Teaching Team
Out on a Limb
Tags: biblical calendar, fourth month, Jewish calendar, pagan origins, Rosh Chodesh, Tammuz
The name of the fourth month on the biblical calendar can make some people squeamish or uncomfortable. "Tammuz," as many of you know, is also the name of a Babylonian idol identified in Ezekiel 8:14-15. We went out on a limb this month on the eRosh and made a defense for the use of this name on the calendar; not out of any reverence for this false god, but to remember how we have sinned as a nation. As the oft quoted saying goes, he who does not learn from the past is doomed to repeat it.
Yet, we realize that for many, this explanation might be a hard pill to swallow. What we would like to know is: did you buy it? Or is it just off the mark? What do you think, is the use of the name Tammuz a good remembrance of the sins of our forefathers? Or is it simply leftover pagan syncretism?
Want to read more? If you did not receive the monthly eRosh, sign up for a free account at myffoz.org for access to these monthly resources.
Search in Blogs...
Browse through Blogs
Feeds
Use this RSS feed to track our blogs in your favorite reader.
The FFOZ Blogs RSS Feed
Blogs by Category
- Back Office
- Events and Administration
- Founder’s Blog
- Guest Authors
- Lessons from the Land
- Levertoff Documentary
- Mishlei Musings
- Publications
- Road Trip 09
- Shalom Tour
- Teaching Team
- The Siddur Project
- Torah Club
- Video Blogs
- Site Info Blog
Blogs by Author
- Aaron Eby
- Boaz Michael
- D. Thomas Lancaster
- FFOZ Staff
- Guest Authors
- Media Staff
- Hope Egan
- Seth Dralle
- Toby Janicki
More Recent Posts
- Remembrance and Repentance
- Passover and the Death of James the Just
- Hosting Your First Passover Seder
- Devil's Children
- Vacation Time
- Visit Israel with FFOZ
- A KISS from me to you
- Eating biblically? Let's chew the fat.
- Kosher Sunday School
- Messer and the Messianic Mess
