Weird dream

[graysparrow]

I had a dream in which they were about to kill me and so I took refuge in a room which was full of jewish people, playing some strange form of chess.

What was funny was that everybody knew I wasn't jewish but nobody cared.

Add to that that I have a sephardic family name.

[plum]

hehe dreams are funy things.

What do you mean by "sephardic family name?" you don't need to tell it to me (in fact, you probably shouldn't), but could you clarify what makes a name sephardic?

[Homesick4Heaven]

There are lists of Jewish surnames compiled by traditional Judaism. The Ash. Jews are from eastern Europe. The Seph. Jews are from Spain and Israel. It is just a way of knowing a bit about your family heritage and makes tracing your geneology a bit easier if you know about where your family came from. It also has a bit to do with the dialect your family may have spoken. The Yiddish dialect is Ash. as it combines Hebrew, German, Russian, and the likes in to one. The Seph. also have one using Spanish, Hebrew, and some Arabic but since we did not use it growing up I cannot remember what it is called. I know it starts was a L.

[stone]

I had a dream in which they were about to kill me and so I took refuge in a room which was full of jewish people, playing some strange form of chess.

What was funny was that everybody knew I wasn't jewish but nobody cared.

Add to that that I have a sephardic family name.

I'm curious, is there any more of it you remember?

I recall a dream i had a while back where i was walking through a large building in a city. The building looked as if it were under construction. As i walked through doorways and hallways i walked passed many jews. I saw some sitting in circles and speaking to each other in rooms, there were no doors.

I ran into an aunt of mine and a cousin of mine that is a pastor, he has a church in downtown San Antonio. We went outside the back, close to a road. I remember seeing a car parked in the middle of the road. I looked up and that's when i noticed that there weren't any windows on the building, or no glass over the windows i guess i should say.

How's your missionary work going?

[Sephania]

The Yiddish dialect is Ash. as it combines Hebrew, German, Russian, and the likes in to one. The Seph. also have one using Spanish, Hebrew, and some Arabic but since we did not use it growing up I cannot remember what it is called. I know it starts was a L.

Ladino. :)

[Homesick4Heaven]

Ladino. :)
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[Sephania]

I had a dream in which they were about to kill me and so I took refuge in a room which was full of jewish people, playing some strange form of chess.

What was funny was that everybody knew I wasn't jewish but nobody cared.

Add to that that I have a sephardic family name. I don't find that funny at all, Jews don't squeal on others, we know that many have risked their lives over the centuries to hid us from unprovocated pograms and other tortures and exterminations, so most ( you can never say all about any group) would do the same for another.

This game, was it a board game? did it have a lot of different looking peices?

[Homesick4Heaven]

I don't find that funny at all, Jews don't squeal on others, we know that many have risked their lives over the centuries to hid us from unprovocated pograms and other tortures and exterminations, so most ( you can never say all about any group) would do the same for another.

This game, was it a board game? did it have a lot of different looking peices?
I don't think he meant funny as i a joke, but strange as in something he had not experienced before. And there are some Jews that yell as loudly as possible about a believer in their midst. The ultra-orthodox are doing it daily in Israel to the MJs. The ones that are so blinded and consumed with hate would rat their own mothers out (happened in Nazi Germany. 100s of Jews worked withHitler to find Jews in hiding and turn them in).

[Sephania]

I understood he meant strange, and I also said 'most', I know that there are anti-semetic Jews out there, My mother is one. :(

[Homesick4Heaven]

My heart breaks at the way people feel they must treat each other. We are all God's creation and all equal, not one is any better than the other. The only difference is whether or not one belongs to God.

[Sephania]

So true. :(

But Shabbat Shalom to you!!:) :hug:














Edited for typo, still trying to get used to my new glasses. :doh:

[BrEnDiNo99]

ever have god answer a prayer through a dream?

[Homesick4Heaven]

Yes, my youngest son was named in a dream. I had prayed for 6 months for a name for him. I knew his middle name would be Andrew, but needed his first name. One night after about an hour of prayer and study, I drifted off to sleep with my head in the pages of TNK, and a small child (about 4 or 5) walked up and called me mommy. I did not recognize him and asked for his name, he replied, "Mommy don't you know me? I'm Joshua Andrew." He grabbed me and hugged me tight and as I touched his hair I awoke and knew it was a Divine Appointment. Thinking back, HaShem even gave me a glimpse of what he looks like now. It is the most precious of gifts He could have sent to me (next to eternity with Him and my children). I nearly lost my second one during childbirth and was terrified something would happen to Josh too, as I was already being watched and treated for perterm labor. I also took this as a promise of his safety.

[BarbB]

Yes. My husband died after being in a coma like state for 30 days. I missed him so much I wanted to die but God was regenerating me so wouldn't let me kill myself. Dave came to me in a dream and hugged me and said "goodbye". I could feel him; I could hear him and I could smell him - that wonderful smell he had. I know that God answered my prayer that I see him again.

Of course, now I know that I will see him again in heaven, but it was just what I needed at the time to have the courage to put one foot in front of the other!

[Homesick4Heaven]

Has anyone ever dreamed they were experiencing anything you knew was physically impossible?

[visionary]

I did not have a dream that was physically impossible but did have a series of dreams that prepared me for the death of my husband about three months before he died.

I was in shock when he died but the Lord carried me with "deja vu" reality of my dreams that I had been having, right down to the conversations. It was a comfort to know He prepared me, when I could not accept the finality.

My heart goes out to anyone who goes through the lose of a loved one. I would not wish it on anyone.

