Why is the new year celebrated today when the Bible says it is supposed to be 10 days before Passover?
I don’t get it!!!! Passover was months ago so why celebrate the New Year today? Please explain, thank you
Exo 12:1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
Exo 12:2 “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
Exo 12:3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household.
March 31st, 2011 at 7:24 pm
There is a secular new year and a religious new year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah
March 31st, 2011 at 7:53 pm
I think it was an adoption of a Babylonian new year celebration, since there had been the Babylonian captivity. I don’t know the entire answer, but someone else might flesh out what I’m saying.
March 31st, 2011 at 8:31 pm
Ding dong! Today is September 9, 2010. Whose “New Year” are you celebrating? The western world celebrates it on January 1 and I think the Chinese one is in February.
(someone’s a bit *&&^^%$#@@#$$%%^&^&**)
March 31st, 2011 at 8:32 pm
in the Torah there is no order to celebrate the first of Nisan (only the passover starting 14th). there is a law of the Torah to celebrate the first of Tishrei (the seventh month), though it is not called new year. see Lev. 23:24 and Numbers 29:1
it seems that in Babylon they started to call “rosh hashna” this celebration .