Hebrew Fundamentals – Yom Kippur

Leviticus 16:29 and 31: "And this shall be a statute forever unto you, that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country or a stranger that sojourns among you.

It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute forever."

So what is Yom Kippur all about? And if I had to answer it in, like, one sentence or sentence fragment, I would say, uh, fasting, repentance, prayer, confession, asking for forgiveness, and resolving not to do it again.

That's what they call...

The young people call that TLDR, too long, didn't read.

So now for some more details.

So Yom Kippur is first mentioned, although not by name, in Exodus 30:10.

It talks there about chatat kippurim, the sin offering of atonement, which is brought once a year.

Doesn't say the date, doesn't really tell you too much about what it's about, but it tells you there is such a thing.

And then Exodus 30:15-16, a few verses later, has the half shekel for atonement, which is the way in ancient Israel they were commanded not to take a census and count people, but rather they were commanded to, um, give the half shekel, which would go to the tabernacle and later the temple and be used for the service there, um, the sacrifices and everything, and that was an atonement.

So that also's related.

So, so we have two references essentially to Yom Kippur.

Um, and then we have the big one, and all this is before the phrase Yom Kippur ever appears in the Torah.

Uh, the really big one is Leviticus 16, which we...

I've done teachings on that before.

Or that's not the direction we're gonna go today.

Maybe during the Q&A we can discuss it a bit.

But Leviticus 16, the entire chapter, is the ceremony for Yom Kippur.

Uh, but it never uses the phrase Yom- It talks about...

It's really interesting.

Leviticus 16:29 and 31: "And this shall be a statute forever unto you, that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country or a stranger that sojourns among you.

It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute forever."

So what is Yom Kippur all about? And if I had to answer it in, like, one sentence or sentence fragment, I would say, uh, fasting, repentance, prayer, confession, asking for forgiveness, and resolving not to do it again.

That's what they call...

The young people call that TLDR, too long, didn't read.

So now for some more details.

So Yom Kippur is first mentioned, although not by name, in Exodus 30:10.

It talks there about chatat kippurim, the sin offering of atonement, which is brought once a year.

Doesn't say the date, doesn't really tell you too much about what it's about, but it tells you there is such a thing.

And then Exodus 30:15-16, a few verses later, has the half shekel for atonement, which is the way in ancient Israel they were commanded not to take a census and count people, but rather they were commanded to, um, give the half shekel, which would go to the tabernacle and later the temple and be used for the service there, um, the sacrifices and everything, and that was an atonement.

So that also's related.

So, so we have two references essentially to Yom Kippur.

Um, and then we have the big one, and all this is before the phrase Yom Kippur ever appears in the Torah.

Uh, the really big one is Leviticus 16, which we...

I've done teachings on that before.

Or that's not the direction we're gonna go today.

Maybe during the Q&A we can discuss it a bit.

But Leviticus 16, the entire chapter, is the ceremony for Yom Kippur.

Uh, but it never uses the phrase Yom- It talks about...

It's really interesting.