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Helpful Quotes | Biblical View | Leap Year | Abib | Parched Abib | Feast of Matzot | Conclusion | Links
Moving towards an Observed Calendar is our choice as a Synagogue!
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But to connect the spring new moon with the day when the sun has returned to the equinox is a more difficult and complicated matter. The early Hebrews would seem to have solved the problem practically, by simply watching the progress of the growing grain. If at one new moon in spring time it appeared clear that some of the barley would be ready in a fortnight for the offering of the green ears at the feast of unleavened bread, then that was taken as beginning the new year. If it appeared doubtful if it would be ready, or certain that it would not be, then the next new moon was waited for. This method was sufficient in primitive times, and so long as the nation of Israel remained in its own land. In the long run, it gave an accurate value for the mean tropical year, and avoided all the astronomical difficulties of the question. It shows the early Hebrews as practical men, for the solution adopted was easy, simple and efficient. From the Book Astronomy and the Bible 1922 E.W Maunder.
The Sanhedrin closely watched the arrival of Abib. If the barley crop was not in a state ready for the wave offering the month was intercalated. This means the month of Adar II was added to the calendar, realigning the lunar year with the solar year. Unlike the present day traditional calculation for the reckoning of Adar II, the Sanhedrin reckoned it according to the signs of the seasons. This is documented in the Talmud where the author states: "in tractate Sanhedrin 11b letters are quoted which were sent out by Rabbi Simeon ben Gamaliel and Rabban Gamaliel II. Simeon, son of Gamaliel I and head of the Sanhedrin in the two decades before the destruction of the Temple, wrote as follows.
‘We beg to inform you that the doves are still tender and the lambs are still young, and the grain has not yet ripened. I have considered the matter and thought it advisable to add thirty days to the year" (Finegan 38).
From this we can see, even from the Talmud Tractate Sanhedrin 11b, that during the time of Yeshua the presence of ripe grain was the determining factor used to calculate the first of the biblical months.
Mark 4:27-29 "And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. (KJV)"
Nehemiah 13:6
2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
Nehemiah 8:1-18 1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
This was the restoration of reading the Torah to the people; we read the Temple reading in a Triennial Cycle over Three years. Ezra started in Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets) the dedication of the Temple. They read the whole Torah!
We start at the beginning of the year in Nissan at Beresheet (Genisis) then read through.
As this doc. I begin here, Thursday, March 10, 2005
Biblical date: 29Adar I 5765
My assignment is to analyze it, and come to conclusion. "Well, according to the documented findings per the Karaite Korner Newsletter #194, stated on March 8, 2005, Aviv was found in Israel, at Alon Junction and Ein Mabua near Jerusalem. Was found by Aviv Searchers out as on a field trip to learn to look for in this search for Aviv. Immediately found was that the barley was in an advanced stage of ripening. According to their report, Aviv barley located east of Jerusalem, are enough to establish the coming of the Month of the Aviv, and in light of this discovery, the New Moon, Friday March 11, 2005, will be the beginning of the coming biblical year. Chag HaMatzot will be Saturday March 26, 2005. And Shavuot will be May 15, 2005. There were 11 people that witnessed the sighting of the Aviv near Jerusalem."
Abib (The Thirteenth Month/Leap Year): It indicates a stage in the development of the barley crop. It has 3 characteristics: (1) It is brittle enough to be destroyed by hail and has to lighten in color (it is not ‘dark’), (2) The seeds have produced enough dry material so it can e eaten parched, (3) It has developed enough so that it will be harvest ready 2-3 weeks later.
Exodus 12:2; "This month shall be for you the beginning of the months, it shall be for you the first of the months of the year." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Exodus 13:4; "Today you are leaving, in the month of springtime." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Deuteronomy 16:1; "You shall observe the month of springtime and perform the pesach-offering for HASHEM, your G-d, for in the month of springtime HASHEM, your G-d, took you put of Egypt at night." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Exodus 23:15; "You shall observe the Festival of Matzos; seven days shall you eat Matzos, as I have commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of springtime, for in it you left Egypt; you shall not be seen before Me empty handed." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Exodus 34:18; "You shall observe the Festivals of Matzos: For a seven-day period you shall eat matzos, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of spring, for in the month of spring you went forth from Egypt." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Exodus 9:31-32; "The flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was ripe and the flax was in its stalk. And the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they ripen later." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Leviticus 23:10-11; "Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: When you shall enter the Land that I give you and you reap its harvest, you shall bring an Omer from your first harvest to the Kohen. He shall wave the Omer before HASHEM to gain favor for you; on the morrow of the rest day the Kohen shall wave it." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Deuteronomy 16:9; "You shall count seven weeks for yourselves; from when the sickle is first put to the standing crop shall you begin counting seven weeks." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Leviticus 23:14; "You shall not eat bread or roasted kernels or plump kernels until this very day, until you bring the offering of your G-d; it is an eternal decree for your generations in all your dwelling places." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Leviticus 23:15; "You shall count for yourselves - from the morrow of the rest day, from the day when you bring the Omer of the waving - seven weeks, they shall be complete." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Leviticus 2:14; "When you bring a meal-offering of the first grain to HASHEM: from ripe ears, parched over fire, ground from plump kernels, shall you offer the meal-offering of your first grain." (Stone Chumash Torah)
