Aramean Citizens - Revitalizing Our Heritage
2024 APPOINTED DAYS for CHASHAH
ARFE ASART
Activities: Celebration.
NEW MOON - 4/08/2024
CHASHAH NEW YEAR - 4/09/2024 First Day Month-New Year
Procedures: N/A
PASSOVER - 4/22/2024
Procedures: Starts at sunset
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Do NOT buy store bought lamb, chemical processing blemishes the lamb.
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Do NOT eat lamb unless you have raised and terminated the lamb yourself for preparation of PassOver.
Activities:
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You will confess your sins to have a clean heart to prepare for a spiritual cleansing. The head of the home shall wash every ones feet of the home directly after each confession.
Rules:
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Rid of all leavened product before twilight in preparation for Unleavened Bread.
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At twilight (30 minutes before Nautical sunset) start PassOver.
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Eat bitter herbs, unleavened bread and drink. Wine & liquor are prohibited, use cherry or grape concentrate.
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Remember the day you (your ancestors) left the land of Egypt for the rest of your life.
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If there is a full moon during Feast Days, the Shofar must be blown.
Note: Again, rid of all leavened products in your home this day in preparation for Unleavened Bread at sunrise.
FEAST of UNLEAVENED BREAD - 4/23-29/2024
Leviticus 23:6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to የወወህ. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
Procedures: No work April 23th & 29th
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7 days of celebration - Read Exodus 12:14
Activities:
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Start all seven days with pleading to የወወህ for removal of sins, bad habits, corrupt mindset, personal practices, ideologies and Babylonian ways
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After pleading to የወወህ, eat Unleavened Bread a representation of cleansing
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Psalms 81:4 "Sound the Shofar on the new moon for all Feast Days."
Rules:
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Bring an offering made by fire for five days, excluding the two high Sanbat.
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On the 1st and 7th days there should be no intimacy with spouse because its a Sanbat.
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Do NOT afflict your body with fasting because all seven days are celebratory events.
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All 7 days there shall be NO occupational working, meaning not working on the job.
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One can make purchases on days 2-6, but not on the 1st or 7th day of Unleavened Bread. If there is a Sanbat during Unleavened Bread, one must recognize it.
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The 1st and 7th days are like Sanbat Days, but food can be cooked on all days except if one of the Feast Days fall on a regular Sanbat.
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On the 7th day, conduct a festive assembly (congregate/ dance/ feast together).
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If there is a full moon cycle during Feast Days, the shofar must be blown.
NEW MOON - 5/07/2024
NEW MOON - 6/06/2024
FEAST of WEEKS - 6/16/2024 No work
-Deuteronomy 26:18 “And የወወህ has caused you to proclaim today (this day for us) to be His people, a treasured possession, as He has spoken to you and to guard all his commands.”
Procedures:
The objective is to give away your best food/crops (first fruit) to the needy or to another source.
Activities:
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Give free will offering (first fruits/dehydrated fruit) Deuteronomy 16:10
Rules:
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This is a Sanbat: No laborious work, no cooking, no cleaning, no intimacy with spouse
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Read Exodus 34:22-24
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Read all of Deuteronomy 26
Read the Covenant regarding Boaz and Ruth
NEW MOON - 7/05/2024
NEW MOON - 8/04/2024
NEW MOON - 9/02/2024
NEW MOON - 10/02/2024
MEMORIAL of TRUMPETS 10/03/2024 No work
-Numbers 29:1 "In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work; it is a day of blowing the Shofar for you."
Procedures:
Activities:
Rules:
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On the Eve of Feast of Trumpets, search the sky to see if the new moon has started (slither stage).
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Blowing of the Shofar. It's a Sanbat
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1 Hour Prayer - Start the Prayer with blowing Shofar, end Prayer with blowing shofar towards the last minutes of the hour
DAY of ATONEMENT
Procedures: Starts sunset on 10/11/2024 - Ends sunset 10/12/2024
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At 1500hrs, prepare your house for sundown
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Start fast at sunset, 24 hour dry fast (no food)
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This is a Sanbat
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Start the next day wearing white attire
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Read Isaiah 58:6
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Confess, forgive, repent for all sins & give thanks. It’s a Sanbat
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No affectionate touching or intimacy with spouse so to concentrate on የወወህ
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no intimacy with spouse/ no cooking/ no cleaning/ no working
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Read Leviticus 23:28-32
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Pray and praise the last hour
Prepare for Feast of Booths - Assemble your tent or build a Sukkah in advance.
FEAST of BOOTHS 10/17-10/23/2024 Dwell in booths 7 Days.
Procedures: No work on 10/17/2024 and
Activities:
Rules:
You should NOT conduct business all seven days of Sukkot.
The 1st & 8th days are Sanbat, but in the middle of these days you can cook for the festivals.
Note: የወወህ requires to not conduct occupational business during Feast of Booths. You can perform daily functions such as wash dishes, cook, clean booth, make a fire, shower.
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Dwell in Booths outside for 7 days/ cook outside
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On the eve of Feast of Booths, tent must be assembled to sleep and awake in the Booth
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No Laborious work on 1st and 8th day
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On the first day, gather choice fruit and thick branches for celebrating የወወህ (Leviticus 23:40)
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All cooking is to be done outside
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Burnt offering to የወወህ by fire is done only by Seigneur Kahen
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Start each day in worship to የወወህ
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If there is a full moon cycle during Feast Days, the shofar must be blown.
LAST GREAT DAY - 10/24/2024 (Represents Judgement)
Procedures: No work on 10/24/2024
Value this day as a Sanbat.
NEW MOON - 11/01/2024
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ARFE ASART - 2025
Procedures: