2005.04.D.06 Feedback On: Only The First And Eighth Days Of Tabernacles Are Sabbaths Created by James3 on 9/7/2019 3:22:35 PM Feedback On: Only The First And Eighth Days Of Tabernacles Are Sabbaths
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----- Original Message -----
From: Yochanan Mascaro
To: james@jar-a.com
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: [ETI Informal All 1AD.05.04.05] Only the First and Eighth Days of Tabernacles are Sabbaths
James
You are correct in noticing that scripture declares the first and last days of Hag HaMatzot (Feast of The Unleavened Breads) and Hag Sukkot (Feast of Booths) to be "high" annual Shabbats. No "servile work" is allowed i.e., gainful employment, usually interpreted to mean 'work performed for others for hire'.
However, while it is commendable and spiritually profitable to also not work during the intervening days of these chagim (feasts), there is no Torah-based injunction from work on the intervening days.
The scriptural feast of Sukkot is most accurately observed by dwelling outside of one's regular home in a temporary dwelling (a sukkah or 'booth'). Clearly this is to remind Yisraelites that our homes are not permanent until YHWH restores His fellowship with Yisrael through the delegated representative presence of The Messiah who will dwell in the Temple and it also reminds Yisraelites of the dwelling in the wilderness on the way to the promised land. While rabbinic halachah may allow fulfillment of this feast by merely eating at least one meal a day within the confines of the sukkah, the scriptural pattern presented to us is that we reside in these temporary dwellings for the entirety of the feast.
I also agree as you say that if one indeed fulfills this mitzvah as described in scripture it thus becomes difficult, if not impossible, to perform any gainful employment during the intervening days between the two high shabbats of Sukkot.
Yochanan Mascaro
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-------Original Message-------
From: James Robertson @ JAR&A
Date: 04/20/05 12:41:31
To: Lists @ ETI Min
Subject: [ETI Informal All 1AD.05.04.05] Only the First and Eighth Days of Tabernacles are Sabbaths
Greetings
Further to the previous email, i note that Leviticus 23:34-36 states:
"34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD}.
35 On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36 Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD}: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yah the eternally self existing {the LORD} it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. (KJV, names adjusted)
It appears that only the first and eighth days are Sabbaths.
However, as with the feast of unleavened bread there is a requirement for the males to appear before Yah the eternally self existing and Zechariah 14:19 states:
"19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles." (KJV)
It seems to me that if one is away from home to observe the feast one is not able to work.
I would value comment on whether it is acceptable to undertake secular work during the remaining days of both the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Tabernacles.
Warm regards and blessings
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