Fall Feast Days and the King’s Heart...Fall Feast Days and the King’s Heart contd... Page 2...

As a group, Midrash Echad’s main con-

cern is standing for what Yehovah desires

in unity—The return of His tribes and

people back to Him through Yeshua Ham-

aschiach, who is our living Torah. We who

believe in Yeshua, love that He loves us!

We proclaim and we testify it by our living!

We must remember too that God’s full

plan of salvation requires seeking, repent-

ing, and hearkening to Torah by eliminat-

ing our love for the worldly realm in favor of

Yehovah. Is it not better to relinquish

(freely give up) our worldly desires before

Yehovah, rather than have Him dispossess

(take away as in deprive) us of them be-

cause of disobedience?

Whether we fully understand God, is not

the issue. The issue is whether we trust in

obedience, regardless of our understanding:

“You are to tell them that Yehovah says: ‘If a

person falls, doesn’t he get up again? If someone

goes astray, doesn’t he turn back? Why do these people

keep backsliding? Why is their backsliding so persis-

tent? They cling to deceit and refuse to return! I listened

attentively but they spoke nothing right. No one repents

of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done!” Each

runs off in his own direction, like a horse plunging

headlong into battle. (Jer 8:4-7)

Do you agree that we can successfully apply

these verses to ourselves? Continued...

Midrash Echad has a won-

derful opportunity to host an

internationally known speaker

September 16, 2013. We had-

decided to play a guessing game

this month, for reasons that will

become apparent to you today.

Cost is $5 Adults

Plus a love offering to

the Speaker

Did you figure it yet?

Appeared on

Fox News

CNN News

Sid Roth-It’s Supernatural

Jewish Voice

Sean Hannity –Fox News

TBN

Best seller book available

Amazon.com 4.3+ stars

Come, see if you are right

When: September 16th, 2013

Time: 6:30 PM (arrive 6 PM)

Where: TBA Glendale/Peoria

Email to register at:

[email protected]

September’s Mystery Guest Revealed!

Midrash Echad: Saints Living in Yeshua September 9, 2013

Volume 1, Issue 3

Fall Feast Days and the King’s Heart

1

September’s Surprise Mystery Guest

1

Yom Kippur and the Service of the High Priest

4

Celebrating Yom Teruah 5

High Priest 9

Yeshua’s Youth 10

Have you blessed your

child today?

10

Did You Figure it Out Yet?

11

Have You Seen Our

Website?

12

Mystery Guest Revealed 12

Torah Portions 13

Why Do We Study the

Parshat?

13

Inside this issue:

Midrash Echad

Meets Every Shabbat

Meets on Erev Shabbat

(check Schedule)

Website: www.foryeshua.org

Email us at:

[email protected]

Fall Feast Days and the King’s Heart

Fall Feast Days and the King’s Heart contd...

Midrash Echad: L iv ing in Yeshua Volume 1, I ssue 3

Without God’s Torah inscribed upon our heart, we will-

ingly rush into battles that He does not intend for us. The

next time someone asks, “Why does evil befall us?” you can

respond—“Because we choose evil rather than God”. Bad

luck follows us, because we follow evil. During these Fall

Feast Days, God gives us the command to seek Him, love

Him, and return to Him.

King Solomon, the wisest among men, did not receive the

full blessings of God. Why? Solomon lived by his own rule

and even participated in evil by leaning upon other gods to

increase his mystical power and appease his pagan wives.

However, we cannot criticize Solomon for engaging in ac-

tivities we too perform.

For instance, how many of us look to the zodiac signs,

seek advice from non-believers, and even give their counsel

precedence over turning to our Messiah?

Despite his knowledge Solomon was very short sited; “So I

concluded that there is nothing better for a person to do than take joy in

his activities, that that is his allotted portion; for who can enable him to

see what will happen after him?” (Eccles 3:22) This proves Solo-

mon’s greatest battle was over his obsession with wealth,

thinking that the final reward. Is amassing wealth and posses-

sions also your battle? Do you pass this battle on to your

children when you surrender to their requests for worldly

treasures?

It was only at the end of his existence that Solomon finally

understood life is a circle. He commiserated:

So I came to hate life, because the activities done under the sun were

loathsome to me, since everything is meaningless and feeding on wind. I

hated all the things for which I had worked under the sun, because I

saw that I would have to leave them to the man who will come after

me. Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? (Eccles 1:17

-19)

It seems that King Solomon’s vision was not directed to-

ward God, but rather to the world. His heart was in his “I”,

valued in terms of possessions which, he wailed, would go to

someone else for safe keeping after his death—someone

who had not worked to obtain such wealth. These are the

sins of the king, serving himself and not the people which lead

him to destruction. Solomon agonized God’s right to redis-

tribute his wealth according to His righteousness and that all

he had accomplished was folly. “For to the man who is good from

[God’s] viewpoint he gives wisdom, knowledge and joy; but to the sinner

he gives the task of collecting and accumulating things to leave to him

who is good from God’s viewpoint. This too is pointless and feeding on

wind.” (Eccles1:26)

Although Solomon recognized

the circle, he did not remember and

bless Yehovah at every juncture of

the circle.

The feasts are designed to fore-

shadow the servant Messiah, and

also to usher in the returning Mes-

siah as Righteous King.

