ROSH HASHANAH VS. YOM TERUAH

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One of the things that really bothers me is how Rosh Hashanah (orthodox civil calendar) has replaced YAH's Holy feast of Yom Teruah. It is claimed that Rosh Hashanah is the new year which come from the babylonian pagan new year celebration of their false gods, that is called Akitu. As scripture clearly proves YAH's new year is the month of Aviv in which Pesach/Matzot falls in along with First Fruits.
Why has the body of Yeshua adopted this practice when this is the very thing that got my people in trouble time and again through out history for taking the things that are pagan and declaring them to be of YAH.
This is no different than taking the pagan practice of xmas and declaring it to be the birth of Yeshua.

We need to leave YAH's Word alone and quit thinking that anyone can make it any better by adding or taking away.
As Yom Teruah approaches I cherish and love all His feasts, they bring such joy when we celebrate them the way HE directed us to and not man's way.

baruchim v'shalom
 
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This has been a bit confusing to me in trying to research these things, so I'm glad you brought it up. I want the truth of the Word and not some made up tradition! If I wanted made up I'd just make up my own...I have a fairly good imagination.

This is from Nehemia Gordon. I've researched other things he wrote and find him reliable as far as I can tell.

Karaite Korner - Yom Teruah (Rosh Hashanah)
 
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Yes, Nehemiah Gordon is very knowledgeable when it comes to the Tanak OT. Being a karoite Jew, he does good with sticking to what scripture says. He doesn't follow the traditions of orthodox judaism, as far as I've ever seen. Unfortunately he doesn't believe in Yeshua.
 
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Yes, Nehemiah Gordon is very knowledgeable when it comes to the Tanak OT. Being a karoite Jew, he does good with sticking to what scripture says. He doesn't follow the traditions of orthodox judaism, as far as I've ever seen. Unfortunately he doesn't believe in Yeshua.
..you mean..he doesn't yet.:)
 

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One of the things that really bothers me is how Rosh Hashanah (orthodox civil calendar) has replaced YAH's Holy feast of Yom Teruah. It is claimed that Rosh Hashanah is the new year which come from the babylonian pagan new year celebration of their false gods, that is called Akitu. As scripture clearly proves YAH's new year is the month of Aviv in which Pesach/Matzot falls in along with First Fruits.
Why has the body of Yeshua adopted this practice when this is the very thing that got my people in trouble time and again through out history for taking the things that are pagan and declaring them to be of YAH.
This is no different than taking the pagan practice of xmas and declaring it to be the birth of Yeshua.

We need to leave YAH's Word alone and quit thinking that anyone can make it any better by adding or taking away.
As Yom Teruah approaches I cherish and love all His feasts, they bring such joy when we celebrate them the way HE directed us to and not man's way.

baruchim v'shalom
Can you simply explain this holiday and the right way and when it starts? I am interested , but do not know about them.
And the others too, thank you
 
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Can you simply explain this holiday and the right way and when it starts? I am interested , but do not know about them.
And the others too, thank you


Yom Teruah is the 5th of the 7 feasts that YHVH/GOD created for His children. The ushering in of this feast is the sighting of the New Moon that begins the 7th month of the biblical calendar. As you may know, scripture teaches that New Moon is the beginning of each biblical month. Leviticus 23 gives a nutshell run down of each feast. Yom Teruah even though called "Feast of Trumpets" is literally translated as "Day of Blast" Yom Teruah is the first of the fall feasts that lead up to Sukkot or better known as Feast of Tabernacles. It treated according to scripture as a high Sabbath, and calls for a Holy convocation. We blow the Shofars (rams Horns) as a celebration of the feast all through out that day. It is quite amazing when you have alot of people blowing these shofars all at once. There are many messianics that believe that this feast will be when Yeshua's second coming will happen. As Yeshua said in Matt. 24, "No one can know of the day or hour" We never know for certain which day the new moon occurs on until it is sighted. This is a basic explanation on the feast. Hope this helps. Shalom
 
