The Feast of Trumpets

When the Stars Fall, Vol. 1 ^ | July 2010 | Michael Bugg

[Buggman]

Yom Teruah, better known as Rosh Hashannah, is upon us. I'd thought about creating a nice, elaborate blog post, but decided instead to take the opportunity to plug my book, When the Stars Fall, Vol. 1, by linking to the .pdf of the sample of Interlude 5: The Feast of Trumpets. Here are a few highlights to whet your appitite:

However, [Rosh Hashannah is] not it’s Biblical name, which is Yom Teruah, the Day of the [Trumpet] Blast:

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing [of shofars], a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.’”51

In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing [of shofars] to you.52

In each of these passages, “shofars” is in brackets because it’s not actually in the Hebrew text; however, teruah can and usually does mean to sound the trumpet (though it can mean to shout with a voice as well) and the use of a shofar on this day is considered so axiomatic that there is literally no debate in Jewish tradition on the matter. The shofar may be made from the horn of any kosher animal save that of the bull, in memory of the sin of the golden calf.

Shalom, and L'shannah Tova.

[The Comedian]

Awesome post, great thread.

Baruch HaShem Adonai Eloheynu!

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[MHGinTN]

What year is the next Year of Jubilee, a fiftieth?

[Cvengr]

bttt thanks

[Salem]

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[Sender]

The NT is hardly “gibberish”, but yet I always enjoy these spirited discussions of j*daism nonetheless. (asterisk and lowercase added in deference to ZC) I do greatly enjoy the Rabbinical commentary on scripture, it is invaluable.

[M. Espinola]

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[Lera]

Thanks for the ping :)

[novemberslady]

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[RoadTest]

And it’s the Old Testament type and foreshadowing of the Last Trump, when the dead in Christ and the living for Messiah shall rise and meet him in the air. (I Cor. 15:52)

[Quix]

PRAYERS FOR YOU BRO. AND YOUR PROJECT.

[Buggman]

Shalom, blaster. I'm discussing connecting symbolic threads here that someone who is familiar with the New Testament's descriptions of Yeshua would get. One of those descriptions/titles is "The Lamb of God." Another is "The Word of God." Again, I'm obviously not writing the book as an apologetic work to convert Jews--Michael L. Brown is far more competent than me in that arena.

I appreciate that you took the effort to try to read it, but to put it simply, you are not the book's target audience.

Shalom and L'shannah Tova.

[STD]

Why do you think the AC will be an American--or Kenyan, as the case may be?

The only requirements for the origin of the AC is that he's from the Roman Empire. If you recall, all subjects of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire are possible candidates. I don't think we will ever know where Hussein's really from. Kenya or the USA would qualify as descendants of the Roman Empire.

[blasater1960]

I'm discussing connecting symbolic threads

Thanks, I know that is what you are doing and I know who your target audience is. That is what bothered me! If you are going to provide your Christian audience a Torah perspective....great! I would only hope that your presentation would be an open and honest one. Provide your audience with an accurate portrayal of how a Torah Scroll is constructed. Why paint it as Christological when it is dishonest to do that? Many other aspects of your book are comepletely wrong but that would be a polemic discussion. The blatently dishonest stuff, is not fit for your audience.

Shalom and L'shannah tovah to you as well!

[caww]

Very interesting reads you post...however Bo is not the Antichrist. He does not fit the definitive profile or behavior....especially as his popularity drops as we see it doing. I do believe he is opposed to the the things of G-d though.

The Antichrist will come out of The Mediterranean/Europe, and clearing so.....though some have attempted to insert various possibilities about obam he simply does not have the defining attributes, nor the world approvals that will be when the Antichrist enters the arena.

The weekly Standard recently summed up Bo quite nicely:

“Obama’s approach is Omnipotence at home. Impotence abroad.”

His recent speech in Ohio was a flop because they had to recruit students to fill all the empty seats. The Antichrist will have no problem filling seats anywhere....

[Jeremiah Jr]

Here’s an interesting fact, Pesach of 5771 is the middle of a ‘week’ aka a shemita cycle. Also the middle of a week was 30 C.E.(3790) interesting to say the least! How to find the beginning of the cycle? Divide the years by 7.

See: Daniel 9

Shana Tova 5771 Happy New Year!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you oh so very much, dear Buggman!

[DouglasKC]

The first day of the seventh month is the "new year of years." That is a tradition. It is not in the Tanakh.

At our Trumpets services today one of the speakers brought up an interesting point.

