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#6 - What Are The Hebrew's HIGH HOLY DAYS ?
Leviticus 23:5-6
5 - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD'S Passover.
6 - Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD;
for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
The "PILGRIMAGE" Sabbaths
The High Holy Days (The Annual High Sabbaths) of the Hebrews are ordained by God, The Father Almighty, in Deuteronomy 16:16. (See, also: Leviticus: Chapter 23; and Exodus: 23; 14-17) And were instituted as days on which there were to be Holy convocations. This means that congregating at the Tabernacle for holy religious purposes was a commandment, not just a suggestion. There are three High Holy Days instituted by God, and He stated that these days honor Him because He has ordained them as Holy unto Himself.
But, remember that
there actually are NO Hebrew or Jewish Holy Days,
for there are only GOD'S Holy Days
which the Sons of Israel were commanded to faithfully observe
as their form of worship of The God Of Abraham.
The three High Holy Days are:
- 1 - Nisan 15 (Abib 15) - The day after Passover. The first day of the seven-day-long Feast of Unleavened Bread. Always very early in Spring, in the 1st month.
- 2 - Shavu'ot (Pentecost) - 50 days from the Sunday that follows Passover. A Sunday which is 50 days from the Sunday within the 7-day-long Feast of Unleavened Bread. Always very late in Spring, in the 3rd month. In the Bible, this feast is also known as The Feast of "Weeks" and The Feast of "Harvest".
- 3 - Tishri 15 (Sukk'ot) - The first day of the seven-day-long Feast of Tabernacles (Booths). 15 days from Rosh haShanah and 5 days from Yom Kippur. Can (rarely) be very late in Summer, but usually is very early in Fall, in the 7th month. In the Bible, this feast is also known as The Feast of "Ingathering".
Tishri 15, 3758, is the day on the Hebrew's calendar when Christ Jesus was born !
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But, what about Yom Kippur?
Yom Kippur (and the nine days leading up to it) is always referred to in the secular media as "THE" High Holy Day.
But Yom Kippur is NOT one of the God-ordained Annual High Sabbaths.
God has NOT declared Yom Kippur a High Holy Day!
PHARISEES -vs- SADDUCEES
In The Days Of Christ Jesus, And Today
Ignore all "cultural" Hebrews and Orthodox Jews whose religious (Hebrew Holy Days) calendar differs or departs from their own Holy Scriptures (Tenach). It is a shame that today's Hebrews have accurate information available in Torah, but they (instead) choose to conform their Holy-Days calendar to interpretations of Torah found in the Talmud (Rabbinical commentaries). They do not study Torah, you will only hear of "Talmudic" scholars.
Despite the fact that The Passover was on a Hebrew's Wednesday in the year of Christ Jesus' Crucifixion, many of today's Hebrew religious authorities say that the Passover, as kept today, cannot fall on a Wednesday in their Jewish calendar. Neither does Firstfruits (Wave Offering) or the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) occur on the first day of the week in their Jewish calendar.
That is the case today with "cultural" Hebrews,
the reason is a matter of history.
Throughout the life and times of Christ Jesus, there was always a controversy between the Phariseean and Sadduceean way of keeping these important, God-ordained feast / festival days.
At the time of Christ Jesus' Crufixion, the Sadducees (called: Scribes, in Matthew, Ch. 23) were the high priests in Jerusalem, and the Sadducees kept the Hebrew Holy Days according to our present Christian understanding from Torah (The "LAW" - The Books Of Moses - The first 5 books in the Christian Bible's Old Testament).
The Sadducees correctly believed that Firstfruits always fell on the Sunday within the week of Unleavened Bread (on the Sunday following Passover), which meant that Pentecost always fell on the first day of the week also.
While the Pharisees wrongly believed that Firstfruits fell on the 16th of Abib (Nisan), the day after the first day of Unleavened Bread (on the day after the annual "Pilgrimage" Sabbath) leading to Pentecost on the 6th of Sivan; on various days of the week instead of always being on a Sunday.
At the time of Jesus, the Sadduceean keeping of the Hebrew Holy Day feasts was in effect, but after the Roman dispersion of Israel (c. CE 66-70), the more numerous and stricter Pharisees prevailed and perpetuated their understanding of Judaism, even unto today.
Pharisees are the religious and cultural ancestors of modern-day Orthodox Jews, the keepers of the Hebrew religious calendar today. Since "cultural" Hebrews do not know their Torah and cannot discern between God's truth and man-made fiction, they look upon the modern-day Orthodox Jews as authoritative. Many Biblically-astute modern Christians and most "Messianic" Jews have a much better understanding of God's Holy Days than do almost all of the "Chosen" people.
