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Yes! I purchase most of my 100% cotton at Joann Fabrics, though the vintage material comes from various thrifted or gifted sources. My 100% linen is from fabrics-store.com.

Sure, so the Colossians verses are referencing two kinds of law: God's law and man's law. God gave us a law to follow, yet those with a Pharisaical heart will try to add to it with extras. That is what v. 20-23 are addressing and the Mark 7:19 verse also references this. The Pharisees were teaching that one must wash their hands before they eat and they were saying it was God's law that they do so. Yeshua got on them in Mark 7 saying that they were adding to the law with their own extras and that was not ok. The law God gave is easy to follow... Pharisees were and do add extra to make it harder. This is why Yeshua said His yoke is easy and His burden is light. His law isn't hard if we just do what He said... it's when we put on extras that it becomes too much. Regarding your question about Mark 7:19 specifically, we need to understand what God calls food. Anything that is unclean is not food. In our 21st century westerner mindset, we think of all meat as potential food so we say "unclean food" but they would say "unclean MEAT" or "unclean animals". The difference is in what God calls food. When Yeshua called all FOOD clean in this verse, He was referencing what they would know as food, but the entire story here is really about eating with unwashed hands. (Basically, He's saying you can eat anything that is food with washed or unwashed hands --- requiring people to wash first would have put a heavy burden on those who lived on the streets or were working in the fields, etc. Not a lot of "ceremonial washstands" out there! haha!) Back to Colossians, the verses in 2:16-17 refer to the Biblical holidays the people were newly observing instead of their old pagan ones. Remember, he's talking to the new church at Colosse --- a place full of pagan Roman gods and goddess worship, temples all over the place, statuettes of idols in every home... These new believers were setting aside all of that to follow in the ways of the "lowly Jews". It didn't go over well with their neighbors!

Well Yeshua is not saying that's the ONLY commandment... just that it's the greatest. He goes on to say that the law and the prophets hang on this truth: love God and love one another. Basically, every command God has ever given all comes back to loving either Him or each other (or both). This is why the law means nothing if we don't love each other. Doing the law for the law's sake is not enough --- we must only do it because we love our God, we love His Son, and we want to obey. Love first, law later. 🥰

@ Got it ! Thank you for taking the time to explain these things.

@@All_Things_Made_New Of course! I'm happy to share my perspective.

Hi! Yes, I believe Paul's encouragement to women to cover comes from the cultural practice of Jewish women to cover their heads. Again, never a command of God as far as we know --- but women were culturally doing this and Paul wanted to continue that within his churches. Regarding the way we should view Paul's writings --- yes, we should examine each of them and test them against what we know came straight from God's mouth. We can find God's instructions to us in the first five books of the Bible, but mainly starting about Exodus 12 through the end of Deuteronomy. If something Paul says (like women being silent in churches, or not teaching, or wearing coverings) can not be found in God's instructions, we know Paul is teaching something that is his own conviction. When we see that his teachings can be found in God's instructions, we know he is reiterating commands straight from God. Another reason why it is so great to be able to have all these instructions and teachings in one book --- we can reference the back to the front and vice versa. Hope this helps, friend!

@ oThankYou so much for explaining this to me as I have questioned paul from time to time but felt I was doubting God.Seems the church puts pails teachings above Gods teachings so thank you

@@All_Things_Made_New Unfortunately I do think that is the case. I've never seen Paul to be a false teacher. Everything he teaches seems to be either straight from God's words or things that are his own convictions. As long as we see Paul as a brother, a fellow human, we can reconcile his teachings with God's word. It's just like here on my channel --- I have things I prefer and so I encourage people to do them (homeschool if you can, avoid junk food, whatever...) but I will never say those are God's laws because they're not. Just good practices for some people... and, maybe not for others!

This means so much, thank you!! We are at Sukkot this week so I’ve been a little silent. I appreciate your prayers and friendship so much!

