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Definition of Key Jewish Holy Days
and
Those Which Are to Be
Incorporated in
the Christian Liturgical Observances
Originally published on
December 16th, 2018
Definition of
Key Jewish Holy Days
Rosh
Hashanah
Sometimes translated as the Feast of
Trumpets is the
Jewish New Year. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah. It
is the first of the
Jewish High Holy Days. (1)
Passover
or Pesach
Is an
important biblically derived Jewish festival. The Jewish people
celebrate Passover as a commemoration of their liberation by God from
slavery in Egypt and their freedom as a nation under the leadership of
Moses. It commemorates the story of the Exodus as described in the
Hebrew Bible especially in the Book of Exodus, in which the Israelites
were freed from slavery in Egypt. (2)
Yom Kippur
Also
known as the Day of Atonement,
is
the holiest day of the year in Judaism. Its central themes are
atonement and repentance. Jewish people traditionally observe this holy
day with an approximate 25 hour period of fasting and intensive prayer,
often spending most of the day in synagogue services. (3)
Sukkot
Also known as Feast of Tabernacles,
is a biblical Jewish
holiday commemorating the
Exodus and the dependence of the People of Israel on the Will of God. (4)
Shavuot
Also known as the Feast of Weeks
and as
Pentecost in Ancient Greek, is
a Jewish holiday that commemorates
the anniversary of
the day God gave the Torah to
the entire nation of Israel assembled at Mount Sinai, although the
association between the giving of the Torah and Shavuot is not explicit
in the Biblical text. (5)
Those are the five Jewish Holy Days which were or should have been
observed in pre-Babylonian Judaism. The observance of some of them were
commanded
by God, others, like Sukkot
and Shavuot,
whose observance should have been so logical that they did not need to
be commanded by God for a faithful Jew to have observed them.
There is one more, a post-Babylonian and post-Greco Jewish Holy Day
(yet, pre-Christian) which best
symbolizes the Judaism-Christianity link:
Chanukah / Hanukkah
Also known as the Festival of the
Lights. According to
tradition as recorded in the Talmud, at the time of the rededication of
the Temple
there was very little oil left that had not been defiled by the Greeks.
Oil was needed for the menorah (candelabrum) in the Temple, which was
supposed to burn throughout the night every night. There was only
enough oil to burn for one day, yet miraculously, it burned for eight
days, the time needed to prepare a fresh supply of oil for the menorah.
An eight day festival was declared to commemorate this miracle. (6)
Traditional
Key Jewish Holy Days Which Are to Be Incorporated in Christian
Liturgical Observances
The Jewish Holy Days which are to be incorporated into the current
Christian calendar, after making the appropriate corrections for their
hinging on the start of the Essene Year, are:
Period of the
Unleavened Bread
Is to be observed now from the sundown on the
Tuesday of the Passover Meal until sundown of Holy Saturday
(Resurrection).
Yom Kippur
(atonement and repentance)
Is to be observed from sundown on the
Tuesday of the Passover Meal until 3 PM of Holy Friday, when
Yeshua
expires on the cross for the salvation of humanity.
Sukkot
(the
freedom from slavery)
Are the seven days from sundown of Holy Saturday
(Resurrection) until the sundown of the following Saturday - the
Saturday prior to Sunday of Divine Mercy. In this period the Exodus is
memorialized.
Shavuot (the delivery of the
Ten Commandments by God to Moses)
Should be
celebrated 50 days after Holy Saturday - on Pentecost Sunday.
Chanukah
(when the oil for rededicated Temple's Menorah lasted eight days)
Should
be celebrated on December 25th as we observe the dawn of the Light of
the World - Jesus Christ. The celebration is to last for eight days
which in Christianity is called the Christmas Octave.
Finally, as a reference point, and not necessarily as a religious
celebration, the Rosh Hashanah (New
Year) also deserves to be fixed in its proper place:
Rosh Hashanah
It makes perfect sense that "Rosh
Hashanah", meaning "New Year", be celebrated at the beginning of the Essene year,
which is in March - regardless of the fact that it goes against the
custom of the adulterated
post-Babylonian calendar, which celebrates the new year in September.
NOTES
(1) Rosh Hashanah
(2) Passover
(3) Yom Kippur
(4) Sukkot
(5) Shavuot
(6) Chanukah/Hanukkah
Related
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Published on December 16th, 2018
Format improved and Rosh Hashanah
issue clarified on September 1st, 2020
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