New Moon Not Sighted from Israel (Yom Teruah will begin Wednesday night, 10/1 thru 10/2/2008)
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:16 AM ***email address removed*** wrote:
Karaite Korner News #352
New Moon Not Sighted
On Tuesday September 30, 2008 the new moon was not sighted by observers from Israel. With the time between sunset and moonset only 20 minutes this was exactly as expected. As a result, Yom Teruah will begin Wednesday night, Oct 1, which is the 31st day from the previous sighting. This is because a lunar month can only be 29 or 30 days long and the non-sighting tonight made the Sixth biblical month 30 days.
Nehemia Gordon
Jerusalem, Israel
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October 1st, 2008 - 08:02
Can the true day, Rosh Hashanah, be changed and be accepted and right in G-d’s eyes?? I know it has many other meanings on that holiday, and it is the next one to take place on the Jewish calender to really happen……………
Regards, Holly Ainsworth
October 1st, 2008 - 12:11
That is a great question to ask יהוה. Is it okay to change the timing of Moedim? It seems that when the Anti-Messiah changes the Moedim, it will not win him points or favor with יהוה. Daniel 7 certainly paints the act in a negative light.
Daniel 7:24-25 (TS98)
(24) ‘And the ten horns are ten sovereigns from this reign. They shall rise, and another shall rise after them, and it is different from the first ones, and it humbles three sovereigns,
(25) and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times1 and law2, and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time. Footnotes: 1This is another word for festivals. 2Changing the law amounts to lawlessness. Read in 2 Thess. 2:3-12 about “the lawless one” and the “lawlessness” which would take over (indeed, it has already taken over!) in the set-apart place, and also about Messiah’s judgment upon the lawless “prophets” in Mt. 7:23, and the lawless “believers” in Mt. 13:41!
Hillel II may have had good reason to calculate the Moedim when Jew-dah was in Diaspora, but now that Judah is back in the Land of Israel and can see and proclaim the sightings of the Moon from Jerusalem, it would make sense for the Orthodox of Judah to abandon the old calculated system which was a manifestation of the Diaspora.
I’ve heard there are some Orthodox who have taken part in the search for the Aviv Barley, etc… I can only assume they are planning to restore the ancient system eventually and encourage its observance within all Jewish communities in Israel and around the world. The Rabbinic criticism isn’t of the Karaite method, but of Karaite authority to “declare” the Months and associated Moedim.
October 11th, 2008 - 15:09
Michael Rood has spent a lot of time figuring out the Creator’s Calendar. You can watch some of his videos on youtube. He and other Jews planted barley fields in Israel to re establish the man’s knowledge of when the Creator’s feast will begin.