#6 Elul

[todaysjewishholiday]

6 Elul 5784 (7-8 September 2024)

The fifty fourth century was a golden age for the Ashkenazim of Bohemia, Moravia, Galicia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. As with all such golden ages for the Jewish people, it was not without dangers, and it ended in a devastating conflagration, but while it lasted it was a time of a great flowering of rabbinical study and remarkable freedom of movement for Jews across the eastern lands of Europe. More than anything else, it was this age that established the strength of Ashkenazi Judaism from which modern Jewish orthodoxy has fed. And one of the great lights of this time, whose rabbinical career carried him across the full breadth of Ashkenaz, was Gershom Shaul Lipmann ben Nathan haLevi Heller, known to his contemporaries as the Tosfot Yom Tov.

Heller was born in 5339 in Bavaria, days after his father's sudden death at the age of 18. Despite Nathan Heller's brief life, he had fathered four children. Gershom was taken under the wing of his paternal grandfather, Rabbi Moses, who began his education in Torah study. After several years of study in a yeshiva near home, the adolescent Heller traveled on his own to the beit midrash of the Maharal of Prague, a giant of both Torah and secular studies who regularly debated with the great gentile scholars of his time. Shortly after his eighteenth birthday, Heller received semicha from the Maharal and an appointment as a dayan in Prague. He remained there for 27 years, producing a number of treatises including the one whose title became his rabbinic eponym, before journeying to Moravia to take up a rabbinical post there, and being offered the position of Chief Rabbi of Vienna after barely a year in the region.

Yom Tov was of great service to Vienna's scattered Jews, receiving permission to establish a centralized community, and creating a communal constitution and various communal institutions for the good of all. However, his organized and thoughtful approach soon made him enemies among the wealthier members of the kehilla. When the Gentile authorities imposed harsh taxes on the city's Jews, Heller led the community's leaders in deciding to collect the tax progressively as a percentage of individual wealth, rather than as a simple poll tax, to lighten the burden on the community's poor. The rich, however, were not happy being asked to pay their share, and accused their chief rabbi of slandering Christianity. Heller was arrested and sentenced to death, but his allies were able to persuade the Emperor to reduce the sentence to a fine of 10,000 thalers, and a ruling that he was not to serve as a rabbi anywhere in the Emperor's realm. As soon as the fine was paid off, Heller left for the eastern border.

He was warmly welcomed into the Jewish community of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and soon appointed to the Council of the Four Lands, which functioned as a Jewish proto-legislative body and as a gathering for Jewish leaders to discuss issues for which they needed to collectively appeal Gentile authorities. Yom Tov served for three years as a rabbinical authority in Nemirov, then moved to Ludmir, and from there to Krakow, where he served as one of the Av Beis Din of Krakow's rabbinical court, and also as head of the Krakow yeshiva. It was during his two decades in Krakow that the horrors of the Chmielnicki Revolt passed through the Commonwealth. He survived the massacres, and passed away six years later on 6 Elul 5414. He was laid to rest in a humble grave in a corner of Krakow's Jewish burial ground.

[istodayajewishholiday]

6 September 2024 - 3 Elul 5784

No, today is not a Jewish holiday. Shabbat begins at sundown.

[chicago-geniza]

Legs are so bad today I couldn't walk without codeine but if I miss another shift I will be "immediately terminated" so it is off to work we go. Closing tonight, opening tomorrow, RIP my sleep schedule. I get home at 10.30 pm and have to be awake at 6 am the next morning to shower, get ready, and catch the bus at 8. Tomorrow is the first day of contract bargaining, Thursday morning is my welfare redetermination appointment and Friday evening is the Elul salon. Please @ my body hold it together and don't get COVID for the 394748374th time

[pomegranate-jewitchery]

The Limbs of the Year - 5785 (2024/2025)

I was inpired by all the Wheel of the Year posts and thought it could be really fun to create one for my fellow Jewitches. If there are any dates missing lmk! I have queued this up to post a couple days before the new year to give anyone who forgot (me) time to prepare for it.

