Pesach is here!

Happy Passover, everyone!

 Tonight is the night when we celebrate YHVH'S love in passing over the firstborn of Yisra'el in  Mitsrayim, and when the blood of Yahshua passed over us to save us from hell.

Why should we celebrate Pesach?

 “Speak to all the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, saying,

 ‘On the tenth day of this month each one of them

is to take for himself a lamb,  

according to the house of his father,

 a lamb for a household.  

And if the household is too small for the lamb,

let him and his neighbour next to his house take it

according to the number of the beings,

 according to each man’s need you 

make your count for the lamb.

 Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male.

 Take it from the sheep or from the goats.

And you shall keep it until 

the fourteenth day of the same month.

Then all the assembly of the congregation of Yisra’ĕl

shall kill it between the evenings.

  ‘And they shall take some of the blood

 and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel

of the houses where they eat it.

  ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, 

roasted in fire – with unleavened bread 

and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water,

 but roasted in fire, its head with its legs 

and its inward parts.

 ‘And do not leave of it until morning,

 and what remains of it until morning 

you are to burn with fire.

 And this is how you eat it: your loins girded,

 your sandals on your feet, 

and your staff in your hand.

 And you shall eat it in haste. 

It is the Passover of יהוה

  And this day shall become to you a remembrance.

 And you shall observe it as a festival to יהוה

throughout your generations – 

observe it as a festival, an everlasting law."

Shemot 12:3-11;14

 We celebrate Passover because YHVH commands us to.

"Didn't Yahshua throw away the torah?"

  Do not think that I came 

to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.

 I did not come to destroy but to complete.

    “For truly, I say to you, 
till the heaven and the earth pass away, 

one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass 
from the Torah till all be done. 

 “Whoever, then, breaks 
one of the least of these commands,

 and teaches men so, shall be called least 
in the reign of the heavens;

 but whoever does and teaches them,

 he shall be called great 
in the reign of the heavens.

Matthew 5:17-19

 We do this feast because it reminds us of YHVH'S love and Yahshua dying for us.
The last Passover lamb.
Shalom.


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It is Shabbat!

It's Shabbat today!

I'm glad that today is Shabbat

because I get to learn more of the Torah.

  “Remember the Sabbath day,

to set it apart.

  “Six days you labour,

and shall do all your work, 

  but the seventh day is a Sabbath of יהוה your Elohim.

You do not do any work

  you, nor your son, 

nor your daughter,

nor your male servant, 

nor your female servant, 

nor your cattle,

nor your stranger who is within your gates. 

  “For in six days יהוה made the heavens and the earth,

the sea, and all that is in them, 

and rested the seventh day. 

Therefore יהוה blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart.

Exodus 20:8-11

Have a blessed Shabbat!

The Fall Feasts

In a few days it is Sukkot!
My family is building a 8' sukkah.
This month has been very busy
with observing Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur.
And because of the way the month is this year,
we have been blessed with double Shabbats!

Yom Teruah - The Feast of Trumpets -

And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, 

‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month,

you have a rest, a remembrance
of blowing of trumpets,

a set-apart gathering. ‘You do no servile work, 

and you shall bring an offering made by fire
to יהוה.’ ”

Leviticus 23:23-25

Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement - 

And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

“On the tenth day of this seventh month
is the Day of Atonement.

It shall be a set-apart gathering for you.

And you shall afflict your beings, 

and shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה.

“And you do no work on that same day,

for it is the Day of Atonement,

to make atonement for you before יהוה your Elohim.

“For any being who is not afflicted on that same day,

he shall be cut off from his people.

“And any being who does any work on that same day,

that being I shall destroy from
the midst of his people.

“You do no work – a law forever 

throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

‘It is a Sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your beings.

On the ninth day of the month at evening,

from evening to evening, you observe your Sabbath.”

Leviticus 23:26-32

Sukkot - The Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) - 

And יהוה spoke to Mosheh, saying,

“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying,

‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is 

the Festival of Booths for seven days to יהוה.

‘On the first day is a set-apart gathering,
you do no servile work.

‘For seven days you bring an offering
made by fire to יהוה.

On the eighth day there shall be
a set-apart gathering for you,

and you shall bring an offering made by fire to יהוה.

It is a closing festival, you do no servile work.

‘These are the appointed times of יהוה 

which you proclaim as set-apart gatherings,

to bring an offering made by fire to יהוה,

a burnt offering and a grain offering,

a slaughtering and drink offerings,

as commanded for every day –

besides the Sabbaths of יהוה, and besides your gifts,

and besides all your vows,

and besides all your voluntary offerings
which you give to יהוה.

‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month,

when you gather in the fruit of the land,

observe the festival of יהוה for seven days.

On the first day is a rest,
and on the eighth day a rest.

‘And you shall take for yourselves
on the first day the fruit of good trees,

branches of palm trees, twigs of leafy trees,
and willows of the stream,

and shall rejoice before יהוה your Elohim
for seven days.

‘And you shall observe it as a festival to יהוה
for seven days in the year –

a law forever in your generations.

Observe it in the seventh month.

‘Dwell in booths for seven days;

all who are native Yisra’ĕlites
{which includes those grafted in}
dwell in booths,

so that your generations know that
I made the children of Yisra’ĕl

dwell in booths when I brought them out
of the land of Mitsrayim.

I am יהוה your Elohim.’ ”

Leviticus 23:33-43

I hope that you have a blessed week.