Lev 23:24 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Lev 23:25 You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.' "

A memorial of what? Scripture isn't really clear on what this is. I tend to come down on the side of a memorial of the actions of God in Genesis...the molding of the earth for man. But I don't think it's really provable from scripture or tradition.

[Carry_Okie]

There are now vowels (or punctuation) in the TaNa"KH.

The transliteration I typed was to make for handier pronunciation on a public forum. If you prefer I use the more typical spelling, no problem.

For the record, I do not dispute the rationale for the Talmud or its value as a source of commentary. I use it as a resource and cite it from time to time. However, I do not take its findings as "Oral Law" (particularly as regards the agricultural laws), as do some of the Orthodox. So when you stated your comments as fact and not as findings, I didn't have a problem with that as long as you cited the source. Given that you didn't, I qualified the opinion both to let you know the I hold that tradition in lesser regard than the Torah and for the benefit of the forum. You have your opinions based upon your sources, and I have mine based upon my sources. That's just how things are.

All these things, without which the Jewish religion could not have survived after one year, are found only in the Oral Tradition.

So it is said. :-) OTOH, it is written that the Jewish nation would have survived just fine had they obeyed the Torah. In my opinion, this is particularly true with the statutes in Behar Sinai in that they did not keep Shemitta for centuries (never mind Yoveil). Both are directly associated with national survival by the chiastic inclusion containing Behar Sinai and B'chukotai, but more than that, the mechanics of those consequences are explainable by the everyday plain meaning metrics of economics, military logistics, and ecology if (and only if) Exodus 23:11 is kept as originally specified, namely, "release and abandon" not "rest and lie fallow."

Unfortunately, when Judah came back from Bavel there was no chance the Sabbath year would ever be observed as originally specified simply because Judah's Persian, Greek, and then Roman suzerains would never have tolerated preparations for guerrilla war every seven years!!! (Such as stocking a year's worth of food in the wild against siege, etc... I know, you have no idea what I'm talking about; that's why you might-should read the book) As a result of that oppressive circumstance, the rabbis ended up enforcing a circumscribed form of Shemitta as "rest and lie fallow" in the Second Temple Period that was lacking the key strategic and logistical attributes of Ex. 23:11 as "release and abandon" by which it could have worked as promised. Understandably, they omitted any reference to the original specification in the Talmud and unless you have read Tractate Sheviis it you couldn't have known that. That they understood the verse as "release and abandon" is confirmed by the Septuagint Greek.

My take is that had they written it down, the rabbis would have been arrested and possibly executed and we thence wouldn't have a Torah today. Hence, they (or "we," seeing as I have Jewish lineage) didn't keep their national independence as specified therein.

So, when the fall of Israel is attributed by the Oral Tradition to "idolatry" when a simpler more obvious explanation is available, it is hard to offer it the authority so often claimed and the prophets warned against such:

And the L-rd said: Forasmuch as this people draw near, and with their mouth and with their lips do honour Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear of Me is a commandment of men learned by rote; (Is 29:13 - or Mat. 15:7, Yeshua rote of an Isaiah wrote. :-)

It is equally problematic to attribute the survival of the religion to the Oral Tradition in the time between the crossing of the Jordan and the Bar Kokhba Revolt when it is written that the nation had yet to cover the Lord's written essentials. When those rules can be shown by everyday metrics to have precisely the predicted and realized outcomes when obeyed or flouted, well, the need for attribution to mystical explanations start to appear suspect.

So while I would agree with you that thereafter the Talmud has played a central role in maintaining the Jewish religion's integrity to this day, I have seen indications in the Septuagint that conflict with the claim that any more than a few fragments of the Oral Tradition extend beyond the return much less to the Exodus. And no, the reason I am citing the Septuagint has nothing to do with my religious affiliations, but more to do with its many useful parallels with and distinctions from the Masoretic text. Moreover, because the circumstances of exile precluded adherence to much of the Torah, the habit of intrinsic interpretation became so inculcated into the Talmud that it drove more obvious and relevant understandings outside the scope of consideration, which is a methodology that is IMO fraught with many a peril.

[Carry_Okie]

A memorial of what? Scripture isn't really clear on what this is.

The Hebrew is clear enough. The root is zayin.haf.resh (Strong's H2142). Here is the Brown-Drive-Briggs entry for that root:

1) to remember, recall, call to mind
a) (Qal) to remember, recall
b) (Niphal) to be brought to remembrance, be remembered, be thought of, be brought to mind
IMO, the purpose of Yom Teruah is to "call to mind" that Yom Kippur is at hand, and to prepare one's self accordingly.

[Carry_Okie]

Feex thee Typo

Here is the Brown-Drive(r)-Briggs entry for that root: