Passages

On the first night of the Israel Impact Summit, we talked about what it looks like for Christians to engage thoughtfully with politics and the issues of our time. We can speak with conviction, listen with humility, and remain grounded in Christ. Jesus calls us to “seek first the kingdom of God” (Matthew 6:33). When that shapes our priorities, it shapes how we enter every conversation, including the difficult ones.

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A special moment for Passages: our CEO, Zach Bauer, was honored by the White Rose Society at our Israel Impact Summit, and we’re grateful to share the moment he received the award! We’re proud of his leadership and the work he does to help young Christians engage with Israel and build meaningful relationships with the Jewish people. Please join us in congratulating him!

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What an honor to celebrate 10 years of Passages in Washington, DC, at the Israel Impact Summit with our alumni and friends! 💙 We spent the weekend reconnecting, making new friendships, and having thoughtful conversations about faith, foreign policy, Israel, and more. We’re grateful to everyone who joined us to mark this milestone. Stay tuned for more moments from the Summit throughout the week!

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I watched an open-heart surgery in Israel—and it showed me a side of this country that rarely makes the headlines. I recently visited Save a Child’s Heart, an Israeli humanitarian organization providing life-saving pediatric cardiac care to children from around the world, regardless of nationality, religion, race, or financial circumstances. I watched Israeli doctors perform open-heart surgery on a child from Africa. I watched another little girl wake up after being extubated and smile sleepily at her parents, a Muslim family from the West Bank. When people talk about Israelis and Palestinians, humanitarian aid in Israel, or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stories like these are often missing. Sometimes the narratives you hear about Israel begin to look very different when you actually encounter the people who live here. I’ll never forget standing in that operating room and watching a child’s heart beat. Underneath the politics, the headlines, and the arguments online, there was simply a child on that operating table whose life mattered. And doctors in Israel were fighting to save it. ❤️

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More info and answers to each question below! ⬇️ 1. Trumpet Blasts In Leviticus 23:23–25, God commands Israel to observe the first day of the seventh month as a sacred day of rest marked by trumpet blasts. This feast is known in the Bible as the Feast of Trumpets. 2. The Seventh Month Leviticus 23:24 places the Feast of Trumpets on the first day of the seventh biblical month. This month, later called Tishrei, also includes the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. 3. The Most Holy Place Leviticus 16 describes how the high priest entered the Most Holy Place on the Day of Atonement. He could enter only once a year and had to bring sacrificial blood to make atonement. 4. Sent into the Wilderness According to Leviticus 16:20–22, the high priest confessed Israel’s sins over a living goat. The goat was then sent into the wilderness, symbolically carrying the people’s sins away from the camp. 5. A Bull Leviticus 16:6 and 11 says the high priest first sacrificed a bull as a sin offering for himself and his household. Only after making atonement for his own sin could he make atonement for the people of Israel.

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