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Levitiko 23

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1 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al Moseo, dirante:

2 Parolu al la Izraelidoj, kaj diru al ili:La festoj de la Eternulo, kiujn vi nomos sanktaj kunvenoj, jen ili estas, Miaj festoj.

3 Dum ses tagoj faru laboron; sed la sepan tagon estas sabato de ripozo, sankta kunveno, nenian laboron faru; gxi estu sabato al la Eternulo en cxiuj viaj logxejoj.

4 Jen estas la festoj de la Eternulo, sanktaj kunvenoj, kiujn vi kunvokados en ilia tempo:

5 en la unua monato, en la dek-kvara tago de la monato, cxirkaux la vespero, estas Pasko al la Eternulo.

6 Kaj en la dek-kvina tago de tiu monato estas la festo de macoj al la Eternulo; dum sep tagoj mangxu macojn.

7 En la unua tago estu cxe vi sankta kunveno, faru nenian laboron.

8 Kaj alportadu fajroferojn al la Eternulo dum sep tagoj; en la sepa tago estu sankta kunveno, faru nenian laboron.

9 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al Moseo, dirante:

10 Parolu al la Izraelidoj, kaj diru al ili:Kiam vi venos en la landon, kiun Mi donas al vi, kaj vi rikoltos gxian rikolton, tiam alportu al la pastro la unuan garbon el via rikolto.

11 Kaj li skuos la garbon antaux la Eternulo, por ke vi akiru placxon; en la morgauxa tago post la festo la pastro gxin skuos.

12 Kaj vi pretigu en la tago, kiam estos skuata via garbo, sendifektan sxafidon jaragxan kiel bruloferon al la Eternulo.

13 Kaj kun gxi, kiel farunoferon, du dekonojn de efo da delikata faruno, miksita kun oleo, kiel fajroferon al la Eternulo, kiel agrablan odorajxon, kaj kun gxi, kiel versxoferon, kvaronon de hino da vino.

14 Kaj panon kaj rostitajn grajnojn kaj fresxajn grajnojn ne mangxu gxis tiu tago mem, en kiu vi alportos la oferon al via Dio; gxi estu eterna legxo por viaj generacioj en cxiuj viaj logxejoj.

15 Kaj kalkulu al vi de post la morgauxa tago post la festo, de post la tago, en kiu vi alportis la garbon por skuado, sep plenajn semajnojn.

16 GXis la morgauxa tago post la sepa semajno kalkulu kvindek tagojn, kaj tiam vi alportos novan farunoferon al la Eternulo.

17 El viaj logxejoj alportu du panojn de skuofero; el du dekonoj de efo da delikata faruno ili estu; fermente ili estu bakitaj; tio estos unuaj produktoj por la Eternulo.

18 Kaj alportu kune kun la panoj sep sxafidojn sendifektajn jaragxajn kaj unu bovidon kaj du virsxafojn; ili estu brulofero al la Eternulo; kaj kune kun ili farunoferon kaj versxoferon, fajroferon, agrablan odorajxon al la Eternulo.

19 Pretigu ankaux unu kapron kiel pekoferon, kaj du jaragxajn sxafidojn kiel pacoferon.

20 Kaj la pastro skuu ilin kune kun la unuaproduktaj panoj kiel skuoferon antaux la Eternulo, kun la du sxafidoj; gxi estu sanktajxo al la Eternulo por la pastro.

21 Kaj proklamu en tiu tago:sankta kunveno estu cxe vi, faru nenian laboron; tio estu eterna legxo en cxiuj viaj logxejoj en viaj generacioj.

22 Kaj kiam vi rikoltos la rikolton en via lando, ne rikoltu cxion gxis la rando de via kampo dum via rikoltado, kaj la postrestajxon de via rikolto ne kolektu; por la malricxulo kaj por la fremdulo lasu tion:Mi estas la Eternulo, via Dio.

23 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al Moseo, dirante:

24 Diru al la Izraelidoj jene:En la sepa monato, en la unua tago de la monato, estu cxe vi festo, memorigado per trumpetado, sankta kunveno.

25 Faru nenian laboron; kaj alportu fajroferon al la Eternulo.

26 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al Moseo, dirante:

27 Sed en la deka tago de tiu sepa monato estu tago de pekliberigo, sankta kunveno estu cxe vi; kaj humiligu vian animon kaj alportu fajroferon al la Eternulo.

28 Kaj faru nenian laboron en tiu tago, cxar gxi estas tago de pekliberigo, por pekliberigi vin antaux la Eternulo, via Dio.

