Ta'anit
Esther - Fast of Esther:
Exodus 32:11-14,
Exodus 34:1-10.
Exodus
32:11-14.
11 Moses begged YHWH his ELOHIM, and
said, “YHWH, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, that you have
brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand?
12 Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, ‘He
brought them forth for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them
from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and repent of this
evil against your people.
13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your
servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will
multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have
spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
14 YHWH repented of the evil which he said he
would do to his people.
Exodus
34:1-10.
1 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. Moses Makes New Tablets. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
YHWH said to Moses, “Chisel two
stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that
were on the first tablets, which you broke.
2 Be ready by the morning, and come up in the
morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the
mountain.
3 No one shall come up with you; neither let
anyone be seen throughout all the mountain; neither let the flocks nor herds
feed before that mountain.”
4 He chiseled two tablets of stone like the
first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as
YHWH had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.
5 YHWH descended in the cloud, and stood with
him there, and proclaimed the name of YHWH!
6 YHWH passed by before him, and proclaimed,
“YHWH! YHWH, a merciful and gracious ELOHIM, slow to anger, and abundant in
loving kindness and truth,
7 keeping loving kindness for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear
the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the
children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
8 Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the
earth, and worshiped.
9 He said, “If now I have found favor in your
sight, ADONAI, please let ADONAI go in the midst of us; although this is a
stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your
inheritance.”
10 \Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnestLOW”\. The Covenant Renewed. .\Vce=Speaker=“LeslieEarnest”\.
He said, “Behold, I make a
covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been
worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which you
are shall see the work of YHWH; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you. arpa SAMPA][_:<3333,0>]\
! ! End of Today’s Feast/Fast TORAH Related Scriptures! Praise Yah! (HNV-yet version, in the public domain.)
The Fast of Esther (Ta'anit Ester, Hebrew:
תַּעֲנִית
אֶסְתֵּר) is a Jewish fast from
dawn until dusk on Purim eve, commemorating the three-day fast observed by the
Jewish people in the story of Purim. It is a common misconception that this
fast was accepted by the Jews for all future generations during the time of
Esther, as it is stated in the Book of Esther: They had established for
themselves and their descendants the matters of the fasts and their cry (Esther
9:31). This verse actually refers to the four fasts which relate to mourning
for the Temple. Rather, the first mention of this fast is a Minhag that is
referenced in the Gaonic period.
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