The Feast of New Oil (Olive Oil) was commanded to be celebrated by ancient Israel on Elul 22: 50 days after The Feast of New Wine on Av 3, which was 100 days after The Feast of New Grain (wheat), which was 150 days after Shavuot (The Feast of Weeks). Sabine at sabine shares has noted that Elul 22 was called Pentecost Feast of New Oil and also Pentecost Fully Come. Her article "The Fruition of watchfulness in the bride | Elul 22: start Feast of New Oil or 'pentecost fully come" is very informative, especially about the subject of almonds. Much appreciated! The Feast of New Oil is about Olive Oil rather than Almond Oil. Almonds were harvested about the same time, beginning in Elul. Oil from almonds? Yes. But rare and very expensive then. It took 1000 pounds of almonds to make one pint of almond oil. The Feast of New Oil represented the earliest harvest, of the first fruit olives. Olives were the last, the 7th of the crops (species) listed in the Scriptures. This feast day is 8 days, a Days of Noah number before the date of Tishri 1 (The Feast of Trumpets). The word Elul from the Babylonian Akkadian language, as noted by Chance, means harvest. The root word alal from Aramaic means to ascend, to go up, or to make go up. This information is from abarim-publications. In 2023, Elul 22 will be 9-7 to 8 on The Torah Calendar. The next day, Elul 23, is also linked to the Days of Noah. How? It was the day when the previously released and sent off dove returned to the Ark, with a bit of olive leaf in its beak. Some days ahead after Elul 22: Tishri 1 (The Feast of Trumpets) will be 9-16 to 17, 2023. "Summer is near, even at the gates" as it ends (completes) for those North of the equator on the Autumn Equinox on 9-23 at 6 hours and 50 minutes U.T (Universal Time.)

   The following are revised reflections from my five doves post in archives of 26 July 2015.

The olive harvest in Israel would have been basically, in the major harvest, after the months of Av (Month 5) and Elul (Month 6). Late Summer. These Summer months would have been a period of dwindling supplies of olive oil for cooking, lamps, anointing, or whatever. Increasingly limited. Scarce. More valuable. The olive oil in the small clay lamps, or used on torches, would have lit the way to the wedding canopy (the chuppah) during the nocturnal hours. "Behold the bridegroom comes." When would the preparation for the possession of enough olive oil be really vital? Olive oil would be THE MOST PRECIOUS during the months when it was LEAST AVAILABLE for sale by the merchants. Merchants had little, or none, increasingly, during Av and Elul Summer Months before the next annual olive harvest in Israel. When? Time frame: late Elul, Tishri, then Cheshvan. 

   Might we have A MAJOR CLUE that The Season of The Blessed Hope may be some year, with first fruit olives, during late Elul or during Tishri? Late Summer? Rather than in Autumn during late Tishri or during Cheshvan? If during 2023, before Autumn begins on 9-23-2023? Time will tell.

With Love and Shalom,

Jean