One in Messiah Congregation 
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Shabbat Shalom 
March 17 , 2007 Sat. 
We are now in the 12th month - Adar, 27th day. 

God's calendar - Adar, 12th month
Esth.3 [ 7] In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar. 
Adar אֲדָר 
א first letter in the Hebrew alef- bet and is " hidden or silent " 
דָר means to dwell, live 
I see by this word Adar, when broken down, can convey a message that the invisible, hidden or silent God wants to dwell among us and in us. 
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God's New Year ( March / April - Spring ) All is new, ALIVE. 
( 3 more days and it is New Year )
Exod.12[ 2] This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 
Exod.13 [ 4] This day came ye out in the month Abib./ Aviv 
Esth.3 [7 ] In the first month, that is, the month Nisan 
( Pope Greg's calendar is in Jan.when all is dead, cold ) 
Some people think the feasts are just for the Jews. This thought is wrong. 
Lev.23 [1] And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, [2] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD , which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. [3] Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings. [4] These are the feasts of the LORD , even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 
Exod.12 [ 49] One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. 
Lev.7 [7] As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it. 
Num.15[ 16] One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. 
[29] Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them. 
Jas.4[ 12] There is one lawgiver , who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another? 
Num.9 [ 14] And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land. 
Num.15 [15 ] One ordinance shall be both for you of the congregation, and also for the stranger that sojourneth with you, an ordinance for ever in your generations: as ye are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. 
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The feasts of the LORD
Lev.23 [2] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. 
[4] These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. 
[21] And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. 
[37] These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations...

The Spring feasts and Holy Days - "shadows of the Messiah" 

Col.2 [16] Let no man therefore judge you:
 1) in meat
or
2) in drink
or
3) in respect of an holyday
or
4) of the new moon
or
5) of the sabbath days
:
[17] Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ /Messiah.
judge: G2919 κρίνω krino - kree'-no - Properly to distinguish, that is, decide (mentally or judicially); by implication to try, condemn, punish: - avenge, conclude, condemn, damn, decree, determine, esteem, judge, go to (sue at the) law, ordain, call in question, sentence to, think.

Paul said: 1Cor.5 [8] Therefore let us keep the feast...

1 - The Passover - shadow of the Messiah, He is our Passover Lamb. 
Exod.12[14] And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; זִכָּרוֹן and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
1Cor.5 [ 7] Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Messiah / Christ our passover is sacrificed for us : 
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2 - The feast of unleavened bread - Hag HaMatzah - shadows of the Messiah, separate from sin, a true Nazarite- Also the separation needed in a believer's walk and service to God. 
We need to put a difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean 
Lev.10[ 10] And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;[11 ] And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses. 
Lev.11 [47] To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten. 
Lev.20[ 25] Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. 
Ezek.22[ 26] Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 
Ezek.44[23] And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. 
Deut.23[ 14] For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy : that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. 
Hag.2[ 13] Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean. 
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3 - The feast of firstfruits - Bikkurim - shadow of the Messiah Yeshua's resurrection 
We acknowledge this memorial on Sunday - Lev.23 [11] And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
1Cor.15 [ 20] But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 
[23] But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits ; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 
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4 - The Feast of Weeks - Shavuot- Pentecost - shadow of the Messiah coming to dwell with us and in us - 
Exod.19 [20 ] And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: 
Esth.8 [ 9] Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan , 
The giving of the Torah - The giving of the Holy Spirit - Pentecost 

This year, 2007, our dates are as follows: [ we are trying our best :-) ] 
The 1st month starts on March 21st, Wednesday - Nisan and ha Aviv ( Happy New Year ) 
Aviv 14th is the 3rd of April (Tuesday ) Passover 
Aviv 15th is the 4th of April (Wednesday) - Sabbath - Feast of Unleavend Bread for 7 days 
April 8th (Sunday) - Firstfruits - shadow of the Messiah Yeshua's resurrection ( We acknowledge this memorial on Sunday )
Lev.23 [11] And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Aviv 21st is on the 10th of April (Tuesday) - Sabbath ( end of the Feast of Unleavend Bread ) 
Sivan 9th is on the 27th of May - Sabbath ( Sunday ) Feast of Weeks - Pentecost 

March 20 at evening - Happy New Year
נִיסָן  Nisan
נֵס nes means miracle in modern Hebrew
(remember Nes cafe - miracle coffee, just stir)
Isa.11 [10] And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
וְהָיָה, בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא, שֹׁרֶשׁ יִשַׁי אֲשֶׁר עֹמֵד לְנֵס עַמִּים, אֵלָיו גּוֹיִם יִדְרֹשׁוּ; וְהָיְתָה מְנֻחָתוֹ, כָּבוֹד
H5251 נֵס nes - From H5264; a flag; also a sail; by implication a flagstaff; generally a signal; figuratively a token: - banner, pole, sail, (en-) sign, standard.