Every Feast, Festival, New Moon

and Shabbat reminds us this circle

of life is ordained by the Creator. Yom Teruah itself marks

the date creation began. The more we observe these ap-

pointed times the more we enjoy God’s provision for us. At

every occasion he reiterates, “this is a day of complete rest, a

holy convocation...” Yehovah is reminding us, everything is

complete and all we have to do is join in. The offering we

bring at these times is not out of fear, but out of love, respect

and appreciation. When we observe these feasts we bear wit-

ness to Yehovah’s unending love and know it cannot be sub-

stituted for any temporal joy from other activities or worldly

treasures.

The Fall Feast Days are a picture of Yehovah’s mercy be-

cause we remember the mighty power of God. We also re-

pent that we fall short of full obedience. If you have never

received it, you should fear and tremble for your own salva-

tion.

However those, redeemed through the blood of Yeshua,

still gain in observing the Day of Atonement. (1) Firstly, if

you reassess your life over the past year, and line it up to

scripture, you may discover just how much your living is out of

compliance with Torah. (2) Secondly, we have the opportunity to

ask Yeshua to remove the evil chains that keep us bound to

repeat the act of sinning in certain areas. (3) We can even en-

gage in prayer to release our households of generational

curses. (4) We can pray for those who are too foolish not to pray

for themselves. (5) We can pray for our country that once pro-

claimed Yehovah over the

land, and now works to ut-

terly reject Him. (6) We can

pray mercy for Israel and its

people (God’s chosen land

and habitation). (7) We can

plead for the tribes under

Ephraim who live outside the

land to return to Torah

? Contd...

www.foryeshua.org Volume 1, I ssue 3

Fall Feast Days and the King’s Heart contd...

through a revelation of Yeshua as their long awaited Mes-

siah. (8) We can recommit ourselves to speak biblical truth,

often supplanted for political correctness.

Solomon must have known that title alone could never

satisfy God’s heart; when he stated, “But the greatest ad-

vantage to the country is when the king makes himself a servant

to the land.”

What Yehovah needed was a king greater than any other,

one with a heart to serve the people. Isn’t that what Yeshua

did for us? His death on the cross provided evidence that

He was truly the greatest king imaginable, even by the stan-

dards of the greatest king in Israel.

Matthew 12:18-21 confirms that Isaiah’s prophecy was

fulfilled, "Here is my servant, whom I have chosen, my beloved,

with whom I am well pleased; I will put my Spirit on him, and he

will announce justice to the Gentiles. He will not quarrel or cry

aloud, nor will anyone hear his voice in the streets; a bruised reed he

will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he

brings justice to victory; and in his name the Gentiles will hope."

Jeremiah 8:20 speaks volumes as to the condition of

man’s heart at a time when God is calling us to cry out to

Him, “The harvest has passed, the summer is over, and still we are

not saved.” What will happen when the summer has ended

and the shofar blast is heard at Yom Teruah? Without Ye-

shua, even though we come forth to present ourselves to

Yehovah at Yom Kippur, we find we are still not cleansed

of all our iniquities. Just as the Israelites were not fully

God’s people without the Torah. We today, are not fully

God’s people without Yeshua the Living Torah. He was

the perfect King/Servant whose life was, relinquished for

our sins, not dispossessed, in order to fulfill the will of His

Abba Yehovah.

If you do not know Yeshua, there must be some loud

weeping and torment for the sins unknown, unremembered

and undeclared before the heavenly gates close. But because

of Yeshua, we have faith in His sacrificial blood and in the

Ruach HaChodesh (Holy Spirit) that convicts our heart and

guides us into a Torah life.

Therefore, on the last fall feast day, the Feast of Taberna-

cles (Sukkot), we can truly enter into rest; because we under-

stand our tent, our covering—Is God Himself, Emmanuel,

the God who is with us. He has every right to abandon us, but

instead, He shielded us, utterly and completely with His

blood atonement. When we gather to celebrate Sukkot we

celebrate without worry, because even in the wilderness, we

are not without our Yeshua.

Leviticus 23:39 “‘But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when

you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to observe the festival

of Adonai seven days; the first day is to be a complete rest and the eighth

day is to be a complete rest. 40 On the first day you are to take choice

fruit, palm fronds, thick branches and river-willows, and celebrate in the

presence of Adonai your God for seven days. 41 You are to observe it as

a feast to Adonai seven days in the year; it is a permanent regulation,

generation after generation; keep it in the seventh month. 42 You are to

live in sukkot for seven days; every citizen of Isra’el is to live in a suk-

kah, 43 so that generation after generation of you will know that I

made the people of Isra’el live in sukkot when I brought them out of the

land of Egypt; I am Adonai your God.’”

Calling Forth the Tribes with Shofar

EAST: Judah, Issachar, Zebulon

ARISE, REPENT, RETURN!

SOUTH: Reuben, Simeon, Gad


WEST: Benjamin, Mannaseh, Ephraim


NORTH: Naphtali, Asher, Dan


Yom Kippur and the Service of the High Priest


Written by Rabbi Dr. Hillel ben David (Greg Killian)