@@HopeCottage_Sarah I hope you are truly enjoying Sukkot! This is our first time celebrating the Lord’s Feast days and I have to admit it’s pretty lonely as there is nobody around us who agrees with us but we have really enjoyed it! We are on the East Coast and it’s tough.

I actually do think God gave Adam and Eve laws. We see this in the story of Cain and Abel, for example. Cain did not bring a sacrifice that pleased the Lord. Why? Because he did not bring the appropriate sacrifice --- the one God prescribed. He didn't care enough to do it right. In Genesis 4:7 God tells him that if he would do it right, he'd be accepted. If he does it wrong, he won't. This shows us Cain was aware of the right way to bring the sacrifice -- he was aware of God's laws about it. We see stuff like this in a few places in Scripture before we get to Sinai. The story of Noah is another place. He was to bring two of every animal but SEVEN of every clean animal. This shows us Noah was aware of the difference between clean and unclean animals. I don't think Sinai was the first time the people heard God's law. I think a lot of it was stuff they'd already been told in the past but had lost knowledge of while they were in captivity in Egypt. 😊

I'm so happy this channel is blessing you! Our Father is so good to show us His truth. ...and yes, those nuts on my roof are crazy!! Hahaha! Have a happy weekend, Sister!

Oh yes, that would make a lot of things easier to take if I could put them in pill form!

I'm so glad this encouraged you!

Hello! Sure, the reason is actually because He was keeping two of God's commandments found in Numbers 5 and Deuteronomy 24. You've heard that Jesus "drank the cup of God's wrath"--- this comes from the instructions God gave concerning unfaithful wives in Numbers 5:11-31. If a woman was accused of being unfaithful to her husband, she was required to stand before the priest and he would remove her head covering and require her to drink a bitter mixture of dirt, some kind of ink (see verse 23), and water. Verse 18 calls it the, "bitter water that brings a curse". If she was guilty, her belly would swell and her thigh would rot and she would become a curse among her people. We see several details that point to Jesus' death here --- drinking "the cup", the swelling and loss of function of body parts that would parallel what His body went through on the cross, the removal of the covering of protection (head covering here, Jesus' cry to God about forsaking Him just before His death) and just the entire idea of an adulterous bride being separated from her husband. When we say He drank the cup that was ours, or He took our sin upon us, this is what that is referring to. He stood in the place of the adulterous bride --- which was actually the punishment and curse we deserved as sinners who had turned away from Him. Deuteronomy 24:1-4 is the law concerning divorce. If a married couple divorces, and the woman marries another man but later divorces him or he dies, she can not come back and marry that first husband. (I'm not sure if this goes the same for men--- Scripture isn't clear here.) Before we accept Jesus' gift of salvation, we are that adulterous woman from Numbers 5. We are living in a state of being divorced from our first love. According to this passage, we are not allowed to come back into covenant with that husband, nor are either of us, neither us nor the groom (Jesus), allowed to remarry anyone until one spouse has died (Paul talks about that in Romans 7:1-4 and 1 Corinthians 7:39). So even though, in our sin, we were the ones deserving of death, Jesus drank the cup and died the death so we could be reunited. However, according to this passage in Deuteronomy, we aren't supposed to marry our old bridegroom. Therefore, we wouldn't be allowed to "remarry" Jesus (enter into a new covenant with Him). This is where miracles come in. The problem regarding the dead bridegroom that was impossible to remarry even if it was allowed is solved with the miraculous resurrection of Jesus --- now He is alive and can enter into a new covenant with… someone? The second problem regarding the fact that He can't remarry His old bride is solved with us being resurrected into new bodies --- being born again, a new creation in Him. Now we have a new bride marrying an eternal bridegroom in a future new covenant at the marriage supper of the Lamb! (See Revelation 19) For verses about our new, incorruptible bodies, see 1 Corin. 15:35-58; 2 Corin. 5:1-6; Rev. 20:4) Many say we are in a "new covenant" with Jesus and that's why we don't need the law anymore. But, we are not actually in that covenant yet. We are "engaged" to be married, but that marriage supper of Revelation 19 has not yet happened and can't happen until the bride of Christ has been resurrected together into new bodies as a pure and spotless bride who is no longer under that curse of Numbers 5. Others say He had to die to model the Passover lamb. However, Passover is not a sin sacrifice. Sacrifices can only be done by a priest, but anyone and everyone can kill a lamb for Passover as instructed in Exodus 12 and Leviticus 23. We call Him the spotless lamb as an allusion to the Passover lamb, but He's not actually modeling Passover in His death. He's modeling these two portions from God's law, showing us that He walked out God's commandments even in His method of death. Hope this helps! Have a happy day!