Today, the Pharisees rules have supplanted the timing of the Hebrew Holy Days
as they originally were kept from the Exodus up to the time of Christ Jesus.
On High Holy Days (On Annual High Sabbaths), Hebrew males were commanded to make a "Pilgrimage" to the Tabernacle (At Jerusalem, in the time of Christ Jesus) and present appropriate sacrificial offerings, offerings which honor God in ways which He is willing to accept as Holy sacrifices. Excepting the Sunday of Pentecost (Shavu'ot), from year to year the other two High Holy Days can fall on ANY day of the week. Since they ARE Sabbaths, all three High Holy Days are treated just as reverently as an ordinary, routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbath, no matter which day of the week they happen to occur. Each of the three High Holy Days has its own special devotional and sacrificial religious ceremonies, seting each of these three Annual High Sabbaths apart from every routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbath, even on those occasions when a High Holy Day happens to fall on a Saturday.
When Christ Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday, Passover, those who undertook His burial on that same day had to rush to complete the burial as sunset approached because an Annual High Sabbath (A High Holy Day Sabbath) was about to begin on Thursday, the next day, beginning after that approaching sundown (John 19:31).
This High Sabbath was NOT a routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbath.
And Christ Jesus was resurrected three full days and nights (72 hours) later (Matthew 12:38-40) on the beginning of the following Sunday, shortly after sunset, just a moment after a routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbath had ended (Matthew 28:1). He was resurrected during the seven-day-long Feast Of Unleavened Bread, on the Feast/Festival Day called First Fruits, on the Sunday following Passover.
And, the Sunday following Passover is the Sunday from which one counts 50 days to determine the correct Sunday for the Annual High Sabbath, the Hebrew High Holy Day, called Pentecost !
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The Passover is the day Christ Jesus was crucified.
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Passover Starts At Sundown... |
Hebrew Calendar Date... |
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Sunday, April 1, 2007 |
Monday, 14 Nisan 5767 |
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Friday, April 18, 2008 |
Saturday, 14 Nisan 5768 |
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 |
Wednesday, 14 Nisan 5769 |
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Sunday, March 28, 2010 |
Monday, 14 Nisan 5770
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The Passover is NOT a Sabbath and is NOT a High Holy Day!
The Feast / Festival of The PASSOVER commemorates the night when (in Egypt) each Israelite family killed a selected lamb, painted its blood on the lintel and door-posts of their dwellings, roasted the lamb, prepared to depart Egypt before eating, ate the lamb in haste with bitter herbs and unleavened bread, were protected from the death of their first-born males by the lamb's blood, and actually began the journey to depart from Egypt very early the next morning - which was still the day of The PASSOVER.
Christ Jesus celebrated a PASSOVER Seder Feast (The so-called "Last Supper") the evening before His Crucifixion - which occurred the next morning, during the daytime portion of The PASSOVER, Nisan 14, 3791 on the Hebrew calendar. (April 24, CE 31)
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The 7 Days Of Unleavened Bread begin on the day after Passover.
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The Seven Days Of Unleavened Bread - Starts At Sundown... |
Hebrew Calendar Date... |
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Monday, April 2, 2007 |
Tuesday, 15 Nisan 5767 |
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 |
Sunday, 15 Nisan 5768 |
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 |
Thursday, 15 Nisan 5769 |
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Monday, March 29, 2010 |
Tuesday, 15 Nisan 5770 |
The first day of Unleavened Bread IS a Sabbath and a High Holy Day!
The 7-day-long Feast / Festival of UNLEAVENED BREAD begins on the day immediately after The Passover. The first day is a High Holy Day, an Annual High Sabbath, a "Pilgrimage" Sabbath, and the last day is also a Sabbath, but not a High Holy Day.
Since the first day and last day Sabbaths could fall on any day of the week, along with a routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbath, there could be up to three Sabbaths during the week of UNLEAVENED BREAD.
During the week of UNLEAVENED BREAD there is always a Sunday (Sundown Saturday -to- Sundown Sunday), which is the Feast / Festival of First Fruits, the day of Christ Jesus' resurrection.
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First Fruits is the Sunday following The Passover, and is the day Christ Jesus was resurrected.
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First Fruits Starts At Sundown... |
Hebrew Calendar Date... |
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Saturday, April 7, 2007 |
Sunday, 16 Nisan 5767 |
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 |
Sunday, 15 Nisan 5768 |
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Saturday, April 11, 2009 |
Sunday, 18 Nisan 5769 |
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Saturday, April 3, 2010 |
Sunday, 20 Nisan 5770 |
The Sunday of First Fruits is NOT a Sabbath and is NOT a High Holy Day!