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Can you simply explain this holiday and the right way and when it starts? I am interested , but do not know about them.
And the others too, thank you


Yom Teruah is the 5th of the 7 feasts that YHVH/GOD created for His children. The ushering in of this feast is the sighting of the New Moon that begins the 7th month of the biblical calendar. As you may know, scripture teaches that New Moon is the beginning of each biblical month. Leviticus 23 gives a nutshell run down of each feast. Yom Teruah even though called "Feast of Trumpets" is literally translated as "Day of Blast" Yom Teruah is the first of the fall feasts that lead up to Sukkot or better known as Feast of Tabernacles. It treated according to scripture as a high Sabbath, and calls for a Holy convocation. We blow the Shofars (rams Horns) as a celebration of the feast all through out that day. It is quite amazing when you have alot of people blowing these shofars all at once. There are many messianics that believe that this feast will be when Yeshua's second coming will happen. As Yeshua said in Matt. 24, "No one can know of the day or hour" We never know for certain which day the new moon occurs on until it is sighted. This is a basic explanation on the feast. Hope this helps. Shalom
 
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One thing I've learned in all my yrs. of keeping the feasts. The more I follow and do them according to YAH's word and leave the man added ways out of them, I experience such an awesome closeness to my Father. These feasts are not only His ordained feasts for those who are His children, but are a prophetic picture of the last days as well. The Spring feasts were of Yeshua's first coming, the fall feasts point to His second coming. SO, when we celebrate all the feasts, it's our chance to experience what we will have when He returns. HALLELUYAH!!!
 

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One of the things that really bothers me is how Rosh Hashanah (orthodox civil calendar) has replaced YAH's Holy feast of Yom Teruah. It is claimed that Rosh Hashanah is the new year which come from the babylonian pagan new year celebration of their false gods, that is called Akitu. As scripture clearly proves YAH's new year is the month of Aviv in which Pesach/Matzot falls in along with First Fruits.
Why has the body of Yeshua adopted this practice when this is the very thing that got my people in trouble time and again through out history for taking the things that are pagan and declaring them to be of YAH.
This is no different than taking the pagan practice of xmas and declaring it to be the birth of Yeshua.

We need to leave YAH's Word alone and quit thinking that anyone can make it any better by adding or taking away.
As Yom Teruah approaches I cherish and love all His feasts, they bring such joy when we celebrate them the way HE directed us to and not man's way.

baruchim v'shalom
Just a question, when does the Jubile begin?
 

KohenMatt

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One of the things that really bothers me is how Rosh Hashanah (orthodox civil calendar) has replaced YAH's Holy feast of Yom Teruah. It is claimed that Rosh Hashanah is the new year which come from the babylonian pagan new year celebration of their false gods, that is called Akitu. As scripture clearly proves YAH's new year is the month of Aviv in which Pesach/Matzot falls in along with First Fruits.
Why has the body of Yeshua adopted this practice when this is the very thing that got my people in trouble time and again through out history for taking the things that are pagan and declaring them to be of YAH.
This is no different than taking the pagan practice of xmas and declaring it to be the birth of Yeshua.

We need to leave YAH's Word alone and quit thinking that anyone can make it any better by adding or taking away.
As Yom Teruah approaches I cherish and love all His feasts, they bring such joy when we celebrate them the way HE directed us to and not man's way.

baruchim v'shalom
As you mentioned, the difference is secular vs. spiritual. A large percentage of those in Israel who follow a Hebrew-ish calendar are more focused on a secular lifestyle as opposed to God's calendar, which is spiritual.

As far as the Body of Yeshua accepting this, I don't think much of that Body has. By and large, today's Christians don't care much for Biblical holidays, even Pentecost which is in the NT.

Why do people do the same thing they've done since the beginning of creation and either neglect of alter God's teachings? Because we're faulty, fleshly creatures who will always have an element of rebellion and obliviousness in our lives.

While I know that I am no different and that there are areas of my relationship with God that I am currently oblivious to, I trust He will reveal those to me in His due time. In the meantime, I am thankful that He has shared His Feast Days with me, and I observe them with great joy.
 

