Rosh Hashanah September 15-17, 2023 - Jewish Year 5784

Greetings!  This year, Rosh Hashanah also known as the Feast of Trumpets or Yom Teruah was celebrated for two (2) days beginning on Friday September 15, 2023, at sundown into Sunday September 17, 2023, at sundown. It is the Jewish year 5784!  I taught about this Holy Day on Zoom, which is posted on my Facebook page. It is always a time for serious reflection, and repentance of anything in our lives that does not line up with the Word of God.  There is a 40-day, time of preparation called the Teshuvah season that leads up to Rosh Hashanah and then to the conclusion of Yom Kippur.  This year, it began on August 16, 2023.

Anyway, Yom Teruah is the shout and the sound of the awaking blast that the dead will hear at the return of Jesus Christ, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 13-18. ESV Those alive in Christ will be changed.  Those not walking in the Spirit, whether dead or alive will not go.  Now, we do not know the day or the hour but just like Jesus Christ fulfilled the first three (3) Holy Days right on their day (Passover, Days of Unleavened Bread, and Pentecost), we can expect Him to return right on Rosh Hashanah one of these years; and fulfill the last 4 Holy Days until as He said, “It is finished.”  These Holy Days are His salvation plan for mankind.  Take them seriously!  John chapter 3 verse 16. ESV

God said that these were HIS appointed feast, Leviticus chapter 23. It is an appointed time of remembrance, and this is how God has chosen to remember us.  It was through the obedience of Jesus in fulfilling each and every one of these feasts.  Some in the past, and some in the upcoming future.  We are also to remember Him by observing them.  So, we keep Rosh Hashanah which is a High Holy Day (Sabbath), by abstaining from work (can’t love God and money, you will love the one, and hate the other).  It is a memorial of what Jesus will soon do.  And since, those that go will head to the wedding supper of the Lamb, it can be treated as an anniversary date.  Most people have a special dinner on their anniversary. 

So, while we wait for His return to happen, we contemplate how we can improve our actions in the coming year.  We reflect, we pray, and we have a food offering like apples and honey, Leviticus 23:25. ESV Other traditional foods include a round challah bread instead of the braided one, pomegranates, and fish heads.  Whole foods that God created are best.  The theme in this season is sweet, so fruit is great.  It can remind us that we have to walk in the fruit of the Spirit to go. And if you are blowing a shofar don’t eat nuts because they increase the saliva and phlegm in the mouth, and it will make it hard to blow the shofar, to speak, and especially to pray.  That’s it for now!  I hope to post more information soon.  If you want the teaching notes, please email me at www.monsy1@comcast.net, I will be happy to send you a copy...Love you all!