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From: ravmoshe@bellsouth.net
To: heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org
Subject: SHAVOUT, ROSH CHODESH AND CHAG HA MATZOT!

From Rabbi Moshe Joseph Koniuchowsky:

My responses are in caps, not to shout but simply because my reply mechanism has no bold or italic features. So thanks for understanding. Questions in lower case with Rabbi Moshe's answers in upper case.

From Sister Melba:
Greetings in the wonderful name of Yahweh Most High and our Savior Yahshua the Messiah.

Please let me know why you count the Omer from after the 7 Day Sabbath and not after the annual Sabbath.
 

Rabbi Moshe Joseph Koniuchowsky replies:

ACCORDING TO LEVITICUS/WAYIQRA 23:11, YAHWEH TELLS US TO BEGIN COUNTING AFTER THE SABBATH. SOME SAY THAT IS THE 16TH OF AVIV, THE DAY AFTER THE ANNUALL SHABBATH ON THE 25TH OF AVIV. OTHERS SAY, THAT IS THE DAY AFTER THE WEEKLY SHABBAT. HERE'S WHY THAT IS WHAT I BELEIVE TO BE TRUE. IF YOU LOOK AT VERSE 15 OF LEVITICUS 23, YOU WILL SEE THATWE ARE TO COUNT 7 COMPLETED SHABBATHS AND VERSE 16 STATES THAT THE DAY AFTER THE 7TH OF THE 7 WEEKLY SHABBATHS IS SHAVOUT. SO IF WE NEED 7 WEEKLY SHABATS PLUS ONE WE WOULD HAVE TO ALWAYS BEGIN THE COUNT ON A FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK AND ALWAYS GET TO 50 ON A FIRST DAY AND THUS SHAVOUT ALWAYS FALLS ON THE FIRST DAY.

FOR IF WE BEGAN THE COUNT ON A SECOND DAY OR THIRD DAY OF THE WEEK, (WHICH WOULD HAPPEN IF WE BEGAN COUNTING AFTER THE ANNUAL SHABBAT ON THE 15TH) SOMETIMES WE WOULD GET TO 50 ON A DAY BEFORE THE 7TH WEEKLY SHABBATH (49TH DAY). THUS WE WOULD HIT 50 DAYS BEFORE 7 WEEKLY SHABBAT HAS BEEN COUNTED. IF WE FOLLOWED THAT COURSE, WE WOULD HAVE TO ADD ON SEVERAL DAYS TO THE 5O TOTAL BECAUSE ACCORING TO LEV. 23:15 WE CANNOT DECLARE PENTECOST UNTIL 7 WEEKLY SHABBATHS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED. THUS THE ONLY WAY TO ACHEIVE 7 WEEKLY SHABBATHS, AS WELL AS REACH 50 ONLY AFTER 7 WEEKLY SHABBATHS (DEUTERONOMY 16:9), IS TO ALWAYS BEGIN THE COUNT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK AFTER THE WEEKLY SHABBT DURING THE WEEK OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVNED BREAD THUS GURANTEEING THAT WE WILL NOT BE CELEBRATING PENTECOST AFTER ONLY SAY 6 WEEKS AND 3 DAYS OR SIX WEEKS AND 2 DAYS OR SOME OTHER INCORRECT CONFIGURATION. UNDER THAT FORMULA, (STARTING THE COUNT ON THE 16TH OF AVIV EVERY YEAR) IF WE WAITED THE EXTRA DAYS TILL WE HAD 7 WEEKLY SHABBATHS COMPLETED, (DET. 16:9) WE THEN IN MOST CASES WOULD BE CELEBRATING SHAVOUT 53, 54 OR 55 DAYS INTO THE COUNT IN ORDER TO GET 7 WEEKLY SHABBATS INCLUDED. THIS JUST CANNOT BE.

THE FINAL CONFIRMATION IS YAHSHUA'S RESSURECTION. ACCORDING TO 1ST CORINTHIANS 15, HE IS THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THOSE THAT SLEPT AND THUS ROSE ON FIRSTFRUITS. IF WE ALWAYS BEGIN THE COUNT ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK AFTER THE WEEKLY SHABBATH DURING THE WEEK OF UNLEAVENED BREAD, WE ALWAYS WILL BE CELEBRATING THE DAY OR FEATS OF FIRSTFRUITS OR BIKKURIM ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, WHICH ALSO IS WHEN THE COUNT BEGINS ACCORDING TO LEV 23:15. LEV 23:15 MAKES IT CLEAR, THAT COUNTING BEGINS ON FIRSTFRUITS AND SINCE YAHSHUA IS FIRSTFRUITS, IT WAS NECESSARY FOR HIM TO RISE AFTER SUNDOWN ON SHABBAT, TECHNIQUALLY ON FIRSTFRUITS, THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, SINCE THE FIRST DAY BEGINS AT SUNDOWN ON SHABBAT. THE RESSURECTION IS AN OVERWHELMING PROOF THAT FIRSTFRUITS IS YAHSHUA AND IT THEREFORE WAS MOST FITTING THAT HE ROSE ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK (FIRSTFRUITS), AND POURED OUT HIS SPIRIT ON THE SAME DAY 5O DAYS LATER (FULL HARVEST OF WHEATS NOT TARES).

