Amazing Flaws in the Karaite and Talmudic Barley Calendars

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Mattityahu (Matthew) 16:11-12
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 [Talmud].

Two Main Barley Camps in Israel:

1. TORAH MODEL:

• True Firstfruits (Symbolic of Yeshua our Firstfruits). Obeys Deuteronomy 16:9. Green heads.

2. TALMUD MODEL:

• Requires breaking or redefining Deuteronomy 16:9.
• Preference for manicured fields & “perfect” wave sheaves.
• Must be in two places at once.
• Adds the Equinox/Equilux.
• (Adding and subtracting.)

History and Scripture Overview:

1. Nehemiah Gordon taught the Torah Model until 2016, when he drifted to the Talmud model.
2. Devorah, Brian, teaching Talmud model (Equilux).
3. Yoel and Becca are drifting that way (Equilux).
4. Joe Dumond and Nazarene Israel are the only ones still teaching the Torah model and the inviolability of Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:9.

1. TORAH MODEL (True Firstfruits Model):

1a. True Firstfruits (Present the very first single sheaf of barley in keeping with Leviticus 2.
1b. Symbolic of Yeshua our Firstfruits.
1c. Clears the way for the harvest [like Yeshua did]).
1d. Green (aviv) heads, not shattered brown heads.
1e. Obeys Deuteronomy 16:9.
1f. Consistent with the record in Josephus’ writings.

Look for the very first green heads of grain coming out of the boot (stalk) prior to the new moon. They must be advanced enough that they will be aviv (dough) or greater 15-21 days later, on the day of Yom HaNafat HaOmer. (Normal barley advancement from flowering to dough usually takes 14 days, under normal circumstances.)

2. TALMUD MODEL (Harvest Fruits / Equinox):

2a. Harvest Firstfruits (Mid-fruits).
2b. Everyone must harvest and present a sheaf.
2c. Logistically impossible (must be harvesting and at the tabernacle or temple at the same time).
2d. Requires breaking (redefining) Devarim 16:9.
2e. Preference for “perfect” fields and sheaves.
2f. Adds the Equinox/Equilux.
2g. Adds and subtracts (a lot).

The Talmud Model calls for the wild barley already to be shattered and falling to the ground, also with enough domestic barley to feed the whole nation (perfectly ripe and ready to harvest). They assume that this condition will exist after the Spring Equinox. If any barley comes ripe earlier than that, they say just to cut it and lay it aside (breaking Deuteronomy 16:9).

Since 2024 the Karaites have begun teaching that barley is not even required to declare the year, but that the year begins with the first new moon after the Vernal Equinox. (This is comparable to the Catholic Church teaching that Easter begins with the first Sunday following the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox, which is fixed by the Church on March 21.)

Shemote (Exodus) 9:31-32
31  Now the flax and the barley were struck, for the barley was in the head (אָבִיב) and the flax was in bud.
32  But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are late crops.

Strong’s Hebrew Concordance H24
אָבִיב ‘âbı̂yb aw-beeb’
From an unused root (meaning to be tender); green, that is a young ear of grain; hence the name of the month Abib or Nisan: – Abib, ear, green ears of corn.

Shemote (Exodus) 13:10
10  “You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.”

(Karaite / Talmud position is that you must wait until after the Spring Equinox.)

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:1
1  “Guard 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.”

Strong’s Hebrew Concordance H1061
בִּכּוּר bikkûr bik-koor’
From H1069; the first fruits of the crop: – first fruit (-ripe [figuratively), hasty fruit.

Strong’s Hebrew Concordance H1069
בָּכַר bâkar baw-kar’
A primitive root; properly to burst the womb, that is, (causatively) bear or make early fruit (of woman or tree); also (as denominatively from H1061) to give the birthright: – make firstborn, be firstling, bring forth first child (new fruit).

Qorintim Aleph (1 Corinthians) 15:20, 23
20 But now Mashiach is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep…
23 But each one in his own order: [first] Mashiach the firstfruits, [and then] afterward those who are Mashiach’s at His coming.

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, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring [an omer] of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.
11  “He shall wave [the omer] before Yahweh, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.

Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:14
14  “You shall eat neither bread nor parched grain nor fresh grain until the same day that you have brought an offering to your Elohim; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.”

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:9-10
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.”

(Begin to count when you cut.)

