The Davidic Dance class meets for practice at the Sar Shalom Fellowship Hall twice a week. Practices are on Tuesday nights following the 7:00-8:00 pm Bible Study and on Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. The class is taught by Mary Neuman.
All who dance before the congregation on Shabbat are asked to regularly attend the practices.
What is Davidic Dance?
Messianic dance is praise and worship dance that combines Israeli folk and contemporary worship music choreographed dance. Adonai is restoring the established ways of worship in dance that have been a part of Israel since the earliest days of its faith expression. Historians have found that dance was a significant component of Temple worship in the time of Yeshua (Jesus).
Is Davidic Dance a Scriptural Form of Worship?
In Exodus 15:20, Miriam and the other women respond to Adonai's triumph over the Egyptians in an expression of dance. The book of Judges notes harvest danced (21:21); 2 Samuel 6:14 describes how David led he ark of the covenant into Jerusalem when he "danced before the LORD with all his might". 1 Samuel depicts the children of Israel praising David, their king by dancing and singing songs his exploits (21:11) Jeremiah 31:13 shows the Adonai's redemption causes His people to dance before Him. All illustrate the importance of dance as praise and worship in the faith life of Adonai's people.
What Dance Mean to Us as Believers?
After Messianic Jewish believers became so few, much of the celebrations and ceremonies, praise and worship of the Church began to develop on a course far removed from its Jewish roots. Dance , in various forms, continued to be a part of the believer's expression of faith. Around the 17th century, the Church began to move away from dance as an expression of faith, preferring the more sedate expressions of worship. However, today, and specifically at Sar Shalom, Adonai has restored the joy and celebration of faith to the congregation. He desires that we get together in corporate worship, rejoicing as a redeemed people, manifesting our faith to others.
At Sar Shalom, Davidic Dance is an integral beginning to our service as a means to usher in the spirit if praise and worship within the body and within your soul. As anything else done in a worship service, it must be lead by the Ruach Ha Kodesh (Holy Spirit).
As the dancers begin their praise and worship, won't you also enter into that spirit as you quiet your soul. Yeshua wants to take that burdens from your heart and fill you with His peace and love, so take this opportunity at the beginning of service to search for him!