Holidays and Fasts

October - 2024

Rosh Hashanah - Oct 2 - 4

Tzom Gedaliah - Oct 6

Yom Kippur - Oct 11 - 12

Sukkot - Oct 16 - 18

Shmini Atzeret - Oct 23 - 24

Simchat Torah - Oct 24 - 25

December

Chanukah - Dec 25 - Jan 2

Chag HaBanot - Dec 30 - 31

January - 2025

Asara B’Tevet - Jan 10

February

Tu BiShvat - Feb 12-13

March

Ta’anit Esther - Mar 13

Purim - Mar 13 -14

Shushan Purim - Mar 14 - 15

Purim Meshulash - Mar 15 - 16

April

Ta’anit Bechorot - Apr 10

Pesach - Apr 12 - 20

Days of the Omer - Apr 13 - Jun 1

Yom HaShoah - Apr 23 - 24

May

Pesach Sheni - May 11 - 12

Lag BaOmer - May 15 - 16

June

Shavuot - Jun 1 - 3

July

Tzom Tammuz - Jul 13

August

Tish’a B’Av - Aug 2 - 3

Tu B’Av - Aug 8 - 9 

Rosh Hashanah La Behemoth - Aug 24 - 25

September

Leil Selichot - Sep 13

Special Shabbatot

Shabbat Shuva - Oct 4‑5

Shabbat Shirah - Feb 7‑8

Shabbat Shekalim - Feb 28‑Mar 1

Shabbat Zachor - Mar 7‑8

Shabbat Parah - Mar 21‑22

Shabbat HaChodesh - Mar 28‑29

Shabbat HaGadol - Apr 11‑12

Shabbat Chazon - Aug 1‑2

Shabbat Nachamu - Aug 8‑9

Rosh Chodesh

Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan - Oct 31‑Nov 2

Rosh Chodesh Kislev - Nov 30‑Dec 2

Rosh Chodesh Tevet - Dec 30‑Jan 1

Rosh Chodesh Sh’vat - Jan 29‑30

Rosh Chodesh Adar - Feb 27‑Mar 1

Rosh Chodesh Nisan - Mar 29‑30

Rosh Chodesh Iyyar - Apr 27‑29

Rosh Chodesh Sivan -  May 27‑28

Rosh Chodesh Tamuz - Jun 25‑27

Rosh Chodesh Av - Jul 25‑26

Rosh Chodesh Elul - Aug 23‑25

Solstices & Equinoxes

Autumn Equinox - September 22, 2024

Winter Solstice - December 21, 2024

Spring Equinox - March 20, 2025

Summer Solstice - June 20, 2025

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If you want to do any further reading into the dates I would check out The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons by Jill Hammer. I got the majority of the dates from Hebcal and they have links to things there as well. 

[ofpd]

2 weeks until tu b'shvat and then another month until purim and then another month until pesach and then 26 days until lag baomer and then 17 days until shavuos and then it's not much more than a month until shva asar b'tammuz and then 3 weeks until tisha b'av and then only 6 days until tu b'av and then only another 2 weeks to elul which is basically just the prelude to rosh hashanah and then there's yom kippur 10 days and then sukkos only a few days after that

[dailyanarchistposts]

Would industrial society not simply re-emerge?

Ishkah: I’m sceptical of Kaczynskis’ confidence that a new industrial revolution wouldn’t simply re-emerge, especially with people passing down memories and books of all the benefits to modern life.

My concerns are that firstly, the harm to the environment would be much worse than us simply transitioning to renewable energy and rewilding areas as we depopulate, as is the trend in advanced countries. Secondly, I would argue the probability that we will achieve a long-lasting, mostly peaceful, technologically advanced, left-anarchist society is far more valuable to me than returning to an either never ending series of warring feudal societies or feudal societies that repeats the industrial revolution and has another series of world wars for resources.

Primitive life is more appealing to me personally than feudalism in that I could be born into a fairly egalitarian tribe like the Penan or even if I wasn’t I wouldn’t know any different life, or if I had some of the egalitarian ideals I have now, the possibility would be there to strike out on my own and form an egalitarian tribe. But, bar convincing everyone to be hunter gatherers, or the provision of technological incentives to have fair and democratic communication among societies who trade with each other – you just are going to recreate feudal era societies where you’d have to be very lucky to escape from conscription and tyrants, and where the environmental destruction in the long term could be far worse.

Zerzan: What is happening in terms of social movements? Perhaps Kaczynski’s forgotten. And to me his rigidly anti-tech focus kind of loses its steam. As you know, I’m anti-civilization and if you’re just stuck with only the anti-tech thing you get to this wooden position where you you lose a lot of potential it seems because the rest of it just flows.

I noticed in the notes you were saying well you don’t want to be stuck in some medieval deal without industry, well that’s right, there you get the problem, right? I mean there was a piece – not to go too far along with this, but there was a piece – in the American magazine ‘The New Yorker’ back in the 90s when the trial was still going on I believe, it was simply called ‘E Pluribus Unabomber’, it was kind of a funny little one page piece. And it posed that question precisely, precisely that, okay so you’re against modern technology? Does that mean you want the middle ages? And he never answered that question.

I don’t want the middle ages, hell no. You know, you’ve got to look back to see what this crisis is all about what has brought us to this stage. Otherwise you’re kind of stuck with this one note deal that’s really rather limited. He’s insisted over and over and over that he has no interest in anything but modern technology, I mean that’s almost silly, the crisis shows that it’s much bigger and much deeper than that.

