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Shashtipurti is regarded to signify a bridge between the householder's domestic concerns and vanaprastha's (the third stage of life) spiritual yearnings. During vanaprastha , the married couple is to fulfill their life's mission by staying together through observance of celibacy. [ 5 ]
A jubilee is a special year of remission of sins, debts and universal pardon. In Leviticus, a jubilee year is mentioned to occur every 50th year(7x7= Lev 25 v8-NRSV); during which slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.
A Jubilee is often used to refer to the celebration of a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term comes from the Hebrew Bible (see, "Old Testament"), initially concerning a recurring religious observance involving a set number of years, that notably involved freeing of debt slaves.
The biblical rules concerning sabbatical years are still observed by many religious Jews in Israel, but the practices prescribed for the Jubilee year have not been observed for many centuries. According to current interpretation of Torah in contemporary Rabbinic Judaism , the observance of the Jubilee year only applied when the Jewish people ...
The birthday was the first joint event for Charles and Camilla, and according to the Guardian, writing in 1997, "It has been interpreted as an attempt to bring their relationship into the open.
Denzel Washington was baptized and earned a minister’s license ahead of his 70th birthday. Both occurred during a ceremony at the Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ in New York City on Saturday.
Pentecost (also called Whit Sunday, Whitsunday or Whitsun) is a Christian holiday which takes place on the 49th day (50th day when inclusive counting is used) after Easter Day. [1] It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles of Jesus while they were in Jerusalem celebrating the Feast of Weeks , as described in the Acts of ...
Shamanic teacher and spiritual healer Dr. Jonathan Dubois has studied hawk symbolism extensively. "The hawk is a magnificent bird, soaring up on the warm air currents and rising above to gain a ...