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  • From: "Walter R. Mattfeld" <mattfeld12 AT charter.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Yom Kippur
  • Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:51:19 -0400

I recently came across some info on Yom Kippur and not being Jewish, but formerly a Fundamentalist Protestant Christian, would like to know if the below information is correct :

"Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the tenth day of the month of Tishri according to the Jewish claendar, is unique in its holiness ("the Sabbath of Sabbaths" - a day of solemn rest" as it is called in Leviticus 23:32). The Jews were granted this holiest of days at Mount Sinai while receiving the Torah. It was then that they became a people. The significance of Yom Kippur, as it appears on the medal, is to serve as a vehicle for the group forgiveness of a holy nation (the Jewish people) on a holy day (the Day of Atonement). And in fact, to forgive each individual for his sins. This day is the climax of the ten days of repentance which begins with the Rosh Hashana holiday (the New Year) and culminates with the Day of Atonement.

The Torah declares that on Yom Kippur all sins will be forgiven: "for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before the Lord" (Leviticus 16:30). But our sages have interpreted that those sins made by man against the Lord will be pardoned, while those mades against a fellow man will be forgiven only upon direct reconcilitaion between man and his fellow man."

The above is quoted from a brochure accompanying a medal issued by the Israel Government Coins and Medals Corporation of Jerusalem for a medal commemorating Yom Kippur.

If the above information is correct- then I have another question of Christian scholars on this list. If Christ as "the Logos" is presenting all this to Moses at Mount Sinai, telling Israel that on Yom Kippur the people's sins are forgiven, whence the later Christian understanding that forgiveness of sin occurs only when one becomes a Christian and is baptised into Christ's death ?

Regards, Walter

Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre, M.A. Ed.

www.bibleorigins.net

mattfeld12 AT charter.net





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