YOM Kippur (Atonement) Study:
Below you will find the links to the Lesson Plan, worksheets, puzzles, and coloring pages.
I pray that you learn a lot from this study. I also hope that
with all the things to do on this page, that it will help you through
the day of fasting.
Since Sukkot is just around the corner, and since most people will be
gone during Sukkot, I will be posting the studies, worksheets, puzzles,
and coloring pages soon. So keep looking back to see when they
are up. This way yall will be able to print out the Lesson Plan,
worksheets, puzzles, and coloring pages to take with you to your Sukkot
gathering.
There should be enough studies and activities for you to do a little every day of Sukkot.
I pray that everyone has a blessed fast day, and also a blessed and
safe Sukkot. May all go well with everyone through these upcoming
feast days! :0)
Read the study below and then click the links at the bottom of the page
for the Lessons Plan, worksheets, puzzles, and coloring pages.
Yom Kippur Study 2004
Lev. 16:29-31
29
This shall be a statute to you forever: In the seventh month, on the
tenth day of the month, you shall deny yourselves, and shall do no
work, neither the citizen nor the alien who resides among you.
30 For on this day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse
you; from all your sins you shall be clean before YHWH. 31
It is a sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall deny yourselves;
it is a statute forever.
Lev. 23:27-32
27
Now, the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it
shall be a holy convocation for you: you shall deny yourselves and
present YHWH's offering by fire; 28 and you shall do no work
during that entire day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement
on your behalf before YHWH your Elohiym. 29 For anyone who
does not practice self-denial during that entire day shall be cut off
from the people. 30 And anyone who does any work during
that entire day, such a one I will destroy from the midst of the
people. 31 You shall do no work: it is a statute forever
throughout your generations in all your settlements. 32 It
shall be to you a sabbath of complete rest, and you shall deny
yourselves; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to
evening you shall keep your sabbath.
Numbers 29:7
7 On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and deny yourselves; you shall do no work.
The NRSV and NIV version uses "deny". From the dictionary meaning
Deny - To deny ones self, is to decline the gratification of appetites or desires; to refrain from; to abstain.
From the KJV version - it uses "afflict your souls"
Afflict- H6031 - BDB Definition:
1) (Qal) to be occupied, be busied with
2) to afflict, oppress, humble, be afflicted, be bowed down2a) (Qal)
2a1) to be put down, become low
2a2) to be depressed, be downcast
2a3) to be afflicted
2a4) to stoop
2b) (Niphal)
2b1) to humble oneself, bow down
2b2) to be afflicted, be humbled
2c) (Piel)
2c1) to humble, mishandle, afflict
2c2) to humble, be humiliated
2c3) to afflict
2d4) to humble, weaken oneself
2d) (Pual)
2d1) to be afflicted
2d2) to be humbled
2e) (Hiphil) to afflict
2f) (Hithpael)
2f1) to humble oneself
2f2) to be afflicted
From these definitions, we see that to afflict your
soul, or to deny yourself is to deny yourself of the gratification of
an appetite. This would mean to deny yourself to eat. We
also see from the BDB (Brown Driver Briggs) definition, we are to
humble ourselves, and to weaken ourselves, to afflict ourselves.
So we are to deny ourselves anything which satisfies the
appetite. That would mean food and drink.
Lev. 25:8-9
8
You shall count off seven weeks of years, seven times seven years, so
that the period of seven weeks of years gives forty-nine years.
9 Then you shall have the trumpet sounded loud; on the tenth day
of the seventh month--on the day of atonement--you shall have the
trumpet sounded throughout all your land.
This is during the year of jubilee.
Psalms 81:3-4
3
Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal
day. 4 For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the
Elohiym of Jacob.
We also see that the Day of Atonement - Yom Kippur
is a Sabbath day. We are told not to work, as seen in the above
verses. There is a stiff penalty for those who do not deny
themselves. The penalty is to be cut off from among your
people. There is a stiffer penalty for those who do any type of
work. Those who work on that day, will be destroyed (put to
death). These are very severe penalties and the reasons why we
must be careful to keep this day, and to deny ourselves from food and
drinks.
Isaiah 58:1-14 (whole chapter)
1
Shout out, do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their
sins. 2 Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my
ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not
forsake the ordinance of their Elohiym; they ask of me righteous
judgments, they delight to draw near to Elohiym. 3 "Why do we
fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?"
Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day, and oppress all
your workers. 4 Look, you fast only to quarrel and to fight
and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not
make your voice heard on high.
We see here that the day of Yom Kippur is a day not
to quarrel and fight, and bicker amongst ourselves. We also see
that we are not to treat it as a regular day, to do our own
interest.
5
Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself? Is it to bow
down the head like a bulrush, and to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Will
you call this a fast, a day acceptable to YHWH? 6 Is not
this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo
the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break
every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your bread with the
hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the
naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin?
