NewsLetter 5860-035
The 1st Year of the 5th Sabbatical Cycle
The 29th year of the 120th Jubilee Cycle
The 15th day of the 9th month 5860 years after the creation of Adam
The 5th Sabbatical Cycle after the 119th Jubilee Cycle
The Sabbatical Cycle of the Red Heifer, Famine, Captivity & The 2 Witnesses
October 19, 2024
Shabbat Shalom to the Royal Family of Yehovah,
Shalom Brethren, on Monday, October 14, my Mom, who is 87, was admitted to palliative care. She has been dealing with dementia for the past 6 years but we only came to know about it during COVID in 2020. We have been watching her decline steadily month by month since then. We have noticed her decline speeding up in the past few months, but our family was caught off guard on Monday.
She has stopped eating, drinking and no longer able to communicate, and is being well taken care of. But during this time I am devoting all of my time to my Mom. I have been helping her now since 2020. And in these last days of her life, I will be by her side more so. I am just doing what any son would do. I know a number of you are dealing with the same issues and the work involved as well as the many emotions that come up.
I have no time to do a newsletter, and no one is yet able to step in for me. So, while I take care of my Mom over the next week or two or more, if needed, I will not be publishing a Newsletter. Our Executive team may be able to fill this role later, but the events of this week have come too fast.
If you go to our archives, you can find a host of articles about the Holy Days and many other subjects you can learn from. Except for the Feasts, we have rarely missed a publishing date since we began the website in 2006. This will be another rare exception. I only have one Mom, and she needs me at this time.
I may not be able to respond to all the emails, and when I do, they might be short notes with little explanation, so again, please understand.
Shabbat is taken care of each week and will continue as normal.
THank you for understanding and considering me and my family at this time.
Torah Portion
Torah Portions
We read through the entire Torah along with the Prophets and the New Testament, once over the course of 3 1/2 years. Or according to the Sabbatical Cycle which means we read it all twice over a 7-year period. This allows us to cover more in-depth rather than being rushed to cover as much as is covered on an annual basis. We allow all to comment and take part in the discussions.
Septennial Torah Portion
If you go to Torah Portion in our archived section, you can then go to the 1st year, which is the 1st year of the Sabbatical Cycle, the one we are in now, as we state at the top of every News Letter. There, you can scroll down to the proper date and see that this Shabbat, we could very well be midrashing about:
Genesis 38
2 Samuel 3
Psalm 78
Mark 16 – Luke 1:26
We are in the 1st Sabbatical Cycle in 2024-2025. We go through the entire bible twice in a 7 year cycle. This means we cover the entire bible once every 3 1/2 years. It gives us more time to debate and discuss each portion we read.
If you missed last week’s exciting discoveries as we studied that section, you can go and watch past Shabbats on our media section.
Join Our Sabbath Meetings
Join Our Sabbath Meetings
There are many people in need of fellowship and who are sitting at home on the Sabbath with no one to talk to or debate with. I want to encourage all of you to join us on Shabbat, and to invite others to come and join us as well. If the time is not convenient then you can listen to the teaching and the midrash after on our YouTube channel.
What are we doing and why do we teach this way?
We are going to discuss both sides of an issue and then let you choose. It is the work of the Ruach (Spirit) to direct and to teach you.
The medieval commentator Rashi wrote that the Hebrew word for wrestle (avek) implies that Jacob was “tied”, for the same word is used to describe knotted fringes in a Jewish prayer shawl, the tzitzityot. Rashi says, “thus is the manner of two people who struggle to overthrow each other, that one embraces the other and knots him with his arms”.
Our intellectual wrestling has been replaced by a different kind of struggle. We are Wrestling with Yehovah as we grapple with His Word. It is an intimate act, symbolizing a relationship in which Yehovah and I and you are bound together. My wrestling is a struggle to discover what Yehovah expects of us, and we are “tied” to the One who assists us in that struggle.
Today, many say Israel means “Champion of God”, or better — the “Wrestler of God”.
Our Torah sessions each Shabbat teaches you and encourages you to constantly challenge, question, argue against, as well as view alternative views and explanations of the Word. In other words, we are to “wrestle with the Word” to get to the truth. Jews worldwide believe that you need to wrestle with the Word and constantly challenge Dogma, Theology, and views or else you will never get to the Truth.
We are not like most churches where “The preacher talks and everyone listens.” We encourage everyone to participate, to question and to contribute what they know on the subject being discussed. We want you to be a champion wrestler of the Word of Yehovah. We want you to wear the title of Israel, knowing that you not only know but are capable of explaining why you know the Torah to be true with logic and facts.
