Feast of Trumpets - Yom Teruah
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And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation [a High Sabbath]. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the LORD.”
Leviticus 23:23-25
Appointed Time: Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah)
Significance: A day of solemn remembrance of Mount Sinai (Shavuot)
Observance: A Rosh Chodesh. A High Shabbat of solemn rest; a holy convocation of remembrance when no ordinary work is done. A reminder of Shavuot announced with shouts and blasts of the shofar and a food offering is presented to ADONAI
Length: 24 hours, sunset to sunset
Yom Teruah
Yom Teruah is better known by its popular and erroneous Babylonian inspired name, “Rosh Hashanah,” and it’s meaning of “head of the year / new year.”
In reality, Yom Teruah is a Rosh Chodesh; a High Shabbat of solemn rest; a holy convocation of remembrance when no ordinary work is done; a reminder announced with shouts and blasts of the shofar and a food offering presented to ADONAI. On this Day of Remembrance, we are to remember the Shofar Blast of Mount Sinai and the Covenant of Torah that took place at Shavuot.
Yom Teruah is not a Rosh Hashanah “New Year’s – head of the year” celebration that takes place two weeks before the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) – described in Exodus 23:16 as the “End of the Year.”
Allan R. Aguirre, "Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah),” from The Feasts Unlocked
