Head of the Year or Rosh Hashana, When?

 

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Praises be to Elohim, the Giver of life, Creator of everything, King of kings, who gives understanding to the prudent and wisdom to the simple, and show immeasurable mercy unto those who seek Him with all their hearts. Truly He has chosen His messengers among the Latter-Days Saints. To these He gave revelation to tell His people the Truth. Therefore, let those who can hear, hear!

 There are many who are jumping in the rabbinical bandwagon saying and teaching to other less informed believers that the First of Tishri is the New Year is the beginning of the lunar year. They all call it Rosh HaShana and wish one another a happy New Year.

May the Shofar (Shophar) blow, today, in the hearts of every dedicated disciple of Yahshua, who walks in our Savior's footsteps, and who are not mesmerized by rabbinical traditions and worldy fame, to see the light once and for all.

 The term Rosh HaShana, which means Head of the Year is not in the Torah as an equivalent name for the Feast of Trumpet. This Rosh HaShana is a rabbinical invention of Babylonian origin. The Torah speaks of the Feast of Trumpet, moed shopharim, Lev. 23: 24-25. The Torah never calls the the Feast of Trumpet: Head of the Year or Rosh HaShana.

 The day that is called Head of the Year or Beginning of the Year is found in Shemoth 12: 2, in relationship with the Biblical First Month, Nisan. It starts not in the Fall, as Rabbinical Judaism purports, but in the Spring. Many Messianic believers have allowed themselves to be influenced and to fall prey to traditional heresies. Today's Rabbinical Judaism is the remain of Pharisaic heretical dogmas. YahShua clearly condemns those people as having forsaken Yahweh's Commands to follow their own traditions.

 "You laid aside the Commandments of Elohim, you hold the traditions of men...All too well you reject the Command of Elohim that you may keep your tradition... Mark 7: 8-9."

 Some believers are offended when to follow Elohim, and not rabbinical traditions because for them its about being Jewish, to observe traditions developed by blind "Rabbis", some of which traditions coming directly from those Rabbis’ sojourn in Europe. let Yahshua’s People wake up. You were not called to be Judaists, but to live in the likeness of YahShua, who was neither afraid or ashamed to become a sin offering on your behalf. You was called to walk in His footsteps. If the Pharisees, Sadducees, and the scribes did not accept Yahshua, it was because He refused to be a Judaist by following men's traditions.

 Fossilized rabbinical dogmas and traditions are contrary to Yahweh's Commands.

 "They did not obey or incline their ear. They still walk in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart. They have gone backward and not forward... This is a nation that does not obey the voice of Yahweh their Elohim nor receive correction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth, Jer.7: 24, 28."

 It is no wonder they often choose to postpone the 1st of Tishri, on their own authority, and contrary to Torah, to prevent Yom HaKippurim (Tishri 10) from falling on a day immediately preceding or immediately succeeding the Shabbath, and Hoshana Rabba (Tishri 21) they will not allow to fall on a weekly Sabbath. Were you aware of that? Many Messianics run the risk of being struck by the up-coming plagues as a result of keeping Passover on the wrong date, sometimes. The same goes for and Shavu'ot, because they follow rabbinical customs. You need to know who your model is. Is it YahShua's teaching or Pharisaic Judaism.

 The Beginning of the Biblical Year is not Tishri, but Nisan. The Head of the Year is not the 1st of Tishri, but the 1st of Nisan.

 "This month shall be your ROSH HASHANA... Shemoth (Exodus) 12: 2." The events descrribed in that month tells us which it is. Read the entire chapter. Deutoronomy 16: 1 reads, "Observe the month of Abib and keep the Passover to Yahweh your Elohim, for in the month of Abib Yahweh your Elohim brought you out of Mitzraim by night."

We conclude with Numbers 33: 3, "They departed from Rameses in the first month on the fifteen day of the first month..."

Unless they departed from Mitzraim in the month of Tishri, the rebellious Rabbis have definitely forsaken Yahweh's commands that they may observe their legislations.

 Read our article about the Jewish-Fixed Calendar.

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