The first of Israel’s seven annual feasts is a one-day feast, the Passover. It is followed immediately by the second of Israel’s feasts, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Since the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins the very next day, these two feasts are often thought of as one long eight-day feast (and even Yahweh refers […]
While the Roman Gregorian calendar is based on the movements of the sun, the Torah calendar is based on the movements of the moon, and the agricultural cycles in the Land of Israel. We will discuss how the agricultural cycles in the Land of Israel relate to the Torah calendar in upcoming chapters, but first […]
In the last chapter we saw that Elohim commands us to give a tithe to the priesthood, to fund their work. We may not use any part of the first tithe for ourselves. In this chapter we will see that Elohim also wants us to set aside a second tithe. This second tithe is to […]