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Since next week we will be feasting and partying on Tabernacles, we will study about it this week to get ready.

The Feast of Tabernacles is a festival of light and joy. The spiritual meaning of the feast is expressed in a number of types – the booth, the ethrog and lulav, the lighting of the lamps, the water-and-wine-pouring ceremony, wearing of white garments, the 7-day Jewish wedding and the final eighth-day meal. Jesus fulfilled all these pictures.

Notes on the Feast of Tabernacles

Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the climax of the ten days of awe and is
considered to be the most important day for the Jews in the liturgical year. The fast, which we will observe Sept. 23-24, coincided with the sin offering offered for all Israel and the Kol Nidrei, the absolution of vows. Twin goats were chosen by lot, one for sacrifice and the other for release, bearing away the people’s guilt. It was the one time of the year that the high priest entered into the Temple’s Holy of Holies.

Jesus fulfilled this feast:
Hebrews 9:12 – “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.”

Notes on Yom Kippur

Notes on the Kol Nidre

See Also Notes on Leviticus 16

The Jewish feast of Rosh Hashanah begins the “Days of Awe” that end at Yom Kippur. It’s a time of reflection and repentance, and for believers in Jesus it’s a time of thanksgiving for fulfilling these feasts and granting us forgiveness through the cross. It also is the Jewish New Year and probably marks the season when Jesus was born.

Memo about Rosh Hashanah:

Rosh Hashanah as a ‘Memorial’

… and some additional notes here: