He knows the beginning in the end and the ending in the beginning. Easter comes at different times every year because the crucifixion of Jesus, the Son of God, took place at the time of the Jewish Passover. The Passover dates are set by the Moon and the lunar calendar. Easter comes between March 21, the first day of spring, and April 25, when the time of the full moon comes. So Easter has both a solar calendar set by the sun (our own calendar), and a lunar calendar.

The Jewish day begins in the evening at sunset and ends at sunset, twenty-four hours later. The Jewish year has twelve months and thirteen in the leap year. The month has twenty-nine or thirty days. The new moon starts the new month.

Passover is in the month of Nisan, beginning on the 15^th day. It lasts for a week and a day, eight days. Nisan is between March 22 and April 22. The Latin and Greek word for Easter is Pascha. This is a form of the Hebrew word for Passover, Pesach, the Feast of the Passover, when the lambs were sacrificed in remembrance of Moses taking the Hebrew people out of Egypt, out of slavery around 4,000 years ago. The name comes from the angel's "passing over" the doors of the Jewish people and not slaying their first-born, only the Egyptians' first-born. The Hebrew people were delivered out of bondage then just as at Eastertime all people are freed from slavery to sin, through Jesus' sacrifice. I went to Sunday School at the Jewish temples in Urbana and in Baltimore. I knew that I was learning more about God and that in the Jewish religion we learn to love God more than we love anybody, but I knew that I didn't learn the ending.

Mommy went to the Eutaw Place Temple Sunday School when she was a little girl in Baltimore. I did too.

The beginning is in the Temple. The ending is in the church. We must know both. We shouldn't know one and stop and not learn the other. That is true of people in temples and synagogues and people in churches, both.

Mommy has learned all about the Holy Land, the Promised Land, and about the church in the beginning and the Tabernacle in the wilderness. She never thought about these things before, but now she can see them very clearly. She's lucky to have a wonderful new world of hope and knowledge and faith. She reads the Bible and history, believing in it with all her heart and soul and loving God.

She knows that in the beginning God knew the end. In the Christian churches, they need to know the beginning better, and in Jewish churches, they need to know the end as well as the beginning. Then they will all see how God started the whole plan way back in the days when Abraham first loved Him. The Bible tells us of all the promises God made to Abraham and how He has kept them. We must all read the Bible, for God spoke to the prophets because He wanted us to have the Bible.

The Temple has a round dome like buildings in the Holy Land. The dome on the State Capitol at Annapolis reminded me of these domes. They look like the circle of heaven inside when you look up at the ceiling way high above. The Rabbi says it encircles us the way the heavens encircle the earth, so we must think of God.

The beautiful lights on the alter are the seven lights God ordered for the tabernacle, to remind us to make the most of every one of our seven days and remember that God made the earth in seven days.

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