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Category: Appointed Times

Rosh Chodesh

Tags:  new moon, passover, rosh chodesh

The New Moon Celebration

"For just as the new heavens and the new earth which I make will endure before Me," declares Adonai, "So your offspring and your name will endure. And it shall be from new moon to new moon and from sabbath to sabbath, all mankind will come to bow down before Me," says Adonai. –Isaiah 66:22-23

Most of us avoid horoscopes and astrological signs since they are contrary to a biblical lifestyle–and are often even dangerous.1 But has the enemy so polluted them that our heavenly Father wants us to ignore the heavenly bodies altogether? That seems unlikely, since during the Millennium–while the Master Himself tabernacles among us–our lives will revolve around the Sabbath, 2 New Moon 3 and Feast of Booths. 4

In this study, we will look at some specifics about an often-overlooked celebration, New Moon, or pronounced in Hebrew as Rosh Chodesh. This teaching 5 will also be followed by some suggestions of how to apply this festival to our own lives.

To Sanctify the New Moon6

According to the Sages, it is a positive commandment incumbent upon the Sanhedrin or sole authority over Israel (i.e., Messiah) to determine the new month by sanctifying the New Moon.

The biblical calendar is a lunar calendar. The first day of the biblical month is called Rosh Chodesh (ראש חדש), which literally translates from Hebrew as, "Head of the Renewed." A Rosh Chodesh occurs when the first crescent of the New Moon appears in the sky. Note that the biblical Hebrew rendering of Rosh Chodesh does not clearly translate to the English rendering to mean 'New Moon.' However, the 'Head of the Renewed' has been understood as the beginning of the new lunar cycle, which is ordinarily marked by the first visible crescent of the New Moon.

In ancient times, the Rosh Chodesh crescent moon was determined by observation. Fixe...

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