And used with his permission for publication

A prominent element of the Yom Kippur service is the Avodah, the poetic description of the tasks of the High Priest in the Beit HaMikdash on Yom HaKippurim. Recounting the service in the Beit HaMikdash remains profoundly significant for us, since the offering of a sacrifice was far more than a physical activity. Every activity carried out in the Beit HaMikdash is paralleled within the spiritual sanctuary of every believer’s heart. The physical procedure of offering a sacrifice, for exam-ple, is an external manifestation of a certain process of spiri-tual growth. Although the sacrifices bore spiritual signifi-cance throughout the year, their effect was heightened on Yom HaKippurim, when they were offered by the High Priest as the emissary of the entire congregation: Seven days before Yom HaKippurim the high priest was taken away from his home and placed in the Chamber of the Counselors, and another priest was prepared to take his place, in case something should happen to him and he should become unfit for the service. All seven days the High Priest would sprinkle the blood of the daily sacrifices, and burn the incense, and trim the lamps, and sacrifice the head and the hind leg of the sacrificial ani-mals. On all other days if he wished to sacrifice he could; for the High Priest was the first to sacrifice a portion, and had first choice in taking a portion. The High Priest would be given Court elders to read be-fore him daily for seven days out of the Order of the day. They would say to him: My lord High Priest, read yourself with your own mouth; perhaps you have forgotten, or per-haps you did not study. On the morning of the eve of Yom HaKippurim, they would have him stand in the Eastern Gate and have oxen, rams, and sheep pass before him that he might know and be familiar with the service. Neither food nor drink would be kept from him all the seven days. But he would not be allowed to eat much toward nightfall of the eve of Yom HaKippurim, for eating brings about sleep. The Court elders would pass him over to the elders of the priesthood, and they in turn would take him up to the upper chamber of the house of Abtinas [which prepared the in-cense], and adjure him, and take their leave, and go their way saying: "My lord High Priest, we are the messengers of the Court, and you are our messenger and the messenger of the Court. We adjure you by Him who rested his Name in this house to alter nothing of all that we have said to you." He would turn aside and weep, and they would turn aside and weep. If the High Priest was a sage, he would expound, and if not, the disciples of the sages would expound before him. If he was familiar with the reading of the Holy Writ, he would

read; if not they would read before him. The would read be-fore him from the Books of Job and Ezra, and Chronicles. Zechariah ben Kebutal said: Many times I read before him out of the Book of Daniel. When the High Priest seemed to be about to fall asleep, the young priests would snap their middle fingers before him and say to him: "My lord High Priest, stand up and drive sleep away by walking on the pavement." They would divert him until the time came for the slaughtering of the daily morning offering.[1] It has been taught: They did not entertain the High Priest with their harps or with their lyre, but with the music of their voices. And what they sang was: "Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it" (Psalms 127:1). Some of the worthiest people in Jerusalem would not sleep all that night, in order that the High Priest might hear the sound of people talking, and sleep might not overtake him.[2] On ordinary days the altar would be cleared of ashes at cockcrow, or near that time, either before or after it, but on Yom HaKippurim it was cleared of ashes at midnight and on the Three festivals at the first watch. Before the cock crew the Temple Court would be full of Israelites.[3] The officer would say to them: Go out and see if the time has come for the slaughter of the continual morning offering. If it had come, he who saw it would cry: "Daylight!" Mattiah ben Samuel said: He who saw it would cry: "All the east is lit up!" "As far as Hebron?" - And he would say: "Yes." Now the reason why that question was necessary was because once the moon came up and they imagined that it was the dawn and slaughtered the continual morning offering, which later had to be taken out to the place of burning. The High Priest would then be taken to the place of im-mersion. This was the rule in the Sanctuary ... no one entered the Temple Court for the service until he had immersed him-self, even if he was clean. On this day the High Priest would immerse himself five times and make ten sanctifications. A linen sheet would be spread between him and the people. The High Priest would take off his clothing, go down, and immerse himself. Then he would come up and dry himself. He would be brought the garments of gold and would dress. Then he would sanctify his hands and feet. The continual offering would be brought to him. He would make the inci-sion and someone else would finish it for him. He would receive the blood and sprin-kle it. He went on to burn the morning incense, and to trim the lamps; afterward, to offer up the head, and the limbs, and the pancakes, and the wine-offerings.[4] The morning incense would be burned between the

? Contd...

Celebrating Yom Teruah

We decided to spend our practice run Yom Teruah to-

gether outdoors this year, since we were hoping to catch

the limited appearing of the Rosh Chodesh moon. Accord-

ing to a NASA website we had from ~5:45 pm to 7:15 pm

to observe the occurrence. That seemed easy enough since

we had already coordinated in advance to bring picnic style

foods, musical instruments, i-pad with songs, song sheets

and of course, our shofars!

Soon after I arrived at a local park I knew it was impos-

sible to set up because the skies were varying colors of grey

and small droplets began to fall. Within minutes the drop-

lets turned into all out showers and winds ensued. I

laughingly asked Yeshua, “So what are you trying to tells

us? Is this a test?”

Everyone came running out of their cars, trying to

avoid the downpour and we shared some “just our luck”

stories. But despite the potential for continued rain we

remained in place, hopeful that Yeshua would intervene.