נֵס noun common masculine singular absolute - standard, ensign, signal, sign; Targum  -sign, miracle)

הָאָבִיב  ( the ) Aviv
הָ אָבִ יב 
the father ( of ) - 12 and /or 3
י = 10
 ב = 2
10 + 2  = 12 and /or 3
Esth.3 [7] In the first month, that is, the month Nisan,  in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
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Abib / Nisan
Some interesting events in this month ( many years ago )

The month of our redemption
Exod.12 [2] This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 
הַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה לָכֶם, רֹאשׁ חֳדָשִׁים: רִאשׁוֹן הוּא לָכֶם, לְחָדְשֵׁי הַשָּׁנָה
[40] Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. [41] And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
[51] And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

Exod.13 [4] This day came ye out in the month Abib.
Num.33 [3] And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

Exod.23 [15] Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)
Exod.34 [18] The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
Deut.16 [1] Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
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Gen.8 [13] And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Exod.40 [2] On the first day of the first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. 
[17] And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
Num.9 [1] And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 
[5] And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.
Num.20 [1] Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Josh.4 [19] And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
2Chr.29 [1] Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.[2] And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.[3] He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of the LORD, and repaired them. 
[17] Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
2Chr.35 [1] Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
Ezra.6 [19] And the children of the captivity kept the passover upon the fourteenth day of the first month.
Ezra.7[9] For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
Ezra.8 [31] Then we departed from the river of Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go unto Jerusalem: and the hand of our God was upon us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy, and of such as lay in wait by the way.
Ezra.10 [17] And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange wives by the first day of the first month.
Ezek.29 [17] And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezek.30 [20] And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Ezek.45 [18] Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary: 
[21] In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Dan.10 [4] And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
Joel.2 [23] Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.
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News
Torah portion, Parshah: Vayak'hel-Pekudei
VAYAKHEL (and he assembled, gathered)

Ex. 35:1-38:20, 1Ki. 7:13-26, 40-50, Heb. 9:1-11

P'KUDEI (sum, accoutings of) 