It comes to a head with the technological society, and by the way he told me he got his ideas from Elull, it’s an American vernacular version of the technological society, that’s his great gift, that’s his great plus, he made it very readable, you know the original or the original translation in English is hard to read, it has that abstract classical mode of the way French are taught to write and it’s very off-putting I think in the rest of the world, the rest of the west anyway, the rest of say America. [6]

Ishkah: Yeah, and it’s interesting Ellul is a kind of classical Christian anarchist, who likes the anabaptist tradition of creating small communities within a federated society, so he’s very critical of this concept of technique, but he still wants to make accommodations for technology if we can view it as a tool.

But, yeah I think for most of the people who identify with Kaczynski’s philosophy, calling themselves anti-industrialists rather than primitivists is an optics move, in that they don’t want to be seen to be striving for something that most people see as impossible to achieve. Because an anti-industrial revolution is achievable if you can destroy the electricity grids and keep them from being rebuilt, and once it is thoroughly destroyed it will be harder to rebuild and easier to stop than at least other pre-industrial oppressive conditions like feudal tyrants.

Zerzan: Well sure, it’s less abstract, here we are so totally immersed in the technology and the alienation it’s brought is just frightful, it’s so palpable, it’s just you know utterly impossible to ignore.

So, yeah there’s the technology on all sides at every moment, so sure it’s obviously part of the problem of course it’s right up there, but that’s just part of it. To me it’s like the leftists who are only limited to talking about capitalism, well of course one’s against capitalism, but it goes much deeper than that, right? Look at the rest of it, look at how it emerges and why?

Ishkah: Yeah and I definitely like a lot of Bookchin & eco-feminist philosophy who write about the priestly classes throughout history, who even before there was capitalism were trying to keep people ignorant and regimented into hierarchies.

But, in terms of getting this global shift is it that you just don’t have kids and within a hundred years you’ve only got a very small population and obviously using some direct action to encourage people and show them the way?

Zerzan: Well yeah, it’s kind of hard to answer, I mean that’s the challenge, what would that look like? How fast could that happen if you change directions and start to imagine things so differently? I mean who can say? Whether it happens at all that is obviously an open question, we may not get anywhere with this, I’m not clear about that and no one can be I don’t think.

So, but you start to think about the emerging directions and the transition and so forth, but only when you get to that place can you start to pose those questions and think about specific practical parts of the picture, it’s difficult to speculate there and I have to some degree, but that’s a further question it seems to me.

Ishkah: Yeah it’s interesting, I like the critique in a lot of ways, like I talk about this concept of minimum viable use. Like we have a really nice culture in Europe of punk post, where if you want to talk to someone who’s on a camp across the country and someone’s going that way, then you write them a letter and that person takes it to them. So, rather than calling them you put the effort into the creativity of the writing to them and then that’s the minimum viable use technology needed for that task and then in doing that you’ve fulfilled yourself more than just a quick phone call. [7]

Zerzan: Yeah exactly, something technology is erasing. Now we just text, don’t even want to hear the human voice. I mean it’s just getting so monstrous, so fast, and maybe that’s of course the strangely silver lining in the whole thing, it’s just impossible to ignore the effects. And people are so miserable, I mean the immiseration is just almost unimaginable, but there it is, it’s the alienation, the isolation, there’s suicide among the young, deaths of despair, opioid crisis, on and on, and on, it’s just huge estrangement.

Ishkah: Yeah so that’s a good Segway to the next topic…

[jewish-holiday-tournament]

Jewish Holiday Tournament Round 1

1. Purim vs. Yom Yerushalayim WINNER: PURIM

2. Tu Bishvat vs. Shemini Atzeret WINNER: TU BISHVAT

3. Seharane vs. Tzom Tammuz WINNER: SEHARANE

4. Hoshanah Rabba vs. the Fast of the Firstborn WINNER: HOSHANAH RABBA

5. Sukkot vs. The First of Nisan WINNER: SUKKOT

6. Rosh Chodesh vs. Tisha b'Av WINNER: ROSH CHODESH

7. Yom Kippur vs. Lag BaOmer WINNER: YOM KIPPUR

8. Mimouna vs. Pesach Sheini WINNER: MIMOUNA

9. Pesach vs. Leil Slichot WINNER: PESACH

10. Shavuot vs. The First of Elul WINNER: SHAVUOT

11. Shabbat vs. Purim Katan WINNER: SHABBAT

12. Chag HaBanot vs. Tu b'Av WINNER: TU B'AV

13. Chanukah vs. Yom Ha'Atzmaut WINNER: CHANUKAH

14. Sigd vs. Asarah b'Tevet WINNER: SIGD

15. Simchat Torah vs. The Fast of Esther WINNER: SIMCHAT TORAH

16. Rosh Hashanah vs. Shushan Purim WINNER: ROSH HASHANAH

[mackenlov]

We are now in Elul as we prepare our hearts for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur

ROSH CHODESH ELUL: "I AM MY BELOVED'S"

Thursday evening begins the second day of Rosh Chodesh and the first day of the new month of Elul. The word Elul in Hebrew, אלול, is an acronym of the verse - "אני לדודי ודודי לי - I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine," from Song of Songs 6:3. The verse, which describes belonging and connection and fidelity and love between Israel and HaShem, is the perfect description for the month of Elul, whose essence is that of drawing close to HaShem, renewing and reinvigorating our love and dedication to HaShem, and working on making ourselves worthy receptacles of HaShem's love and light.

