If you are familiar with the Jewish Rabbinical calendar of Judaism, you are aware that the first feast of the biblical Hebrew year, Pesach, is celebrated as a spring festival which is associated to the first siting of barley and celebrated in the month that they recognize as the “month of Nisan”. You may also be aware that in Judaism, not just one but 4 new years in a calendar year are celebrated: 1st New Year-falls in 1st month, 2nd New Year-falls in 6th month, 3rd New Year-falls in 7th month and 4th New Year-falls in the 11th month. As you can see, when man attempts to change the order of divine will, things can become very confusing. It is not important to understand why they have made these changes or added additional new year’s, what is important, is to understand that this IS NOT what has been ordained or commanded by יהוה. Camp Kadosh, has made every effort to submit to divine order according to what is written in Torah. We do not claim to be perfect in any way but we do claim to be striving to become Yisrael according to the instructions given to our ancestors who received our calendar in the land of Mitzrayim as a nation. Our calendar is based on the fulfillment of the promise that יהוה made to our forefather, Avraham in Bereishit/Genesis 15:13-16. Yisrael’s calendar is not based on seasons of winter, spring, summer or fall, as a matter of fact; Torah only mentions two seasons…..winter and summer. Yisrael’s calendar is unique just like the Nation of Yisrael itself including its laws and its diet. Our calendar separates us from every nation on the planet earth in that we look toward the moon to find renewed months and moedim (feasts).
Bereishit/Genesis 1:14-19
Elohim said, “Let there be luminaries in the firmament of the heaven to separate between the day and the night and they shall serve as signs, and for festivals, and for days and years; and they shall serve as luminaries in the firmament of the heaven to shine upon the earth.” And it was so. And Elohim made the two great luminaries , the greater luminary to dominate the day and the lesser luminary to dominate the night; and the stars. And Elohim set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to dominate by day and by night, and to separate between the light and the darkness. And Elohim saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.
Tehillim/Psalms 104:19
He made the moon for festivals, the sun knows its destination.
To calculate time you need the month and the day. יהוה doesn’t focus on years; He focuses on the month and the day. The moon is the only way to establish the first day of a new month. It deals with variation which is why it is always moving and changing. יהוה didn’t name the months, He only gave us numbers because the moon moves and is not fixed. He gave man the ability to name the month. We use the moon to count the months and when you count up the months, you will count the years. Every renewed moon is an indication that a new month has begun. If we don’t know the month then we can never find the day. Darkness is associated with the beginning and a dark moon is the beginning of a new month which is why we are commanded to celebrate renewed moon festivals.
B’midbar/Numbers 10:10
“On the day of your gladness, and on your festivals, and on your renewed moons, you shall sound the shofar over your burnt-offerings and over your feast peace-offerings, and they shall be a remembrance for you before your Power; I am יהוה, your Power.
B’midbar 28:11-15
On your New Moons, you shall bring a burnt-offering to יהוה: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs in their first year, unblemished. And three tenth ephah of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for each bull; and two tenth ephah of fine flour for a meal offering mixed with oil, for the one ram; and a tenth ephah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil for each lamb==a burnt offering, a satisfying aroma, a fire offering to יהוה. And their libations: a half hin for each bull, a third hin for the ram, a quarter hin for each lamb-of wine. This is the burnt offering of each month in its own month for the months of the year. And one male of the goats for a sin offering to יהוה. In addition to the continual burnt offering shall it be made, and its libation.
Tehillim/Psalm 81:3
Blow the shofar at the moon’s renewal, at the time appointed for our festive day. Because it is a decree for Yisrael, a judgment day for the Power of Yaakov.
Yesha’ayahu/Isaiah 66:23
It shall be that at every Renewed Moon and on every Shabbat all mankind will come to prostrate themselves before Me, says יהוה.
The moon is our teacher and she teaches us about holiness and how to move in haste. She starts out with no light which signifies lack of knowledge. Then a slither which is a little bit of enlightenment and then she keeps growing until she becomes a full moon. The moon represents the growing stages of the development of Yisrael as a nation. Like the Shabbat, she opens the gate of the inner courtyard and allows us into the house of יהוה.
Ezekiel 46:1-3
Thus said the master יהוה Elohim: The gate of the inner courtyard that faces eastwasrd shall be closed during the six days of labor, but on the Shabbat day it shall be opened, and on the day of the Renewed Moon it shall be opened. Then the prince shall enter by way of the hall of the gate from without, and stand before the doorpost of the gate; the Kohanim will prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he will then prostrate himself at the threshold of the gate and depart; but the gate shall not be closed until the evening. The people of the land shall prostrate themselves before יהוה at the entrance of that gate on the Shabbats and on the New Moons.
Please feel free to print off a copy of our moedim calendar and celebrate the feast with us.
Shalom
2016-2017 Moedim of YHWH Chart
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