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Rosh Chodesh Av: Remembering Aaron and Feivel

Tonight, as we noted in an earlier blog post, begins Rosh Chodesh Av. On this day of the Hebrew calendar two very significant fathers of our faith died. The anniversary of the day someone died is called a yartzeit in Yiddish. In order to remember a yartzeit people often light a candle and spend sometime discussing positive memories of the departed.

The first yartzeit on Rosh Chodesh Av is that of Aaron the High Priest:

Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come from the land of Egypt on the first day in the fifth month. And Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor. (Numbers 33:38-39)

Aaron was a righteous man who is known as a peacemaker:

Rabbi Hillel said, "Be disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving people and drawing them near the Torah." (m.Avot 1:12)

The second is that of a pioneering Jewish believer in Yeshua, Paul Phillip "Feivel" Levertoff. Levertoff grew up as an Orthodox Jew and used his vast knowledge of Rabbinic and Chassidic works to write numerous books and articles showing the Jewishness of Yeshua and the Apostolic Writings. A full article on his life can be found in issue 87 of Messiah Magazine. I recommend reading this inspiring story of someone who paved the way for us in the modern Torah movement.

About the Author: Toby Janicki is a teacher, writer and speaker for FFOZ. He is also a writer for Messiah Journal and the author of the Restoration and Boundary Stones workbooks as well as a book on the Mezuzah.

 

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