Chodesh tov - have a very good month of Elul!

[mariacallous]

Using loan-level mortgage data matched to credit bureau information, Aaron Payne of the University of Pennsylvania and Ronel Elul and Sebastian Tilson of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia show that occupancy fraud – when investors falsely claim they are owner-occupants – represents a larger share of the housing market than previously thought. The authors estimate that occupancy fraud accounts for 6% of loans issued from 2005 to 2007 and 3% of loans issued from 2008 to 2017. Fraudulent borrowers pay interest rates 26 basis points lower and have default rates 4 percentage points higher than otherwise similar investors who do not claim to be owner-occupants. Fraudulent borrowers make up one-third of the total investor population. The authors find that the rates of fraud are roughly similar among securitized loans, loans held in portfolios, and loans guaranteed by government-sponsored enterprises. Finally, the authors show that fraudulent borrowers often default “strategically��� when their equity becomes negative, which may pose a risk in future business cycles.  

"Occupancy fraud has been suggested as a contributor to the housing bubble. We show it was pervasive and remains present. Fraudulent investors accounted for an outsize share of defaults in the bust and pose a risk should prices decline.

We identify occupancy fraud — borrowers who misrepresent their occupancy status as owner-occupants rather than investors — in residential mortgage originations. Unlike previous work, we show that fraud was prevalent in originations not just during the housing bubble, but also persists through more recent times. We also demonstrate that fraud is broad-based and appears in government-sponsored enterprise and bank portfolio loans, not just in private securitization; these fraudulent borrowers make up one-third of the effective investor population. Occupancy fraud allows riskier borrowers to obtain credit at lower interest rates. These fraudulent borrowers perform substantially worse than similar declared investors, defaulting at a 75 percent higher rate. Their defaults are also likelier to be “strategic,” suggesting that they pose a risk in the face of declining house prices."

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

Sanballat's Conspiracy

1 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arabian and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left therein (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates),

2 that Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they thought to do me mischief.

3 And I sent messengers unto them, saying, “I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you?”

4 Yet they sent unto me four times in this manner, and I answered them in the same manner.

5 Then Sanballat sent his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand,

6 wherein was written: “It is reported among the heathen, and Geshem saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king according to these words.

7 And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ And now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.”

8 Then I sent unto him, saying, “There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.”

9 For they all made us afraid, saying, “Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.” Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

10 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to slay thee, yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.”

11 And I said, “Should such a man as I flee? And who is there that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.”

12 And lo, I perceived that God had not sent him, but that he pronounced this prophecy against me; for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have cause for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

14 My God, think Thou upon Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who would have put me in fear.

15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month of Elul, in fifty and two days.

16 And it came to pass that when all our enemies heard thereof, and all the heathen who were about us saw these things, they were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was wrought by our God.

17 Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.

18 For there were many in Judah sworn unto him, because he was the son-in-law of Shechaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

19 Also they reported his good deeds before me, and uttered my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to put me in fear. — Nehemiah 6 | 21st Century King James Version (KJV21) The Holy Bible; 21st Century King James Version Copyright © 1994 by Deuel Enterprises, Inc. Cross References: Genesis 36:39; Exodus 14:25; 1 Chronicles 3:21; 1 Chronicles 8:12; Ezra 1:6; Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 3:1; Nehemiah 3:3; Nehemiah 4:1-2; Nehemiah 7:1; Nehemiah 13:4; Nehemiah 13:29; Job 13:4; Psalm 52:2; Psalm 138:3; Proverbs 28:1; Jeremiah 20:10; Ezekiel 13:17

[aevarswall]

Good day, there is much information I lack, but this is what I have thus far.

Fact 1: In 1 Chronicles 24 King David set up the division of priestly orders, marking the order of Abijah as the eighth to serve.  As I understand it, these priestly divisions would serve in the temple for a week twice a year, cycling through the 24 of them beginning in the Hebrew month of Nissan through Elul, then repeating for Tishrei to Adar.

Fact 2: In Luke 1, Zechariah is listed as a priest from the order of Abijah.  Assuming that the Jews at this time followed the list as laid out by David, then the order of Abijah would’ve served in the temple sometime either in April/May or October/November should my math be correct.

