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You may wish to recognize some or all of these days during the coming Seminary year:
9/13-9/14/2007 Rosh HaShanah (Feast of Trumpets -- awake, arise, and gather) FYI: Joseph Smith received the gold plates on Rosh HaShanah in 1827.
9/14-9/21/2007 Yamim Ha Nora'im (Days of Awe -- repentance enabling us to have our names written in the book of life)
9/22/2007 Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
9/27-10/2/2007 Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) Triumphal arrival of the bridegroom (from an LDS perspective: ushering in the Millennium, final judgment, imagery of the 2nd coming of Christ)
1/22/2008 Tu Bish'vat (Like our Arbor Day)
3/21/2008 Purim (Celebration of the Book of Esther)
4/20-4/27/2008 Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Bikkurim -- Elijah appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery on Bikkurim. Church is organized at Passover season.
6/9-6/10/2008 Shavuot (Feast of Weeks, Pentacost) Celebrates the gifts of spirit and scripture at Mount Sinai. The Holy Ghost is given to the early church on Pentacost after the death of Christ.
These Jewish holy days and holidays are defined and explained (from an LDS perspective) in the newly released electronic edition of Days of Awe: Jewish Holy Days, Symbols, & Prophecies for Latter-day Saints by Gale T. Boyd that is available here.
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