What We Believe
The Great Commandments:
1 Then God said all these words:
א 2 “I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the abode of slavery.
ב 3 “You are to have no other gods before me. 4 You are not to make for yourselves a carved image or any kind of representation of anything in heaven above, on the earth beneath or in the water below the shoreline. 5 You are not to bow down to them or serve them; for I, Adonai your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but displaying grace to the thousandth generation of those who love me and obey my mitzvot.
ג 7 “You are not to use lightly the name of Adonai your God, because Adonai will not leave unpunished someone who uses his name lightly.
ד 8 “Remember the day, Shabbat, to set it apart for God. 9 You have six days to labour and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Shabbat for Adonai your God. On it, you are not to do any kind of work—not you, your son, or your daughter, not your male or female slave, not your livestock, and not the foreigner staying with you inside the gates to your property. 11 For in six days, Adonai made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. This is why Adonai blessed the day, Shabbat, and separated it for himself.
ה 12 “Honour your father and mother, so that you may live long in the land which Adonai your God is giving you.
ו 13 “Do not murder.
ז (14) “Do not commit adultery.
ח (15) “Do not steal.
ט (16) “Do not give false evidence against your neighbour.
י 14(17) “Do not covet your neighbour’s house; do not covet your neighbour’s wife, his male or female slave, his ox, his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbour.”
(A: vii) 15(18) All the people experienced the thunder, the lightning, the sound of the shofar, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled. Standing at a distance, 16(19) they said to Moshe, “You, speak with us; and we will listen. But don’t let God speak with us, or we will die.” 17(20) Moshe answered the people, “Don’t be afraid, because God has come only to test you and make you fear him, so that you won’t commit sins.” Exo 20:1-17
Summary:
4 “Sh’ma, Yisra’el! Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad [Hear, Isra’el! Adonai our God, Adonai is one]; Deut 6:4
18 Don’t take vengeance on or bear a grudge against any of your people; rather, love your neighbour as yourself; I am Adonai. Lev 19:18
And the affirmation:
Mark 12:25–31 (CJB)
25 For when people rise from the dead, neither men nor women marry—they are like angels in heaven. 26 And as for the dead being raised, haven’t you read in the book of Moshe, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Avraham, the God of Yitz’chak and the God of Ya‘akov’? 27 He is God not of the dead, but of the living! You are going far astray!”
28 One of the Torah-teachers came up and heard them engaged in this discussion. Seeing that Yeshua answered them well, he asked him, “Which is the most important mitzvah of them all?” 29 Yeshua answered, “The most important is,
‘Sh’ma Yisra’el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad [Hear, O Isra’el, the Lord our God, the Lord is one], 30 and you are to love Adonai your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your understanding and with all your strength.’
31 The second is this:
‘You are to love your neighbour as yourself.’
There is no other mitzvah greater than these.”
Noachide Covenant
Genesis 9:9-13 (CJB)
9 “As for me—I am herewith establishing my covenant with you, with your descendants after you, 10 and with every living creature that is with you—the birds, the livestock, and every wild animal with you, all going out of the ark, every animal on earth. 11 I will establish my covenant with you that never again will all living beings be destroyed by the waters of a flood, and there will never again be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 God added, “Here is the sign of the covenant I am making between myself and you and every living creature with you, for all generations to come: 13 I am putting my rainbow in the cloud—it will be there as a sign of the covenant between myself and the earth.
Abramic Covenant
Genesis 12:1-3 (CJB)
1 Now Adonai said to Avram, “Get yourself out of your country, away from your kinsmen and away from your father’s house and go to the land that I will show you. 2 I will make of you a great nation, I will bless you, and I will make your name great; and you are to be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, but I will curse anyone who curses you; and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
Genesis 15:18-21 (CJB)
18 That day Adonai made a covenant with Avram: “I have given this land to your descendants—from the Vadi of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates River—19 the territory of the Keni, the K’nizi, the Kadmoni, 20 the Hitti, the P’rizi, the Refa’im, 21 the Emori, the Kena‘ani, the Girgashi and the Y’vusi.”