We have a few rules though. Let others talk and listen. There is no discussion about UFO’s Nephilim, Vaccines or conspiracy-type subjects. We have people from around the world with different world views. Not everyone cares who is the President of any particular country. Treat each other with respect as Fellow wrestlers of the word. Some of our subjects are hard to understand and require you to be mature and if you do not know, then listen to gain knowledge and understanding and hopefully wisdom. The very things you are commanded to ask Yehovah for and He gives to those who ask.
Jas 1:5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and with no reproach, and it shall be given to him.
We hope you can invite those who want to keep Torah to come and join us by hitting the link below. It is almost like a Torah teaching fellowship talk show with people from around the world taking part and sharing their insights and understandings.
We start off with some music and then some prayers and it’s as though you were sitting around the kitchen back in Newfoundland having a cup of coffee and all of us enjoying each other’s company. I hope you will grace us with your company someday.
Sabbath services begin at 12:30 PM EDT where we will be doing prayers songs and teaching from this hour.
Shabbat Services will begin at about 1:15 pm Eastern.
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The Perpetual Calendar
The Perpetual Calendar
We have available from our website a calendar you can use to keep track of the days of the month based on when the Barley is ripe and when the moon is sighted. ALl you have to do is download it. https://sightedmoon.com/perpetual-calendar/
With the new year about to begin, you can learn about the calendar as you record it. This is a great tool to have and it is free to anyone who wants it.
The Stones Cry Out Part 1
The Stones Cry Out Part 1
Two Weeks ago, we gave our latest PDF book to our Supporters, letting them read The Stones Cry Out Part 1. If you are supporting this work, you should have received an email with instructions on how to get your copy. Monthly supporters have access to all our PDF books, all our audiobooks and early viewing of new releases.
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When I wrote Stones Cry Out, I wanted it to be one of our FREE books so everyone would have it. It is more of an encyclopedia than a book to read. It will be your quick resource book; you will have access to every question about any calendar, how it got started, and who started it. You will also learn the history of how the Mishnah was assembled, when it was assembled and why. Then, you will learn how that information was transferred into both the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmud until it reached its final stage in the Mishneh Torah. Along with this progression, the calendar also progressed and changed long after 358 C.E. when Rabbi Hillel first published it. But…what was before the Hillel calendar? What does the Mishnah record about those things?
The Stones Cry Out was originally going to be one book explaining all the various proofs we have discovered, demonstrating when the Sabbatical and Jubilee years are throughout history.
You can know; it is not a mystery.
As I began to write The Stones Cry Out, I quickly found myself going back, time and time again, to explain how the calendar is behind the confusion of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Rabbis, as they began to write the Mishnah, incorporated wrong understandings, and those errors were written into what became known as the Talmud and then the Mishneh Torah. The expulsion from the land and subsequent persecutions in trying to send out messengers to report the barley being found or the crescent moon being seen, proved to be more and more dangerous over time. All of these things took place over 14 centuries.
Then as I was working on The Stones Cry Out, I discovered that many people were now accepting the Zadok calendar as factual. This is when we pivoted to include all the details of the various calendars that have crept back into public knowledge today and are being used to mislead new people who are just starting to learn about the calendar. All of this was directly connected to the period starting with the Hasmonaeans, up to the destruction of the Temple. Then, with the compiling of the Mishnah, the studies that led into the writing of the Jerusalem Talmud, then the Babylonian Talmud and finally the Mishneh Torah, each error that was added is compounded over time.
The Stones Cry Out, Part 1 explains the history of how each compilation of the Oral Torah incorporated errors, leading the followers thereof away from the actual Torah. In understanding these facts, it is then possible to understand more readily how the Sabbatical and Jubilee years were then mixed and later changed. By explaining all this history, I will be able to help you the reader understand the tombstones when most authorities do not. They have assumed, to their error, the Hillel calendar to have always been since Mount Sinai. Not understanding the history of the calendars is why most authorities dismiss the tombstones as too confusing to use. Once you understand The Stones Cry Out Part 1, Part 2 will be very easy to grasp.
Daniel 7:25 tells us he will change the appointed seasons and commandments. Many assume Constantine did this when he made Sunday the Sabbath. Few have considered the calendar’s many changes and how they relate to us today. Hidden in this proverbial swamp of confusion is the truth about the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. The Sabbatical and Jubilee years reveal the truths about the calendar that have been hidden for almost 2000 years.
