The Days of Awe: Rosh Hashanah and the Jewish knowledge of Time – Part Three
While the Christians habitually used the postscripts of AD and BC, the Jewish academics in the rabbinic yeshivas began to use the postscripts of CE and BCE two centuries ago in the early 19th century. Later this trend was popularized by academics and scientists seeking a more neutral definition of time. Over the course of the last two thousand years, we have seen the imprint of those who whose ancestors were first given the conceptual spiritual ideas by the G-d of Israel to the ancient Hebrews at the mount called Sinai. These ancient beliefs and traditions came from the singular Source of HaShem Himself as He met personally with the Children of Israel hidden and shielded by the fiery volcano at Mount Horeb.
Today, the fragmentation of those ancient laws and traditions were represented over the years by the covenanted Jews of the house of Judah and the covenanted rejecting Ancient Israelites representing the Ten Northern Tribes who rebelled from their sacred traditions instituted by the One G-d of Israel and given to them as the Torah.
The Jewish people, like all other peoples, counted their years by the years of the reigns of their kings. Yet, their spiritual reference point early began by counting their national existence from their epic escape from oppression in Egypt called the “Great Exodus”. By the beginning of the Roman Christian Era that began three centuries after the days of “The Nazarene” the Jews already had been counting their ancient history for over fourteen hundred years.
What we have noticed is that there is a wide discrepancy to even the counting of the historical years since the Great Exodus from Egypt. We first see the progressively discredited “Short Term Egyptian Chronologists” giving us the date of the Exodus and the entrance of the Children of Israel into Canaan as being in the 12th century BCE.
Then we have the highly acclaimed Rabbi Halevy Donin who wrote the seminal book titled, “To be A Jew; a Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life” that the date of the Exodus was about 1350 BCE. Other respected scholars give the dates of the Exodus closer to 3,450 years ago or 1457 BCE. And then there is the respected Australian Astronomer Barry Setterfield’s correlating historical time with the geological era and atomic clock conversions to orbital time and thereby dated the Exodus to 1557 BCE plus or minus 6 years. The importance of it all is that the beginning of the National Consciousness of the Hebrew Children of Israel now reflected in the life of the Jewish people began with the Exodus and was sealed by their covenant with the G-d of Israel at the Mount called Sinai as early as 1550 to 1600 BCE.
With these considerations, by the time of the 1st century Temple of Herod era, the Jewish religious and national consciousness had already coalesced 1450 to 1,600 years earlier. With the destruction of the King Herod’s Temple, the largest and most opulent temple in the Roman Empire in 70 CE, the Jewish people seriously began to develop a chronology that would have universal significance. Here began the Jewish calendar based upon the years taken in sequence since the Creation of Adam, created in the Image of G-d and the special relationship between G-d, Adam and Chavah (Eve) before the “fall” that ended their lives as spiritual angels as they devolved into a lower state of existence and began the true beginning of historical literal sequential time.
You might be Interested to Read the Rest of the Series:
“The Fall Festivals of the Jews: Rosh Hashanah and the Jewish knowledge of Time”
Part One – “The Days of Awe - How the Ancients Recorded Time”
Part Two – “The Apostate Lost Israelite’s influence on Roman Christian Historical Postscripts of Historical Dating of Time”
Part Three – “The Jewish Calendar of History began not in Egypt but at Creation”
Part Four – “The Jewish New Year on the 1st of Tishri”
Part Five – “The Jewish Babylonian Exilarchs and their Intimate Access to Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian and Islamic Imperial History”
Part Six – “The Unprecedented Access of Jewish Sages to the Alexandrian Library Historical Archives”
Part Seven – “The Jewish Fate in the Roman Annals of Ancient History”
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The legitimacy of the Jewish people and their relevancy to give us a vignette of history from the Egyptian Empire in the days of Jacob and Joseph to today is summed up in one thought; they were there when every empire of the world made their bid to be the rulers of the world. They all disappeared and today once again are reasserting their rights to rule the global “New World Order”. Yet, the G-d of Israel has proclaimed that in the end, they all will disappear and Messianic Age of the Messiah in Jerusalem will rule the whole world.
As we have seen the world is quickly polarizing between “The Jews” and the “Nations of the World”. In the end that will be only two choices; we are either for the Hebrew Israelites; both now part of the Jews of the house of Judah and the Lost Israelites of the house of Israel or we will be against them. This comes to one sobering conclusion, if you are a descendant of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel and you despise your brothers, the Jews, you will be left cohabitating with peoples who will have a genetic hatred to you even though you think you want to be a part of them.
So today, the G-d is whistling you to come back to the brotherhood of Klal Yisra’el (All Israel). To learn more about this redemptive process, you are Welcome to Contact “Kol Ha Tor”, the Voice of the Turtledove. Here is a joint Orthodox Jewish and 10-Triber Mission to bring awareness of the imminent fulfillment of the Biblical Prophecies regarding the Redemption of all Israel (12 Tribes Re-conciled and Re-United). This super Event of all Times will entail establishing in the region of Shomron (the Ancient Bible Heartland of the Patriarchs) and the Judean Wilderness into a new homeland for the Return of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel when All Israel will finally be redeemed.
For inquiries about Kol Ha Tor Vision for the Lost Tribes of Israel, Visit – “Shomron Lives!”, a Spiritual Retreat and Guest House in Samaria, that hosts Shomron (Samaria) Tours to reacquaint the Returning Lost Tribers of the House of Israel.