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One thing I've learned in all my yrs. of keeping the feasts. The more I follow and do them according to YAH's word and leave the man added ways out of them, I experience such an awesome closeness to my Father. These feasts are not only His ordained feasts for those who are His children, but are a prophetic picture of the last days as well. The Spring feasts were of Yeshua's first coming, the fall feasts point to His second coming. SO, when we celebrate all the feasts, it's our chance to experience what we will have when He returns. HALLELUYAH!!!
Amen!

I think it's interesting that Yom Teruah is the one Feast that isn't to be done perpetually (forever). At least to my understanding, it's the only 1 of the 7 that won't be done forever according to Scripture.
 

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Just a question, when does the Jubile begin?
If you're talking the Year of Jubilee, I don't think we can know for certain.

While some might view it as a cop-out, I think this is where the Holy Spirit comes into play with the Law and the Feasts. The focus shouldn't be on the physical day, it should focus on the purpose of the day. While I believe it's important to physically celebrate and recognize that 50th year, I also know that God doesn't wait 50 years to free His people physically and spiritually. Jesus is our Jubilee, but it is still a Feast Day to physically remember.
 

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One of the things that really bothers me is how Rosh Hashanah (orthodox civil calendar) has replaced YAH's Holy feast of Yom Teruah. It is claimed that Rosh Hashanah is the new year which come from the babylonian pagan new year celebration of their false gods, that is called Akitu. As scripture clearly proves YAH's new year is the month of Aviv in which Pesach/Matzot falls in along with First Fruits.
Why has the body of Yeshua adopted this practice when this is the very thing that got my people in trouble time and again through out history for taking the things that are pagan and declaring them to be of YAH.
This is no different than taking the pagan practice of xmas and declaring it to be the birth of Yeshua.

We need to leave YAH's Word alone and quit thinking that anyone can make it any better by adding or taking away.
As Yom Teruah approaches I cherish and love all His feasts, they bring such joy when we celebrate them the way HE directed us to and not man's way.

baruchim v'shalom
Just a question, when does the Jubile begin?
If you're talking the Year of Jubilee, I don't think we can know for certain.

While some might view it as a cop-out, I think this is where the Holy Spirit comes into play with the Law and the Feasts. The focus shouldn't be on the physical day, it should focus on the purpose of the day. While I believe it's important to physically celebrate and recognize that 50th year, I also know that God doesn't wait 50 years to free His people physically and spiritually. Jesus is our Jubilee, but it is still a Feast Day to physically remember.

Lev 25:8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Lev 25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Lev 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
Lev 25:11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
Lev 25:12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
Lev 25:13 In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.

The question was why start the year in the seventh month? Because God starts the year in the seventh month. Yes, Abib or Nisan is the first month and the beginning of months but the civil year begins in the seventh month.
 
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Just a question, when does the Jubile begin?

Since the destruction of Israel in 70 AD, the Jubilee cycle was all but lost. So there are a few different views, As you may already know the Jubilee is based off the Shemittah's (land Sabbaths) Every 7 yrs. is a land Sabbath where we let the land rest for a whole year. Count 7 of those and the 50th yr. being the Jubilee.
With all that said, it is believed that 2016 or 2017 will be the next Jubilee.
 
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Amen!

I think it's interesting that Yom Teruah is the one Feast that isn't to be done perpetually (forever). At least to my understanding, it's the only 1 of the 7 that won't be done forever according to Scripture.
I totally get what you mean. But as it says in Lev. 23:23-25 it says, "In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, etc.
So as long as YAH has us follow His biblical calendar, Yom Teruah will be kept. But it is interesting that it doesn't say forever like the others. I've wandered that myself before. Good point.
 
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For those not familiar with the seven feasts, here is a list of them. We need to be aware that they are biblically commanded while our celebrations of Christmas and Easter are not.They are to show biblical truths, and to show the plan that God has for us.The first three are three spring feasts, one summer one, and the last three are fall feasts.What was prophesied by the first four feasts have happened, the three fall feasts prophecy what is still to happen.

