Post by BYT YHWH on May 5, 2005 18:19:08 GMT -5
by The Watchman
Take a look at what these well known jewish encylopedias
have to say on
the day.
The Jewish Encyclopedia (under the topic day) In the Bible,
the season
of light (Gen. i. 5), lasting "from dawn [lit. "the rising of the
morning"] to the coming forth of the stars" (Neh. iv. 15, 17).
The term
"day" is used also to denote a period of twenty-four hours
(Ex. xxi.
21). In Jewish communal life part of a day is at times
reckoned as one
day; e.g., the day of the funeral, even when the latter takes
place late
in the afternoon, is counted as the first of the seven days of
mourning;
a short time in the morning of the seventh day is counted
as the seventh
day; circumcision takes place on the eighth day, even
though of the
first day only a few minutes remained after the birth of the
child,
these being counted as one day. Again, a man who hears
of a vow made by
his wife or his daughter, and desires to cancel the vow,
must do so on
the same day on which he hears of it, as otherwise the
protest has no
effect; even if the hearing takes place a little time before
night, the
annulment must be done within that little time. The day is
reckoned from
evening to evening-i.e., night and day-except in reference to
sacrifices, where daytime and the night following constitute
one day
(Lev. vii. 15)
As I showed in my Scriptural Study, "WHAT IS THE
SCRIPTURAL DAY?", the
day is the light as YHWH declared it to be. It begins with
the first
sight of light over the horizon and ends at nightfall. The last
sentence
in this paragraph doesn't even make sense. The so called
jewish scholars
want us to believe that a day is from evening to evening
except for
sacrifices.
Encylopedia Judaica
The third biblical calendar, which is first attested in
Zechariah 1:7
and 7:1, employs the Babylonian month names, which go
back to the
calendar of Nippur that antedated Hammurapi. According to
rabbinic
tradition, these names were imported by those who
returned to the land
of Israel from the Babylonian Exile (TJ, RH 1:2, 56d). It is
most likely
that these immigrants also introduced the lunar-solar
calendar and the
intercalation of a month to reconcile the lunar and solar
years, a
characteristic of the Babylonian calendar. The adoption of
the
Babylonian calendar was also responsible for the custom
of reckoning the
day from the previous evening. (Encyclopedia Judaica
under Topic "Year"
and "Day")
Now isn't that interesting. The day beginning with the
previous evening
came from Babylon.
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols (under the topic Sun)
The Jewish calendar is both lunar and solar, attuned to the
agricultural
cycles governed by solstices and equinoxes, as well as the
monthly
rhythms of the waxing and waning moon. The Jewish day
begins at sunset,
a practice probably adopted during the Babylonian exile
(the 6th century
B.C.E.)
Another admittance as to when the evening to evening was
adopted.
Take a look at what these well known jewish encylopedias
have to say on
the day.
The Jewish Encyclopedia (under the topic day) In the Bible,
the season
of light (Gen. i. 5), lasting "from dawn [lit. "the rising of the
morning"] to the coming forth of the stars" (Neh. iv. 15, 17).
The term
"day" is used also to denote a period of twenty-four hours
(Ex. xxi.
21). In Jewish communal life part of a day is at times
reckoned as one
day; e.g., the day of the funeral, even when the latter takes
place late
in the afternoon, is counted as the first of the seven days of
mourning;
a short time in the morning of the seventh day is counted
as the seventh
day; circumcision takes place on the eighth day, even
though of the
first day only a few minutes remained after the birth of the
child,
these being counted as one day. Again, a man who hears
of a vow made by
his wife or his daughter, and desires to cancel the vow,
must do so on
the same day on which he hears of it, as otherwise the
protest has no
effect; even if the hearing takes place a little time before
night, the
annulment must be done within that little time. The day is
reckoned from
evening to evening-i.e., night and day-except in reference to
sacrifices, where daytime and the night following constitute
one day
(Lev. vii. 15)
As I showed in my Scriptural Study, "WHAT IS THE
SCRIPTURAL DAY?", the
day is the light as YHWH declared it to be. It begins with
the first
sight of light over the horizon and ends at nightfall. The last
sentence
in this paragraph doesn't even make sense. The so called
jewish scholars
want us to believe that a day is from evening to evening
except for
sacrifices.
Encylopedia Judaica
The third biblical calendar, which is first attested in
Zechariah 1:7
and 7:1, employs the Babylonian month names, which go
back to the
calendar of Nippur that antedated Hammurapi. According to
rabbinic
tradition, these names were imported by those who
returned to the land
of Israel from the Babylonian Exile (TJ, RH 1:2, 56d). It is
most likely
that these immigrants also introduced the lunar-solar
calendar and the
intercalation of a month to reconcile the lunar and solar
years, a
characteristic of the Babylonian calendar. The adoption of
the
Babylonian calendar was also responsible for the custom
of reckoning the
day from the previous evening. (Encyclopedia Judaica
under Topic "Year"
and "Day")
Now isn't that interesting. The day beginning with the
previous evening
came from Babylon.
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Symbols (under the topic Sun)
The Jewish calendar is both lunar and solar, attuned to the
agricultural
cycles governed by solstices and equinoxes, as well as the
monthly
rhythms of the waxing and waning moon. The Jewish day
begins at sunset,
a practice probably adopted during the Babylonian exile
(the 6th century
B.C.E.)
Another admittance as to when the evening to evening was
adopted.