06/10/2022
The Creator's Holy Days: Roadmap of Redemption
Throughout Jewish history, the Holy Days of the Creator prescribed in His Torah (Teaching) have been a tremendous gift to the Jewish people, serving not only as yearly times of celebration commemorating what the Creator has done for us in the past but also teaching and reminding us every year how to become and remain free from corruption and blessed, and pointing prophetically to the final and everlasting redemption guaranteed to those who walk with the Jewish people.
To summarize, in the merit of Avraham and Yitzchak (Isaac), the Creator brought forth Yisrael and his children, whom He saved from the tyranny of baseless hatred, delivering them from slavery to corruption at Pesach (Passover), and made them into an everlasting nation, giving them the Torah at Shavuos ("Pentecost").
This was in order to instill among them, and for the sake of all nations, what it means to be like the Patriarchs, who faithfully and trustingly cleaved to the Creator in fear and love, and whom He therefore loves and is with.
Yet soon after the Creator had descended from Heaven on Shavuos to dwell in their midst, like the nations, the children made a Golden Calf, an abomination of the Creator, separating themselves from the Living G-d and therefore meriting destruction.
Comes Rosh HaShanah a.k.a. Yom Teruah to call us to return to the ways of Avraham and Yitzchak, the fullness of whose faith and trust in the Creator was expressed in the Akeidah, the binding of Yitzchak, who gave himself fully to HaShem in unity with his father, and in whose merit HaShem therefore came down upon Sinai to dwell among their children, meaning those like them, with the shofar and various other details of the two events indicating the connection between them.
In other words, if like Avraham, with faith and trust in G-d, you give to your Creator what you most love in the world, even your beloved son, and like Yitzchak even your life itself, to live and die according to His Instructions, then in them and their offspring, you will be blessed (cf. Bereishis 22:15-18), and HaShem will cover your sins on Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement, i.e. Covering), and you will come to Succos (Booths, like the Festival) and build the House with Yaakov (Jacob; cf. Bereishis 33:17), with which temporary dwellings will be established securely for you in This World, after which you will rejoice in HaShem's Presence forever, on the Eighth Day (cf. Vayikra / Leviticus 23:33-44).
Like the weekly Shabbos (a.k.a. Shabbat/Sabbath), there is an ultimate fulfillment to these days that we rehearse from year to year, from generation to generation, which includes the nations.
70 went down to Egypt in Yaakov (Bereishis 46:27), and 70 are given to the Creator at Succos (cf. Bamidbar / Numbers 29), just as the 70 nations have become enslaved to and tyrannized by corruption, and will be set free in the Final Redemption with the Jewish people by walking out of spiritual Egypt with the Jewish people to receive HaShem our Creator as King, embracing His Teaching, if you listen to the voice of the Dove, through whom HaShem has pity (see Yonah/Jonah, which means Dove, and is read on Yom Kippur).
''And many nations shall join themselves to HaShem in that day and will be my people, and I will dwell in your midst', and you will know that HaShem Tzevakos has sent me to you.''
- Zecharyah (Zechariah) 2:15 (Hb.)
And as HaShem Tzevakos says,
'In those days, ten men from all the languages of the nations will take hold of the wing of a Jewish man, saying, 'We will walk with you(s), for we have heard that G-d is with you(s).''
- Zecharyah 8:23
And as the prophet says,
'And it will happen that everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Yerushalayim [Jerusalem] shall go up from year to year to worship the King, HaShem Tzevakos, and to keep the Festival of Sukkos [Booths].'
- Zecharyah 14:16
The final redemption is very close now. Until the end, there will be those who refuse to accept the sovereignty of the King of the Universe, opposing Him and His Kingdom of Priests and Holy Nation, and those who are with them, forcefully seeking to make themselves into gods. In every generation, they do try, but in the end, they will not be found. So do not fret over evil people who seem to prosper in their way for a moment. Their own evil is turned against them, and they will not be found, but the righteous remain forever.
'Study the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a destiny for the man of peace.'
- Tehillim (Psalms) 37:37
Chag Sukkos Sameach!
Happy Festival of Booths!