Good Morning. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. (Leviticus 23:40) Sukkot, or the...

Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord." (Leviticus 23:34) The seventh of the seven moedim -- "appointed times" -- is the Feast of Tabernacles, or as...

Good Morning. Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. (Leviticus 23:27) As I had previously mentioned, the seventh...

Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation." (Leviticus 23:24) As we discussed in the previous devotion, on the first...

Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, saying: "In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation." (Leviticus 23:24) Where the Hebrew calendar is concerned, the seventh...

Good Morning. When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not wholly reap the corners of your field when you reap, nor shall you gather any gleaning from your harvest. You shall leave them for the poor and for the stranger: I am the Lord your God. (Leviticus...

Good Morning. You shall bring from your dwellings two wave loaves of two-tenths of an ephah. They shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven. They are the firstfruits to the Lord. (Leviticus 23:17) In the days of the Temple, on the day of Pentecost...

Good Morning. And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain...

Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest." (Leviticus 23:10) As we read about these different...

Good Morning. These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. (Leviticus 23:4) It is obvious that the Creator desires that we observe these special times He established to meet with His people but why does He want...

Good Morning. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. (Leviticus 23:3) In Ecclesiastes 3, Solomon declared that everything has a...

Good Morning. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: "The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts." (Leviticus 23:2) As I explained in the previous devotional, the Hebrew word moedim is literally translated...