sprinkling of the blood and the burning of the limbs of the sacrificial animal, that of the afternoon between the burning of the limbs and the offering of the drink-offerings. If the High Priest was either old or a weakling, some water would be warmed up and poured into the cold water to dissipate the coldness. The High Priest would be brought to the Parvah Cham-ber which was on holy ground. A linen sheet would be spread between him and the people. He would sanctify his hands and his feet and strip. Then he would go down, and immerse himself, and come up, and dry. He would be brought white clothing, would dress, and sanctify his hands and feet...In the morning he would put on Pelusium linen worth eighteen minas, and in the afternoon Indian linen worth twelve minas, together worth thirty minas, all told. The thirty minas came from the public funds, and if he wished to spend more, he could add some of his own money to the public funds.[5] The High Priest would come to his bullock. His bullock would be standing between the hall and the altar, it's head to the south and it's face to the west. The High Priest would stand in the east facing the west, and press his two hands upon it, and make confession. And this is what he would say: "O Lord, I have committed iniquities, I have transgressed, I have sinned before you, I and my house. O Lord, forgive, I pray, the iniquities, the transgressions, and the sins which I have committed, transgressed, and sinned

before You, I and my house, as it is written in the Torah of your servant Moses: 'For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before the Lord'" (Leviticus 16:30). And the priests and the people would answer him: "Blessed be His Name whose glo-rious kingdom is for ever and ever!" He would then go back to the east of the Temple court, to the north of the altar. The Deputy High Priest would be on his right and the head of the family [ministering that week] on his left. There would be two he-goats, and an urn would be there, and in it two lots. They were of boxwood, and Ben Gamala made them of gold, for which he was praised. King Monobaz of Adiabene had all the handles of the vessels used on Yom Kippur made of gold...for which he was praised.[6] The High Priest would shake the urn and take up the two lots. On one would be written, "For the Lord," and on the other, "For Azazel." The deputy High Priest would be on his right hand and the head of the [ministering] house on his left. If the lot "For the Lord" came up in his right hand, the Dep-uty High Priest would say to the High Priest: "My lord High Priest, raise you right hand." And if "For the Lord" came up in his left hand, the head of the [ministering] house would say to him: "My lord High Priest, raise your left hand." Then the High Priest would lay the lots on the two he-goats and say: "A sin offering to the Lord!" . And the people would answer him: "Blessed be his Name whose glorious kingdom is for ever and ever!"

Within 10 minutes the rain stopped and we set up our

food, lit the charcoal and started getting out the music and

instruments. The puddles on the ground soon dried up to

the point that we could begin to dance and praise.

We were also fortunate to have a sister from Wickenberg

join us. I told her, “we are fairly spontaneous around here

so just mingle and enjoy”. It turned out to be a lovely eve-

ning and just when it started to heat up—-the wind whipped

through and cooled us down. We are also thankful another

new family joined us this last Shabbat too. Praise Yeshua!

Although we did not see the Rosh Chodesh moon on

Erev Shabbat, September 6th, Yeshua still brought forth the

joy of waiting upon Him. Further proving that God is in

control, and we simply have no say in the matter.

One thing is certain, we were faithful

in blasting the shofar...just in case.

Joel1:1Blow a trumpet in Zion; sound an

alarm on my holy mountain! Let all the

inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day

of the LORD is coming; it is near,

Contd...

Yom Kippur and the Service of the High Priest contd...


The High Priest would tie a thread of crimson wool on the head of the he-goat to be sent forth, and stand it [at the gate] where it was to be sent, and stand the he-goat to be slaugh-tered facing the place where it was to be slaughtered. He would go to his bullock a second time and press his two hands on it and make confession. And this is what he would say: "O Lord, I have committed iniquities, I have transgressed, I have sinned before you, I and my house and the children of Aaron, your holy people. O Lord, forgive, I pray, the iniquities, the transgressions, and the sins which I have committed, transgressed, and sinned before You, I and my house and the children of Aaron, your holy people. As it is written in the Torah of your servant Moses: 'For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before the Lord'" (Leviticus 16:30). And the priests and the people would answer him: "Blessed be His Name whose glorious kingdom is for ever and ever!" The High Priest would slaughter the bullock and receive its blood in a bowl and give it to the one who was to stir the blood on the fourth terrace of the Sanctuary that it might not congeal. He would take the coal-pan and go up to the top of the altar, and clear the coals on either side, and scoop out some of the glowing cinders at the bottom. Then he would go down and lay the coal-pan on the fourth terrace in the Temple Court. On every other day he would scoop up the cinders with a coal-pan of silver and pour them into one of gold; but on this day he would scoop up the cinders with a pan of gold, in which he was to bring them [into the Inner Temple]. On every other day he used to scoop up the coals with a pan holding four kabs but on this day he would scoop up the cinders with a pan holding three kabs. On every other day the pan would be heavy, on this day it would be light. On every other day the handle of the pan was short, on this day it was long. On every other day the gold was yellow, on this day it was red...On every other day he would offer up a por-tion in the morning and a portion in the afternoon, but on this day he would also add his two palmfuls. On every other day the priests would go up on the east side of the ramp and come down on the west side, but on this day the High Priest would go up the middle and come down the middle....On

every other day the High Priest would sanctify his hands and his feet from the laver, but on this day from a golden ladle. On every other day there were three piles of wood, but on this day there were four.[7]

