Sept 15, 2021 / 5782 Day of Atonement Part 4: Richard's Complete Bible Handbook (Numbers)

Sept 15, 2021 / 5782 Day of Atonement Part 4: Richard's Complete Bible Handbook (Numbers) This Day of Atonement We will begin the Season 4 of the Bible Study reading the WORD OF GOD All night long........... or at least try too. Why? DAY OF ATONEMENT (Heb. יוֹם הכִּפּוּרִים, Yom ha-Kippurim), one of the "appointed seasons of the Lord, holy convocations," a day of fasting and atonement, occurring on the Tenth of Tishri. It is the climax of the "*Ten Days of Penitence" and the most important day in the liturgical year. In the Bible All manner of work is forbidden on the Day of Atonement, as it is on the Sabbath (being likewise called "a Sabbath of solemn rest"), and the soul is to be "afflicted" ("from the evening of the ninth day of the seventh month until the evening of the morrow"), the punishment for transgressing these commandments being destruction and extirpation (Lev. 16:29–31; 23:27–32; Num. 29:7). Special additional offerings were to be brought (Num. 29:8–11), and, apart from these, a ceremony peculiar to the day (see *Avodah) was solemnized in the Temple (Lev. 16:1–34). The essence of the day and the reasons for the ceremony are expressed by the verse: "For on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before the Lord" (Lev. 16:30). In the Jubilee year the shofar is to be sounded on the Day of Atonement to indicate the setting free of slaves and the restoration of the fields to their ancestral owners (Lev. 25:9–10). (retrieved from:https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/...)