The Feast / Festival of FIRST FRUITS is on the only Sunday within the week of Unleavened Bread. It is always on the first Sunday following (after) The Passover.
About 2,000 years ago, in the very beginning moment of First Fruits in CE 31, right at sundown (dusk) on what non-Hebrews (even today, still) call Saturday night, Christ Jesus was resurrected on THIS special Hebrew Sunday.
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Pentecost (Shavuot) is a Sunday 50 days from First Fruits.
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Pentecost - Shavuot - Starts At Sundown... |
Hebrew Calendar Date... |
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Saturday, May 26, 2007 |
Sunday, 10 Sivan 5767 |
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Saturday, June 7, 2008 |
Sunday, 4 Sivan 5768 |
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Saturday, May 30, 2009 |
Sunday, 8 Sivan 5769 |
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Saturday, May 22, 2010 |
Sunday, 10 Sivan 5770 |
The Sunday of Pentecost (Shavu'ot) IS a Sabbath and a High Holy Day!
Count 50 days, beginning with First Fruits (the Sunday within the week of Unleavened Bread, the Sunday following Passover), to determine the Sunday for PENTECOST- SHAVU'OT - a High Holy Day, an Annual High Sabbath, a "Pilgrimage" Sabbath.
Since the Sunday of PENTECOST is a Sabbath, since it follows a routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbath, and since yet another routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbath occurs the sixth day after PENTECOST, there are always three Sabbaths during an eight-day-period surrounding PENTECOST.
This is THE day that the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles, as reported in the Book Of Acts, Chapter 2. In Greek, PENTECOST literally means: "Count 50". PENTECOST is the Greek word used in the Septuagint translation of the Hebrew Holy Scriptures (Tenach - the Christian Old Testament) in reference to SHAVU'OT, which follows First Fruits by 50 days.
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Rosh haShanah, The Feast Of Trumpets, is the Jewish New Year.
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Rosh haShanah Starts At Sundown... |
Hebrew Calendar Date... |
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Friday, September 22, 2006 |
Saturday, 1 Tishri 5767 |
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 |
Thursday, 1 Tishri 5768 |
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Monday, September 29, 2008 |
Tuesday, 1 Tishri 5769 |
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Friday, September 18, 2009 |
Saturday, 1 Tishri 5770 |
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010 |
Thursday, 1 Tishri 5771 |
Rosh haShanah IS a Sabbath but is NOT a High Holy Day!
Eschatologists consider ROSH HASHANAH (Yom Teruah) the most likely day that Christ Jesus will return to the earth a second time, only they cannot discern during which year. ROSH HASHANAH is called "The Day That No-One Knows" because it is the only Hebrew Feast / Festival day that falls on the first day of a month.
Since the first day of any Hebrew month depends on the sighting of the first tiny sliver of the next waxing moon following a new moon, no-one knows exactly when ROSH HASHANAH will begin until the moon is sighted and the 7th month of Tishri is officially declared to have begun.
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Yom Kippur is The Day Of Atonement.
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Yom Kippur Starts At Sundown... |
Hebrew Calendar Date... |
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Sunday, October 1, 2006 |
Monday, 10 Tishri 5767 |
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Friday,September 21, 2007 |
Saturday, 10 Tishri 5768 |
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 |
Thursday, 10 Tishri 5769 |
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Sunday, September 27, 2009 |
Monday, 10 Tishri 5770 |
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Friday, September 17, 2010 |
Saturday, 10 Tishri 5771 |
Yom Kippur IS a Sabbath but is NOT a High Holy Day!
No matter what man-made traditions today's Scripturally-challenged Hebrews practice, no matter what information the Biblically-clueless secular media announces or publishes, GOD has NOT decreed YOM KIPPUR a High Holy Day! Who are YOU going to believe? And, God did NOT command fasting on YOM KIPPUR, God instituted Feasts / Festivals, He did NOT institute any fasts!
YOM KIPPUR is the Day Of Atonement when one is to afflict one's soul to remember, confess and repent-of the sins committed during the previous year. And, when or where appropriate, to make reparations to those harmed by those sins.
This is NOT a glum and dreary, overtly theatrical, melodramatic day of gloom and doom with sack-cloth and ashes. For once one has performed the requisite affliction, YOM KIPPUR is still a Feast / Festival day of joy over the relief from guilt for those sins that have been confessed to God and repented-of, once-and-for-all, never to be repeated.
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Sukkot is the 7-day-long Feast Of Tabernacles.