Fact 3: Six months after Zechariah has served, Gabriel visits Mary and gives her the good news.  I’m certain there’s some Catholic friend who’s sitting on information that will correct this, but by my calculations that places this visit in either around September or around April.

Fact 4: The average pregnancy is ~38 weeks which is about 260-odd some days.  This would place the birth of Christ either in late May or late December depending on when Zechariah went up.

Fact 5: Luke 2 states that the shepherds of the region were watching their flocks by night.

Fact 6: The climate in and around Bethlehem in May will range from 57 to 78 Fahrenheit and 42 to 57 Fahrenheit in December.  Assuming a warming trend that has continued for the past couple millennia to shift the temperature by ~2-3 F would still place Bethlehem in the “light-sweater” weather range.

Fact 7: The average European sheep can comfortably withstand ~30 F temps.  While sheep in the Levant during the Roman Empire were likely fat-tailed sheep, I assume they had similar tolerances.

Fact 8: In Nehemiah 12, after the return from the Exile, a new set of priestly orders are set up, placing Abijah as the twelfth.  I am not certain if this list served as the ceremonial order, or if the author of Nehemiah was simply compiling names as he saw fit.  If it served as an order, then Abijah’s Order would serve June and December, essentially just shifting all the dates above forward by a month.

Conclusions: Should my math be true, I see nothing in the Bible that would argue against Christ having been born in late December so we can all stop saying that it does.

If there is blaring aught I have missed or overlooked, let me know.

Sources: https://web.archive.org/web/20160401001536/http://www.myweather2.com/City-Town/Israel/Bethlehem/climate-profile.aspx?month=5 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Chronicles+24&version=ESV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+1-2&version=ESV https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-lowest-temperature-that-sheep-should-be-left-outside-When-is-it-too-cold-even-for-them https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah+12&version=ESV

[todaysjewishholiday]

1 Elul 5784 (3-4 September 2024)

“Ani l’dodi v’dodi li/ I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine” Shir HaShirim 6:3

Chodesh tov! Today is the first day of Elul, and the second day of Rosh Chodesh. The grief and consolation of Av is behind us for another year and we turn inwards and upwards. The sages make much of the fact that the Hebrew spelling of the word Elul— aleph lamed vav lamed— is an acronym for the poetic declaration of love which they took to be a statement of HaShem’s love for the Jewish people. In Jewish tradition, Elul is a month when the sovereign of heaven and earth leaves the throne and joins us in the field of our day to day struggles— a time when G-d draws near to us, making it that much easier for us to draw near to G-d.

This month-long period of divine closeness is of course a prelude to what is to come— the ten day period beginning with Rosh haShana and ending with Yom Kippur during which Jewish tradition calls us to to do the work of repairing our relationships with our fellow humans and the divine in preparation for our eventual mortality. These ten days— the Yamim Noraim, or Days of Awe— require a level of spiritual awareness that cannot be reached in a sudden leap. It requires at minimum a thirty day head start. Which is exactly what our tradition tells us Elul can be for us.

Forty day periods are important in the Hebrew Bible. In the beginning, it takes forty days and nights of continuous rain to cleanse the earth of human violence in the flood narrative. Later, Moshe spends forty days and nights receiving the words of the covenant directly from HaShem on Mount Sinai. And then, if midrash is to be trusted, does so two more times after his first visit ends with the catastrophe of the golden calf. The twelve spies spend forty days scouting out the promised land— and the outcome of their bad report is forty more years of exile. Eliyahu also spends forty days fasting en route to and atop Mount Sinai, and Yonah gives the city of Nineveh a forty day advance warning of its potential destruction. The thirty days of Elul and ten days of the Yamim Noraim give us an annual forty day period of introspection and repair work. Teshuvah and self awareness are of course intended to be continual, but we can still benefit from this season of heightened introspection and added deliberateness in our examination of where we are and what we need to work on to become who we want to become. May this season be fruitful and meaningful for you all.

[istodayajewishholiday]

9 September 2024 - 6 Elul 5784

No, today is not a Jewish holiday.

[veale2006-blog]

The Truth of Genesis: The Seven Feasts Of Yehovah, Part 6 10/28 There are seven feasts, or appointed times, that God gave Israel to keep. Six of the feasts we know several days ahead of time when the feast day is going to occur. However, the only one that occurs “on a day that no man knows”, is the Day of Trumpets. It is the first day of the seventh month, called Tishri. At the end of the sixth month (Elul), witnesses in Jerusalem are watching the sky to see if the first sliver of the renewed Moon will be visible. It is either 29 days or 30 days after the beginning of the sixth month. But until NASA was able to create a system that would calculate the moment that the Moon would be visible, it was always a “guess”, and a “wait and see”. Now, it is just a “wait and see”, because NASA cannot predict cloud cover. If there is cloud cover on the 29th day, the new month is declared on the 30th day.