Genesis 17:7–14 (CJB)
7 “I am establishing my covenant between me and you, along with your descendants after you, generation after generation, as an everlasting covenant, to be God for you and for your descendants after you. 8 I will give you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now foreigners, all the land of Kena‘an, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God.”
9 God said to Avraham, “As for you, you are to keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you, generation after generation. 10 Here is my covenant, which you are to keep, between me and you, along with your descendants after you: every male among you is to be circumcised. 11 You are to be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; this will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. 12 Generation after generation, every male among you who is eight days old is to be circumcised, including slaves born within your household and those bought from a foreigner not descended from you. 13 The slave born in your house and the person bought with your money must be circumcised; thus my covenant will be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant. 14 Any uncircumcised male who will not let himself be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin—that person will be cut off from his people, because he has broken my covenant.”
Genesis 17:15–19 (CJB)
15 God said to Avraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are not to call her Sarai [mockery]; her name is to be Sarah [princess]. 16 I will bless her; moreover, I will give you a son by her. Truly I will bless her: she will be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” 17 At this Avraham fell on his face and laughed—he thought to himself, “Will a child be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah give birth at ninety?” 18 Avraham said to God, “If only Yishma‘el could live in your presence!” 19 God answered, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you are to call him Yitz’chak [laughter]. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
Genesis 17:20–27 (CJB)
20 But as for Yishma‘el, I have heard you. I have blessed him. I will make him fruitful and give him many descendants. He will father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. 21 But I will establish my covenant with Yitz’chak, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.” 22 With that, God finished speaking with Avraham and went up from him.
23 Avraham took Yishma‘el his son, all the slaves born in his house and all who had been bought with his money, every male among the people in Avraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin that very day, just as God had said to him.
(Maftir) 24 Avraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, 25 and Yishma‘el his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 Avraham and Yishma‘el his son were circumcised on the same day; 27 and all the men in his household, both slaves born in his house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
Mosaic Covenant
5 Now if you will pay careful attention to what I say and keep my covenant, then you will be my own treasure from among all the peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you will be a kingdom of cohanim for me, a nation set apart.’ These are the words you are to speak to the people of Isra’el.” Exo 19:5-6
8 Moshe took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, “This is the blood of the covenant which Adonai has made with you in accordance with all these words.” Exo 24:8
Israeli Covenant:
3 At that point, Adonai your God will reverse your exile and show you mercy; he will return and gather you from all the peoples to which Adonai your God scattered you. 4 If one of yours was scattered to the far end of the sky, Adonai your God will gather you even from there; he will go there and get you. 5 Adonai your God will bring you back into the land your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it; he will make you prosper there, and you will become even more numerous than your ancestors. 6 Then Adonai your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your children, so that you will love Adonai your God with all your heart and all your being, and thus you will live. (RY: iii, LY: v) Deut 30:3-6
Davidic Covenant
8 “Therefore say this to my servant David that this is what Adonai–Tzva’ot says: ‘I took you from the sheep-yards, from following the sheep, to make you chief over my people, over Isra’el. 9 I have been with you wherever you went; I have destroyed all your enemies ahead of you; and I am making your reputation great, like the reputations of the greatest people on earth. 10 I will assign a place to my people Isra’el; I will plant them there, so that they can live in their own place without being disturbed any more. The wicked will no longer oppress them, as they did at the beginning, 11 and as they did from the time I ordered judges to be over my people Isra’el; instead, I will give you rest from all your enemies.
“ ‘Moreover, Adonai tells you that Adonai will make you a house. 12 When your days come to an end and you sleep with your ancestors, I will establish one of your descendants to succeed you, one of your own flesh and blood; and I will set up his rulership. 13 He will build a house for my name, and I will establish his royal throne forever. 14 I will be a father for him, and he will be a son for me. If he does something wrong, I will punish him with a rod and blows, just as everyone gets punished; 15 nevertheless, my grace will not leave him, as I took it away from Sha’ul, whom I removed from before you. 16 Thus your house and your kingdom will be made secure forever before you; your throne will be set up forever.’ ” 17 Natan told David all of these words and described this entire vision. 2 Sam 7:8-17
New Covenant Prophesy
Deuteronomy 18:18 (CJB)
18 I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kinsmen. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I order him.
