flintface wrote:This is our first year celebrating the Feasts of Yahuweh, too, so we have no clue what to do. Are we really supposed to find leafy branches to saw off and build a shelter with? What if my wife cannot get leave approved for those dates (she's in the Navy)? Will she be condemned on that account?
This will be my first year to actually camp out for it, I wouldn't say it is necessary, but it does sound like a lot of fun to me. following the Miqray exactly as they are delineated in the Torah, isn't necessary, coming to understand and rely on them is the most important part. I think that by attempting to keep them as much as possible is a good way to understand them.
I was given a Sony reader for a few weeks to test and review as a part of my job, and I put TOM on it, I haven't read TOM in a few years, and read something in the intro that is very appropriate for this. ken uses the analogy of the movie Karate Kid, where Miagi has Daniel doing all the work at his house, wax on wax off, paint the fence up and down etc. Well Daniel followed what Miagi told him to do, not understanding why, but then finally realized that Miagi was teaching him Karate moves that were necessary. Ken used it as analogy for the Torah, where there are a lot of things that the people were instructed in how to do, they did them not understanding what the significance was, until it was fulfilled. I would be that the Yahuwdy that came to accept Yahushua were probably the same ones that had went through the motions following the Torah's description of Pesach, so when they saw Him fullfill it, they finally understood that Yahuweh was teaching them a lesson in following it.
flintface wrote:I am excited about participating in our Father's Feasts, and at the same time I am fearful of doing something wrong.
Do it in the right spirit, and the little mistakes won't matter.
flintface wrote:The next Feast is Trumpets, correct? Do I need to hock something so that I can go out and buy a shofar? We live in a quiet, secluded neighborhood where blowing a shofar loud and long is probably an invitation to a visit from the local police department. So I have serious concerns and questions about how to do all this in a way that brings honor to Dad rather than embarrassment.
Again the details are fun, but not necessary. For Trumpets, the main message and point is to make a sound of joy, and to sound a warning, how you choose to do that is of less importance than that you do it, and understand it. I don't own a shofar, yet, but would love to go outside and blow it during trumpets, the people in my apt complex might think I'm nuts, but hey it's no louder than the radios that they blare all the time, and if a cop asks just tell him why you were doing it, and any good cop will let you off, one would hope.
