Happy Rosh Hashanah!!!

First, I would like to thank my sister for sending me Halloween candy! What a wonderful surprise! Thanks Michelle!

Second, today is Rosh Hashanah and it is a day to boogey down! The precendence for the holiday is found in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Numbers and Leviticus:

"On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets, and you shall offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish; also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for the bull, two tenths for the ram, and one tenth for each of the seven lambs; with one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD."
Numbers 29:1-6

This and many other Jewish holidays point to the coming of the Jewish Messiah, the one who brigns the ultimate reason to celebrate. The holiday brings together God's chosen people to offer sacrifices to God - to worship outside of their normal, prescribed worship schedule. As always, even in worship a sacrifice for sin was needed. Even our best is wrought through with selfish desires and sin.