... off by 3 days!!! - When is Yom Teruah 2013? ...and the joyful sound...

greetings from fr/germany … Lord bless and keep you all!

amazing!!!!!!Please read this RE: Yom Teruah =Feast of Trumpets …written by Nehemia Gordon (he is from Israel – just now on a trip in China - he wrote Sept. 04 @ https://www.facebook.com/NehemiaGordon)

When is Yom Teruah 2013

Yom Teruah this year will begin at sunset on Saturday September 7, 2013 and continue until sunset on Sunday September 8, 2013.

The new moon will only be potentially visible from Israel on Saturday night September 7, 2013. Visibility is impossible from Israel on September 6, 2013. The last new moon was sighted from Israel on Thursday night August 8, 2013. This makes Saturday night September 7 the 31st evening from the previous sighting. Since a lunar month can only be 29 or 30 days long, Saturday night has to be Yom Teruah by default, whether or not the moon is actually sighted.

Of course, our diligent observers in Israel will do their best to sight the moon and we will make known the results in this newsletter and on Facebook at:
https://www.facebook.com/NehemiaGordon

Most Jews will be observing “Rosh Hashannah” from Wednesday at sunset September 4 until Friday at Sunset September 6. This is based on the Hillel II calendar, established according to rabbinical tradition in 359 CE. The Hillel II calendar is often off by 2 days, but in this case it is clearly off by 3 days. The new moon will be visible from the southern hemisphere on Friday night, but visibility is impossible from Israel until Saturday night. Here are the stats for Israel at sunset:

Friday night: 21 minutes lagtime; 1.58% illumination.
Saturday night: 58 minutes lagtime; 5.17% illumination.

For more information on Yom Teruah, please visit:
http://www.karaite-korner.org/yom_teruah.shtml

Moadim Le-Simchah!
Happy Appointed Times!

Nehemia Gordon

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Truly: blessed are the people that hear the sound of teruah…

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More on Feast of Trumpets from this website:

http://www.hebroots.org/hebrootsarchive/9710/971009_c.html

The blessing that we receive when we understand the meaning of

Rosh HaShanah and the blowing of the shofar is found in Psalm 89:15

as it is written:

"How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound (blast of the

shofar"

Rosh HaShanah is referred to in the Torah as YOM TERUAH, the Day

of the Sounding of the shofar (or the day of the awakening blast). On

Yom Teruah (Rosh HaShanah), it is imperative for every person to hear

(Shema) the shofar. The mitzvah (biblical commandment) of the shofar

is to HEAR (Shema) the shofar being blown, not actually to blow it

yourself, hence the blessing for the shofar, "to hear the sound of

the shofar".

Teruah means "an awakening blast". A theme associated with Rosh

HaShanah is the theme "to awake". Teruah is also translated as

"shout".

In I Thessalonians 4:16-17 it is written:

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a SHOUT, with

the voice of the archangel and with the TRUMP (shofar) of God: and

the dead in Christ shall rise first"

In I Corinthians 15:51-52 it is written:

"Behold, I show you a mystery (sod = deeper spiritual meaning), we

shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the

twinkling of an eye, at THE LAST TRUMP: for the TRUMPET (shofar)

shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall

be changed"

.......

The LAST TRUMP is associated and blown on Rosh HaShanah. In

his book, "Festivals of the Jewish Year" in the chapter on Rosh

HaShanah, the Orthodox Jewish author (not a believer in Yeshua/Jesus

as Messiah) will tell you that an IDIOM for Rosh HaShanah is the LAST

TRUMP.

Therefore because the LAST TRUMP is a Jewish idiom for ROSH

HASHANAH, the Apostle Paul (Rav Sha'ul) when referring to the

resurrection of the dead happening at the "last trump" was using a

Jewish idiom for the feast of Rosh HaShanah and indicating by doing

so that the resurrection of the dead will take place on Rosh

HaShanah.

.......

Genesis 22 is the primary Torah reading for Rosh HaShanah.

This is the story of Abraham going to offer his son Yitzchak (Isaac)

on the altar. As he was about to do so, the angel of the Lord

intervened and Abraham saw a RAM (male lamb) caught in the thicket.

The ancient rabbi's saw the thicket representing the sins of the

people. The two horns of the ram caught in the thicket were given a

name. The left horn was called the FIRST TRUMP and the right horn was

called the LAST TRUMP.

Therefore, the shofar (ram's horn) was seen as playing a

significant role in the redemption.

Maranatha, Come Lord Jesus