Why Do We Light the Menorah, Wash Our Hands, etc.?

Kathy De Fever sings an ancient prayer over the lighting of the seven-branch candlestick, called menorah in Hebrew for “light.” Richard Agee explains the menorah and hand-washing symbols long-connected with God’s rest days, called Shabbat in Hebrew and transliterated as Sabbath in English.

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Kathy De Fever sings an ancient prayer over the lighting of the seven-branch candlestick, called menorah in Hebrew for "light." Richard Agee explains the menorah and hand-washing symbols long-connected with God’s rest days, called Shabbat in Hebrew and transliterated as Sabbath in English.

God makes appointments with His people throughout the year to teach important lessons about what He was doing and would do in the Messiah. [You can listen to an overview of these appointments in "Explanation of the Wedding Feast" or find out more about them here.] There is a weekly Shabbat (Genesis 2:3) and special rest days on certain of God’s appointed times, also called "feasts of the LORD" (see Leviticus 23).

Kahty lights the menorah as the kiddush table is ready with bread and wine.

In the above recording, Richard answers the question about whether hand-washing is just a detestable Pharisaical tradition, as some gather from Messiah Yeshua’s rebuke found in Mark 7:4 and in Hebrews 9:10. What the Pharisee sect was missing was Who was doing the washing and how, as taught in Isaiah 4:2-6, Titus 3:5-7, and Ephesians 5:25-27.