalem
 Full 360 Degree Panoramic Technology!
 The next best thing to being there...
 Ages: 12-Adult
 Media: CD-ROM
 Version: Windows 95 and higher, Mac OS
 Online Price: FREE! (Regular Price: $39.00)

 How to Get Your Free CD

      To order simply click on the Add To My Cart button above.
      One Free CD per household.
      For USA delivery select 'USA Standard' shipping ($6.95).
      For Israel delivery select 'Israel Standard' shipping ($6.95).
      For International delivery select 'FREE CD ONLY International' shipping
($9.95).
      To order additional products click on 'Continue Shopping' before
checking out.
      Orders with additional items will receive priority in shipping.
      International Orders with additional items, select shipping method based
on location.
      Please allow 2-4 weeks for delivery.
      Offer ends October 31, 2000.
      Box not included.

 About the Program

 If you never visited Jerusalem this is a must have CD, if you are planning to
visit, this will make your trip many times more enjoyable,
 and if you ever visited Jerusalem, this will bring back a flood of memories...

 I know I live in Jerusalem, and this is as authentic as it gets. Over the years
I've explored every corner, and every corner has it's own
 charm and deep history.

 This CD takes you there, every shaded lane and stone alley. Nothing is
overlooked, and everything is explained... and you are in
 complete control...

 Go ahead - look up, down, behind you. Turn down that little alleyway in the
marketplace, or step into that historic synagogue. Zoom
 up close, or back-up to get the fuller picture...

 This is not a video... I've seen just about every video... This is much better, It
is 3D up close... This is panoramic... Listen to the
 sounds of the places you visit. You can almost taste the falafel and as you
mingle with the bustling traffic at the Damascus Gate.

 Didn't you ever wonder... what is going on, on the other side of the Western
Wall? Or don't you want to see what's down that cool
 dark alley... Well now with this CD you can.

 What's more is you can even set up your own pictures with the special HOT
SHOT technology that comes with this CD. That's right
 you can even compose save or print your own pictures in full color.

 So go at your own pace... Discover the past... Come home to Jerusalem.

 Features

      Interactive 3D tour of Jerusalem...
      Historical explanations given at all sites...
      Ability to see everything in 360 degree panoramic vision...
      Enter the Old City by choosing Gate or through the interactive map.
      Authentic portrayal of each quarter in the Old City...
      Ability to ZOOM in on any picture...
      Compose your own photo shots...
      Print or save any picture...
      Indispensable tool for learning about and experiencing this special place
on earth, Jerusalem...

 Sponsors
The Jerusalem Post Internet Edition
Virtual Jerusalem.com
Arutz Sheva International News
Shamash

http://www.jewishsoftware.com/freecd.htm

From: moza@butterfly.mv.com

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