29 CXiu animo, kiu ne humiligos sin en tiu tago, ekstermigxos el inter sia popolo.

30 Se iu animo faros ian laboron en tiu tago, Mi ekstermos tiun animon el inter gxia popolo.

31 Faru nenian laboron; gxi estu eterna legxo en viaj generacioj en cxiuj viaj logxejoj.

32 Granda sabato gxi estu por vi; kaj humiligu viajn animojn; vespere en la nauxa tago de la monato, de vespero gxis vespero festu vian sabaton.

33 Kaj la Eternulo ekparolis al Moseo, dirante:

34 Diru al la Izraelidoj jene:Komencante de la dek-kvina tago de tiu sepa monato estu festo de lauxboj dum sep tagoj al la Eternulo.

35 En la unua tago estu sankta kunveno, faru nenian laboron.

36 Dum sep tagoj alportadu fajroferojn al la Eternulo; en la oka tago estu cxe vi sankta kunveno, kaj alportu fajroferon al la Eternulo; ferma festo gxi estas, faru nenian laboron.

37 Tio estas la festoj de la Eternulo, kiujn vi nomos sanktaj kunvenoj, por alporti fajroferon al la Eternulo, bruloferon kaj farunoferon, bucxoferon kaj versxoferojn, cxiun en gxia tago;

38 krom la sabatoj de la Eternulo kaj krom viaj donoj kaj krom cxiuj viaj promesoj, kaj krom cxiuj viaj memvolaj oferoj, kiujn vi donos al la Eternulo.

39 Kaj en la dek-kvina tago de la sepa monato, kiam vi kolektos la produktajxon de la tero, festu la feston de la Eternulo dum sep tagoj; en la unua tago estu festo kaj en la oka tago estu festo.

40 Kaj prenu al vi en la unua tago fruktojn de belaj arboj, brancxojn de palmoj kaj brancxojn de densaj arboj kaj de apudriveraj salikoj; kaj gajigu vin antaux la Eternulo, via Dio, dum sep tagoj.

41 Kaj festu tiun feston de la Eternulo dum sep tagoj en la jaro; eterna legxo tio estu en viaj generacioj; en la sepa monato festu gxin.

42 En lauxboj logxu dum sep tagoj, cxiu indigxeno en Izrael logxu en lauxboj;

43 por ke sciu viaj generacioj, ke en lauxboj Mi logxigis la Izraelidojn, kiam Mi elkondukis ilin el la lando Egipta:Mi estas la Eternulo, via Dio.

44 Kaj Moseo diris pri la festoj de la Eternulo al la Izraelidoj.

   

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9296. 'And the feast of ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in [the fruit of] your labours from the field' means the worship of a thankful mind on account of the implanting of good after that, and so on account of regeneration and complete deliverance from damnation. This is clear from the meaning of 'the feast' as worship of the Lord and thanksgiving, dealt with above in 9286, 9287, 9294, and so the worship of a thankful mind; from the meaning of 'ingathering', when speaking of the implanting of truth in good, as the implanting of good itself; from the meaning of 'the end of the year' as the end of labours; and from the meaning of 'when you have gathered in [the fruit of] your labours from the field' as the enjoyment and use of all that has been planted in good. For not only products of the field are meant by 'labours' but also those of the vineyard and the olive-grove, so that the fruits of the earth are meant, as is evident from the description of this feast in Moses,

You shall celebrate the feast of tabernacles seven days, when you gather in from your threshing-floor, and from your winepress. And Jehovah your God will bless you in all your produce, and in all the labour of your hands. Deuteronomy 16:13, 15.

And elsewhere,

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the earth, you shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days. Leviticus 23:39.

[2] Since this feast means worshipping the Lord with a thankful mind on account of the implanting of good, and so on account of complete deliverance from damnation, what the implanting of good is must first be explained here. It has been shown in various places already that a person has two powers of life - the understanding and the will - and that the understanding is dedicated to receiving truth and the will to receiving good. For there are two realities to which all things throughout creation, both in heaven and in the world, have connection, namely truth and good. From this it is also evident that these two realities compose a person's life, that the truth of faith and the good of charity compose his new life, and that unless they have both been implanted in the person he has no new life. In what way the truth of faith is sown and implanted in a person is well known in the Church, but in what way the good of charity is, is not as yet so well known. When a person is a young child he receives good from the Lord, that good being the good of innocence as it exists with young children. This good composes the first beginnings of a new will with a person, and it develops in the next period of life in the measure that he leads an innocent life among those of his own age, behaves properly in life and does what he is told by parents and teachers. It develops more fully however with those who subsequently allow themselves to be regenerated. This the Lord foresees, and according to the state of their subsequent life He makes provision for it. For in every present moment the Lord foresees what is bad and provides what is good; He does so from the moment the person is conceived even into eternity. At a later stage, when the person has grown up and starts to think from self, then to the extent that he is carried away by the delights of self-love and love of the world that new will, that is, first beginnings of a new will, is closed, and to the extent that he is not carried away by those delights it is opened and also perfected.

