Hebrew Voices #24 – Proclaiming a Leap Year of Faith
This week’s episode of Hebrew Voices, Proclaiming a Leap Year of Faith, was recorded live on the Aviv Search in 2016. We take you to the very place of the proclamation in the barley fields of Israel. Walk with us through the … Continue reading →
This week's episode of Hebrew Voices, Proclaiming a Leap Year of Faith, was recorded live on the Aviv Search in 2016. We take you to the very place of the proclamation in the barley fields of Israel. Walk with us through the process as we uncover God's appointed times according to the calendar hard-wired into Creation!
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Hebrew Voices #24 – Proclaiming a Leap Year of Faith
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Nehemia: This is Nehemia Gordon with Hebrew Voices, and I am on the Aviv search. We are at a place called “Ein Mabua.” This is the place where we’ve been coming for many, many years. And when we find Aviv, this is one of the places we’ll often find it, one of the places where the barley ripens first. And it’s actually wild barley here, so there’s no issue of artificial conditions that could have affected it, you know, GMO, and stuff like that. This is the same barley that was growing here thousands of years ago, it just re-seeds itself. And it’s really yellow, which if I looked at this from the outside, I would say, “Yeah, absolutely, we have here a field of Aviv.” When we open it up and we touch it, we actually squeeze it to see how wet it is, you know, whether the seed has fully formed, and it’s not Aviv. It looks like Aviv from the outside, and here’s an example of, “don’t judge a book by its cover.” And I think from this, we get the new expression, “Don’t judge a sheaf of barley by its exterior appearance.” Don’t judge Aviv by the way it looks from the outside.
I’m really surprised because here we are, tomorrow is the new moon sighting for the end of the 12th month. So, there are two days, basically, today and tomorrow, for us to find Aviv, and we may find it. We’re not done yet. There’s still a lot of places to look. This was the first place, and what we’re finding here at Ein Mabua is the barley’s not Aviv, even though, you know, if you look from far away… Actually, from not that far away. If you stood right over it, you’d say, “Oh yeah, this is Aviv.” And look, there are some individual stalks that are Aviv. I’ve found some, but, you know, that’s here and there.
What we don’t have is what it talks about in Leviticus 23, where it talks about, you can bring the first omer, the first sheaf of the harvest, that you’d bring it to the Temple during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Well, so you’re talking about a harvestable amount, and we don’t have that. We say in Hebrew “po vesham,” here and there we have a stalk. Anyway, I’m here with the team of the Aviv searchers, and what they’ve done is, they’ve taken 10 stalks of barley to see how many of those 10 stalks are Aviv. Have you found any that are Aviv in your sampling?
Yoel: 1 out of 10.
Nehemia: Here’s Yoel Halevy of “Hebrew in Israel,” and he says he found 1 out of 10.
Yoel: Wait, wait, wait…
Nehemia: Is there another one?
Yoel: I might have another one here, in a second. Yeah, this is another one.
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Thank you, daysofezekiel, for posting this comment as it is amazing how well this “Global Warming” hoax has penetrated into the beliefs of so many in our societies.
Yah bless you.
It does not as “global warming” is an idiotic hoax. Before you think me a conspiracy theorist or worse, let me explain: I was a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists who were espousing the global warming theory in the 1980’s. After numerous conferences and even attempts to influence Congress, I (and several others) came to the conclusion that the planet is still on the cooling cycle that it has been on for many, many years. We quit the Union. Weather operates very differently every year for many reasons. After the record snows and cold weather of the past few years, it would be hard for any rational human being to espouse the “global warming” hoax. Thank you for listening.
Thank you, Nehemia, for your efforts in the Barley Search every year in the Land of Israel. It is of utmost importance to me to know when the New Year actually begins. As an Orthodox Jew who was raised with the Rosh Hashanah nonsense, it is so refreshing to me to know what is Yom Teruah and what is the actual Rosh Hashanah.
Not being familiar with weather and agriculture in the Biblical part of the world, I was wondering if barley might ripen earlier in Egypt than Israel and that since the commandment of the first month was given in Egypt one should look for aviv in Egypt rather Israel.
Shalom thanks for your hard work in keeping the Torah pure from men’s traditions
Wild barley grows every year. Also, when harvesting cultivated barley, some kernels invariably fall to the ground to grow the next year.
Thank you for your work. I imagine before you could expect Rabbinic Judaism to accept Aviv you have to get them to celebrate Purim during the 12th month instead of the 13th month.
I just finished listening to this chronicle of your search, and found it very informative. However, there was a question raised for me.
If the instruction was to not *eat* the barley prior to the wave offering, then it would have been theoretically possible for the entire crop to have been harvested and sitting waiting to be eaten. But we are also told to start the count to Shavuot from “the day you put the sickle to the grain.”
How would that work? If the crop had to be harvested “early”, then would a certain amount be left uncut so as to wait to “put the sickle” to it until the sabbath of ULB, in order to match the instruction for the count?
How does global warming alter the results of the aviv search as it pertains to establishing a “time”?
shalom que yah weh les de su ruahj para proclamar su v erdad con celo y proclamar a yahshua con la verdad de las sagradas escrituras espero con anhelo el pesaj de 14 de nisan de 2016 desde argentina jo rge un siervo de yahweh
Thank you search team. (y)
One of these Days ..I hope to join all of you to participate in this wonderful opportunity…
Good Job! I feel relieved for some reason. If 2016 Tishr 1 was smittah, then we would not have planted. If there’s no planing, we would still expect to find Aviv Barely?
Good Job, thank you for keeping us posted.
Toda Nehemiah and all the other searchers! It is good to have the latest information given directly from the land of Israel! So a second Purim festival for us! Yeah, Baruch YHVH!
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