Emor Say — אֱמוֹר
Leviticus 21:1 – 24:23
Reading #5 - Leviticus 23:23–32
My Thoughts:
Today we learn about celebration and honoring the “Feast of Trumpets” (Yom Teruah). On this day we blow the shofar and have a holy convocation. Some believe this is the day that the Mashiach will return. That we will look up and see Him coming in the clouds. Coming to earth to gather His people to Jerusalem where He will rule and reign forever. Whatever happens that day we know it will be divine and like no other. If you don’t already pray for the Mashiach to come, then I ask you to start praying. Our world is upside down. Right is wrong and wrong is right. Only Hashem can straighten this out. Pray for Him to come.
Challenge:
Once a year we remember the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). In verse 27 we read, “You shall afflict yourselves.” We are to do this to remember the sin we have committed. Sin is far reaching. It affects those around us and the world we live in. Here is a day where Hashem has laid it aside so that we can pray and fast (afflict ourselves) and be forgiven. Isn’t it amazing that we serve an Elohim that is so full of grace and mercy and that He forgives us for our disobedience? When there is a Temple there is a procedure for forgiving the Nation. For right now, we go to Him and for ten days preceding this Feast we ask Him and others to forgive us. It purifies us and helps to repair the world. This Yom Kippur I challenge you to plan ahead for. Study it through Scripture and find out what you are to do. Think about it in advance. And start going to the people that you need to restore relationships with. Maybe if we all did this, and prayed for His return, He would come sooner than later.
Reading #5 - Leviticus 23:23–32
23:23 Hashem spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, there shall be a solemn rest for you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 You shall do no regular work. You shall offer an offering made by fire to Hashem.’”
26 Hashem spoke to Moses, saying, 27 “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation to you. You shall afflict yourselves and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Hashem. 28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Hashem your Adonai. 29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day shall be cut off from his people. 30 Whoever does any kind of work in that same day, I will destroy that person from among his people. 31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. 32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