[Homesick4Heaven]

I was prepared in dreams for the death of my grandmother in December, and for my father's apology of his behavior towards me my entire life last summer. I also was given the chance to tell my grandfather I love him and to say goodbye in a dream after he passed away 8 years ago. After my grandmother's death, I asked Abba to show me she was at peace and happy finally and I dreamed they were with me in a rose garden walking hand in hand. They each waved and blew me a kiss and walked away. I know that was His answer and reassurance I needed at that time. I am also involved in a power struggle with my mother over grammy's will and Abba has used my grandmother's image in dreams to reassure me that I need to continue and be strong and carry out her wishes as I promised I would. There are just times I needed to talk to her and there she was in my dreams. It is a little hard to give up your best friend and confidant after 33 years, so I know it is probably just Abba working on my broken heart. But it really does make me feel so much better. Talking with her I know is physically impossible, yet I do in my heart.

But the past few weeks I have been dreaming about one particular thing, and know it is medically impossible for me. Yet in the dream there it is and it is almost always the same scenerio. I may be in different places and with different people, but I am in the same medical condition in each dream. Very weird and slightly disturbing to me.

[Homesick4Heaven]

The day I posted that last comment, I received word 12 hours later my father in law had passed away, making the dream medically possibile. The dreams stopped after his death. Not very sure what to make of it, as I said in my last post it is very disturbing for me.

[BarbB]

I did not have a dream that was physically impossible but did have a series of dreams that prepared me for the death of my husband about three months before he died.

I was in shock when he died but the Lord carried me with "deja vu" reality of my dreams that I had been having, right down to the conversations. It was a comfort to know He prepared me, when I could not accept the finality.

My heart goes out to anyone who goes through the lose of a loved one. I would not wish it on anyone.

Wow, visionary - checking back on this thread and reading your post. I had several dreams about Dave being murdered in the 12 months before his death. He became ill suddenly - there was no way to prepare for it. Also, there were newspaper articles about prayers for a young teenager's healing and G-d's will - she was not healed. All this was in my mind as Dave became more critical and then died. It's a wonder to this day that I turned toward G-d and not away from him (which a certain percentage of surviving spouses do). G-d's infinite patience and relentless love! :bow:

[ChavaK]

There are lists of Jewish surnames compiled by traditional Judaism. The Ash. Jews are from eastern Europe. The Seph. Jews are from Spain and Israel. It is just a way of knowing a bit about your family heritage and makes tracing your geneology a bit easier if you know about where your family came from. It also has a bit to do with the dialect your family may have spoken. The Yiddish dialect is Ash. as it combines Hebrew, German, Russian, and the likes in to one. The Seph. also have one using Spanish, Hebrew, and some Arabic but since we did not use it growing up I cannot remember what it is called. I know it starts was a L.

Ladino...I went to a sephardic shul for awhile where they sang Ayn Kelohanu and did their benching in Ladino. Very beautiful, but also many differences between it and Spanish...mainly I remember them
using M instead of N in many Spanish words
(ie, muestro instead of nuestro).

[ChavaK]

There are lists of Jewish surnames compiled by traditional Judaism. The Ash. Jews are from eastern Europe. The Seph. Jews are from Spain and Israel. It is just a way of knowing a bit about your family heritage and makes tracing your geneology a bit easier if you know about where your family came from. It also has a bit to do with the dialect your family may have spoken. The Yiddish dialect is Ash. as it combines Hebrew, German, Russian, and the likes in to one. The Seph. also have one using Spanish, Hebrew, and some Arabic but since we did not use it growing up I cannot remember what it is called. I know it starts was a L.

Although having a Jewish sounding name doesn't necessarily mean there are any Jews in the family.
Some names can be Jewish or not, names have
been changed, and intermarriages and conversions
have changed things.Some names are region specific but not necessarily Jewish. My maiden name could be
considered Jewish, but as far as I know, not a Jew
to be found in my family background! :)
Hispanic/Sephardi names are
especially confusing. I recently heard a hispanic
gentleman on the radio claiming if your last name
ended in ez, you are Jewish. Quite a stretch!

[Tishri1]

I had a dream in which they were about to kill me and so I took refuge in a room which was full of jewish people, playing some strange form of chess.

What was funny was that everybody knew I wasn't jewish but nobody cared.

Add to that that I have a sephardic family name.Isaiah 56:3-7 3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. 4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; 7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. Zechariah 8:23 23 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
your dream is very significant

[Sephania]

Although having a Jewish sounding name doesn't necessarily mean there are any Jews in the family.
Some names can be Jewish or not, names have
been changed, and intermarriages and conversions
have changed things.Some names are region specific but not necessarily Jewish. My maiden name could be
considered Jewish, but as far as I know, not a Jew
to be found in my family background! :)
Hispanic/Sephardi names are
especially confusing. I recently heard a hispanic
gentleman on the radio claiming if your last name
ended in ez, you are Jewish. Quite a stretch! I was just reading a story the other day about a man, a Catholic priest that was brought up doing different things than his neighbors, later in life he found out these were Jewish things, but he had been raised in a Catholic church. He had heard about a DNA research and sent for the kit. He was called by the researcher and asked if he knew that he was Jewish, but not only Jewish, he was Cohanim.

Many Spaniards fled at the Spanish inquisition, on 9th Av 1492. Many came to the new world and then still had to hid their Jewishness then. But their last names is a clue.


The 'et' is supposed to be added on to indicate the Hebrew word for land, as in Ha Eretz. There are also many names ending in 'etz' which may also fall into this catagory.

[stone]

I was told the same about my name. How would one go about acquireing one of those dna test kits?