Parshot Rosh Hashanah 1 & 2

from Rabbi Jack… Bible link
Leviticus {23:24} "Say to the Israelites: 'On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of Shabbat rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet (shofar) blasts.'" This passage is speaking about the Feast of Rosh Hashanah. It is on this Feast Day that the shofar is sounded. According to tradition a total of one hundred blasts of the shofar are to be heard by God's congregations as they celebrate this Feast. But the blowing is not an indiscriminate pattern and a purpose and meaning is applied to each sound. There are four different shofar sounds which we hear. Each one echoing a different aspect of the human condition, each one having a different meaning. The first sound is called TEKIAH. It is one short loud blast. The Tekiah sound was used to gather the Israelites together as they wandered through the wilderness. Essentially it was blown at two times: when things were very, very bad or when things were very, very good. Numbers {10:9} "When you go to war in your land against an adversary who is oppressing you, you are to sound an alarm with the trumpets (shofar) 10 Also on your days of rejoicing, and on your festivals and on the New Moon, you shall sound the trumpet (shofar)..." So, the sound of Tekiah has dual but opposite meanings: Gather for war, gather for celebration. Come together to confront our common enemy, come together to rejoice in the Lord. Join forces to face the challenges before us, join hands in gratitude and joy! Tekiah. is a call to community. Hebrews {10:25} "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." No man is an island, we cannot survive alone. Our adversary the devil is like a roaring lion seeking whom he shall devour and we must stand together against him. Next, is the sound called SHEVARIM. Shevarim is three woeful, mournful sounds of the Shofar. Shevarim itself means broken things, it gives voice to the brokenness of the world, it echoes the pain of our lives. Shevarim says, "Hear the hurt, respond to the pain!" Shevarim says, "Why is there so much hurt?" The third call is TERUAH. Teruah is a series of ten short blasts which represents an outcry, a call to listen and learn. It was used to break camp to call the Israelites out of their comfort zone; a call to stand up, listen, it's time to move on. The grand finale of our shofar calls is TEKIAH GEDOLAH. Tekiah Gedolah is the ultimate call, the summons to hope in the ultimate triumph of God and His Kingdom. It is a call for the future and the conclusion to history itself. It is the call Believers will hear when Yeshua returns to set up His Kingdom on earth. As you listen to the sound of the shofar, apply each sound to your life and listen for what it means to you.
from Ellen… Bible link
Is your faith confirmed?  I know we walk out our days with silent and sometimes not so silent conversations with the Almighty.  As I thank Him for getting us through the night and waking us in the morning the run on sentences of communication begins.  I thank God for everything in the fridge and cupboard and then I ask what I should cook; I shower and ask what I should wear and so on… Today The Almighty stopped me and asked me a question and I heard it…wow!  He asked me if my faith is confirmed and I pondered but not for too long because Jack and I began talking about the Akedah. For those of you who might not know this event in Genesis by its Hebrew name I can tell you; It is the sacrificial offering of Isaac. To take this event literally all the couples that Jack and I brought up in the faith came flooding into my mind including our families. All the boys born to our siblings and their children; all the boys born to our family when we were in Toronto up until the day we departed; all the boys that have been born into our most current family of Etz Chaim, Kenya…would any of these fathers be able to offer up their sons to God as Abraham was asked to do? Would any of these mortals believe in the faith that they have in the Almighty to save their sons at the very last minute?  Abraham was in a place of constant communication with God.  His faith was sealed with the promise of a nation. But just think if you had to blindly obey such a request from God without a promise. Just think that one day you audibly heard the voice of your Father in Heaven say…take your son to the top of the mountain and make him a burnt offering unto the Lord.  I cannot answer for you but Jack and I both know the sacrifices and offerings we have had to make in our believing walk.  One day we will share but right now the question is… Is your faith confirmed?
Yours in Messiah Yeshua, "…while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Messiah Yeshua." (Titus 2:13) Rabbi Jack & Ellen
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