By protocol, two eye witnesses to the sighting of the Moon, must give their testimony to the High Priest on what they saw, in order for it to be declared the beginning of the seventh month, called Tishri. The time or moment of the evening is defined as when there are three stars visible as the sun is setting. At the evening of the 30th day, if the renewed Moon has not yet been sighted, the start of the 1st day is proclaimed, whether or not the lower crescent of the Moon has been seen. The cycle of the moon is 29.53+ days, or 29 days, 12 hours, and 44 minutes, so there cannot be a 31st day. It can only be 29 or 30 days. The possibility of cloud cover makes it difficult to predict. That’s why it has been called “the day and hour that no man knows”. It has been associated with the day of the coming of Yeshua.

Exodus 19: 1, 2, 10 – 11, 16 - 20 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. 10 And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes, 11 And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

It is my belief that the following scripture occurred on the eighth day of the third month, which would be the very first “Day of Pentecost”, when God gave Israel the new language of Hebrew when He first spoke to them at Mt. Sinai.

16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. 20 And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

Now, on a clear day, from the top of Mt. Sinai, Yehovah had thunder rolling, and lightning flashing, and the ground shaking, and His voice roaring. What other deity has ever done such a thing? Has any of the gods of Greece, Rome, Egypt, India, and Islam ever appeared in front of any people? Since they have not, why do people insist on worshiping such fictitious false gods?

Exodus 20:18-20 18 And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. 19 And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. 20 And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Yehovah only spoke about ten of His 300 or so commandments, and Israel was so scared, that they asked Moses to tell God to stop.

Deuteronomy 5:1 - 28 1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. 2 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. 4 The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire, 5 (I stood between the Lord and you at that time, to shew you the word of the Lord: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying, 6 I am Yehovah thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

Skipping down to verse 23 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye said, Behold, Yehovah our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of Yehovah our God any more, then we shall die. 26 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived? 27 Go thou near, and hear all that Yehovah our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that Yehovah our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it. 28 And Yehovah heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me; and Yehovah said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that they have spoken.

Therefore, as a memorial to remember that day which God spoke, the nation of Israel was to look for, and be ready for, the first day of the seventh month, which would be called the Day of Trumpets.

Leviticus 23:23-25 23 And Yehovah spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

I now ask this question. Has any god, other than Yehovah, ever spoke or shown themself so that people could hear or see evidence of the deity? So why do people worship false gods, such as Mithra, Venus, Zeus, Ganesha, and Allah? Are they insane? There are those that say “Allah is Greater”. Greater than who? Greater than who!!? The only true God in existence, who created this universe, has told us His name. His name is Yehovah, and Yehovah became Yeshua. Those that knowingly bow down and serve false gods are evil, and are worshiping Satan. Have I made myself clear? The only God in existence is Yeshua. It is Yeshua, who is coming down to Earth from Heaven to kill the armies of the anti-Christ, after Elijah and Enoch are risen from the dead, off of the street in Jerusalem, and sent back to Heaven. What other god do you ever expect to see? I repeat. What other deity do you ever expect to see?

Numbers 29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

The KJ bible was translated by gentile theologians of England. When they came across the Hebrew word that was for an assembly, they interpreted it to be what they called a convocation, which was an English assembly of Bishops and representative clergy of the Church of England, or a consultative assembly of clergy and lay delegates from an Episcopal diocese. The word convene is used to describe an agreement to meet to discuss or plan something that is not of a critical nature. To convoke, which is what the word convocation comes from, is a more formal assembly to handle, discuss, or observe something special. Since each of the feasts were of special recognition, it would be appropriate to call the assembly a convocation.

Again, what in the world does anyone expect to gain by forsaking the only real Deity, and worshipping trees, rivers, animals, Lucifer, Hindu deities, sun gods and moon gods, such as Allah? You have to be insane to do such a thing! Come Judgement Day, you will face an angry God that will incinerate your eternal soul in the Lake of Fire forever, and ever, and ever, without any rest. The fire is going to be so hot it is going to torment Lucifer, night and day. What do you think it’s going to do to you? Would you want to join Satan who deceives people? I do not have the vocabulary to properly describe the stupidity of worshipping anything or anyone else, other than Yehovah. Do you think you can stick your nose up at our Creator and not be punished? I plead with all that hear my voice (read my words). Please, please, throw away everything else and worship Yehovah. Yeshua IS Yehovah.

At the beginning of each month, two witnesses would be allowed in the temple chambers to give their report to the High Priest. While the two witnesses are standing outside the gate, the High priest would shout “come up hither”. Upon presenting themselves before the priest, the witnesses then would explain what they saw in the sky, describing what the Moon looked like, and at what time. If the priest believed their report, the trumpets would blow, and bon fires would be lit, mountaintop after mountaintop, letting all of Israel know that the new month has begun that evening.