The ladle and the pan would be brought out to him, and he would take two palmfuls [of incense] and put them into the ladle. Tall High Priests would take large palmfuls and short High Priests would take small; that was the measure. The High Priest would take the pan in his right hand, the ladle in his left. Then he would go through the Holy until he would come to the place between the two curtains which separated the Holy from the Holy of Holies, and there was a cubit between them. The outer curtain was held back by a clasp on the south side; and the inner curtain by a clasp on the north side. He would walk along between them until he would reach the north side. When he would reach the north side , he would turn to the south. Then he would go on to his left along the curtain, until he reached the Ark. When he reached the Ark, he would put the pan between the two bars. He would heap the incense upon the coals and the whole house would fill up with smoke. He would go out the way he came in, and pray a short prayer in the outer House. He would not prolong his prayer, in order not to disquiet the people. After the Ark was taken away, a stone from the days of the Early Prophets was left standing there three fingerbreadths above the ground, and it was called Shetiyah [foundation stone], and on it the High Priest would place the pan of glowing coals. He would take the blood from the one who was stirring it, and re-enter the place where he had entered [the Holy of Holies], and stand in the place where he had stood [between the bars of the Ark], and sprinkle of the blood once upward and seven times downward, but not as though he wished to sprinkle either upward or downward, but motioning as though he were cracking a whip. And thus he would count: One, one and one, one and two, one and three, one and four, one and five, one and six, one and seven. Then he would come out and lay the bowl on the golden stand in the Holy. Then they would bring him the he-goat. He would slaugh-ter it and receive the blood in a basin. He would then enter the place where he had entered [the Holy of Holies], and stand again in the place where he had stood [between the bars of the Ark], and sprinkle of the blood once upward and seven times downward, but not as though he wished to sprinkle either upward or downward, but motioning as though he were cracking a whip. And thus he would count: One, one and one, one and two . Then he would come out and lay the basin on the second golden stand in the Holy. Then the High Priest would take the blood of the bul-lock ...and sprinkle of it on the outside curtain facing the Ark once upward and seven times downward, but not as though


? Contd...


he wished to sprinkle either upward or downward, but mo-tioning as though he were cracking a whip. And thus he would count [see above]. Then he would deposit the blood of the bullock and take the blood of the he-goat and sprinkle it on the outside curtain facing the Ark, once upward and seven times downward, but not as though he wished to sprinkle either upward or down-ward, but as though he were cracking a whip. And thus he would count [see above]. Then he would pour the blood of the bullock into the blood of the he-goat, thus putting the full basin into the empty one.[8] "And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the Lord"[9] - that is, the golden altar. He would begin to sprinkle downward from the northeast horn of the altar, then the northwest, then the southwest, then the southeast. There where he began the sprinkling of the outer altar he would

finish sprinkling of the inner altar. And he would sprinkle every horn of the altar from below upward, except for the horn where he was standing, which he would sprinkle from above downward. He would sprinkle on the top of the altar seven times, and the remain-der of the blood he would pour on the western base of the outer altar.[10] He would then go up to the scapegoat and press two hands on it and make confes-sion. And thus he would say: "Pray, O Lord, your people,

the house of Israel, have committed iniquity, transgressed and sinned before You. Pray, O Lord, atone, I pray, the iniquities and the transgressions and the sins that your people, the house of Israel have committed and transgressed, and sinned before You, as it is written in the Torah of your servant Moses, saying: 'For on this day shall atonement be made for you to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before the Lord'".[11] And the priests and the people standing in the Temple Court, when they heard the explicit Name coming from the mouth of the High Priest, would bend the knee and bow and fall on their faces and cry: "Blessed be His Name whose glori-ous kingdom is for ever and ever." The scapegoat would be delivered to him that was to lead it away. Anyone was allowed to lead it away, but the High Priests made it a rule not to allow an Israelite to lead it away. Rabbi Yose said: It once happened that Arsela of Sepphoris led it away, although he was an Israelite. And a special pas-sageway was made for the scapegoat, because of the Babylo-

nians, who used to pull its hair and cry: Take our sins and begone, take our sins and begone!

Some of the worthiest men in Jerusalem would accom-pany him to the first booth. There were ten booths between Jerusalem and the Peak ninety ris away, seven and a half ris making a mil. At every booth they would say to him: here is food and water. And they would accompany him from booth to booth except for the last booth, for no one might go up the Peak with him, but might only stand at a distance and watch what he did. What the priest would do was to divide the thread of crimson wool, tie half of it to the rock and half between the two horns of the scapegoat, and push the scapegoat from behind, and it would fall down the Peak. Its limbs would be smashed to bits before it was halfway down the hill.[12] Then the High Priest would come to the bullock and the he-goat that were to be burned, cut them open and take out the sacrificial parts, put them on a tray and burn them on the altar. He would twist the limbs on poles and have them taken out to the place of burning. They would say to the High Priest: "The he-goat has reached the wilderness." How would they know that the he-goat had reached the wilderness? They used to set up guards at stations on the way, who would wave cloths; and so it would be known when the he-goat had reached the wilder-ness.[13]


Contd...

Then the High Priest would come to read. If he wished to read wearing linen clothing, he could read in that dress. If not, he could wear his own white vestments when he read. The attendant of the House of Prayer would take the Torah Scroll and give it to the head of the House of Prayer, and the head of the House of Prayer would give it to the deputy High Priest and the Deputy High Priest would give it to the High Priest, and the High Priest would stand and receive it. And he would read the sections beginning, "After the death of the two sons of Aaron"[14] and "Howbeit on the tenth day"[15]. Then he would roll up the Torah Scroll and lay it in his bosom and say: "There is more written here than I have read to you." Then he would recite by heart the section beginning, "And on the tenth day," which is in the Book of Numbers (29:7-11). Then he would recite the eight benedictions. Those who saw the High Priest reading would not see the bullock and the he-goat being burned, and those who saw the bullock and the he-goat being burned would not see the High Priest reading. Not that it was not permitted, but be-cause the distance was great and both rites were carried out at the same time. If the High Priest had read wearing linen clothing, he would sanctify his hands and feet and strip and go down and immerse himself and come up and dry. He would be brought golden clothing and put them on and sanctify his hands and his feet. Then he would go out and offer up his own ram and the ram of the people and the seven he-lambs

