Aviv is the First month of the Scriptural year according to the word of YHVH.
“This month is the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of the year for you.”-Exodus 12 vs. 2. “Today you are going out, in the month ‘The Aviv’,”. The 1st of this month should really be “Rosh Hashanah”, the “Head of the Year”, according to the instruction of Elohim in the Scriptures. By tradition, the 1st of Tishrey, the Seventh month, is called “Rosh Hashanah”, the “Head of the Year”. Before this New Year instruction at the Exodus, it is believed that the New Year did begin with Tishrey, in the autumn, the beginning of the agricultural cycle. It is also believed, by tradition that the creation of Adam was in the month of Tishri, which means; ‘beginning’, but recent study has shown that this is not likely to be correct. Traditions acknowledged, but if necessary put aside, the objectives of this calendar, is to present to you, the instructions of YHVH’s calendar, of appointed festivals, as accurately as can be determined, according to ‘His’ command, in the Sacred Scriptures. The 1st of the First Month (Aviv) is Rosh Hashanah. The 1st of the Seventh Month (Tishri) is Yom Teruah. Yom Teruah, a festival mysterious in itself, of profound prophetic importance, is further obscured by disobedience to the word, when renamed according to the ‘old way’, prior to deliverance.
This First month of the Year, has many Festivals: A Rosh Chodesh (new moon, or 1st of the month), which is also the Rosh Hashanah ( The Head of the Year); Four Sabbaths ( could be five some years); The Festival of Pesach (Passover), 10th to 14th ; The Festival of Unleavened Bread, seven days, 14th to the 21st ; The Festival of First Fruits, the day after the weekly Sabbath that occurs after Passover, (during the Festival of Unleavened Bread); The beginning of the counting to the Festival of Weeks ( Shavuot/Pentecost).
The Lamb is taken into the home on the 10th (see Ex: 12 v 3-6)
Shemoth (Exodus) Chapter 12 v 6 and elsewhere clearly states that Pesach (Passover) is to be celebrated on the 14th day of the First month, at evening/twilight/between the evenings, depending on translations. In the Hebrew calendar, the division of the days occurs at sunset, the end of the day, and therefore also the beginning of a new day. This is where a potential difference of opinion may occur. Should Passover lamb be slaughtered, or by tradition the “Seder” service begin, on the 14th day just before sunset, and therefore going into the 15th day of the month, or be held the evening before, after sunset on the evening of the 14th day of the first month? The Hebrew word Ha’Erebim, is used, the root “Erev”, meaning to intermix, to grow dusky at sundown, to be darkened, (towards) evening. Lev 23 v 5-8, v 5: “In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord’s Passover” (KJV). –see also Num 9v 5.
The clue however is that after slaughtering the Passover lamb, and painting the lintels of the door frame with its blood, then eating the lamb, roast with fire, that night, at midnight (Ex 12 v 29) the death of the firstborn, then during the night, the expulsion from Egypt(Ex 12 v 29) the death of the first born, then during the night, the expulsion from Egypt (Ex 12 v 32) then the Israelites left Egypt that night, and it says in Numbers 33 v 3: “And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the morrow after the Passover. It remains correct however, according to a subtle interpretation of the scripture, to celebrate Passover after sunset on the 14th day of the First Month, or, just before sunset going into the evening of the 15th of the First Month. The latter, which is traditionally how it is kept by Jews today, appears to be more correct, from the clue previously mentioned. The two interpretations of the date however, make an interesting appearance at the crucifixion of Yeshua Ben Yosef. He celebrates the Seder with his disciples into the night of the 14th (perhaps as according to the Essenes), then went to the Mt. Olives to pray, then arrested, then tried by the priests, then imprisoned in the pit of the dungeon, then, after sunrise tried by the Romans, then crucified, dying in the late afternoon, just before sunset (early evening), the same time that the Pharisees were sacrificing the lambs, i.e. the late afternoon/evening before sunset, of the 14th, then hurriedly, taken off the cross before sunset, and the “High Sabbath” of the Pesach Seder going into the 15th day of the First month. See Mark 15 v 42, Luke 23 v 54-56, and John 19 v 42.
“On the morrow after Shabbat” (Lev 23 v 11 b) is the festival of the first fruits “BikkuRim”. This festival is partially kept today according to the pharisaic tradition to observe it after the Holy day of Pesach as “the Shabbat”. The now almost extinct sect of the Sadducees however, interpreted the scripture to mean that it should be observed after the weekly Shabbat, the first Shabbat after the Pesach. That would mean that, although Pesach moves about the week from year to year, this first fruits festival would always occur on the first day of the week. Although wrong in many points of doctrine, the Sadducees were correct on this one. In fact, later in the same chapter of Leviticus (ch 23), it goes on to instruct the counting of the weeks from this day towards Shavuot, the festival of weeks. V 16: “Until the morrow after the seventh Sabbath you count fifty days,” This scripture is quite clear. The Jewish calendar of today therefore contains a terrible error on this point, which throws out First fruits, the entire fifty days of counting, and the Holy festival of Shavuot. This error, and the correct day, is further confirmed in the Brit Ha’gadesha (the Renewed Covenant), When we read of the resurrection (The real first “First Fruit”) in Matt 28 v 1 “Now after the Shabbat, toward dawn on the first day of the week,” Mark 16 v 2, Luke 24 v 1, Yohanan 20 v 1. We know, from the writing to Saul, a devout Torah Observant Jew, and Pharisee, that the Messiah being raised became the “First Fruit” of the resurrection: (1 Corinthians 15 v 20-23)
The symbolism is therefore clear. The purpose of these “Appointed Times” is to draw closer to Elohim, to understand him more, to love him more, and to worship him more. All of scripture is about loving him, and our Neighbour as our selves. See Matt 22vs 37 to 40: “Yeshuah said to him; you shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
So we celebrate Passover or “Pesach” (See Paul’s writings, in 1 Corin; 5vs8 “let us celebrate the Feast…”)
We do this in remembrance of deliverance from Egypt, as a fore-picture of deliverance from sin by the blood of the Lamb, Yeshuah.
“And as they were eating, Yeshuah took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said; “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying; “Drink ye all of it; for this is the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins...”
(Matt 26vs26-28)
Yeshuah arose from the grave, and we celebrate Bicorim, as the “First Fruits” of the Resurrection to Eternal Life.
Shalom and welcome to this presentation of what is a very ancient calendar system