After the first evening of the month has been declared, everyone would know what day of the month an ensuing feast day would occur, if it has any, such as Passover on the 14th day of the 1st month, and the Day of Atonement on the 10th day of the 7th month. But in the case of the Day of Trumpets, we don’t know what evening that it will begin until the sighting of the first sliver of the renewed Moon, unless cloud cover forces recognition by default. It is the only feast or moadim that begins on a day or hour that no man knows.

The Day of Trumpets begins the Autumn feasts, which Yeshua will begin to fulfill at His next appearance in the sky. This has been called the second coming of Jesus. He will not set foot on the Earth at that time. He will only appear in the sky with His angels, kill the armies of the anti-Christ with swords coming out of His mouth. But before that happens, leading up to that special Day of Trumpets, a certain sequence of events must first occur.

I am of the belief that the seven year count down will begin March 29th, 2023. If that is correct, we can expect the Temple in Jerusalem to start construction within 11 months from then, maybe in December 2023. One issue that I’m wondering about is that it also is about the time that we might see the planet Nibiru in the sky. They might coincide with each other.

In Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount, I expect the Dome of the Rock to come down. I would be very surprised if the Temple began construction with the Islamic Dome still standing, because it would be a persisting defamation of the Temple Mount. I expect the temple to be ready for the day of Attornment, in the September/October timeframe in the year 2026. But shortly afterwards, with the expected moadim of Dedication, also called the Feast of Lights, I would expect the Anti-Christ to make his move, and reveal himself. That is when the brimstone hits the fan.

At that time, being brought back to Earth, will appear Enoch and Elijah, dressed in sackcloth. While the rest of the world is at the mercy of the beast and the false prophet, the two witnesses will prophesy against the anti-Christ, telling him how he and the false prophet will burn forever in the Lake of Fire.

Suppose the Temple Mount was not where the first two temples were constructed? The place called “Zion” was maybe in the aera called “the city of David”.

Enoch and Elijah will carry on with their testimony for 3 ½ years. If any of their enemies try to harm them, fire will come out of their mouth and kill the attacker. But then, after an apparent head wound heals on the Anti-Christ, he will have enough power to kill the two witnesses, and they will lie dead on the street for 84 hours. That’s 3 ½ days. Many evil people will walk up to their bodies and cheer, being glad that they are dead, and give gifts to each other in celebration. But after the 3rd day, they will rise up from the dead, I believe on the evening that starts the Day of Trumpets. Yeshua will call them up to Heaven, and allow the witnesses to give their report.

Revelation 11:3-12 3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. 6 These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. 9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 10 And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. 11 And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.

Each new month begins with the sighting of the renewed Moon at sundown, every 29.530588853 days, or 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes and 2.8 seconds. Yehovah runs this universe by His timeclock, based on the lunar cycle. I am persuaded that the two witnesses, Enoch and Elijah, will be caught up to Heaven to give their report to the High Priest, who is Christ Jesus. Therefore, I would expect the first battle of Armageddon and the rapture of the saints to occur right after the sighting of the renewed Moon, the lower crescent after sundown, in the seventh month, in whatever year Yeshua returns to Earth.

End of Part 6.

Have a blessed day and week. May Yeshua Hamashiach the Christ bless you. Love, Lizzy

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"The Scumbags." From the Book of Nehemiah, "the Exploration of the Mysteries of the Lions that Lay," 6: 11-15.

The Nsh is being pursued by a bunch of scoundrels who are disappointed to find out he is not interested in nepotism, which is a violation of the Decrees. He knows the only way to emerge unscathed is to remain true to his principals and complete his work on the Walls and the Doors.

Following are the deliberations: how should one respond to intimidation and fear for one's life and emerge the legal as well as the actual victor over the circumstances? A Nsh cannot be an ax swinging dyke about everything, but a few things are going to require clear legal recourse, what is called Noadiah, "a meeting with God."

Of this, Sanballat and Tobiah, "the goodness that is swallowed up the hind rear" are clearly in need:

11 But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Or should someone like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!” 12 I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 

13 He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad name to discredit me.

14 Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, my God, because of what they have done; remember also the prophet Noadiah and how she and the rest of the prophets have been trying to intimidate me. 15 So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.

The passage refers to hired men. Hired men are aspects of the behavior that are either forced or incentivized into doing the right things. The term usally refers to Yehsiva boys who are forced into the Shule at an early age in exchange for residence in the parent's homes, but internally, this refers to the self-control one must indenture oneself into possessing. There are indeed aspects of the mind that will try to intimidate a man or woman into spending too much time on their backside. Except our rear end butts are not permitted to prostitute us or whore us out.

