The tradition of honouring those who make the ultimate sacrifice begins with an apocryphal story linked to the festival
“And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of the hadar tree” Leviticus 23:40
“When a man has taken a bride, he shall not go out with the army or be assigned to it for any purpose; he shall be exempt one year for the sake of his household, to give happiness to the woman he has married” Deuteronomy 24:5
“Therefore impress these My words upon your very heart: bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead” Deuteronomy 11:18
“So the community leadership took him outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had commanded Moses” Numbers 15:6
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“When such a one hears the words of these sanctions, he may fancy himself immune, thinking, ‘I shall be safe, though I follow my own wilful heart’” Deuteronomy 29:18
“A land where you may eat food without stint (lo bemiskenut), where you will lack nothing” Deuteronomy 8:9
“This shall be the ritual for the metzora at the time that he is to be cleansed. When it has been reported to the priest, the priest shall go outside the camp” Leviticus 14:2-3
“And the chieftains bought lapis lazuli and other stones” Exodus 35:27
“Moses went out to meet his father-in-law; he bowed low and kissed him; each asked after the other’s welfare, and they went into the tent” Exodus 18:7
“And may they be teeming multitudes upon the earth” Genesis 48:16
“Then Jacob kissed Rachel and broke into tears” Genesis 29:11
“Noah, the tiller of the soil, was the first to plant a vineyard”, Genesis 9:20
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