[3] But in what way it is perfected through the implanting of truth must be stated next. That new will, which is formed from the good of innocence, is the dwelling-place by means of which the Lord comes in and resides with a person, rousing the person to will what is good, and from willing good to doing it. This influx is effective with a person to the extent that he refrains from evils. It gives him the ability to know, see into, reflect on, and have an understanding of truths and forms of good. The truths and forms of good occur on the level of both private and public life, and he receives that ability according to his delight in service. After this the Lord flows by way of that good into the truths the person knows from the teachings of the Church; He then summons from his memory the kinds of truths that may help him serve usefully in life, implanting those truths in the good and perfecting it. So it is that the good present with a person depends entirely on his service in life. If that service is rendered for his neighbour's benefit, that is, for the good of fellow-citizen, country, Church, heaven, and for the Lord, then that good is the good of charity. But if his service in life is rendered solely for the sake of self and the world, then those first beginnings of a new will are closed. Below them a will is formed from the evils of self-love and love of the world, and arising from this an understanding from falsities. This will is closed above and open below, that is, it is closed in heaven's direction and open in the world's. All this shows in what way truths are planted in good and give it form. It also shows that when a person is governed by good he is in heaven with the Lord; for as stated above, the new will, where the good of charity resides, is the Lord's dwelling-place and is therefore heaven with a person. And the new understanding extending from it is so to speak a tabernacle or booth through which people pass in and out.

[4] These kinds of things in general and in particular were represented by this feast, which was a feast of ingathering of the fruits of the earth, and was called the feast of tabernacles. The establishment of this feast, spoken of in Moses as follows, shows that this is so,

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the earth, you shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day a sabbath. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of a fine tree, 1 fronds of palm trees, and the bough of a thick tree, and willows of the powerful stream; and you shall be glad before Jehovah your God seven days. You shall dwell in tabernacles seven days. All native Israelites shall dwell in tabernacles, that your generations may know that I caused the children of Israel to dwell in tabernacles when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. Leviticus 23:39-44.

And elsewhere,

You shall celebrate the feast of tabernacles seven days, when you gather in from your threshing-floor, and from your press. You shall be glad in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male slave and your female slave and the Levite and the sojourner and the orphan and the widow who are within your gates. And you will be altogether glad. Deuteronomy 16:13-15.

[5] The state when good has been implanted by the Lord through truth, thus the state when heaven resides with a person, was represented by this feast. This is evident from the internal sense of all that is mentioned in these passages, which is this: The fifteenth day of the seventh month means the end of the former state and the beginning of a new state. (That this is the meaning of the fifteenth, see 8400, and also of the seventh, 728, 6508, 8976, 9228.) The fruit of the earth, which had been gathered in by then, means the good of charity, 43, 55, 913, 983, 2846, 2847, 3146, 7690, 7692. Gathering in from the threshing-floor and from the press has a similar meaning. For grain, which is a product of the threshing-floor, is the good of truth, 5295, 5410; wine, which is a product of the press, is truth derived from good, 6377; and oil, which is also a product of the press, is good which is a source of truth, 886, 3728, 4582, 4638. A sabbath on the first day and a sabbath on the eighth day mean the joining of truth to good, and in a reciprocal manner the joining of good to truth, the sabbath meaning truth and good joined together, 8495, 8510, 8890, 8893, 9274. The reason why the eighth day too was called a sabbath is that eighth meant the beginning of a new state, 2044, 8400 (end).

[6] The fruit of a fine tree which they were to take on the first day meant festivity and joy because good had been implanted, which is why the words you shall be glad before Jehovah follow; fronds of palm trees meant internal truths of that good, 8369; the bough of a thick (or tangled) tree meant relatively external truths of good, or known facts, 2831, 8133; and willows of the powerful stream meant rather more external truths, which belong to impressions received by the bodily senses. The tabernacles in which they were to dwell seven days means the holiness of love received from the Lord and offered in return to the Lord, 414, 1102, 2145, 2152, 3312, 3391, 4391, 4599, also the holiness of union, 8666. Native Israelites means those governed by the good of charity, and therefore also means - in the abstract sense - that good, 3654, 4598, 5801, 5803, 5806, 5812, 5817, 5819, 5826, 5833, 6426, 7957. The rejoicing of all at that time meant the joy such as that felt by those who are governed by good received from the Lord, thus such as that felt by those in heaven. For one who is governed by the good of charity received from the Lord is in heaven with the Lord. These are the things on account of which that feast was established.

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1. literally, a tree of honour

  
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