Fall Feasts

Three feasts occur in the seventh month of the year (Tishri).

All of these are called a mikra (convocation, rehearsal). We are to gather and rehearse what happened in the past and what is to come in the future.

  1. Yom Teruah (The Feast of Trumpets) which is a call for repentance.
  2. Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) calls for atonement for the nation.
  3. Sukkot (The Feast of Tabernacles,) Reminder of the temporary dwelling and the coming permanent dwelling.

Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). The Day of Atonement is the most holy of the feasts—at this time each year the high priest would enter the holy of holies and offer atonement for the sins of the nation. This takes place  on the tenth day of the seventh month (Tishri), and is a Shabbat (Sabbath) (Lev 16:29). The Day of Atonement, described in detail in Lev 16, contained the processes and sacrifices.

There were 15 sacrifices total (three sin offerings and 12 burnt offerings) and the scapegoat.

The peoples’ impurity demanded the purification of the tabernacle and the altar. The Day of Atonement was the only fast day commanded in the Mosaic Law.

 

No dinner will be served as this is a day of fasting.