There is a great deal of significance attached to this day in Jewish theology, as it is most often emphasized as a time when God looks down from Heaven and reconsiders where He stands with people. It is a time where we are to rejoice and celebrate, remembering His goodness to us, but also begin a sober examination of our humanity, and consider faults and sins that must be rectified.
Posts Tagged: yom teruah
The Seven Spirits of God as a Chiastic Structure
Digging into the Torah can sometimes uncover things not visible from a surface read. At a recent Shabbat service, Bill Patton, one of the Tabernacle of David teachers, spoke on Torah, haftarah, and New Testament. As he dug deeper into these texts, he showed a hidden meaning within the “Seven Spirits of God” mentioned in… Read more
Yom Teruah arrives! Here’s how to keep it
“In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work; it is a day of blowing the shofar for you." -Numbers 29 Shalom, Tabernaclers! Judah here. Yom Teruah (Rosh HaShana), the day of shofar blasts, begins this week! Tabernacle… Read more
