That's a good point that you make Visionary. As I understand it, if the sighting occurred in the night hours, the 1st of the month was deemed to have been started on the previous sunset.
However, my question relates to all 10 days - not only the 1st day. Im particularly interested in the day of Atonement. Were the trumpets sounded in the morning at day break?
Having recently attended High Holy Day Services I have to say that it is still to this day not settled.
The trumpet is blown many times during the 24 hours of Yom Teruah. And again it is blown on Yom Kippur and also during Sukkot which we are in right now.
The Torah is traditionally believed to have been given on Shavuot which is the one Holy Day between the Spring Feasts and the Fall feasts.
On that day is when the Lord met with his people on the mountain, they were to prepare for three days prior.
Ex 19
16 On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a
very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.
19 As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and
the voice of God answered him.
Because of this above it is believed that the 'bat kol' or voice out of heaven, the voice of God is likened to the same sound of the trumpet or the shofar. The Hebrew actually reads, kol shofar in this verse so we know it's not the other kind of trumpet.
In Leviticus 23 we read in English
24 Speak unto the
children of
Israel, saying, In the
seventh month, in the
first day of the
month, shall ye have a
sabbath, a
memorial of
blowing of trumpets, an
holy convocation.
But that's not what's said in the Hebrew, there is no mention of Trumpets, it actually says 'tekeah' which is one of the commands used on Yom Teruah when blowing the shofar, however it means to shout, so this day was a day of shouting, not blowing trumpets.
Then further on in Leviticus we read
25:9 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
Speaking of Yom Kippur.
Now that was the NIV version, here is the KJV
9 Then shalt thou cause
the trumpet of the jubile to
sound on the
tenth day of the
seventh month, in the
day of
atonement shall ye make the
trumpet sound throughout all your
land.
This is the ONLY place in Leviticus where the word 'shofar' is used.
In Numbers the other kind of Trumpet is written about
2 “Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out.
10:10 Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts—you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
Num 29:1
1 And in the
seventh month, on the
first day of the
month, ye shall have an
holy convocation; ye shall
do no
servile work: it is a
day of
blowing the trumpets unto you.
I'll have to finish this later, my pc is going very slow so hard to look up passages right now. This isn't finished so please understand