of the first year and without blemish. The High Priest would then sanctify his hands and his feet and strip and go down and immerse himself and come up and dry. He would be brought white clothing and would put them on and sanctify his hands and his feet. Then he would go in to bring out the ladle and the fire-pan. He would sanctify his hands and his feet and strip and go down and immerse him-self. Then he would come up and dry. He would be brought golden clothing and he would dress and sanctify his hands and his feet and go in to burn the afternoon incense and to trim the lamps and to sanctify his hands and his feet, and would strip. Then he would go down, immerse himself, come up and dry himself. Then he would be brought his own clothing and he would dress. He would be accompanied to his home. There he would make a feast for his friends when he came out of the Sanctuary in peace.[16] Ten times would the High Priest pronounce the Name of God on Yom Kippur: six times in connection with the bul-lock, three times in connection with the he-goat, and once in connection with the lots. Those who were near him would fall on their faces, and those who were far from him would say: "Blessed be his Name whose glorious kingdom is for ever and ever." Neither those who were near nor those who were far would move from their places until he had disappeared.



?

Ezekiel 45:17 It shall be the prince's duty to furnish the

burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at

the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, all the ap-

pointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin

offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace of-

ferings, to make atonement on behalf of the house of Is-

rael.

“it shall lie upon him to provide them; who is not the high priest, as Jarchi; nor

the civil magistrate or king, as Menachem; but Christ, who is both Prince and

Priest; and whose sacrifice of himself is designed by these, and the other sacri-

fices after mentioned, of which the sacrifices were all typical; though he is but

one, they many, his answers to them all, and is one for all; and though his is but

once offered up, they often, because of the fullness of efficacy in the one, and the

want of it in the other; and though in itself infinitely superior to these.

~Gill’s Commentary.

Midrash Echad: L iv ing in Yeshua Voi lume 1, I ssue 3

1. Remove the ashes from the outer altar.

2. Immerse (mikvah) himself for the first time. Don the golden

vestments.

3. Slaughter the daily morning elevation (burnt) offering.

4. Receive and throw the blood of the elevation (burnt) offering.

5. Prepared the five lamps of the menorah.

6. Offered the daily incense.

7. Prepare the remaining two lamps of the menorah.

8. Burn the limbs of the daily morning elevation (burnt) offering

on the outer altar.

9. Offer the daily meal offering.

10. Offer the Chavitin offering.

11. Offer the wine libation (drink offering).

12. Offer the Mussafim: The ox and the seven lambs - all elevation

(burnt) offerings, along with their meal and drink offerings.

13. Immerse (mikvah) for the 2nd time and don the linen

vestments.

14. Do the first confession on the Kohen Gadol's (High Priest) ox

offering.

15. Draw the lots to select the he-goats 'For HaShem' and 'To

Azazel'.

16. Do the second confession on the Kohen Gadol's (High Priest)

ox sin offering.

17. Slaughter his ox sin offering.

18. Perform the service of the special Yom HaKippurim incense: (a)

scoop up some coal; (b) scoop up the incense into the ladle;

(c)burn the incense in the Holy of Holies. This was his first entry

into the Holy of Holies.

19. Sprinkle the blood of his ox in the Holy of Holies. This was his

second entry into the Holy of Holies.

20. Slaughter the he-goat 'For HaShem'.

21. Sprinkle the he-goat's blood in the Holy of Holies. This was his

third entry into the Holy of Holies.

22. Sprinkle the blood of his ox, on the curtain, of the Holy

place.

23. Sprinkle the he-goat's blood, on the curtain, in the Holy

place.

24. Mix the blood of his ox and the he-goat.

25. Sprinkle the mixture on the inner altar.

26. Do the confession on the he-goat 'To Azazel' and present

the he-goat, to the designated person, for dispatch to

azazel. (6:2) (This was not a sacrifice.)

27. Remove the entrails of his ox and the he-goat and place

them in a utensil.

28. Prepare the limbs of his ox and the he-goat for removal

to the burning place.

29. Read from the Torah.

30 Immerse (baptize) himself for the third time, then don

the golden vestments.

31. Perform the service of the he-goat sin offering of the

Mussafim.

32. Offer his ram.

33. Offer the people's ram.

34. Burn the entrails of the ox and he-goat on the outer

altar.

35. Immerse (baptize) himself for the fourth time, then don

the linen vestments.

36. Remove the incense ladle and the shovel with burnt

coals from the Holy of Holies. This was his fourth and

final entry into the Holy of Holies.

37. Immerse (baptize) himself for the fifth time, then don

the golden vestments.

38. Offer the daily afternoon elevation (burnt) offering.

39. Burn the daily afternoon incense.

40. Light the Menorah.

ORDER of EVENTS: The high priest would

?


Proverbs 22: 6

Train up a child in the way he should go;

even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Have You Blessed

Your Child Today?

Yeshua’s Youth: Zoe’s Organic Chocolate Chip CookiesYeshua’s Youth: Zoe’s Organic Chocolate Chip CookiesYeshua’s Youth: Zoe’s Organic Chocolate Chip Cookies

One of the greatest gifts within an assembly is the infusion of

youth! Even in our small group, children are finding creative ways to par-

ticipate. This edition we would like to highlight Zoe, who is an absolute

delight and adds to our group with not only her love for Yeshua, but also

her culinary skills. No kidding, everything Zoe bakes is not only delicious,

but precisely crafted in such away that would put most adults to shame.

