Shalom! What happens if someone is forced to break the Commandments? For example, if someone has to work on Friday or Saturday, is forced to eat non-kosher food, etc. I'm talking about extreme cases, in which there's no way out of this; yet, someone wants to observe the Torah of Moosheh (PBUH). Is there some form of dispensation? Can someone perform a certain prayer to exempt them? Does Shehmaa forgive them? I'm not talking about wilful disobedience. I'm talking about someone who can't physically follow the Torah because of a temporary, unintentional and forced situation?

I don't use Twitter much, but I like the new owner better than the previous ones. We don't have much activity here so I figured I'd try my hand at embedding a tweet to which I responded today. Might be a conversation starter, and I'm curious how this looks and works after embedded. https://twitter.com/wtleaver/status/1640785870000193536

Welcome [Josh2004194] to B’nei Moshe! Josh lives in Ecuador and embraces the Samaritan tradition. I forgot to ask how you found us?

I've recently realized that I failed to provide information for the new year in a timely manner! I plan to provide the corrected Samaritan calendar later today. I apologize for this delay! Update: I may not be able to calculate the entire calendar today, but I can provide the beginning of the year and passover dates: First day of the year: March 20, 2023 (sundown) Passover (Pesach): on April 2, 2023 (at twilight) Feast of Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMatzot): April 3 - 9, 2023 (begins and ends at sundown.) This year we (B'nei Moshe members) will be a month earlier than the erroneous Samaritan calendar which fixed the vernal equinox to March 25th, failing to take into account the drift of the vernal equinox earlier over the years (albeit very slowly.) Nowadays the vernal equinox falls between March 20th and 21st, and for this reason we begin the year at the first new moon after the true vernal equinox. See https://bneimoshe.com/blogs/20/The-Hebrew-Calendar for more details.

I came across an article recently about the Israelite Samaritans. The heading was called Samaritan Astrology. The article is called Stephen Huller's observations. Is anyone aware that the Samaritans do Fortune telling and palm readings and they have booths set near the mountain for that purpose. It mentions it in the article. Also there is a Samaritan Priest who offers all the Fortune telling services on his Facebook. Does anyone have any opinions in relation to this topic?