One cannot say "my ass whored me out so I went along for the ride." It must always be the reverse. To perform Noadiah and "to bear witness repeatedly before the congregation, like a habit" due to the sins of the flesh is not acceptable.

On the societal level, society must indeed prosecute and persecute persons who are not in control of their genitals. We are not doing a very good job of this. The age of consent is inviolate. One cannot reframe violations of the age of consent under any circumstances nor fail at due process. This is the first office named by the Torah and for this there is a reason.

The Republican Party has used "underage prostitutes" to stage incidents of stachitory rape against their opponents using little drug addicted psychos to discredit or intimidate them, and they are for the most part getting away with it as you can tell. This is repugnant and deserves the harshest of punishments and proper persecution in the public sphere.

The Zohar says mais oui to this.

The Values in Gematria are:

v. 11-12: But should a man run away? Men and boys do not mix. Yes, run. There are plenty of people with pubes that are horny just like you. Find one of these instead.

The Number is 8742, חז‎‎דב‎‎, hazdev, "you scumbag!"

v. 13: He'd been hired to intimidate me! The Number is 6503, ו‎נג‎, and ng, "illuminate the situation."

"The verb נגה (nagah) means to lighten, or to reflect light and occurs a mere two or three times in the Bible: 2 Samuel 22:29, which is reduplicated as Psalm 18:28 ("lighten up the darkness"), and Isaiah 13:10 ("the moon reflects light").

It's probably prudent to note that this root does not actually describe light or being light (which would be done with the root אור, 'or) but rather the traveling of light or else its effect of illuminating."

v. 14-15: The Wall was completed. The Number is 11051, קין‎‎א‎, kina, "a louse, a label, a style, a term."

"The verb קנן (qanan) isn't used in the Bible but it appears to tell of the weaving of many strands into a dynamic and interlocked network. These strands may be reeds and twigs that a bird weaves into a nest, or it may be acts of trade and routes of commerce that together combine into a bustling economy. Noun קן (qen) means nest, and verb קנן (qinnen) means to make a nest.

Verb קנה (qana) means to obtain, i.e. to acquire or in some instances to create. It's the regular verb for a commercial purchase. Noun קנין (qinyan) describes an item acquired (or created). Noun מקנה (migneh) means cattle (as unit of commerce). Noun מקנה (miqna) means purchase or purchase-price. Noun קנה (qaneh) denotes some herb on a stalk, or any rod, reed, branch- or stalk-like item (in this sense, a plant "acquires" its branches).

The verb קין (qyn), which isn't used in the Bible, occurs in cognate language with the meaning of to fit together, fabricate or forge (often of metal things). In the Bible occurs only the noun קין (qayin), meaning spear. Note that our modern word "franchise" comes from a word that meant spear, and originally denoted a free man, i.e. one who had the authority to bear arms, own property and thus conduct trade. The earliest republican government of Rome was called curia, literally spear-bearers, and the link between bearing a spear or other such ceremonial weapon and a senatorial government (a government by tribal elders) appears to have been pretty much globally understood throughout history.

Noun קינה (qina) denotes a kind of sad poem; a dirge or lamentation, which both had to be fabricated and could, presumably, pierce a person's soul like a spear (which is an obvious Biblical figure of speech; see Luke 2:35). The denominative verb קונן (qonen) means to do a dirge, which could be either to chant or compose one.

The verb תקן (taqan) means to make or become straight."

It seems the Nsh chose to go and find the pedophiles that were trying to frame him, arrested them according to the customs and laws of his people and disposed of them. Go Nsh!

Donald Trump, the Republicans, Mormons, Catholics and others romanticize and spiritualize sex with minors and the problem is pandemic. You may have heard Mitt Romney and others claiming sex with minors is an aspect of their religious freedom and "that is how we bring them to Jesus Christ!" The US Government has addressed the problems posed by persons Mitt Romney and Donald Trump who have openly admitted to sexual misconduct with minors with gross negligence and incompetence and millions of lives have been destroyed.

Sex between family members and persons who are not of age is illegal. When minors are trafficked, especially by public officials, the crimes are considered Crimes Against Humanity.

In cases like those involving Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Rick Perry, Josh Hawley, Mitt Romney and other members of Congress and the Supreme Court like Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Alito, et al. incidents require mandatory prosecution and prevent individuals involved from holding public office and other types of positions where exposure might induce risk. The White House is expected to respond to this today. The US Government is not allowed to fuckaround and fuckabout with this issue, we must insist it deal with the problem with the urgency that is legally required.

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Working together

“So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.” (Nehemiah 6:15 NASB2020) At first glance perhaps this doesn’t have much impact on us. But when we consider what they were doing, we realize what a great achievement this statement represents. In under two months the Jews who had returned […] https://www.abiblecommentary.com/blog/2024/10/09/working-together-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=tumblr