No boxed mixes for her—everything is from scratch and organic.

Ingredients

1 cup organic salted butter

2 1/4 cups organic all-purpose flour

3/4 cup Wholesome Sweeteners organic sugar

3/4 cup Simple Truth Organic light brown sugar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt

2 eggs

2 cups organic semi-sweet high cacao chocolate chips

2 teaspoons Simply Organic pure vanilla extract

Cooking Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees

2. In a large bowl, cream together the salted butter, light brown

sugar, and cane sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a

time, beating well after each addition, then stir (it helps to use an

electric mixer) in vanilla. Combine in a another mixing bowl, the

flour, baking soda, and salt; gradually stir into the flour mixture,

(little bits at time, like 1/4 cup, so as not to get the batter crum-

bled up) finally, fold in chocolate chips. Than, drop by rounded

spoonfuls, (or, I use a small rounded melon ball scooper) onto

the cookie sheets.

3. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes ( the original recipe says 8 to 10, but

for my oven, it's 10 to 12) in the preheated oven, until golden

brown. Allow cookies cool on baking sheets for about five min-

utes, before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

4. Enjoy! - Zoe J. 12 y.o.

?

Did You Figure It Out Yet?

Bill Cloud—May 2013

Ralph & Mindy Seta

Messianic Dance Camp

-August 2013

FUTURE

Walid Shoebat—

September 16, 2013

Monte Judah—

October 20, 2013

Mike Clayton —

November 23-24, 2013

Brad Scott—

December 5, 2013

Advance Registration

Required


Entry Fee: $5 per Adult for Walid Shoebat

There will also be a love offering for Walid Shoebat Please go to Yeshua directly and seek guidance on the matter.

Advance registration is required.

All Attendants are to remain in the room unless using the facilities

(Children must be accompanied by their parents at ALL TIMES.)

The exact location of this meeting will be sent to registered guests only.

Midrash Echad is very happy to welcome

an internationally known author and

speaker September 16th to Peoria, Arizona.

This speaker is known to many because of

his appearances as guest commentator for

shows like Bill O’Reilly, and Sean Hannity.

He also has appeared on Jewish Voice

hosted by Jonathan Bernis. That’s where

we first met him and were inspired by his

knowledge of the Islamic culture and his

theories on how they might be used by the

antichrist.

So who is our guest speaker? Walid

Shoebat, who has spoken all over America

and the world including Chile, Mexico,

Canada, the UK and South Africa. He has

also appeared on national television stations

all over the world including CNN, CNN

International, FOX News, ITN, RTE,

NBC, CBS, and ABC. He has also been

featured on BBC radio 4 and 5.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with

Walid here is a portion of his biography:

For the record, my name is Walid Shoebat. I used

to be a radicalized Muslim willing to die for the

cause of Jihad until I converted to Christianity in

1994. As a member of the PLO I was involved in

terror activity, and was imprisoned in Jerusalem for

three weeks. In prison, I was recruited to plant a

bomb in Bethlehem as a result of which, thank

God, no one was injured. My mother was an

American and my father a Palestinian Arab. My

parents sent me in 1978 to the United States to

study at Loop College in Chicago Illinois. There I

was recruited at a hotel “Terror Conference” by

Jamal Said, a founder of the IAP (Islamic Asso-

ciation of Palestine) and Imam at one of the largest

mosques in Chicago. The IAP was a forerunner to

today’s Hamas terror organization and also to the

terror front group CAIR (Council for American

Islamic relations). This was in the early 1980s

when I was being trained for Jihad activities in the

USA along with many other young foreigners as

well as US citizens. The Imams were the prime

recruiters for terrorism then as they are still today

and terror conferences are held all over the USA to

this day.

Thus our “Mystery Game” was actually a

requirement of Walid to ensure as much

anonymity as possible as he travels around

the world giving presentations. He has also

requested no one be allowed in the room

without pre-registration, as a safety precau-

tion. The last time he presented publicly in

Phoenix there was a handful of hecklers

outside a church. Although not dangerous

in any way, it was annoying for he and the

hosts.

Please join us for this special night.

Every child attending must remain

seated for the duration of the event.

Everyone

Must Stay In

Room

During

Presentation

Have You Seen Our Website? foryeshua.org


Helpful tips for Shabbat and

assembly gatherings including

oneg recipes. Share yours today!

Event announcements and easy online

registrations. Its really simple—

Just click the button! When we find helpful tools to explain

things we are unsure of we make them

available to everyone, through our site.

Feel free to forward suggestions

Register online and we will send confirmation

or email us at [email protected]

Ideas Welcome!

Click Picture Links

Walid Shoebat From Terrorist

To Believer in

Yeshua Messiah

http://www.foryeshua.org/

http://www.foryeshua.org/moon-phases.html

http://www.foryeshua.org/recipes-for-family-and-gathering.html

http://www.foryeshua.org/upcoming-events.html

http://jeannetted.com/montejudah.html

Yom Kippur

14 Sep 2013

10 Tishri 5774

Leviticus 16

Isaiah 57:14-58:14

Atonement

Yom Kippur is considered the

holiest and most holy day on

the Jewish calendar. Because

Yom Kippur is a fast day, it is

appropriate to wish your Jew-

ish friends an "Easy Fast" on

Yom Kippur, or in Hebrew

"Tzom Kal." The traditional

Yom Kippur greeting is

"G'mar Hatimah Tovah" or

"May You Be Sealed for a

Good Year (in the Book of

Life)." This reflects the Jewish

view of Yom Kippur as the day

when God seals our fates

(determined by our actions) for

the upcoming year in the

Books of Life or Death. The

entire ten Days of Awe from

Rosh Hashanah through Yom

Kippur are viewed as the be-

ginning of the New Year, so

you may also still wish your

Jewish friends a "Happy New

Year" or "L'Shana Tovah" on

Yom Kippur.