Wikipedia: Hipparchus (/hɪˈpɑːrkəs/; Greek: Ἵππαρχος, Hípparkhos; c. 190 – c. 120 BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. He is considered the founder of trigonometry,[1] but is most famous for his incidental discovery of the precession of the equinoxes.[2]

The Alleged Babylonian Discovery of the Precession of the Equinoxes
“…statement that the Babylonian astronomer Kidinnu was the discoverer of the precession of the equinoxes and that this event can be dated in 379 b. c., thus antedating Hipparchus by about two and one-half centuries.”
(Moshe lived @ 1500 BCE / 2260.)

When Does the Biblical Year Begin (Dev. Gordon):
“We know that the beginning of the Biblical Year is anchored to the Spring Equilux, as this is when the barley fields begin to ripen, due to the sun becoming stronger. And what’s meant by the commandment to begin the Biblical Year with Chodesh HaAviv (month of the Aviv)…

(FALSE! And why does she collect money to inspect the barley?)

When Does the Biblical Year Begin (Dev. Gordon):
“In other words, the beginning of the Biblical Year isn’t determined by a particular type of barley field, in a particular region, reaching a particular state of development, by a particular date. Rather the Torah states that the beginning of the year is determined by the sun (Gen 1:14).”

(FALSE! And why does she collect money to inspect the barley?)

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…

(Where is the Equinox?)

First Karaites 1:14
14  Then Elohim said, “Set up the Bronze Sun Dial in the courtyard of the tabernacle next to the altar, and let it be for signs and seasons, and for days and for years…

(Where is the Bronze Sundial?)

First Karaites 1:15
15  Then Elohim said, “You shall observe the Bronze Sundial from morning until evening, to determine the start of the month of the Aviv barley. When the days and the nights are of equal length, the next new moon sighting begins the new year.”

(Where is the Bronze Sundial?)

When Does the Biblical Year Begin (Dev. Gordon):
“Can Aviv Barley be found, in types of fields which ripen quickly in the warmer regions, prior to the Spring Equilux? Absolutely, that’s why there’s no prohibition against harvesting as needed, rather we’re only prohibited from eating from the harvest, before Yom HaNafat HaOmer (Day of the Wave Sheaf Offering) (Lev 23:14).

Devarim (Deuteronomy) 16:9-10
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.”

(Begin to count when you cut.)

When Does the Biblical Year Begin (Dev. Gordon):
“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.”

Why doesn’t she just call it “The Month of the Equinox”?

Sefaria, Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 11b:
The Sages taught in a baraita (Tosefta 2:2): The court may intercalate the year for three matters: For the ripening of the grain, if it is not yet time for the barley to ripen; for the fruit of the trees, if they have not yet ripened; and for the equinox, i.e., to ensure that the autumnal equinox will precede Sukkot.

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 [other] peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.”

Talmudic Shemote 9:31-32
31  Now the flax and the barley were struck, for the first of the wild barley was shattering after the Spring Equinox, and the flax was in bud.
32  But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are late crops.

Talmud’s Hebrew Concordance H24
אָבִיב ‘âbı̂yb aw-beeb’
From an unused root (meaning to be brown and overripe; that is, a shattered ear of grain; hence the name of the month Abib or Nisan: – Abib, ear, brown ears of corn.

Talmudic Shemote 12:1-2
1 Now Yahweh spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “This month after the Spring Equinox shall be your beginning [head] of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.”

Talmudic Shemote 13:4
4  “On this day you are going out, in the month of the Spring Equinox.”

Talmudic Devarim 16:1
1  “Observe the month of the Spring Equinox, and keep the Pesach to Yahweh your Elohim, for in the month of the Spring Equinox Yahweh your Elohim brought you out of Egypt by night.”

Devorah’s Date Tree: 2nd Barley Inspection 1-2 March 2021

“Also, it has always been understood [in Talmud] that there was no prohibition against the farmers harvesting when needed*, they only needed to wait until Yom HaNafat HaOmer (The Day of the Wave Sheaf Offering) before eating of the produce…”
[Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews, Book 3, Chapter 10, Verse 5.]

[*Meaning, the Talmud says they can break Deuteronomy 16:9 whenever they please.]

…they offer the first-fruits of their barley, and that in the manner following: They take a handful of the ears, and dry them…
…And after this it is that they may publicly or privately reap their harvest.
[Josephus: Antiquities of the Jews, Book 3, Chapter 10, Verse 5.]

They take a hand full of the ears for the Wave Sheaf Offering (not a whole stack!).

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.

(Pesach was on Shabbat.)

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.

Mattityahu (Matthew) 16:11-12
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 [Talmud].

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