The events that the first four feasts told of actually happened on the day that feast told of, so it is probably the last three will follow that pattern, but we are told we will not know the year.


Passover speaks of redemption. The blood of the lamb is shed for our sins.Christ died on the day this feast was celebrated.

Feast of Unleavened Bread is symbolic of absence of sin and absence of decay and corruption. Christ’s body was put in the tomb and did not decay on the day this was celebrated.

First Fruits. The first of anything always belongs to the Lord.Christ was the first man resurrected.Christ was put on the cross on this day.

Pentecost is the 50[SUP]th[/SUP] day after Passover.On the day of this celebration the Holy Spirit was given.

Rosh Hashanah, or Jewish New Year, or the Feast of Trumpets is the first of the fall feasts. A ram’s horn is to be blown, a call to war, a battle cry, a warning.It tells of the day Christ will return to judge the world with blessings for obedience and discipline for the disobedient.It is called the Day of the Lord.

Yon Kipper or Day of Atonement is ten days later. It is the day we are forgiven and washed clean of all our sin, it is the end of the rule of the anti-Christ.

The Feast of Tabernacles is five days later. To celebrate people leave their homes and live in booths.It speaks of a new earth.
 
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For those not familiar with the seven feasts, here is a list of them. We need to be aware that they are biblically commanded while our celebrations of Christmas and Easter are not.They are to show biblical truths, and to show the plan that God has for us.The first three are three spring feasts, one summer one, and the last three are fall feasts.What was prophesied by the first four feasts have happened, the three fall feasts prophecy what is still to happen.

The events that the first four feasts told of actually happened on the day that feast told of, so it is probably the last three will follow that pattern, but we are told we will not know the year.


Passover speaks of redemption. The blood of the lamb is shed for our sins.Christ died on the day this feast was celebrated.

Feast of Unleavened Bread is symbolic of absence of sin and absence of decay and corruption. Christ’s body was put in the tomb and did not decay on the day this was celebrated.

First Fruits. The first of anything always belongs to the Lord.Christ was the first man resurrected.Christ was put on the cross on this day.

Pentecost is the 50[SUP]th[/SUP] day after Passover.On the day of this celebration the Holy Spirit was given.

Rosh Hashanah, or Jewish New Year, or the Feast of Trumpets is the first of the fall feasts. A ram’s horn is to be blown, a call to war, a battle cry, a warning.It tells of the day Christ will return to judge the world with blessings for obedience and discipline for the disobedient.It is called the Day of the Lord.

Yon Kipper or Day of Atonement is ten days later. It is the day we are forgiven and washed clean of all our sin, it is the end of the rule of the anti-Christ.

The Feast of Tabernacles is five days later. To celebrate people leave their homes and live in booths.It speaks of a new earth.
I like the way you describe this, pretty cool. If I may make one small correction. Rosh Hashanah has nothing to do with YAH's feasts, it derives from the babylonian new year practice that Israel adopted during their 70 yrs. of captivity. They declared it to be there civil new year. Biblical new year as you know is the month that first 3 spring feasts happen in which is the month of Aviv. Also "beginning of your months" Ex. 12
​Shalom
 
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One thing I've learned in all my yrs. of keeping the feasts. The more I follow and do them according to YAH's word and leave the man added ways out of them, I experience such an awesome closeness to my Father. These feasts are not only His ordained feasts for those who are His children, but are a prophetic picture of the last days as well. The Spring feasts were of Yeshua's first coming, the fall feasts point to His second coming. SO, when we celebrate all the feasts, it's our chance to experience what we will have when He returns. HALLELUYAH!!!
I hear ya brother. New Testament writings keep repeating "repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand". All thru scripture Yah is pleading with man to return to Him. Repent of what? Return how? Messiah said it best "if you love Me, keep My commands"
[h=1]Jeremiah 6:16King James Version (KJV)[/h] [SUP]16 [/SUP]Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.