Chol HaMo'ed Sukkot

21 Sep 2013

17 Tishri 5774

Exodus 33:12-34:26

Ezekiel 38:18-39:16

Booths

1. What are the special seven

mitzvot of Sukkot?

2. What are the two definitions

of the word Sukkah?

3. Why is full Hallel chanted

every day of Sukkot (and not

on Pesach)?

4. What is the minimum and

maximum height of the Suk-

kah? What is the minimum

length of a wall?

5. What are the four species,

and how are they held?

6. Which Megillah is read on

Sukkot?

7. Which special prayer is re-

cited at Mussaf on Shemini

Atzeret? Why is not recited on

the first day of Sukkot?

8. What four plants are part of

the lulav and what do you do

with it?

Torah Portions & Midrash Points


Why Do We Study the Parshat? Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes, that I

may behold wondrous things out of

your law.

Understanding the Torah

is crucial to knowing God’s

heart. In mainstream Christi-

anity, most of the bible study I

did was independent. Even

when I entered into bible study

groups, we often read from pre-

determined text outside the

bible, and were given questions

with the expectation that we

were just going to “scratch the

surface”.

At Midrash Echad we read

the Parshat together to go well

beneath the “surface” and un-

derstand truths of scripture in a

deeper way.

We have a heart for God

We want to know Yeshua re-

vealed in scripture

We want to break through tradi-

tional concepts

We are standing ONE with

Israel

John 13:17 If you know these

things, blessed are you if you do

them.

Reading in Oneness allows all levels

of bible scholars to join in to share

and learn without pressure

When we read the Parshat we are

joining Israel as they too are reading

the same message

We will read through bible every

year!

Ephesians 6:11 Put on the whole armor

of God, that you may be able to stand

against the schemes of the devil. For we do

not wrestle against flesh and blood, but

against the rulers, against the authorities,

against the cosmic powers over this present

darkness, against the spiritual forces of

evil in the heavenly places. Therefore take

up the whole armor of God, that you may

be able to withstand in the evil day, and

having done all, to stand firm. Stand

therefore, having fastened on the belt of

truth, and having put on the breastplate

of righteousness, and, as shoes for your

feet, having put on the readiness given by

the gospel of peace. ...

If you are going

into battle, you

better have your

armor on!

B'reisheet

28 Sep 2013

24 Tishri 5774

Genesis 1:1-6:8

Isaiah 42:5-43:10

John 1:1-18

In the Beginning

In verse 2:7. The term "create"

is normally spelled "tvav-yud-

tzadi-resh" as in 2:19, with the

creation of animals. However in

2:7, concerning the creation of

man, the word created is spelled

"tvav-yud-yud-tzadi-resh" - with

two "yuds." The Hebrew sages

interpret this as meaning that man

has been created for both this

world and for another world after

he is resurrected.

In verse 3:3 Eve replies to the

serpent that she was not to eat or

touch the fruit of the tree. This

was not what God said however,

He only commanded not to eat of

it. Eve's "adding to the Word of

God" was used by the serpent to

deceive her.

Discuss the differences between

the names Elohim, Yehovah Elo-

him and Yehovah used in Gene-

sis.

Noach

5 Oct 2013

1 Heshvan 5774

Genesis 6:9-11:32

Isaiah 66:1-24

Luke 1:5-80

Noah

1. While living on earth Yeshua

knew the hour and day of His

return? (True or False)

2. What scripture reference an-

swers the first question?

3. We should believe predictions

that specify a specific time of

Yeshua’s return? (True or False)

4. What should we look for to

discern the approximate time of

Yeshua’s return?

5. What other scriptural event

did Yeshua compare the tribula-

tion with?

http://torahportions.org/this-portion.html?portion=B'reisheet

http://torahportions.org/this-portion.html?portion=Noach

SEPTEMBER 2013

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 Yom Teruah

119 Ministries

5 6 7 ACTUAL New

Moon siting

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Yom Kippur

119 Minstries

15 16 Mystery

Guest!!!!!

17 18 19 20 21

22 23 24 25 26 27 28

29 30

OCTOBER 2013


1 2 3 4 5

6 Yom Teruah

7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 Yom

Kippur

16 17 18 19 (Private)

Sukkhot begin

20 Monte

Judah

21 22 23 24 25 26

27 Shemini

Atzeret

28 Simchat

Torah

29 30 31

NOVEMBER 2013


1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Mike

Clayton

24 Mike

Clayton

25 Hannukah

119 Ministries

26 27 28 29 30

Sukkot Sukkhot Sukkhot Sukkhot Sukkhot

Sukkot Sukkhot Sukkhot Sukkhot Sukkhot

Sukkot Sukkhot Sukkhot Sukkhot

Midrash Echad

Feast Days

Midrash Echad observes

Yehovah’s right to

change His calendar at

anytime, in any month

according to His will.

Fall Feast Days and the King’s Heart...Fall Feast Days and the King’s Heart contd... Page 2...

Documents

Transcript of Fall Feast Days and the King’s Heart...Fall Feast Days and the King’s Heart contd... Page 2...