Stuff Gleaned From Hebrew Class

I'm way excited here! There's a ton of WAY AWESOME things that I've learned in my Hebrew class the last several days that I just HAVE to tell everyone! Let's see if I can explain it here:

1. Today's class started with a discussion of the day in Jewish culture -
ראש חשנח
Which we know to be as "Rosh Hashana"

Now, the Jewish culture celebrates this as the "new year" - even though it falls on the 1st day of the 7th month. Now, keep in mind also, that the Jewish culture abides by a lunar calendar, not a civil calendar. This is significant for what I'm about to tell you in several ways.

As it was explained by Bro. Baron, my professor, the adversary has largely corrupted this day - there is nothing in the Levitical writings of the Old Testament to state that the new year is to be celebrated on this day as the other holidays described in there. What is written is that this day should be a celebration of the blowing of the trumpets to signify the final harvest of the season and the beginning of the second part of the year.

Now - keep all that in mind and go to Joseph Smith History 1:59 where we read:

At length the time arrived for obtaining the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate. On the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, having gone as usual at the end of another year to the place where they were deposited, the same heavenly messenger delivered them up to me with this charge: that I should be responsible for them; that if I should let them go carelessly, or through any neglect of mine, I should be cut off; but that if I would use all my endeavors to preserve them, until he, the messenger, should call for them, they should be protected.

This is a VERY significant day when you boil it down to it! Consult here:

Chabad.org

The conversion of the date to the Jewish equivalent is Tisheri 1 - which is the first day of the 7th month...i.e. the New Year! Great! Now what?

Well, turn to the 4th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants - verse 4: For behold, the field is white, all ready to harvest and lo, he that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul.

Remember that the true nature of the celebrations of Rosh Hashana are to be the celebration of the harvest - NOT the New Year! Yet, the adversary has managed to focus on the non-doctrinal celebration of a non-existent New Year, in an effort to hide the fact that the plates were given to young Joseph on that very day - which ushered in a new DISPENSATION - not just a year. What are the field and the sickle in the 4th Section of the Doctrine and Covenants? It is to mean the world being harvested with the gospel and the Book of Mormon.

The awesomeness doesn't stop there though! Who gave young Joseph the plates? None other than the Angel Moroni. What is he always portrayed carrying? A TRUMPET!!!! Coincidence? We think not!!!!!

2) The Hebrew depiction of the words for man (איש) and for the word woman(אשה) are much closer in correlation than many of us realize!

Note that the two words in their Hebraic format share four common characters, with only the י and the ה being unique to each of them. Where the man contains the yod and the woman contains the hey, they in and of themselves are insignificant - but when combined with the other: יה they become the Hebrew abbreviation for Jehovah!!!! Pretty cool huh???? Thus - the man by himself, and the woman by herself cannot attain to anything god-like, but when given in marriage under God's rule, they obtain the ability to unite and become as God himself! Also - yet ANOTHER argument AGAINST same-sex marriage!


3) The term Hosanna is translated from Hebrew to mean "Save us, please" - thus when we offer our Hosanna shout in the temple dedication ceremony - it is literally a plea to God to offer salvation to ALL - both the living and the dead! More coolness huh?

Chew on those for tonight! :-)