YAHWEH's Feasts: Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement
This is a most solemn feast day of fasting to commemorate our reconciliation unto YAHWEH.
YAHWEH's People Through Righteous Sorrow And Atonement For Sin
This was observed on the tenth day of Tishri. It was really less a feast than a fast as the distinctive character and purpose of the day was to bring the collective sin of the whole year to remembrance so than it might earnestly be dealt with and atoned for. On this day the high priest made confession of all the sins of the community and entered on their behalf into the most SetApart (holy) place with the blood of reconciliation. It was solemn occasion when YAHWEH's people through righteous sorrow and atonement for sin entered into the rest of YAHWEH's mercy and favor so than as the partakers of HIS forgiveness they might rejoice before HIM and carry out HIS Commandments.2.
There Shall Be A Day Of Atonement: It Shall Be A SetApart (Holy) Convocation
Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:26 And YAHWEH spoke unto Moshe, saying, Also on the
tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be a
SetApart (holy) convocation unto you; and you shall afflict your souls, and
offer an offering made by fire unto
YAHWEH. 28 And you shall do no work in that same day: for it is a
day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before YAHWEH your ABBA (FATHER).
29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he
shall be cut off from among his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that
doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his
people. 31 You shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever
throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be unto you
a Shabbat of rest, and you shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the
month at even, from even unto even, shall you celebrate your Shabbat.
Vayiqra (Leviticus) 25:9 Then shall you cause the trumpet of the jubilee
to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall
you make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
YAHWEH's help to the penitent and YAHWEH's forgiveness
The Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur (Yom ha-Kippurim), on the 10th of Tishri,
is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar and is entirely devoted to fasting,
prayer and meditation. The scripture calls it by a double title, Shabbat
Shabaton (i.e., a Shabbat of solemn resting), for on this day solemnity
and rest from work are most complete. Yom Kippur celebrates theme of
repentance-man's weakness, man's capacity to envision the ideal, YAHWEH's help
to the penitent and YAHWEH's forgiveness. According to the Haggadah, the Day of
Atonement marks the day when the Israelites received the second Tablets of the
Law; they then knew that they were forgiven for the sin of the golden calf. The
forgiveness of YAHWEH is conditioned upon man's obtaining the forgiveness of his
fellow men; thus the day before Yom Kippur is usually devoted to the mutual
asking of forgiveness.
The evening service with which Yom Kippur opens is preceded by the recitation of
Kol Nidre, a declaration annulling all vows and oaths of the coming year that
are in contradiction to the Jewish faith or that were made under improper
conditions (e.g., duress). The practice of annulling vows by confessing them to
a court was developed in the mishnaic period. Symbolically, Kol Nidre dramatizes
the idea of holding every spoken word as a hallowed pledge. In addition, the
words and the melody of Kol Nidre are associated with the suffering and
martyrdom of the Spanish marranos
(q.v.). Yom Kippur also is distinguished by the number of services held,
an additional service, Neila, being chanted just before sunset. In Orthodox and
Conservative congregations, the entire day is devoted to prayer and meditation;
in Reform temples, two services usually are held, in the morning and in the late
afternoon.2.
Haggadah (Etymology:Hebrew haggadhah Date:1856)
1 : ancient Jewish lore forming especially the nonlegal part of the Talmud
2 : the prayer book containing the seder ritual (a Jewish home or community
service including a ceremonial dinner held on the first or first and second
evenings of the Passover in commemoration of the exodus from Egypt)
Kol Nidre (Etymology: Aramaic kol nidhre all the vows; from the opening phrase
of the prayer Date:1881) a formula for the annulment of private vows chanted in
the synagogue on the eve of Yom Kippur
Mishnah (Etymology:Hebrew mishnah instruction, oral law Date:1610) the
collection of mostly halakic Jewish traditions compiled about A.D. 200 and made
the basic part of the Talmud (: the body of Jewish law supplementing the
scriptural law and forming especially the legal part of the Talmud; Etymology:
Hebrew halakhah, literally, way Date:1856)
marranos (Marrano) (Etymology: Spanish, literally, pig Date:1583 : a
Christianized Jew of medieval Spain
ALL FEASTS BEGIN AT SUNSET THE DAY BEFORE THE FEAST DATE.
1. Harper's Encyclopedia Of Bible Life cc1946
2. Encyclopedia Britannica (Jewish Holidays) 1968
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