​@@HopeCottage_SarahWhat a detailed response! One I have never heard of in such this way. Thank you for sharing this important information.

It's so great when we find an alternative that works for us!

Torah PEOPLE are just that --- human, sinful, people; and just like in any other faith group or denomination, they can corrupt truth and give people a bad taste about following God. It seems like your bad experiences in this movement have not diminished your faith in God or Yeshua --- I'm so thankful for that and I'm so sorry you had such a rotten experience with people who should have been sharing truth. While I don't agree that Yeshua brought the law to completion or that we are no longer to follow it, I do agree that the heart relationship with Yeshua is the only way we are saved and is the most important thing to focus on. We are saved by the sacrifice of our Savior --- we just walk out the law because this is how we show we love Him. Blessings, Sister. I hope you are having a nice weekend!

Yum, that's a good idea!

We can do this!! Thank you for your prayers!

The first year I did the Advent thing, I just took out anything that wasn't actually Biblical. The next year I had a little more understanding and so I taught them about the Fall feasts instead and we did the candle lighting to go along with that. I don't have a resource to recommend as I made everything up but maybe I will publish what I wrote one of these days and make it available to everyone. Happy Yom Teruah!

@@HopeCottage_Sarah That would be awesome to share! I don't know why I'm so worried, part of getting away from man made holidays is getting away from all the demands and stress. How going broke and being stressed out by Dec 25th celebrates Jesus how!? Lol

@@KDBee-ri5hi Exactly!! 🤣🤣

Yes please! ​@@HopeCottage_Sarah

Yes, I agree! I need to be intentional about spending more time at home and working in more homemade snacks. Thank you for the encouragement!

@@HopeCottage_Sarah I wasn't telling you to do that! I was just telling my rule on it. I think you can do good with just bettering your choices. The rule of making it helps me cause if I don't want it bad enough to make it I don't need it....

@@Roehrtribe Oh yeah, no I didn't think you were. Just saying I agree and I have the same goal. 😊

These are great goals! Our Father is so good to take care of us! Thank you for the encouragement!

Oh that's wonderful! Ballet is so beautiful. Good for you!

You too, my friend!

I've been using sea salt for years but a friend of mine also mentioned the pink salt. I have a little shaker of it that I bought off Azure and was going to carry in my purse. I'm gonna go find it and put it in my purse now!

I'll put it in the description box and send it to you via messenger. It should have popped up at the very end of the video.

Todah rabah! (Thank you very much)​@@HopeCottage_Sarah

Thank you so much for the encouragement!

I'm so glad this blessed you! I'll be putting up videos for the other two Fall holidays this week.

This is my first year celebrating God's Holy Days. For Yom Teruah I will be celebrating by myself. My 2 adult children are in the wilderness and my husband just started a new job and doesn't get home until after dinner and doesn't like to eat a meal. So I'm navigating this solo ATM!

@@KDBee-ri5hi I hope it's a beautiful celebration for you! Sometimes YHWH wants to get us alone so He can share something with us. 🥰

@@HopeCottage_Sarah Yes, God and I had some nice time today. ♥️

How wonderful! I'd love to hear how it goes. Shalom, friend, thanks for visiting!