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Welcome. “What is Wrong With the Karaite Calendar?” Is a segment from our “Parashat Chayei Sarah” study. It answers questions from viewers about specific calendar groups, specifically groups which claim to be keeping the biblical calendar but are not. It compares standards for declaring the biblical new year according to the written Torah, versus what various calendar groups do. This video focuses on errors made by the Karaite calendar group, Devorah’s Date Tree.
Barley questions and answers:
Question of the Week #1:
(Paraphrase) “Aren’t we all supposed to bring a wave sheaf of firstfruits up for the Pesach/Unleavened? And if so, doesn’t that mean every barley farmer must have ripe barley before you can declare the month of the aviv?”
Question of the Week #2:
(Paraphrase) “Please tell us your standards for barley certification. Why will you certify (or not certify) this or that barley witness? Please tell us what your standards are (and are not) in a way we can understand.”
Question of the Week #2:
(Paraphrase) “It is too much detail! You are boring! I am leaving!”
(Paraphrase) “Wow, that was interesting! Thanks for all of the very informative details! What is the solution?”
Several audiences at different levels:
Trying to help DDT and other barley witnesses.
Trying to make it complete for those who do not have that much barley background.
Trying to keep from getting sued (Earlier DDT threatened to sue for
“defamation of character”)
I had a hard time explaining DDT’s theology, because I find it incoherent and double-minded.
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:1
1 “Observe the month of the Aviv, and keep the Pesach to Yahweh your Elohim, for in the month of the Aviv Yahweh your Elohim brought you out of Egypt by night.”
DDT: “When Does the New Year Begin?” [Fair use]
“Although, we don’t look to the barley to try and determine the beginning of the Biblical Year, we do think it’s nice to witness the barley fields ripening, as we get closer to Chodesh HaAviv (month of the Aviv) and Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread), especially for those that aren’t here.
DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…” [Fair use]
“As the beginning of the Biblical Year is when the barley fields are ready to feed the nation (Ex 9:31,Lev 23:14, Josh 5:10-12), and everyone must bring an omer of their produce on Chag HaMatzot, the fields may need to start being harvesting prior to Yom HaNafat HaOmer (Wave Sheaf Day).
Yehoshua (Joshua) 5:10-11
10 Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Pesach on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho.
11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Pesach, unleavened bread and parched grain, on the very same day.
Yehoshua (Joshua) 5:12
12 Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan that year.
DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…” [Fair use]
“In order for everyone to be able to bring an Omer of their produce on Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread), and for Chag HaSukkot (Feast of Booths) to fallout at the end of the agricultural year (Ex 23:16, Ex 34:22, Lev 23:39, Dt16:13), the Biblical Year must begin with the crescent New Moon after the Spring Equilux (Gen 1:14).
B’reisheet (Genesis) 1:14
14 Then Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years…
How does this prove an equilux? (Or a “lunar” Sabbath?)
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:1 Equilux Version
1 “Observe the month of Equilux, and keep the Pesach to Yahweh your Elohim, for in the month of the Equilux Yahweh your Elohim brought you out of Egypt by night.”
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 4:2
2 “You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your Elohim, which I command you.”
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 4:19
19 “And take heed, lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve them, which Yahweh your Elohim has given to all the peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.”
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:9
9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
10 “Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to Yahweh your Elohim with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as Yahweh your Elohim blesses you.”
DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…” [Fair use]
“As the beginning of the Biblical Year is when the barley fields are ready to feed the nation (Ex 9:31,Lev 23:14, Josh 5:10-12), and everyone must bring an omer of their produce on Chag HaMatzot, the fields may need to start being harvesting prior to Yom HaNafat HaOmer (Wave Sheaf Day).
Paraphrase: “You may need to ignore Dev. 16:9.”
Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:10-11
10 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you come into the land which I give to you [all], and reap its harvest, then you [all] shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of you-all’s harvest to the priest.
11 “He shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh, to be accepted on you-all’s behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…” [Fair use]
“As the beginning of the Biblical Year is when the barley fields are ready to feed the nation (Ex 9:31,Lev 23:14, Josh 5:10-12), and everyone must bring an omer of their produce on Chag HaMatzot, the fields may need to start being harvesting prior to Yom HaNafat HaOmer (Wave Sheaf Day).
DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…” [Fair use]
“To remind you, Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread), is one of three national harvest festivals, where the farmers are required to bring the first firsts of their produce to the Priest, when they go up to the Temple for the feast (Ex 23:14-19, 34:23-26, Dt 16:13-17).
DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…” [Fair use]
“As the beginning of the Biblical Year is when the barley fields are ready to feed the nation (Ex 9:31,Lev 23:14, Josh 5:10-12), and everyone must bring an omer of their produce on Chag HaMatzot, the fields may need to start being harvesting prior to Yom HaNafat HaOmer (Wave Sheaf Day).
DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…” [Fair use]
“This is why there’s no prohibition against harvesting as needed, we’re only prohibited from eating from the harvest before Yom HaNafat HaOmer (Day of the Wave Sheaf Offering) (Lev 23:14).
(Deuteronomy 16:9 does not exist? Or it does not apply to you??)
DDT: “Everyone Brings Their First Fruits at…” [Fair use]
“In other words, the farmers would harvest their fields as they became Aviv, and put an omer aside (Dt 26:2)to bring with them, when they went up to Temple for Chag HaMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread) (Lev 23:10).
(Conflating the national omer with family first fruits to form a “conflated national omer.”)
Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:9
9 “You shall count seven weeks for yourself; begin to count the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.
10 “Then you shall keep the Feast of Weeks to Yahweh your Elohim with the tribute of a freewill offering from your hand, which you shall give as Yahweh your Elohim blesses you.”
Mattityahu (Matthew) 16:11
11 “How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
12 “Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
