Have a blessed and fruitful new year abiding in Yeshua the Messiah our Vine and our Doorway to life. May you remain steadfastly and passionately in the River of Life of His Word and Spirit under the covering of His blood and under the shelter of His wings!
By the way, for fun, go to Google and in the search window, type in “Rosh Chodesh” and then click on Google images. The photo on the left will pop up near the top of the page. This image has been “borrowed” by many people, and we have seen it appear on other people’s websites and in at least one book.
Want to know the truth about it? That’s a picture my wife took of me blowing my shofar about three years ago on the Oregon coast in the town of Canon Beach. We were staying in a hotel overlooking the Pacific Ocean, and it happened to be Rosh Chodesh (the beginning of the month). From the motel room window I could see the sliver of the new moon, so I grabbed my shofar and went outside to blow it to signal the new month’s arrival as per Psalm 81:3. She snapped this photo and added the wording. This graphic now permanently resides on the home page of our website (http://www.hoshanarabbah.org).
As Paul Harvey used to say, “And now you know the rest of the story.”
Hi, I am very new to the messianic teachings. What is the differences between this new year and the one in Septpember. Thank you in advance.
Good question. According to Exodus 12:2, this is when YHVH instructed the Israelites to begin the new year. The biblical festivals are calculated from this date.
The Jews start their civil new year on the first day of the seventh month (of the biblical year), which is in our month of September and occurs on the biblical holiday of Yom Teruah (the Day of Shouting/Shofar Blowing), which the Jews euphemistically call by the non-biblical name of Rosh Hashanah (meaning “the head of the new year”).
While the Jews still view the spring as the beginning of the sacred year, they view Yom Teruah as the beginning of the civil year. It’s a bit confusing, but this is what happens when men get in and mess with the clear commands of Elohim and insert their own traditions into the mix.
We try to stick with the straight word of Elohim, and thus don’t view Yom Teruah as the beginning of the new year.