BEGIN THE NEW YEAR 5781 (2020 / 2021) WITH HOLY COMMUNION

1. Rosh Hashana 2020 / רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה 5781

a) Rosh Hashana (The Jewish New Year) for Hebrew Year 5781 began on Friday, 18 September 2020 and ended on Sunday, 20 September 2020.

b) Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: ראש השנה), (literally "head of the year"), is the Jewish New Year. It is the first of the High Holidays or Yamim Noraim ("Days of Awe"), celebrated ten days before Yom Kippur. Rosh Hashanah is observed on the first two days of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. It is described in the Torah as יום תרועה (Yom Teru'ah, a day of sounding [the Shofar]).

2. Begin the beginning of new year 5781 (2020 / 2021) with Holy Communion

a) While there are many prophetic meanings given for the new year 5781, let's partake Holy Communion in remembrance of the body and blood of Jesus that was broken and poured at the cross. during the beginning of new year 5781 (2020 / 2021). Jesus wanted us conscious of how His body was broken so we could be made whole, and His blood was shed for the forgiveness of our sins.

b) Holy Communion

1 Corinthians 11:23-32 ESV

[23] For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, [24] and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, "This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." [25] In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me." [26] For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 

[27] Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty concerning the body and blood of the Lord. [28] Let a person examine himself, then, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. [29] For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. [30] That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died. [31] But if we judged ourselves truly, we would not be judged. [32] But when we are judged by the Lord, we are disciplined j so that we may not be condemned along with the world.