Jacob Ben Avraham Posted April 9, 2017 Group: Senior Member Followers: 7 Topic Count: 625 Topics Per Day: 0.18 Content Count: 694 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 314 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted April 9, 2017 Shalom to all, thank you for reading the Parashiyot and thank you Willa for responding, and asking for an explanation of the festivals (Moedim) that follow Passover. As we know, PASSOVER starts , this year, on Monday Evening. This is when the majority of the synagogues and Jewish household will celebrate Passover, however, the festival consists of 7 days, so one has 7 days to celebrate it. Example, at our synagogue in Houston, TX we will go to a nearby hotel and hold the ceremony, then, on Friday, the 4th day of Passover, we will have a special Spanish language Passover service for the Sephardic members and guests. YESHUA is represented as the PASSOVER LAMB, who was "roasted" in the "fires of judgment" As the lambs and goats were roasted in the fires that the families of Goshen had in their dwellings, so was our Savior, Messiah and LORD judged for our sins on the first Passover day in Yerushalayim. One of my short stories is "One Passover in Jerusalem" which I will post on Passover Eve in this forum's literature section. THE 7 DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD follow the first Evening of Passover, at that time, the only animals sacrificed were the lambs and goats. At our Spanish language Passover, we always serve roast lamb and goat meatballs, in memory of the first Passover. The unleavened bread is symbolic of "sinlessness" since "Leaven" (Chamtez) symbolizes sin, since this substance is a 'living organism' which when encounters warm water and sugar, it "puffs up" or "swells up" that is why bread rises. Sin is similar in that our "pride puffs up" and we are giving a message that says, "I am going to do what I want, I am a rebel". By not eating regular bread for 7 days, eating only "Matzah wafers" we are saying, "I am consciously rejecting sin in my life" and making an effort to live by Torah standards, but we must realize that this shouldn't be for only 7 days, it should by 24-7, 365 days a year life style. FIRST FRUITS/SHAVUOT/PENTECOST this celebration comes 50 days after the first day of Passover, this was when the Israelites gave thanks to YHVH for a good harvest and offered up a "Minchah" offering of 2 loaves of wheat bread, it is said that each loaf weighed 5 pounds. The loaves would be "waved" back and forth, sideways and from front to back, symbolizing the "North, South, East, and West" which symbolizes all of creation. the number "4" symbolizes "creation" . This is a "thank" offering to YHVH for the blessings of a good harvest, something like the pilgrims celebrated in November in 1621, but on a smaller scale. This also symbolizes "Yeshua" as the "Bread of Life" (Lechem Chayim) Shabbat Shalom............Rabbi J. Ben Avraham PIC: standing outside the ruins of the synagogue at Capernaum, July, 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BacKaran Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 Capernaum, Jesus town, love it! I visited in Feb-mar 2011. Wonderful trip! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spock Posted April 10, 2017 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 3,239 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 1,686 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/26/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted April 10, 2017 (edited) Thank you Jesus for being our Passover Lamb! Love Israel! Love the Feasts! Love God! Blessings going out your way! spock out Edited April 10, 2017 by Spock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willa Posted April 22, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 68 Topic Count: 185 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 14,224 Content Per Day: 3.33 Reputation: 16,647 Days Won: 30 Joined: 08/14/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted April 22, 2017 So then the loaves offered on Pentecost were leavened? Wasn't Jesus' resurrection on the first day of first fruits, making Him the first fruits of the resurrection, or am I misunderstanding this? This was the barley harvest wasn't it? (I like whole grain barley). But the loaves on Pentecost were wheat? Sorry for the confusion. Thank you again for the teaching and helping us to learn to appreciate our roots. I always think of a friend of my grandmother who was a terrible bigot. She kept railing on the Jews so I reminded her gently that her Savior was a Jew. She shouted "His was not! He was a Moabite! Ruth was Moabite!" At that point I gave up. She was 99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xels Posted April 29, 2017 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 5 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 17 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/24/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted April 29, 2017 When I started reading Exodus as a child I read it as of the sheep or the goats and then someone told me along the way I was wrong because goats represent sinful ones. Thanks for clarifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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