We are in the very last days and Yehshua warned us that during this time:
Mat 24:10 And then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another.
Mat 24:11 And many false prophets will rise and deceive many.
Mat 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many will become cold.
Mat 24:13 But he who endures to the end, the same shall be kept safe.
Paul also warned Timothy about these last days, warning that some would leave the truth and begin to follow demonic teachers:
1Ti 4:1 But the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons,
Paul again warned the Thessalonians that the Great Falling away would take place in the last days. How can you fall away if you have never come to know the truth? So who is Paul talking to? Those who are called and answer that calling begin to walk this road of restoration back to Yehovah, and then at some point along that walk, they change and leave this walk following the teachings of demons to false calendar.
2Th 2:1 Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,
2Th 2:2 that you should not be soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word or letter, as through us, as if the Day of Christ is at hand.
2Th 2:3 Let not anyone deceive you by any means. For that Day shall not come unless there first comes a falling away, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition,
2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.
We must endure until the end. We must not let ourselves become offended by personalities and leave the faith once given.
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Hello Joseph
I’m so sorry to hear about your mom. I can only imagine how tough this must be for you. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your mom during this difficult time. May our heavenly Father grant you and your family the strength to persevere through this challenging time. Love you.
Baljit
Will be praying for you and your family during this difficult time. May YEHOVAH bless this time with your mother.
Shalom, Julia
Good day, Brother Joe.
Keeping you and your family in my prayers. Shalom!
Shalom Joe, we’re so saddened by your news. Please know you and your family are in our prayers with love in Yehovah’s name. Pauline and Chris
May you know Yehovah’s Love, Grace, Mercy and Peace as you spend precious time with your mom. Praying this for you my friend. Shalom.
Hi Joseph
May our Father carry you through His set apart Spirit in these times.
Verdi
Joseph,
Praying for you and your family as you care for your mother!
Kay
Greetings to you and your loved ones Joseph. Our Prayers for your Mom and all those gathered around her are offered tonight.Joseph, you have labored ceaselessly these many years serving the LORD and His Ecclesia/the Church with love and patience. Please take a rest now with your family. You have provided us many years of Newsletters to review. Thank you.
Yes indeed he has! Thankful Joe gets this chance to be with his mom, I didnt and i regret it often. So dear Joe bring in your mama to Yahs Kingdom! Praise Yehovah for giving you this time . I am.
Praying for your mom and praying for you also during this time.
No need to explain Joesph..we understand. May God’s will be done.
May Jehovah sustain you and your whole family during this time.
Sorry to hear Joe will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. May Jehovah comfort you and keep you in perfect peace.
Sorry to hear about your mom Joe will be praying for you and your family during this time.
Praying for your mom, your family, and you. May Yah’s abundant grace aid you all during this time. Shalom!
I understand. Take care of your mom and let her feel your love and YeHoVaH’s!!!
I am praying for you, Joseph, during this difficult time. What a blessing mothers are! Shalom
Joe, our prayers for your serenity during this sad time. Yehovah is always with you.
I send you my deepest prayers and the endurance to keep the path that you are on.
Joe I am so sorry to hear that. Our family just buried our mother last month. She had stopped eating, drinking and talking.
Sad times for sure but she was blessed with 98 years of life so we are grateful. May Yehovah give you and your family a peace that surpasses understanding at this time
Hi Joseph may Yehovah be with you at this time. I know the feeling to start losing some words caused by Dementia, because I am past the milestone of 80 years myself. Sometimes I get embarrassed when I stop half way through a sentence in my conversations. Persevere, and give your mother all the assistance that she needs.
Shalom,
Prayer and prayers, !
Understood. You and your family will be in our prayers.
Over the past two months, my mother (80 years old) has been in and out of the hospital three times. While she was in rehab trying to come home, we made the decision to move her out of her home and into a place that can give her the round the clock care that she needs. This week, however, she’s been back in the hospital again after only spending a few days in her new place. Ironically, I can somewhat say that I understand what you are going through, Joe – these events that began just after the holy days the year are why I’ve been rather silent as of late… this kind of stuff happens, and it’s OK to redirect your time and attention to where it needs to be.
Praying for you Joseph and for your mother.
Yahovah and Yeshuah has always been with you and your mother in these difficult times. I always remember that anonymous prayer that someone wrote about the foot prints in the sand made me remember how Yeshuah will carry us through hardships in our lives.
Praying for strength for you and your mother
And your family
Blessings and prayers in Yahovah and Yeshuah for you !
Anita