Permalink Submitted by Wilhelm Wolfaardt on Fri, 08/30/2019 - 3:09pm
Your article about the calendar, days, moedim etc. Was sent to me by a young brother in our fellowship.
I mostly agree with what you say, however, scriptural days have always started in the morning.
Elohim created the day before the night. In the creation account, he created during the day, and then evening came, and then morning came, the conclusion of 12 hours of ‘night’, after 12 hours of day. B’erev, b’boker has never been 24 hours, it has always been 12 hours ( subject to the season).
Also, when Israel came out of Mitsraim, the Almighty taught them once again when to observe the shabbat (Shemoth/Exodus 16). There was a very good reason he gave them manna every morning. It was to test them to see if they will go out and gather manna on the shabbat morning.
Also, on the 6th day they receive the instructions for the shabbat, 23And he said to them, “This is what יהוה has said, ‘Tomorrow is a rest, a Sabbath set-apart to יהוה. That which you bake, bake; and that which you cook, cook. And lay up for yourselves all that is left over, to keep it until morning.’ ”
Note very well, tomorrow ( machar) is the sabbath. No instructions were given here to stop cooking or baking when the sun goes down.
Note very well when the shabbat was announced in the next verse, 24And they laid it up till morning, as Mosheh commanded. And it did not stink, and no worm was in it.
25And Mosheh said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to יהוה, today you do not find it in the field.
26Gather it six days, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there is none.
27And it came to be that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none.
28And יהוה said to Mosheh, “How long shall you refuse to guard My commands and My Torot?
29See, because יהוה has given you the Sabbath, therefore He is giving you bread for two days on the sixth day. Let each one stay in his place, do not let anyone go out of his place on the seventh day.
30So the people rested on the seventh day.
The shabbat was only announced in the morning, when they would normally go out to work.
There is not a single instruction in the entire tenach given to observe the weekly shabbat from evening to evening.
Pesach and Yom Kippur most certainly start in the evening, as the instruction is very clear, to observe Pesach in the evening of the 14th day, and Yom Kippur in the evening of the 9th day. However, note that these evenings are the conclusion of a day, and not the start of a day. The evening of the 9th day of the 7th month is at the end of the day and not the beginning of the day.
Also, the so-called beginning of a day professed to start at sunset, blending in nicely with the new moon is false. When it comes to Yom Terua, the sun would have set, not knowing yet of the day of Yom Terua started, until a New Moon is sighted. Therefore, you would not know if the festival started yet, as you would not know if it is in fact the 1st day of the 7th month.
Thank you for the rest of your article, which is accurate.
Beginning of Days / Shabbat
Your article about the calendar, days, moedim etc. Was sent to me by a young brother in our fellowship.
I mostly agree with what you say, however, scriptural days have always started in the morning.
Elohim created the day before the night. In the creation account, he created during the day, and then evening came, and then morning came, the conclusion of 12 hours of ‘night’, after 12 hours of day. B’erev, b’boker has never been 24 hours, it has always been 12 hours ( subject to the season).
Also, when Israel came out of Mitsraim, the Almighty taught them once again when to observe the shabbat (Shemoth/Exodus 16). There was a very good reason he gave them manna every morning. It was to test them to see if they will go out and gather manna on the shabbat morning.
Also, on the 6th day they receive the instructions for the shabbat, 23And he said to them, “This is what יהוה has said, ‘Tomorrow is a rest, a Sabbath set-apart to יהוה. That which you bake, bake; and that which you cook, cook. And lay up for yourselves all that is left over, to keep it until morning.’ ”
Note very well, tomorrow ( machar) is the sabbath. No instructions were given here to stop cooking or baking when the sun goes down.
Note very well when the shabbat was announced in the next verse, 24And they laid it up till morning, as Mosheh commanded. And it did not stink, and no worm was in it.
25And Mosheh said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to יהוה, today you do not find it in the field.
26Gather it six days, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, there is none.
27And it came to be that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none.
28And יהוה said to Mosheh, “How long shall you refuse to guard My commands and My Torot?
29See, because יהוה has given you the Sabbath, therefore He is giving you bread for two days on the sixth day. Let each one stay in his place, do not let anyone go out of his place on the seventh day.
30So the people rested on the seventh day.
The shabbat was only announced in the morning, when they would normally go out to work.
There is not a single instruction in the entire tenach given to observe the weekly shabbat from evening to evening.
Pesach and Yom Kippur most certainly start in the evening, as the instruction is very clear, to observe Pesach in the evening of the 14th day, and Yom Kippur in the evening of the 9th day. However, note that these evenings are the conclusion of a day, and not the start of a day. The evening of the 9th day of the 7th month is at the end of the day and not the beginning of the day.
Also, the so-called beginning of a day professed to start at sunset, blending in nicely with the new moon is false. When it comes to Yom Terua, the sun would have set, not knowing yet of the day of Yom Terua started, until a New Moon is sighted. Therefore, you would not know if the festival started yet, as you would not know if it is in fact the 1st day of the 7th month.
Thank you for the rest of your article, which is accurate.
Shalom shalom
Wilhelm Wolfaardt
Qodesh Fellowship
New Zealand