Breaking The Jewish Code Perry Stone

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The Season of Teshuvah Forgiveness is a major theme in Judaism. In the New Testament, Christ, Paul, and others emphasized that in order to experience spiritual and material blessings and an abundant life, we must willingly forgive those with whom we have an offense. Most Christians are unaware of a season the Jews call Teshuvah —a word that comes from the Hebrew root word shuv , meaning to turn or repent . The Jewish civil New Year always begins in the fall, in either September or October. The last month on the civil calendar is Elul. The season of Teshuvah begins on the first day of Elul and continues for forty days, concluding on the Day of Atonement, celebrated on the tenth day of the Jewish month Tishri. The concept of Teshuvah originated with Moses. According to the Jewish Midrash , Moses was on Mount Sinai for forty days receiving the commandments and learning the oral law (Exod. 24:13–18). He returned to the camp of Israel on the seventeenth day of Thammuz and broke the stone tablets (Exod. 32:19). According to tradition, Moses remained in the camp another forty days until he had burned the golden calf, grinding it up and making the people drink the water (v. 20). After rearranging the tribes in their order, God instructed Moses to ascend the mountain again on the first day of Elul. A shofar (trumpet) was sounded throughout the camp, warning the people not to go near the mountain and not to err again.