"By comparing this verse with Exodus 9:31; the Sages required for this offering is barley. The plump kernels are parched lightly in order to dry them a bit so that they can be ground easily. (Rashi)" (Stone Chumash Torah notes)
Leviticus 23:14; "You shall not eat bread or roasted kernels or plump kernels until this very day, until you bring the offering of your G-d; it is an eternal decree for your generations in all your dwelling places." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Joshua 5:11; "They ate from the grain of the land on the day after the Pesach-offering, matzos and roasted grain, on this very day." (Stone Tanach)
I Samuel 17:17; "Jesse said to his son David, "Please take this ephah of toasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to the camp to your brothers." (Stone Tanach)
I Samuel 25:18; "So Abigail hurried and took two hundred breads, two containers of wine, five cooked sheep, five se’ahs of toasted grain, a hundred raisin-clusters, and two hundred of pressed figs, and she put them on the donkeys." (Stone Tanach)
II Samuel 17:28-29; "Took bedding, bowls, pottery, wheat, flour, toasted grain, beans, lentils, toasted legumes, honey, butter, sheep, and cow’s [milk] cheeses [and] they brought [them] to David and to the people with him to eat, for they said, "The people are hungry and exhausted and thirsty in the desert." (Stone Tanach)
Ruth 2:14; "At mealtime, Boaz said to her, "Come over here and partake of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar." So she sat beside the harvesters, He handed her parched grain and she ate and was satisfied, and had some left over." (Stone Tanach)
S’mot 23:15; "You shall observe the Festival of Matzos; seven days shall you eat matzos, as I have commanded you, at the appointed time of the month of springtime, for in it you left Egypt; you shall not be seen before Me empty-handed."(Stone Chumash Torah)
S’mot 34:18; "You shall observe the Festival of Matzos: For a seven-day period you shall eat matzos, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of spring, for in the month of spring you went from Egypt." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Devarim 16:16-17; "Three times a year all your males should appear before HASHEM, your G-d, in the place that He choose: on the Festival of Matzos, the Festival of Shavuos, and the Festival of Succos; and he shall not appear before HASHEM empty-handed, everyone according to what he can give, according to the blessing that HASHEM, your G-d, gives you." (Stone Chumash Torah)
Here concluded for now the given Scriptures about this subject of Abib. I have taken from this doc. That was sent me, and recorded all the verses, plus some I had from a file/doc. I am making on my own called: “Feasts” and from the onset of Abib to the Feast day that leads to Shavuot. One leads to another as based on the Abib.
Seeing that the sighting are valid, and scriptural; then it will be accepted by us, Richard Green, Frank Bolton, Denise Marsden and Kathy Martonosi, that the New Moon Friday March 11, 2005 will start the New Year. This will start Pesach March 26, 2005.
Karaite Korner Newsletter #194 Aviv Found! On Tuesday March 8, 2005 Aviv was found in Israel at Alon Junction and Ein Mabua near Jerusalem. Large quantities of Aviv barley were found near Ein Mabua and smaller quantities near Alon Junction. Ein Mabua is located 15km east of Jerusalem. The Aviv examination on March 8, 2005 started out as a field trip to teach Aviv Searchers about what to look for during the main Aviv Search on Thursday-Friday March 10-11, 2005. During this preliminary examination we immediately found that the barley in the region was in an advanced stage of ripening. The main Aviv Search, which will cover the Northern Negev and Jordan Valley regions, will still be carried out on March May 15th starts Shavuot 10-11. However, the vast quantities of Aviv Barley already located east of Jerusalem are enough to establish the coming month as the Month of the Aviv. In light of this discovery, the New Moon on Friday March 11, 2005 will be the beginning of the coming biblical year. Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread) will fall out on Saturday March 26, 2005 and Shav near Jerusalem
Shauot (Feast of Weeks) will fall out on May 15, 2005. The following people participated in the Aviv examination on March 8, 2005: Nehemia Gordon, Ruthanne Koch, Devorah Gordon, Glen Cain, Karl Bloodworth, Ferenc Illesy, Avi Marcus, Dina Marcus, Avi Gold, Terry Fehr, and Yosef Ruach.
Pictures of Aviv Barley fields found on Tuesday March 8, 2005 are posted at: Happy New Year! Nehemia Gordon
WE do not agree with the Karaite views on many topics, but on this one (Abib) we do until further information comes to light.
Please try not to judge others if they do or do not follow the Abib Barley Biblical Calendar. Its really about if you want First Century Believers Judaism. Others are more Rabbinical, sometimes it takes time people need more time. Its not about being right or biblical its about grace to obedience.
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Set to Yerushalayim is situated in 31° 46? 45? N. lat. and 35° 13? 25? E. long., upon the southern spur of a plateau the eastern side of which slopes from 2,460 ft (800m). above sea-level.
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