Understanding in Preparation

I'm finding myself becoming even more introverted than usual this year through the Days of Awe.  That's not a Scriptural term, but a reference to the days between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur, and they truly have been awesome.

Talking about how we'll observe Yom Kippur, I've realized; even when seeking YHWH, Torah observant, and following Messiah, our lives still revolve a great deal around ourselves and our opinions.  I've come to a new understanding this year and I'd like to share it.  Perhaps, religiously incorrect would have been a better place to write this, but, here goes.

First, Judaism teaches that "Rosh Hashanah" or Yom Teruah which is not mentioned through the services is actually the celebration of the first Shabbat, rendering the entire week of creation, off the calendar.
Second, I'm reading a great deal of information about those who insist upon following the writings of Enoch to establish the first of the year, thus the new months.

A few years ago a Christian woman asked me what day I observed Yom Kippur, because according to the teaching she'd heard, it was two days off of the pre-printed calendar.  I asked her what day she observed it. She responded without even a wincing that she didn't observe it at all, she just wanted to let me know, since I did observe it, that it was the wrong day.

I've been diligently seeking for four years earnestly, and my understanding has changed each year, without that peace that this is "IT!"  It's been growth, but not the fullness I've been seeking, until this year.  That is not to say, I'm through seeking, just that I have great peace, in that I took my eyes off of the moon and the opinions and went back to "In the beginning, Elohim spoke A to Z."

Since "Rosh Hashanah" is basically tradition through and through, I was able to toss out the "first Shabbat" theory, years ago, while still attending shul.  I believe the week of creation marked the first week of the seventh month, but regardless of the number of the month, I do believe the week of creation was the first week of the month.  Our Heavenly Father seems pretty orderly . . . as to why I believe it to be the seventh month:  according to Genesis 1, the trees were fully mature and bearing fruit, with seeds, as in complete.

Second, the only reference to months prior to YHWH telling Moses how to identify the first month, was in reference to Noah and the flood.  This numerical references to months may have been simply relative to the time frame between YHWH and Noah regarding the flood, or recorded by Moses according to the revelation knowledge he was given in Exodus 12.  I really believe to my very core, if YHWH wanted us to consider the writings of Enoch regarding the new month and year, He would have had Moses include them in Torah, since His Feasts are very clearly a covenant matter!  YHWH said forever in regard to these covenant Feasts, so why would He allow the method of understanding to be removed?  He's bigger than that!

I do have to admit, I was a bit taken aback when the Christian woman approached me a few years ago with her "word of knowledge" for me, while maintaining a complete disregard for her own observance, but she got me thinking . . . and seeking.  I've consulted many men of Scriptural knowledge, and of course Googled, and tried to follow along the social medial debates, until I was simply exhausted, when as I said, I went back to the beginning.

Since all the feasts do involved Messiah, Yom Teruah just made sense that it was truly the first day of Creation, rather than the first Sabbath.  If Yom Teruah actually marks any part of creation, the day YHWH spoke HIS Word, A to Z, seemed the most plausible.  Day one, there was light, as in the Light of the world, as there was no sun or moon until day four, which brought me to the understanding I've been seeking in regard to the new moon.  When I sought YHWH and had my eyes on Y'hshuwah, this understanding dawned upon me and has been confirmed this year.

The first day of the month without a moon, means a dark night . . .  This year has been particularly illuminating in that I saw Yom Teruah celebrated, from the evening of the 4th of September through to the evening of the 7th, with a sighting of the sliver.  My observance began on the evening of the 4th.   The time frame between the dark night and the sighted sliver, spanned over three and a half days.  Regardless of our methods and calculations, we do know there were three dark nights the first week of creation.  Genesis 1:16 refers to the moon as the lesser light.  That obviously means smaller and could even infer only a reflector, but it doesn't say how much of it was visible that fourth evening, only that it was visible and it was the fourth night. 

And Elohim made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also . . . And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.  Genesis 1:16, 19