Sunday Sermonette: Turning of the months

Leviticus 23 remains essential to Jewish life and religious practice, though in ways that have changed considerably over the centuries. It outlines the important points in the liturgical calendar. Some new ones have been added since, and the nature of observance has changed with the abandonment of ritual sacrifice, but these major observances are still honored. A confusing point is that the liturgical and civil calendars have different starting points. The Festival of Trumpets is placed here at the beginning of the seventh month. It is now called Rosh hashana, marking the new year. So the liturgical year begins with Passover, but the civil year begins 7 months later with the blowing of the ram ' s horn. As far as I can tell the " offering of first fruits " does not correspond to an existing scheduled event -- it seems to have been absorbed into the Festival of Weeks -- today called Shavuot. Please correct me if I ' m missing something. The Festival of Booths is now called Sukkot.23 TheLord spoke to Moses, saying:2 Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: These are the appointed festivals of theLord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations, my appointed festivals.3 Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work: it is a sabbath to theLord throughout your settlements.Of course we have heard this many times already.4 These are the appointed festivals of theLord, the holy convo...
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