AS ISRAELITES, (YOU AND I) COMING OUT OF THE BABYLONIAN RELIGIOUS SYSTEM, AND HATING ANYTHING "CHURCHY", WE MUST BE CAREFUL NOT TO THROW OUT THE "BABY WITH THE PROVERBIAL BATHWATER." JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING ACTUALLY DOES FALL ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK OR OUR MODERN SUNDAY, DOES NOT MAKE IT WRONG OR AUTOMATICALLY OF S.A.TAN, SINCE YAHWEH IS THE CREATOR OF ALL 7 DAYS!!!! WHY GIVE EVEN ONE DAY TO S.A.TAN???? ISRAELITES WERE CELEBRATING SHAVOUT ON "SUNDAY", LONG BEFORE THE CONSTANTINIAN VIRUS INVADED THE IMMUNE SYSTEM OF YAHSHUA'S TALMIDIM.

What calendar do you use to observe Rosh Chodesh or how do you know when the month begins?

THE CURRENT JEWISH CALENDAR, WHICH MANY BELIEVERS USE TO DETERMINE ROSH CHODESH, IS USUALLY OFF BY EITHER A DAY OR SOMETIMES TWO DAYS. THE REASON IS VERY SIMPLE. IT IS BECAUSE THIS CALENDAR WAS CALCULATED BY HILLEL-THE-3RD, IN AROUND 400 AD, TO UNIFY ALL THE JEWS IN THE DIASPORA. THUS AS CLOSE AS HE IS, HE IS STILL OFF.

THE NEW MOON BEGINS WITH THE SIGHTING OF THE FIRST OBSERVABLE CRESCENT, USUALLY 15-48 HOUIRS AFTER THE MOLAD CONJUGATION OR THE ASTRONOMICAL NEW DARK MOON. THE SLIGHT SLIVER MUST BE SPOTTED FROM ISRAEL (JERUSALEM) AND MUST BE CONFIRMED BY 2 OR 3 RELIABLE WITNESSES. WE AS ISRAEL, ARE THE ONLY NATION THAT IS FORBIDDEN TO MAKE ANY KIND OF CALENDAR OR TIME CALCULATIONS LIKE THE EGYPTIANS, BABYLONIANS, PHOENICIANS ETC., WHO WERE FAMOUS FOR THEIR ABILITIS IN MATHEMATICS, TO CALCULATE ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. AS ISRAEL, UNLIKE ALL THE OTHER HEATHE NATIONS, JUDAH AND EPHRAIM ARE COMMANDED TO GO STRICTLY BY OBSERVATION OF YAHWEH'S TIMES AND DECLARE IT BY HIS CREATION AND NOT THE CALCULATIONS OF MAN.

FOR EXAMPLE THIS LAST NEW MOON, THE RABBIS ACCORDING TO THIS 1700-YEAR-OLD CALENDAR, CALCULATED THAT THE NEW MOON WOULD BE ON A MONDAY. BUT THAT MONDAY THE NEW MOON WAS NOT VISIBLE, SEEING THAT IT WAS LESS THAN 10 HOURS OLD AND THE EARLIEST NEW MOON EVER SPOTTED WAS 15 HOURS OLD. THUS WHILE YOU MAY HAVE FOLLOWED THE ACCEPTED JEWISH CALENDAR, YOU WERE STILL OFF A DAY BECUASE THE NEXT NIGHT OR TUESDAY AT ABOUT 7:45PM, THE SLIGHT SLIVER CRESCENT WAS SEEN IN FLORIDA, AS IT WAS IN JERUSALEM AT THE SAME TIME 6 HOURS EARLIER. SO WE CAN SAFELY SAY THAT ALL CALENDARS MADE BY MAN ARE WRONG AND WE ARE TO LEARN, TEACH AND TRAIN OURSELVES TO SPOT THE NEW MOON BY ANTICIPATING IT'S ARRIVAL AFTER 29 DAYS. THE COMMAND TO OBSERVE, RATHER THAN CALCULATE, IS FOUND IN DEUT. 16:1, WHERE YAHWEH TELLS ISRAEL TO GUARD OR IN HEBREW "SHOMER" THE MONTH OF AVIV. SHOMER IS THE HEBREW WORD FOR OBSERVE BY GUARDING OR GUARD BY OBSERVING. A SHABBAT HONORINHG JEW IS SAID TO BE "SHOMER SHABBAT" OR AN OBSERVER OF SHABBAT, AS HE GUARDS IT AND "WATCHES" FOR IT'S COMING EVERY 7 DAYS. SO IF WE ARE TRULY ISRAEL, WE MUST NEVER USE ANY MANMADE CALENDAR (JEWISH OR ASTRONOMICAL) FOR THE FEASTS AND FOR THE NEW MOONS BUT SIMPLY LEARN TO ANTICIPATE TIMES VISIBLY THROUGH YAHWEH'S HANDIWORK, THUS ACKNOWLEDGING HIS LIGHTS, AS THE VISIBLE INSTRUMENTS NEEDED TO DETERMINE THE MOADIM OR THE TIMES AND SEASONS (GEN. 1:14).

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