Isaiah 40:1–11 (CJB)
1 “Comfort and keep comforting my people,” says your God. 2 “Tell Yerushalayim to take heart; proclaim to her that she has completed her time of service, that her guilt has been paid off, that she has received at the hand of Adonai double for all her sins.” 3 A voice cries out: “Clear a road through the desert for Adonai! Level a highway in the ‘Aravah for our God! 4 Let every valley be filled in, every mountain and hill lowered, the bumpy places made level and the crags become a plain. 5 Then the glory of Adonai will be revealed; all humankind together will see it, for the mouth of Adonai has spoken.” 6 A voice says, “Proclaim!” And I answer, “What should I proclaim?” “All humanity is merely grass, all its kindness like wildflowers: 7 the grass dries up, the flower fades, when a wind from Adonai blows on it. Surely the people are grass! 8 The grass dries up, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever.” 9 You who bring good news to Tziyon, get yourself up on a high mountain; you who bring good news to Yerushalayim, cry out at the top of your voice! Don’t be afraid to shout out loud! Say to the cities of Y’hudah, “Here is your God! 10 Here comes Adonai Elohim with power, and his arm will rule for him. Look! His reward is with him, and his recompense is before him. 11 He is like a shepherd feeding his flock, gathering his lambs with his arm, carrying them against his chest, gently leading the mother sheep.”
Isaiah 42:1–10 (CJB)
1 “Here is my servant, whom I support, my chosen one, in whom I take pleasure. I have put my Spirit on him; he will bring justice to the Goyim. 2 He will not cry or shout; no one will hear his voice in the streets. 3 He will not snap off a broken reed or snuff out a smoldering wick. He will bring forth justice according to truth; 4 he will not weaken or be crushed until he has established justice on the earth, and the coastlands wait for his Torah.” 5 Thus says God, Adonai, who created the heavens and spread them out, who stretched out the earth and all that grows from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk on it: 6 “I, Adonai, called you righteously, I took hold of you by the hand, I shaped you and made you a covenant for the people, to be a light for the Goyim, 7 so that you can open blind eyes, free the prisoners from confinement, those living in darkness from the dungeon. 8 I am Adonai; that is my name. I yield my glory to no one else, nor my praise to any idol. 9 See how the former predictions come true; and now new things do I declare— before they sprout I tell you about them.” 10 Sing to Adonai a new song! Let his praise be sung from the ends of the earth by those sailing the sea and by everything in it, by the coastlands and those living there.
Isaiah 52:13–15 (CJB)
13 “See how my servant will succeed! He will be raised up, exalted, highly honored! 14 Just as many were appalled at him, because he was so disfigured that he didn’t even seem human and simply no longer looked like a man, 15 so now he will startle many nations; because of him, kings will be speechless. For they will see what they had not been told, they will ponder things they had never heard.”
Jeremiah 31:30–33 (CJB)
30(31) “Here, the days are coming,” says Adonai, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Isra’el and with the house of Y’hudah. 31(32) It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers on the day I took them by their hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt; because they, for their part, violated my covenant, even though I, for my part, was a husband to them,” says Adonai.
32(33) “For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Isra’el after those days,” says Adonai: “I will put my Torah within them and write it on their hearts; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
33(34) No longer will any of them teach his fellow community member or his brother, ‘Know Adonai’; for all will know me, from the least of them to the greatest; because I will forgive their wickednesses and remember their sins no more.”
The New Covenant
Note: The Gospels record Yeshua is both the suffering servant (son of Yosef) and the coming one (Son of David) who will reign in the restored kingdom.
Luke 2:10–15 (CJB)
10 but the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, because I am here announcing to you Good News that will bring great joy to all the people. 11 This very day, in the town of David, there was born for you a Deliverer who is the Messiah, the Lord. 12 Here is how you will know: you will find a baby wrapped in cloth and lying in a feeding trough.” 13 Suddenly, along with the angel was a vast army from heaven praising God: 14 “In the highest heaven, glory to God! And on earth, peace among people of good will!” 15 No sooner had the angels left them and gone back into heaven than the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go over to Beit-Lechem and see this thing that has happened, that Adonai has told us about.”
