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with your host emma daughter thanks for joining today we're reading numbers 29 in which we read

about offerings for three different feasts and we're going to spend some extra time today diving deep

so what were these feasts and what do they mean for us today?

When I went to Israel this past spring, the students had an opportunity to visit the shops in the

Jewish quarter, which is in the old city of Jerusalem. And one young man felt it fitting to purchase

a shafar, which is a horn made out of a ram's horn. And when he got on the bus, naturally,

all the other guys were cheering him on to blow it. And as a chaperone, we weren't encouraging it,

but I think the other chaperones and I were all on the same page. Like, we were a little

curious as to what it would sound like, seeing as these horns were everywhere in the market,

and no one else in our group had thought to investigate. And the funny thing was, when he blew it,

he sounded like a middle schooler picking up a trumpet for the first time, because it did not

work at all. He sounded horrible. But had he been a Jewish person who regularly celebrated the Jewish feasts, he would have been a pro, because every year he would celebrate the feast of trumpets.

Nevertheless, that wasn't the case, and this trumpet was unfamiliar and foreign.

And oftentimes, when we read about the feasts, their significance is lost on us.

They're full of long lists of instructions that can be boring to read, and we don about the feasts, their significance is lost on us. They're full of

long lists of instructions that can be boring to read, and we don't know what to make of them.

But it doesn't have to stay that way. So what were these feasts and what do they mean for us today?

The first feast we read about in Numbers 29 is the Feast of Trumpet. Now, anytime we study the scriptures,

we start with observation. We ask, what do I notice? What can I explicitly observe? It's the who,

what, when, where, why, and how questions. So starting off with who, who is speaking.

We can come to the right conclusion by taking note of the last verse of chapter

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