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Fall Mo'edim - Teshuvah and Joy

The Fall Mo'edim -

Teshuvah and Redemption

Preparations for the fall holidays begin with a thirty day period of teshuvah (repentance) during the entire month of Elul.  The following ten days begin with the Feast of Trumpets (i.e., Rosh Hashanah, on Tishri 1) and end with the Day of Atonement (i.e., Yom Kippur, on Tishri 10). These first ten days of the new year are called the "Ten Days of Awe" (i.e., aseret ye'mei teshuvah: עֲשֶׁרֶת יְמֵי תְּשׁוּבָה), or simply the Jewish "High Holidays." Just five days after the solemn time of Yom Kippur begins the joyous week-long festival of Sukkot ("Tabernacles"), which is immediately followed by the celebration of Simchat Torah.

Fall - S'Tav

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Prophetic Significance

The fall festivals prophetically indicate the great Day of the LORD (יוֹם־יְהוָה), the second coming of Yeshua, the great national turning of the Jewish people, and the establishment of the reign of the Messiah over the earth during the Millennial Kingdom:
 


Note that two other dates are significant during this season:

  • Kristallnacht Remembrance: the "Night of Broken Glass" [Cheshvan 15, the date Nov. 9th, 1938 - the first great pogrom of the Nazis in Germany]
  • The Balfour Declaration - [Cheshvan 17, the date when the British government agreed to a Jewish homeland in 1917. Note that Cheshvan 17 is also the date traditionally associated with start of the great mabbul, the flood of Noah]

     

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