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I thought I would finish the Jewish festivals since I started them. Succot has a relationship to Thanksgiving because it is a time of thanksgiving so I thought the appropriate time to post it would be at this time of Thanksgiving. The festival before it is Yon Kippur..
Yon Kippur
Leviticus 23:27
"Also on the tenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a day of atonement, it shall be an holy convocation unto you."
It is the most important day of the Jewish calander. It is also called the great or great festival, the sabbath of sabbaths, the day of judgement, the day of atonement.
There is 24 hours of fasting and prayer from sundown to sundown with morning, noon, afternoon and evening services. The evening service is an all vow service. During the all vow service, a prayer is chanted repeatedly to absolve all vows. It recognizes that sometimes humans don't keep their obligations or promises to god.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
"For there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not"
Deuteronomy 23:21
"When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy god, thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee ..."
The lesson is to not make vows until you are raedy to commit to them."
also Isaiah chapet 64
There is a parayer that is said that is a thousand years old and it is put to a melody. This 1000 year old prayer had a significance during the inquisition in spain when people were persecuting the Jewish people there. They were using the excuse that those who don't believe as they believe, should be punished. The crusades were made with the erroneous premise that if they invade they will persuade. That is not God's way. They are not speaking for God.
There is a scripture that says " I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you."
At the time Spain was a world power after the inquisition, Spain began to slowly decline.
During this festival the question is asked "Why have we been fasting?" This question is asked in Isaiah 58:3.
It is to focus on getting spiritually fed, it heightens awareness of that which is spiritual.
It is customary to wear white during this holy festival of Yon Kippur.
Isaiah 1:18
"Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow...."
A practice of Yon Kippur is to immerse in water to be puirified and the story of Jonah is read.
Yon Kippur
Leviticus 23:27
"Also on the tenth day of this seventh month, there shall be a day of atonement, it shall be an holy convocation unto you."
It is the most important day of the Jewish calander. It is also called the great or great festival, the sabbath of sabbaths, the day of judgement, the day of atonement.
There is 24 hours of fasting and prayer from sundown to sundown with morning, noon, afternoon and evening services. The evening service is an all vow service. During the all vow service, a prayer is chanted repeatedly to absolve all vows. It recognizes that sometimes humans don't keep their obligations or promises to god.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
"For there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not"
Deuteronomy 23:21
"When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy god, thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee ..."
The lesson is to not make vows until you are raedy to commit to them."
also Isaiah chapet 64
There is a parayer that is said that is a thousand years old and it is put to a melody. This 1000 year old prayer had a significance during the inquisition in spain when people were persecuting the Jewish people there. They were using the excuse that those who don't believe as they believe, should be punished. The crusades were made with the erroneous premise that if they invade they will persuade. That is not God's way. They are not speaking for God.
There is a scripture that says " I will bless them that bless you and curse them that curse you."
At the time Spain was a world power after the inquisition, Spain began to slowly decline.
During this festival the question is asked "Why have we been fasting?" This question is asked in Isaiah 58:3.
It is to focus on getting spiritually fed, it heightens awareness of that which is spiritual.
It is customary to wear white during this holy festival of Yon Kippur.
Isaiah 1:18
"Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord, though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow...."
A practice of Yon Kippur is to immerse in water to be puirified and the story of Jonah is read.