Note: The Gospel is the “good news” that this suffering servant had died-once for all-to put away the sin of Israel and the whole world, and because of his resurrection, death has been conquered. Yeshua ascended into heaven as the great high priest of the order of Malki-Tzedek (Melchizedek), and he is now seated at the right hand of God and will return to restore the kingdom to Israel and the whole creation of God as King of kings and Lord of lords. On that day, Yeshua will be seated on the throne of David in Yerushalayim forever.
Matthew 26:26–29 (CJB)
26 While they were eating, Yeshua took a piece of matzah, made the b’rakhah, broke it, gave it to the talmidim and said,
“Take! Eat! This is my body!” 27 Also he took a cup of wine, made the b’rakhah, and gave it to them, saying, “All of you, drink from it! 28 For this is my blood, which ratifies the New Covenant, my blood shed on behalf of many, so that they may have their sins forgiven. 29 I tell you; I will not drink this ‘fruit of the vine’ again until the day I drink new wine with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”
Shabbat
Exodus 20:8–11 (CJB)
8 “Remember the day, Shabbat, to set it apart for God.
9 You have six days to labour and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a Shabbat for Adonai your God. On it, you are not to do any kind of work—not you, your son or your daughter, not your male or female slave, not your livestock, and not the foreigner staying with you inside the gates to your property.
11 For in six days, Adonai made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. This is why Adonai blessed the day, Shabbat, and separated it for himself. ה
Exodus 31:12–17 (CJB)
12 Adonai said to Moshe,
13 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘You are to observe my Shabbats; for this is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you will know that I am Adonai, who sets you apart for me.
14 Therefore you are to keep my Shabbat, because it is set apart for you. Everyone who treats it as ordinary must be put to death; for whoever does any work on it is to be cut off from his people.
15 On six days work will get done; but the seventh day is Shabbat, for complete rest, set apart for Adonai. Whoever does any work on the day of Shabbat must be put to death.
16 The people of Isra’el are to keep the Shabbat, to observe Shabbat through all their generations as a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the people of Isra’el forever; for in six days Adonai made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day he stopped working and rested.’ ”
Leviticus 23:1–3 (CJB)
1 Adonai said to Moshe,
2 “Tell the people of Isra’el: ‘The designated times of Adonai which you are to proclaim as holy convocations are my designated times.
3 “ ‘Work is to be done on six days; but the seventh day is a Shabbat of complete rest, a holy convocation; you are not to do any kind of work; it is a Shabbat for Adonai, even in your homes.
Pesach (Passover)
Exodus 12:1–11 (CJB)
1 Adonai spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt; he said,
2 “You are to begin your calendar with this month; it will be the first month of the year for you.
3 Speak to all the assembly of Isra’el and say, ‘On the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb or kid for his family, one per household-
4 except that if the household is too small for a whole lamb or kid, then he and his next-door neighbour should share one, dividing it in proportion to the number of people eating it.
5 Your animal must be without defect, a male in its first year, and you may choose it from either the sheep or the goats.
6 “ ‘You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, and then the entire assembly of the community of Isra’el will slaughter it at dusk.
7 They are to take some of the blood and smear it on the two sides and top of the door-frame at the entrance of the house in which they eat it.
8 That night, they are to eat the meat, roasted in the fire; they are to eat it with matzah and maror.
9 Don’t eat it raw or boiled, but roasted in the fire, with its head, the lower parts of its legs and its inner organs.
10 Let nothing of it remain till morning; if any of it does remain, burn it up completely.
11 “ ‘Here is how you are to eat it: with your belt fastened, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand; and you are to eat it hurriedly. It is Adonai’s Pesach [Passover].
Leviticus 23:5 (CJB)
5 “ ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, between sundown and complete darkness, comes Pesach for Adonai.
Matzah (Feast of Unleavened Bread)
Leviticus 23:6 (CJB)
6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the festival of matzah; for seven days you are to eat matzah.
