Monday, February 04, 2019

Festival of Ingathering: coming or going?

HARVEY N. BOCK: Is the Autumn Ingathering Festival at the Beginning, Middle, or End of the Year? (TheTorah.com).
The Feast of Ingathering is “at the tzet (צֵאת) of the year” (Exod 23:16). This phrase is generally translated as “the end of the year,” but a closer look at the meaning of the Hebrew verb in biblical Hebrew suggests it may mean the beginning.

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