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Here is a link to find ideas for celebrating the fall moedim (appointed times) of Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot on the Homeschooling Torah website:
https://homeschoolingtorah.com..../category/blog/bibli
We want to be very careful to use the Scriptures as our primary textbook. There are many websites and books you can turn to for ideas on how Jews and Christians alike seek meaning in the traditions of the moedim. However, Scripture doesn't say as much.
We can turn to Leviticus 23 or to a few other passages, but outside of the Mishnah, Talmud, and rabbinic writings, I'm not exactly sure what celebrating these holidays -- in the dispersion and without a temple -- should really look like.
We do know this. Our family left the traditional Christian observances of Christmas and Easter because they were filled with pagan traditions, even though those traditions had been "Christianized" and were truly being used to memorialize the first coming of Yeshua our Messiah.
Now we're learning about new customs for the fall feasts, man of which aren't mentioned in Scripture and have questionable beginnings in Babylon -- even though they are truly being used to memorialize the second coming of our Messiah.
We're not sure where the line is for your family. I just hope you'll study, think, and pray about why you do what you do. Don't be too quick to set up new traditions, only to take them away from your children in another year or two. You can never go wrong by keeping things simple and by turning to Scripture until you're sure of what the Father wants you to do. Be sure to always know why you're celebrating. Be intentional, and base all of it in His unchanging Word.
The secret things belong to YHVH our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Deuteronomy 29:29
The revealed and hidden can be interpreted several ways. Here are some, but you may be able to think of more:
-Deal with those sins that are committed in public. Let God deal with those that are committed in secret.
-Obey God's commands, even if you don't understand them.
-Don't mess with spirits, astrology, and other forbidden sources of corrupted knowledge.
-Those who have forgotten their identity as Israel are still known to God. He knows who you are, and he will find you.
Small Straws by Marsha Burns
Allow Me to lead you in the way you should go, and do not allow divisions to come between you and others because of race, creed, color, physical appearance, politics, or religious affiliation. Rather live and walk in the Spirit and let your love flow for everyone. Superiority and hatred have no place in My kingdom, says the Lord. Acts 10:34-35 Then Peter opened his mouth and said: In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.
Small Straws by Marsha Burns
Allow Me to lead you in the way you should go, and do not allow divisions to come between you and others because of race, creed, color, physical appearance, politics, or religious affiliation. Rather live and walk in the Spirit and let your love flow for everyone. Superiority and hatred have no place in My kingdom, says the Lord. Acts 10:34-35 Then Peter opened his mouth and said: In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.
When the Bible talks about "evil" (Hebrew ra/ra'ah), it's not talking about only the demonic or the "ultimate evil" that we often think of. It doesn't always mean "wicked", just like "good" doesn't always mean "righteous". It means really unpleasant, harmful, painful, etc. Evil in this sense is a relative concept. If you punch someone in the nose, you're doing them evil. If they didn't deserve it, then it's also wicked. If you stopped them from hurting someone else, you did something good and righteous, even while you did them evil.
One of the more subtle lies of modern Churchianity is that God never does evil (i.e. harm) to anyone, that only Satan does that. Nonsense. God kills, destroys, sends disease, and condemns. Those are all really unpleasant (and therefore "evil") to someone, and they're also perfectly good and righteous.