First Fruits
Leviticus 23:9-11 (CJB)
9 Adonai said to Moshe, 10 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘After you enter the land I am giving you and harvest its ripe crops, you are to bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the cohen. 11 He is to wave the sheaf before Adonai, so that you will be accepted; the cohen is to wave it on the day after the Shabbat.
Shavu’ot (Pentecost)
Leviticus 23:15-17 (CJB)
15 “ ‘From the day after the day of rest—that is, from the day you bring the sheaf for waving—you are to count seven full weeks, 16 until the day after the seventh week; you are to count fifty days; and then you are to present a new grain offering to Adonai. 17 You must bring bread from your homes for waving—two loaves made with one gallon of fine flour, baked with leaven—as firstfruits for Adonai.
Rosh-HaShanah
Leviticus 23:23-25 (CJB)
23 Adonai said to Moshe, 24 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘In the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering, a holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar. 25 Do not do any kind of ordinary work, and bring an offering made by fire to Adonai.’ ”
Leviticus 23:23-25 One of the fascinating facts about the holy day of Rosh-Hashanah is that it is considered the New Year, yet it’s not called that in the Bible. The truth is this day comes in the seventh month of the calendar year and was given a different name. the biblical New Year starts in the spring with the month of Nisan (Exod. 12:2), the beginning of the new agricultural year. However, the sages gave such significance to the first Shabbat of the fall holidays that they eventually considered it as the “spiritual” new year, hence the name change as well. Biblically, known as Yom Terumah (the Day of Sounding/Festival of Trumpets), this day became Rosh-Hashanah, the Head of the Year.
The purpose of this holy day is summed up in one word: regathering to a pure faith in God, Rosh-Hashanah came to represent the day of repentance. It is the day when the people of Israel take stock of their spiritual condition and make the necessary changes to ensure that the upcoming new year will be pleasing to God. So important was this day of Rosh-Hashanah that, in fact, the entire preceding Hebrew month of Elul takes on a holy significance of its own. The sages stressed that the forty-day period from the first day of Elul through the tenth day of Tishri (Yom-Kippur) was to be a time of special spiritual preparation. This was based on the belief that it was on the first of Elul that Moshe ascended Mount Sinai in order to receive the second set of Tablets of the Law and that he descended on Yom-Kippur (Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer 46).
For more on “The Holy Days of Israel: Rosh-Hashanah,” see reading at Micah 7:19.
Yom-Kippur (Day of Atonement)
Leviticus 23:26-32 (CJB)
26 Adonai said to Moshe, 27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is Yom-Kippur; you are to have a holy convocation, you are to deny yourselves, and you are to bring an offering made by fire to Adonai. 28 You are not to do any kind of work on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, to make atonement for you before Adonai your God.
29 Anyone who does not deny himself on that day is to be cut off from his people; 30 and anyone who does any kind of work on that day, I will destroy from among his people. 31 You are not to do any kind of work; it is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live. 32 It will be for you a Shabbat of complete rest, and you are to deny yourselves; you are to rest on your Shabbat from evening the ninth day of the month until the following evening.”
Leviticus 23:26-32 Yom-Kippur has long been considered the most holy day on the Jewish biblical calendar. The name itself describes the history of this day; for it was on this very day – once a year – that the High Priest would enter the Holy of Holies to make atonement for the nation. In a word, Yom-Kippur illustrates regeneration for those who follow God’s way of atonement.
Leviticus 16 goes into great detail about the Yom-Kippur ceremony, which cantered on the sacrifices of two goats. One goat, called Chatat, was to be slain as a blood sacrifice to symbolically cover the sins of Israel. The other goat, called ‘Az’azel, or scapegoat, would be brought before the priest. The priest would lay his hands on the head of the goat as he confessed the sins of the people. But instead of slaying this animal in the traditional fashion, the goat would be set free in the wilderness, symbolically taking the sins of the nation out from their midst.