Ex. 38:21-40:38, 1Ki. 7:51-8:21, Heb. 8:1-12
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Judaism
New Year for Kings ?
New Year for Kings — 1 Nisan
The Mishnah, in the Talmud - a collection of Jewish laws, by Rabbi Judah haNasi, approx. 2nd century,  indicates that the year of the reign of Jewish kings was counted from Nisan in Biblical times.
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Sanhedrin to Purchase Sheep for Passover Sacrifice
reprinted from Arutz 7
Feb 28, '07 / 10 Adar 5767
(IsraelNN.com) The modern-day Sanhedrin, headed by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, has decided to purchase a herd of sheep to be used for the Passover sacrifice ritual to be held this year if possible at the Temple Mount.
The Sanhedrin, which was formed several years ago, meets once a week, according to the Haaretz news service, in what it says is a renewal of the Jewish High Court that existed more than a thousand years ago.
A member of the Sanhedrin, Professor Hillel Weiss, said in an interview that the symbolic Passover sacrifice is intended to remind Jews that the Temple rituals will resume when the Messiah comes.
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The following are bits and pieces from a Catholic website:
St. Patrick -  Kilpatrick
Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 493. Other sources say 460 or 461 —Ed. 
He had for his parents Calphurnius and Conchessa. The former belonged to a Roman family of high rank and held the office of decurio in Gaul or Britain. Conchessa was a near relative of the great patron of Gaul, St. Martin of Tours. 
Kilpatrick still retains many memorials of Saint Patrick, and frequent pilgrimages continued far into the Middle Ages to perpetuate there the fame of his sanctity and miracles. 
In his sixteenth year, Patrick was carried off into captivity by Irish marauders and was sold as a slave to a chieftan named Milchu in Dalriada, a territory of the present county of Antrim in Ireland, where for six years he tended his master's flocks in the valley of the Braid and on the slopes of Slemish, near the modern town of Ballymena. He relates in his "Confessio" that during his captivity while tending the flocks he prayed many times in the day: "the love of God", he added, 
and His fear increased in me more and more, and the faith grew in me, and the spirit was roused, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers, and in the night nearly the same, so that whilst in the woods and on the mountain, even before the dawn, I was roused to prayer and felt no hurt from it, whether there was snow or ice or rain; nor was there any slothfulness in me, such as I see now, because the spirit was then fervent within me. 
In the ways of a benign Providence the six years of Patrick's captivity became a remote preparation for his future apostolate. He acquired a perfect knowledge of the Celtic tongue in which he would one day announce the glad tidings of Redemption, and, as his master Milchu was a druidical high priest, he became familiar with all the details of Druidism from whose bondage he was destined to liberate the Irish race. 
Admonished by an angel he after six years fled from his cruel master and bent his steps towards the west. He relates in his "Confessio" that he had to travel about 200 miles; and his journey was probably towards Killala Bay and onwards thence to Westport. He found a ship ready to set sail and after some rebuffs was allowed on board.
 In a few days he was among his friends once more in Britain, but now his heart was set on devoting himself to the service of God in the sacred ministry. 
We meet with him at St. Martin's monastery at Tours, and again at the island sanctuary of Lérins which was just then acquiring widespread renown for learning and piety; and wherever lessons of heroic perfection in the exercise of Christian life could be acquired, thither the fervent Patrick was sure to bend his steps. 
No sooner had St. Germain entered on his great mission at Auxerre than Patrick put himself under his guidance, and it was at that great bishop's hands that Ireland's future apostle was a few years later promoted to the "priesthood. "
There too he performed his first miracle on Irish soil to confirm the honour due to the Blessed Virgin, and the Divine birth of our Saviour.
"Do you believe in the unity of the Church?" 
It is the tradition in the territory of the Morini that Patrick under St. Germain's guidance for some years was engaged in missionary work among them. When Germain commissioned by the Holy See proceeded to Britain to combat the erroneous teachings of Pelagius, he chose Patrick to be one of his missionary companions and thus it was his privilege to be associated with the representative of Rome in the triumphs that ensued over heresy and Paganism, and in the many remarkable events of the expedition, such as the miraculous calming of the tempest at sea, the visit to the relics at St. Alban's shrine, and the Alleluia victory. Amid all these scenes, however, Patrick's thoughts turned towards Ireland, and from time to time he was favoured with visions of the children from Focluth, by the Western sea, who cried to him: "O holy youth, come back to Erin, and walk once more amongst us." 
Pope St. Celestine I, who rendered immortal service to the Church by the overthrow of the Pelagian and Nestorian heresies, and by the imperishable wreath of honour decreed to the Blessed Virgin in the General Council of Ephesus, crowned his pontificate by an act of the most far-reaching consequences for the spread of Christianity and civilization, when he entrusted St. Patrick with the mission of gathering the Irish race into the one fold of Christ.
 Palladius (q.v.) had already received that commission, but terrified by the fierce opposition of a Wicklow chieftain had abandoned the sacred enterprise. It was St. Germain, Bishop of Auxerre, who commended Patrick to the pope.Then they were baptized, and were clothed in white garments. And they besought that they might behold the face of Christ. And the saint said to them: "You cannot see the face of Christ unless you taste death, and unless you receive the Sacrifice." They answered: "Give us the Sacrifice, so that we may be able to behold our Spouse." And the ancient narrative adds: "when they received the Eucharist of God, they slept in death, and they were placed upon a couch, arrayed in their white baptismal robes." 
In 440 St. Patrick entered on the special work of the conversion of Ulster. Under the following year, the ancient annalists relate a wonderful spread of the Faith throughout the province. In 444 a site for a church was granted at Armagh by Daire, the chieftain of the district. It was in a valley at the foot of a hill, but the saint was not content. He had special designs in his heart for that district, and at length the chieftain told him to select in his territory any site he would deemmost suitable for his religious purpose. St. Patrick chose that beautiful hill on which the old cathedral of Armagh stands. As he was marking out the church with his companions, they came upon a doe and fawn, and the saint's companions would kill them for food; but St. Patrick would not allow them to do so, and, taking the fawn upon his shoulders, and followed by the doe, he proceeded to a neighbouring hill, and laid down the fawn, and announced that there, in future times, great glory would be given to the Most High. It was precisely upon that hill thus fixed by St. Patrick that, a few years ago, there was solemnly dedicated the new and beautiful Catholic cathedral of Armagh. A representative of the Holy See presided on the occasion, and hundreds of priests and bishops were gathered there; and, indeed, it might truly be said, the whole Irish race on that occasion offered up that glorious cathedral to the Most High as tribute to their united faith and piety, and their never-failing love of God. 
The manifold virtues by which the early saints were distinguished shone forth in all their perfection in the life of St. Patrick. When not engaged in the work of the sacred ministry, his whole time was spent in prayer. Many times in the day he armed himself with the sign of the Cross. He never relaxed his penitential exercises. Clothed in a rough hair-shirt, he made the hard rock his bed. His disinterestedness is specially commemorated. Countless converts of high rank would cast their precious ornaments at his feet, but all were restored to them. He had not come to Erin in search of material wealth, but to enrich her with the priceless treasures of the Catholic Faith. From time to time he withdrew from the spiritual duties of his apostolate to devote himself wholly to prayer and penance. One of his chosen places of solitude and retreat was the island of Lough Derg, which, to our own day, has continued to be a favourite resort of pilgrims, and it is known as St. Patrick's Purgatory.
 He would not relinquish his post on the mountain, or relax his penance, until all were granted. At length the message came that his prayers were heard: 
•	many souls would be free from the pains of purgatory through his intercession; 
 sounds Catholic to me  :-)
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Shabbat Shalom