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I just added a new product to our shopping cart: DAYS OF AWE: Jewish Holy Days, Symbols, & Prophecies for Latter-day Saints - by Gale T. Boyd.

The 300-page instant download is an excellent resource to help teachers and students better understand the many holy days, festivals, and covenants found throughout the Old Testament. This is a new 300-page edition (with 15 chapters and 14 appendices) — not just a reprint of the previously out-of-print 2002 edition. Also included are 20 pictures (clipart) from the book — at no additional charge.

Author Gale Boyd’s unique perspective (decades of research, an eight-year sojourn in Israel, and her own Jewish heritage) helps explain that the Exodus from Egypt was a walk through the Plan of Salvation — a 40-year Primary lesson taught by Jehovah to the Children of Israel. The Israelites were literally “learning by doing” every step of the way. The Lord ordained seven holy convocations as milestones for their literal and spiritual journey. These convocations, or high holy days, had the Temple at their center, and conveyed imagery that laid out the entire religious history and future of the earth. The Exodus and its milestones can actually serve as a guide, leading from the creation, to the mission of Christ, to the Second Coming — from the Old Testament to the New. These truths have become apparent to the author through

The book is also written with teachers in mind; it contains Family Home Evening presentations (song suggestions, activities, lesson materials, recipes, etc.) that can also be used during Seminary activity days.

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