What was begun on Rosh-Hashanah – namely, repentance and self-evaluation – was completed nine days later with atonement and regeneration. In Temple times, the observance of the day was more clearly defined and cantered on the sacrifices. In 70 CE however, the Temple was destroyed, hence some perplexing questions arose: How can Yom-Kippur be observed without the proper place of sacrifice? How can Yom-Kippur be effectual without the proper sacrifice? The rabbis of the first century decided to make substitutions: prayer (Tefilah), repentance (T’shuva), and charity (Tzedakah) replaced sacrifices in the modern observance of Yom-Kippur.
There are Orthodox Jewish sects who still believe that Temple and animal sacrifices need to be revived in Israel. The sect of the Temple Mount Faithful is actively reproducing the holy vessels and priestly garments to prepare for the coming Temple. They have attempted to place the first cornerstone on the Temple Mount in Yerushalayim, strongly believing that such a structure will be rebuilt soon.
For more on “The Holy Days of Israel: Yom-Kippur,” see reading at Isaiah 58:5.
Sukkot (Tabernacles)
Leviticus 23:33-36 (CJB)
33 Adonai said to Moshe, 34 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of Sukkot for seven days to Adonai. 35 On the first day there is to be a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work. 36 For seven days you are to bring an offering made by fire to Adonai; on the eighth day you are to have a holy convocation and bring an offering made by fire to Adonai; it is a day of public assembly; do not do any kind of ordinary work.
Leviticus 23:33-44 Three major holy days occur in the first nineteen days of the biblical month of Tishri (September – October): Rosh-Hashanah, Yom-Kippur, and the eight days of Sukkot (Tabernacles). As with the other days, the name of this holy day tells its purpose. Essentially, it is twofold, with the first being related to the fall harvest. As Leviticus 23:33-43 teaches, Sukkot was to be a time of bringing in the latter harvest. It is widely believed that the Puritan colonists who were great students of the Hebrew Scriptures based the first American Thanksgiving on Sukkot. A secondary meaning of this holy day is found in the command to dwell in booths as a memorial of Israel’s wilderness experience. To expand the theme of this specific historical event, we might best summarise Sukkot with the word habitation. We know from Torah that God dwelt with his people in their forty-year wilderness wanderings. With such meaningful themes, it is no wonder that Sukkot is known as the Time of Our Rejoicing (Z’man Simchatenu).
For more on “The Holy Days of Israel: Sukkot (Tabernacles), “see reading at Psalm 118.
Hanukkah (Feast of Dedication)
John 10:22-30 (CJB)
22 Then came Hanukkah in Yerushalayim. It was winter, 23 and Yeshua was walking around inside the Temple area, in Shlomo’s Colonnade. 24 So the Judeans surrounded him and said to him, “How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us publicly!” 25 Yeshua answered them, “I have already told you, and you don’t trust me. The works I do in my Father’s name testify on my behalf, 26 but the reason you don’t trust is that you are not included among my sheep. 27 My sheep listen to my voice, I recognize them, they follow me, 28 and I give them eternal life. They will absolutely never be destroyed, and no one will snatch them from my hands. 29 My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all; and no one can snatch them from the Father’s hands. 30 I and the Father are one.”
Shabbat
8 “Remember the day, Shabbat, to set it apart for God. 9 You have six days to labour and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Shabbat for Adonai your God. On it, you are not to do any kind of work—not you, your son or your daughter, not your male or female slave, not your livestock, and not the foreigner staying with you inside the gates to your property. 11 For in six days, Adonai made heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them; but on the seventh day he rested. This is why Adonai blessed the day, Shabbat, and separated it for himself. Exo 20:8-11
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Yom-Kippur
26 Adonai said to Moshe, 27 “The tenth day of this seventh month is Yom-Kippur; you are to have a holy convocation, you are to deny yourselves, and you are to bring an offering made by fire to Adonai. 28 You are not to do any kind of work on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, to make atonement for you before Adonai your God.
29 Anyone who does not deny himself on that day is to be cut off from his people; 30 and anyone who does any kind of work on that day, I will destroy from among his people. 31 You are not to do any kind of work; it is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live. 32 It will be for you a Shabbat of complete rest, and you are to deny yourselves; you are to rest on your Shabbat from evening the ninth day of the month until the following evening.” Lev 23:26-32