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Sukkot - Christ Jesus' Birthday - Starts At Sundown... |
Hebrew Calendar Date... |
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Friday, October 6, 2006 |
Saturday, 15 Tishri 5767 |
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
Thursday, 15 Tishri 5768 |
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Monday, October 13, 2008 |
Tuesday, 15 Tishri 5769 |
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Friday, October 2, 2009 |
Saturday, 15 Tishri 5770 |
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010 |
Thursday, 15 Tishri 5771 |
The first day of Sukkot, The Feast Of Tabernacles, IS a Sabbath and a High Holy Day!
Christ Jesus was born on the first day of the 7-day-long Feast / Festival of SUKKOT. Because of the massive crowds of religious "Pilgrims" attending this Feast / Festival, who had occupied all available space for many miles around Jerusalem, there as no room at any inn - or even in private homes. Since every indoor space available to travelers and religious "Pilgrims" was already taken, initially there was nowhere to stay but in one of the many thousands of "Tabernacles" that had been erected for this High Holy Day. His birth was on 15 Tishri, 3758 on the Hebrew's calendar. That translates to October 4, 4 BC on our modern Gregorian calendar.
The first day of SUKKOT is a High Holy Day, an Annual High Sabbath, a "Pilgrimage" Sabbath. Since the first day Sabbath could fall on any day of the week, along with a routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbath, there are usually two Sabbaths during the week of SUKKOT.
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Shemini Atzeret literally means "the assembly of the eighth day"
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Shemini Atzeret - The 8th Day Sabbath - Starts At Sundown... |
Hebrew Calendar Date... |
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Friday, October 13, 2006 |
Saturday, 22 Tishri 5767 |
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007 |
Thursday, 22 Tishri 5768 |
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Monday, October 20, 2008 |
Tuesday, 22 Tishri 5769 |
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Friday, October 9, 2009 |
Saturday, 22 Tishri 5770 |
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010 |
Thursday, 22 Tishri 5771 |
Shemini Atzeret IS a Sabbath but is NOT a High Holy Day!
This Sabbath, the day after the end of Sukkot, is known as "The Last Great Day" because it was the final Holy Day of any type that was God-established. The next Holy Day on God's calendar was the next Passover, in the following Spring. On the "EIGHTH DAY" Ye-shu'a (Jesus) was circumcised ("Bris" or Brit Mila) according to the Scriptural command. This is when a name is given and, for a male, circumcision is what accomplishes a full Hebrew birth.
Since the first day Sabbath of Sukkot and this "THE EIGHTH DAY" Sabbath could fall on any day of the week, along with a routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbath, there could be up to three Sabbaths during this eight-day-period.
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Hanukkah is The Festival Of Lights.
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Hanukkah Starts At Sundown... |
Hebrew Calendar Date... |
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Friday, December 15, 2006 |
Saturday, 25 Kislev 5767 |
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007 |
Wednesday, 25 Kislev 5768 |
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Sunday, December 21, 2008 |
Monday, 25 Kislev 5769 |
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Friday, December 11, 2009 |
Saturday, 25 Kislev 5770 |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010 |
Thursday, 25 Kislev 5771 |
Hanukkah is NOT a Sabbath and is NOT a High Holy Day!
HANUKKAH, an 8-day-long Feast / Festival - the first day of which is the Feast Of Dedication - commemorates a miraculous event that occurred after the close of Tenach, the Hebrew's Holy Scriptures (The Old Testament, in Christian Bibles), and is not a God-established, God-ordained Feast / Festival. Other than one and sometimes two routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbaths within "The Festival Of Lights", there are no special, God-ordained "Holy-Day" Sabbaths during the eight days of HANUKKAH, because it is a tradition-based celebration instituted by men, not by God.
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Purim celebrates Hebrew Esther's victory over anti-Semitic Haman.
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Purim Starts At Sundown... |
Hebrew Calendar Date... |
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Saturday, March 3, 2007 |
Sunday, 14 Adar 5767 |
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 |
Friday, 14 Adar II 5768 |
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Monday, March 9, 2009 |
Tuesday, 14 Adar 5769 |
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Saturday, February 27, 2010 |
Sunday, 14 Adar 5770 |
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Saturday, March 19, 2011 |
Sunday, 14 Adar II 5771 |
Purim is NOT a Sabbath and is NOT a High Holy Day!
PURIM, the Festival Of Lots, is not a God-established, God-ordained Feast / Festival. PURIM is not mentioned in Torah (The Law Of God), the first 5 books of Tenach, the Hebrew's Holy Scriptures (The Old Testament, in Christian Bibles), and it is not even mentioned in the historical Book Of Esther. PURIM is a later-established celebration to commemorate a feast and the subsequent victorious events recorded in The Book Of Esther. Since PURIM could fall on any day of the week, other than a routine, weekly, Saturday Sabbath, there is no special, God-ordained "Holy-Day" or Sabbath on PURIM, because it is a tradition-based celebration instituted by men, not by God.
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