Our main event categories are Shabbat meetings every week, New moon meetings every month and the specified Feast days every year, all according to the Scriptural commandment with regards to what is sometimes referred to in Scriptures as the “appointed times of Yahweh”.
Believers in the vicinity of Cape Town are welcome to attend any of our scheduled events. We have also been running a Skype/Teams service with great success for a number of years now and, since the outbreak of the Corona Virus Pandemic, we have extended this service to include not only the Shabbat meetings, but all the other meetings on our annual calendar. Since Microsoft has terminated Skype in 2025, our online meetings will happen via Teams, in future. To find out how this is working, click here. To increase the personal element with these meetings, we would like to spend a minute or two to have a few words with internet participants as we begin with the services – not to embarrass anyone but purely to establish personal contact and to allow both the local assembly and the internet participants to at least hear a voice (or voices) on the other side and to have the sensation that some sort of unity exists between these two groups of people approaching the same Elohim – simultaneously and single-mindedly, but from two different locations! More detail here.
On our website you may also find a calendar for this year, which you may use in any way you like. Those of you who are living in other areas and provinces of South Africa and Namibia, may want to find out about like-minded people and groups in your area, with whom you would like to come into contact. We have been collecting information in this regard for a number of years now and you may go to this page to learn more. Please let us know if you can provide us with event details of other similar groups that we have not yet listed.
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Kan julle aanduiding gee wanneer Yom Teruah begin hierdie jaar asseblief.
Shalom
Oor Yom Terua, net ‘n paar gedagtes – ook ter wille van diegene wat dalk meer wil weet: Die mees korrekte manier om te bepaal wanneer dit Yom Teruah (eerste dag van die sewende Skriftuurlike maand) is, is om te bepaal wanneer die nuwemaan (na afloop van die sesde Skriftuurlike maand) vir die eerste keer in Israel gesien kan word. Normaalweg is dit nie so moeilik nie en kan ‘n mens vooraf met ‘n redelike mate van sekerheid weet op watter aand die nuwemaan vir die eerste keer waargeneem sal kan word. Dan is dáárdie selfde aand uiteraard reeds die begin van Yom Terua, een van die sewe feesdae, waarop daar volgens die Skrif, geen beroepswerk gedoen mag word nie. Die dag wat volg op die aand waarop die nuwemaan waargeneem is, moet dus as so ‘n “shabbat” ingeruim word.
Hierdie maand is daar egter glad nie sekerheid hieroor nie en sal ons waarskynlik moet wag tot Don aand 9 September (op die vroegste) om te weet of die nuwemaan in Israel sigbaar was en of Yom Terua op Vry 10 Sept of op Shabbat 11 Sept gaan val. Nehemia Gordon het vroeër ‘n epos vanauit Jerusalem uitgestuur waarin hy dit as volg verduidelik:
The moon will definitely be visible from Israel on Friday night September 10, so the question is whether it will also be visible Thursday night. The answer is yes and no. Yes it will be visible Thursday night, but no, not from the Land of Israel. Let me explain. Thursday night the moon will have 2.5% illumination over Jerusalem and normally that should make it easy to sight. But the lagtime – the time between sunset and moonset – will only be 23 minutes. This short lagtime means that the moon will set before the light of the sun fades, making it impossible to see the moon. As you travel south the lagtime will increase, so in the southern hemisphere and even in some parts of the northern hemisphere it will be easy to see but not in Israel. I will be traveling down to Eilat where the lagtime will increase to 26 minutes. Previous experience indicates that 26 minutes will not be enough to sight the moon, although I will attempt to do so. I will be sending out a report late Thursday when I return from Eilat, but it’s a 4.5 hour drive to Jerusalem so that probably won’t be until well after midnight. I will, however, tweet the results from the road and you can check that out at:
http://twitter.com/ngordon4
Dit wil dus voorkom asof Yom Terua eers op Vry aand 10 Sept gaan begin (en die res van die feesdae van die sewende maand dus dienooreenkomstig vasgestel sal moet word), maar ons sal hierdie keer maar moet wag ek kyk …
Ons het elders (https://elim.co.za/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/emailRG.pdf) ‘n verduideliking gegee waarom ons nie na die nuwemaan van Suid Afrika kyk, of van enige ander land (behalwe Israel), om te bepaal wanneer ‘n Skriftuurlike maand begin nie.
Die kalender wat ons volg, is volledig gebaseer op die riglyne vir die bepaling van maande en feeste soos dit in die Skrif aangedui word, byvoorbeeld in Exodus 12:2 en Levitikus 23. Dit stem nie noodwendig ooreen met die moderne Joodse kalender nie, omdat hulle sekere kriteria gebruik wat nie in die Skrif aangedui word nie. Die kalender wat ons gebruik kan hier gesien word.