Tishri 10, 5762
Yom Kippur is the holiest and most solemn day of the year. This was the one and only day of the year that the High Priest entered the “Holy of Holies” to make sin atonement for the nation of Israel. Leviticus 16:11-34 states: ” 11“Then Aaron will present the young bull as a sin offering for himself and his family. After he has slaughtered this bull for the sin offering, 12 he will fill an incense burner with burning coals from the altar that stands before the L-rd. Then, after filling both his hands with fragrant incense, he will carry the burner and incense behind the inner curtain. 13 There in the L-rd’s presence, he will put the incense on the burning coals so that a cloud of incense will rise over the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant. If he follows these instructions, he will not die. 14Then he must dip his finger into the blood of the bull and sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover and then seven times against the front of the Ark.15“Then Aaron must slaughter the goat as a sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the inner curtain. There he will sprinkle the blood on the atonement cover and against the front of the Ark, just as he did with the bull’s blood. 16In this way, he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place, and he will do the same for the entire Tabernacle, because of the defiling sin and rebellion of the Israelites. 17 No one else is allowed inside the Tabernacle while Aaron goes in to make atonement for the Most Holy Place. No one may enter until he comes out again after making atonement for himself, his family, and all the Israelites. 18 “Then Aaron will go out to make atonement for the altar that stands before the L-rd by smearing some of the blood from the bull and the goat on each of the altar’s horns. 19 Then he must dip his finger into the blood and sprinkle it seven times over the altar. In this way, he will cleanse it from Israel’s defilement and return it to its former holiness. 20 “When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tabernacle, and the altar, he must bring the living goat forward. 21 He is to lay both of his hands on the goat’s head and confess over it all the sins and rebellion of the Israelites. In this way, he will lay the people’s sins on the head of the goat; then he will send it out into the wilderness, led by a man chosen for this task. 22 After the man sets it free in the wilderness, the goat will carry all the people’s sins upon itself into a desolate land. 23“As Aaron enters the Tabernacle, he must take off the linen garments he Holy Place, and he must leave the garments there. entire body with water in a 24 Then he must bathe his sacred place, put on his garments, and go out to sacrifice his own whole burnt offering and the whole burnt offering for the people. In this way, he will make atonement for himself and for the people. He must also 25burn all the fat of the sin offering on the altar. 26 “The man chosen to send the goat out into the wilderness as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe in water. Then he may return to the camp. 27 “The bull and goat given as sin offerings, whose blood Aaron brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement for Israel, will be carried outside the camp to be burned. This includes the animals’ hides, the internal organs, and the dung. 28 The man who does the burning must wash his clothes and bathe himself in water before returning to the camp. 29 “On the appointed day in early autumn, you must spend the day fasting and not do any work. This is a permanent law for you, and it applies to those who are Israelites by birth, as well as to the foreigners living among you. 30 On this day, atonement will be made for you, and you will be cleansed from all your sins in the L-rd’s presence. 31 It will be a Sabbath day of total rest, and you will spend the day in fasting. This is a permanent law for you. 32 In future generations, the atonement ceremony will be performed by the anointed high priest who serves in place of his ancestor Aaron. He will put on the holy linen garments 33 and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tabernacle, the altar, the priests, and the entire community. 34 This is a permanent law for you, to make atonement for the Israelites once each year.”
Yeshua came, died for us, and through His blood the world was saved as stated in Jeremiah 31:31-34: “31“The day will come,” says the L-rd, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. 32 This covenant will not be like the one I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and brought them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant, though I loved them as a husband loves his wife,” says the L-rd .33 “But this is the new covenant I will make with the people of Israel on that day,” says the L-rd. “I will put my laws in their minds, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their G-d, and they will be my people. 34 And they will not need to teach their neighbors, nor will they need to teach their family, saying, ‘You should know the L-rd.’ For everyone, from the least to the greatest, will already know me,” says the L-rd. “And I will forgive their wickedness and will never again remember their sins.”’
Yeshua is the new high priest and through Him we can enter in the holy of holies and have a personal relationship with Father G-d through Yeshua as Hebrews 9:11-15 and 24-28 shows: “11 So Yeshua has now become the High Priest over all the good things that have come. He has entered that great, perfect sanctuary in heaven, not made by human hands and not part of this created world. 12 Once for all time he took blood into that Most Holy Place, but not the blood of goats and calves. He took his own blood, and with it he secured our salvation forever. 13 Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow could cleanse people’s bodies from ritual defilement. 14 Just think how much more the blood of Yeshua will purify our hearts from deeds that lead to death so that we can worship the living G-d. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Yeshua offered himself to G-d as a perfect sacrifice for our sins. 15 That is why he is the one who mediates the new covenant between G-d and people, so that all who are invited can receive the eternal inheritance G-d has promised them. For Yeshua died to set them free from the penalty of the sins they had committed under that first covenant…. 24 For Yeshua has entered into heaven itself to appear now before G-d as our Advocate. He did not go into the earthly place of worship, for that was merely a copy of the real Temple in heaven. 25 Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, like the earthly high priest who enters the Most Holy Place year after year to offer the blood of an animal. 26 If that had been necessary, he would have had to die again and again, ever since the world began. But no! He came once for all time, at the end of the age, to remove the power of sin forever by his sacrificial death for us.27 And just as it is destined that each person dies only once and after that comes judgment, 28 so also Yeshua died only once as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people. He will come again but not to deal with our sins again. This time he will bring salvation to all those who are eagerly waiting for him.” Baruch HaShem!