PURIM - 3/6-7/2023

Procedures: This is a 2 day celebration for ያሁኣ delivering us, his people, from the hands of our enemies.

Activities: The exchanging of food, gifts to one another and gifts to the poor during this two day celebration amongst the Chashah community.

Rules:

• No conducting business or work

• Cooking & Cleaning is permitted 

• Family time of gathering (Read Hadassah)

• Buying and Selling is permitted, especially to purchase gifts

 

CHASHAH NEW YEAR - 3/22/2023 First Day Month-New Year

Procedures: N/A

PESACH - 4/4/2023 Pesach/ Passover

​Debarim 16:1-7 "Observe the month of Aviv, and keep Pesach to ያሁኣ your Elohim; for in the month of Aviv, ያሁኣ your Elohim brought you out of Egypt at night. You are to sacrifice the Pesach offering from flock and herd to ያሁኣ your Elohim in the place where ያሁኣ will choose to have his name live..."  (read full chapter)  

Procedures: Starts at sunset

• Do NOT buy store bought lamb, chemical processing blemishes the lamb.

• Do NOT eat lamb unless you have raised and terminated the lamb yourself for preparation of Pesach.

Activities:

• 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:

• Rid of all leavened product before twilight in preparation for Unleavened Bread

• At twilight (30 minutes before Chashah sunset) start Pesach

• Eat bitter herbs, unleavened bread and drink. Wine & liquor are prohibited, use cherry or grape concentrate

• Remember the day you (your ancestors) left the land of Mitsrayim for the rest of your life.

• If there is a full moon during Feast Days, the Shofar must be blown.

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Note: Again, rid of all leavened products in your home this day in preparation for Unleavened Bread at sunrise.

FEAST of MATSOTH (Unleavened Bread) - 4/5-11/2023

Wayyiqra 23:6 On the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to ያሁኣ. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

Procedures: No work April 5th & 11th

• 7 days of celebration - Read Shemoth 12:14

Activities:

• Start all seven days with pleading to ያሁኣ for removal of sins, bad habits, corrupt mindset, personal practices, ideologies and Babylonian ways

• After pleading to ያሁኣ, eat Matsa as a representation of cleansing

• Tehillim 81:4 "Sound the Shofar on the new moon for all Feast Days."

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Rules:

• Bring an offering made by fire for five days, excluding the two high Shababi.

• On the 1st and 7th days there should be no intimacy with spouse because its a Shababi.

• Do NOT afflict your body with fasting because all seven days are celebratory events.

• All 7 days there shall be NO occupational working, meaning not working on the job.

• One can make purchases on days 2-6, but not on the 1st or 7th day of Unleavened Bread. If there is a Shababi during Unleavened Bread, one must recognize it.

• The 1st and 7th days are like Shababi Days, but food can be cooked on all days except if one of the Feast Days fall on a regular Shababi.

• On the 7th day, conduct a festive assembly (congregate/ dance/ feast together).

• If there is a full moon cycle during Feast Days, the shofar must be blown.

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SHABU'OT (Pentecost) - 6/4/2023 No work

-Debarim 26:18 “And ያሁኣ 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:

• Give free will offering (first fruits/dehydrated fruit) Debarim 16:10 

Rules:

• This is a Shababi: No laborious work, no cooking, no cleaning, no intimacy with spouse

• Read Shemoth 34:22-24

• Read all of Debarim 26

​Read the Covenant regarding Boaz and Ruth

YOM TERU’AH (Memorial of Trumpets) 9/15/2023 No work

-B'midbar 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:

• On the Eve of Yom Teru'ah, search the sky to see if the new moon has started (slither stage).

• Blowing of the Shofar. It's a Shababi

• 1 Hour Prayer - Start the Prayer with blowing Shofar, end Prayer with blowing shofar towards the last minutes of the hour

YOM KIPPOR (Day of Atonement)

Procedures: Starts sunset on 9/23/2023 - Ends sunset 9/24/2023

• At 1500hrs, prepare your house for sundown

• Start fast at sunset, 24 hour dry fast (no food)

• This is a Shababi

• Start the next day wearing white attire 

• Read Yesha'Yahu 58:6

• Confess, forgive, repent for all sins & give thanks. It’s a Shababi

• No affectionate touching or intimacy with spouse so to concentrate on ያሁኣ

• no intimacy with spouse/ no cooking/ no cleaning/ no working

• Read Wayyiqra 23:28-32 

• Pray and praise the last hour

Prepare for Sukkot - Assemble your tent or build a Sukkah in advance.

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SUKKOT (Feast of Tabernacles) 9/29-10/5/2023 Dwell in booths 7 Days.

​Procedures: No work on 9/29/2023

Activities:

Rules:

You should NOT conduct business all seven days of Sukkot.

The 1st & 8th days are Shababi, but in the middle of these days you can cook for the festivals.

Note: ያሁኣ requires to not conduct occupational business during Sukkot. You can perform daily functions such as wash dishes, cook, make a fire, shower.

• Dwell in Sukkah outside for 7 days/ cook outside

• On the eve of SUKKOT, tent must be assembled and slept in so to awake in the Sukkah for Sukkot

• No Laborious work on 1st and 8th day

• On the first day, gather choice fruit and thick branches for celebrating ያሁኣ (Vayikra 23:40)

• All cooking is to be done outside

• Burnt offering to ያሁኣ by fire is done only by Qess

• Start each boqer in worship to ያሁኣ

• If there is a full moon cycle during Feast Days, the shofar must be blown.

LAST GREAT DAY - 10/6/2023 (Represents Judgement)

Procedures: No work on 10/6/2023

Value this day as a Shababi.

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PURIM - 2024

Procedures:

This is a 3 day Celebration, no conducting business or work, you can cook & clean, clean up a mess, family time, you can buy and sell, especially to purchase gifts.