As I continue to study these holy days, I am learning that they first had a practical application before representing
Leviticus doesn’t say much about this observance; however, a more elaborate instruction is provided in Numbers 29. According to Leviticus,
Hashabat Hashabyat literally means the seven sabbaths. The Feast of Weeks is a celebration of the first complete reaping of
1 His hearing, children [sons or their sons], instruction [bond] father [consent, desire] and his response to knowledge (is) understanding.
This observance was specifically given because Israel would enter into the land which was given to them by God. (Leviticus
Unless we are delusional, life is hard. The hardest part for me is figuring out how to live it right.
Language was the single most significant human development. By examining it in its earliest forms, we learn who we were, how we thought, what we believed, and where we saw ourselves in the grand scheme of a largely unknown world. Some of these are lost to us today, and we are therefore lost. I use Ancient Paleo Hebrew to find my way back to the image I was initially created in – to understand who I am and what I’m really made of.
– Deshina Buck