8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your
healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you,
the glory of YHWH shall be your rear guard. 9 Then you
shall call, and YHWH will answer; you shall cry for help, and he will
say, Here I am. If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of
the finger, the speaking of evil,
10
if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the
afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be
like the noonday. 11 YHWH will guide you continually, and
satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong; and
you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose
waters never fail. 12 Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;
you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be
called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live
in. 13 If you refrain from trampling the sabbath, from
pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call the sabbath a
delight and the holy day of YHWH honorable; if you honor it, not going
your own ways, serving your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs;
14
then you shall take delight in YHWH, and I will make you ride upon the
heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of your
ancestor Jacob, for the mouth of YHWH has spoken.
We are to do these things that delight YHWH.
Make the Sabbath a delight, make Yom Kippur a delight, and not a day to
fight, argue, and quarrel amongst others. We want YHWH to listen
to us, and HE will not listen to us if we do things on the Sabbath, on
Yom Kippur that we are not suppose to do. Take Isaiah 58 to
heart, and remember what YHWH is telling us here. Yom Kippur is
suppose to be a day of gladness, and gladness to others. We are
to share what we have with others. Feed the hungry, cloth those
who are naked, and house those without a home. Make this day
joyous for others, and yourself. YHWH will then bless you.
Delight - BDB - H6027
1) exquisite delight, daintiness, delight, pleasantness
2 Chronicles 7:14
14
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my
face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Humble - H3665 -BDB Definition:
1) to be humble, be humbled, be subdued, be brought down, be low, be under, be brought into subjection
1a) (Niphal)
1a1) to humble oneself
1a2) to be humbled, be subdued
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to humble
1b2) to subdue
Deuteronomy 8:2-3
2
Remember the long way that YHWH your Elohiym has led you these forty
years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know
what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his
commandments. 3 He humbled you by letting you hunger, then
by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors
were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live
by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of YHWH.
Humble - H6031 - BDB Definition
BDB Definition:
1) (Qal) to be occupied, be busied with
2) to afflict, oppress, humble, be afflicted, be bowed down
2a) (Qal)
2a1) to be put down, become low
2a2) to be depressed, be downcast
2a3) to be afflicted
2a4) to stoop
2b) (Niphal)
2b1) to humble oneself, bow down
2b2) to be afflicted, be humbled
2c) (Piel)
2c1) to humble, mishandle, afflict
2c2) to humble, be humiliated
2c3) to afflict
2d4) to humble, weaken oneself
2d) (Pual)
2d1) to be afflicted
2d2) to be humbled
2e) (Hiphil) to afflict
2f) (Hithpael)
2f1) to humble oneself
2f2) to be afflicted
Examples of Fasting:
Nehemiah 9:1-3
1
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were
assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their
heads. 2 Then those of Israelite descent separated
themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins and
the iniquities of their ancestors.
3
They stood up in their place and read from the book of the law of YHWH
their Elohiym for a fourth part of the day, and for another fourth they
made confession and worshiped YHWH their Elohiym.
Daniel 9:4-5
4
I prayed to YHWH my Elohiym and made confession, saying, "Ah, Lord,
great and awesome Elohiym, keeping covenant and steadfast love with
those who love you and keep your commandments, 5 we have sinned
and done wrong, acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your
commandments and ordinances.
Judges 20:26
26
Then all the Israelites, the whole army, went back to Bethel and wept,
sitting there before YHWH; they fasted that day until evening. Then
they offered burnt offerings and sacrifices of well-being before YHWH.
Samuel 7:6
6
So they gathered at Mizpah, and drew water and poured it out before
YHWH. They fasted that day, and said, "We have sinned against YHWH."
And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.
2nd Samuel 12:16
16 David therefore pleaded with Elohiym for the child; David fasted, and went in and lay all night on the ground.
From the above verses we see that with fasting, we need to also repent
of our sins. With repenting, that means that we are really sorry
for the sins that we have committed and that we will not commit those
sins again. We are to truly be sorry for what we had done.
We
need to humble ourselves. We need to keep the Day of Yom Kippur
so that we are not taken away from YHWH, we need to not work, and not
do our own pleasure on the Sabbath so that YHWH does not punish us, by
death.
We need to keep from arguing, fighting, and bickering amongst ourselves
so that YHWH will hear our prayers, and will bless us instead of curse
us.
Yom Kippur Lesson Plan
Worksheets:
Yom Kippur Matching
Yom Kippur Worksheet 1
Yom Kippur Word Chop
Yom Kippur Multiple Choice
Yom Kippur Scramble
Puzzles:
Yom Kippur Criss-Cross Puzzle
Yom Kippur Hidden Message
Yom Kippur Word Search
Coloring Pages:
(These are links to page where you can print out free coloring pages.)
Coloring Dot Com (go down the page to find the "animals" and "other stuff" category)
Free Coloring Pages: (This site has free coloring pages, and also lots of other links for other free coloring page sites)
EVERYONE HAVE A BLESSED YOM KIPPUR !!!!!
