Shabbat Study: Timing the Seventh Day

This word differs from the Hebrew word "khadash", which refers to the renewing of the light of the yarakh and is used in three different contexts in scriptural application, 1) the time of renewal (2-3 days of darkness of the yarakh), 2) the first visible manifestation of the renewed yarakh at the end of those 2 or 3 days ("first sliver" or "new moon") or, 3) the period of time between two concurrent "first slivers" (29 or 30 days) and translated month in the English translations. It is important to understand the contextual application of this word because Yahwah's keeping of time is based upon visible observation, upon interaction with His creation. Many look at the word "month" (which is derived from the English word "moon") in modern understanding and thoughts of a "calendar" pop up, not the light of the moon as it relates to that segment of time. In today's society there is little to no link between a calendar period called "month" and the visible light of the "moon", or yarakh. There exists in the Gregorian calendar 12 segments called months and I don't know of anyone utilizing the Gregorian calendar system who is going outside to verify how these relate to the moon.......they only relate in word, not in deed. The Gregorian and Hilayel (modern Jewish) calendar system are totally divorced from the lesser light (the yarakh) that rules the night. When many are looking at a calendar and see month, they just see it as a segment of time. But in thurah understanding, reckoning of time has to do with what these words actually represent, which is visible observation.

Again, the word "khadash" has three contextual applications in Yahwah's word for us as it relates to the light of the moon (yarakh), which we are going to examine more closely, as it is very important to understand their contextual applications as we progress through this study. The Hebrew word "khadash" is a root word, and is where the term "baryath-hadashah", or renewed covenant is derived from.....it means "to be made new" or be "re-newed". The word khadash, as it relates to the moon, is a making new of, or a renewal of the light of the yarakh, that lesser light in the sky that rules the night.

At the beginning of the khadash (month) the visible renewing of yarakh begins with a khadash (first sliver), goes through 27 nights of visible light and then goes dark for two or three days and nights (khadash), during its time of renewal or "khadash." The yarakh goes through a time of renewal (khadash) where you don't see its light, and then its light will reappear again as the first sliver of the renewed yarakh, hence khadash (the renewed first sliver) again.

So in summary, the word khadash, as it relates to the moon, can refer to the 29 or 30 day and night period between subsequent first slivers (aka, "month"); also those two or three days and nights of renewal where you don't see it being renewed and it can also refer to the first sliver which is the evidence of the renewal itself......the visible manifestation of the renewal process being completed.