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Welcome to The Messianic Torah Observer, a web-based ministry of QFC. Our mission is to inspire and guide you towards Yeshua-focused Torah Living, a path that promises spiritual fulfillment and a deeper connection with the Creator.

What does Yeshua-Focused Torah Living mean? It is rooted in the profound teachings of our Master, who declared:

“Do not think that I have come to loosen Torah or the Prophets. I have not come to loosen but to fulfill. For truly I say to you that until heaven and earth pass away, not one Yodh or one stroke will pass from Torah until everything happens. All who loosen, therefore, from one of these small commandments and teach thus to the sons of man, will be called little in the Kingdom of Heaven, but all who do and teach this will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven. For I say to you that unless your righteousness exceeds more than that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” (Matthew 5:17-20; AENT)

Over the years, denominationalists have misinterpreted this key to the Kingdom, promoting an anti-Jewish and anti-Torah agenda. This has led many faithful individuals to adopt a lawless lifestyle and belief system. Our Catholic counterparts have similarly strayed from the Creator’s prescribed Way of life. On judgment day, Yeshua will say to such individuals:

“I will profess to them that from everlasting, I have NOT known you. Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity” (Matthew 7:23; AENT).

I don’t know about you, beloved, but I certainly want to make it into the Kingdom. I want to hear our Master say:

“Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful…” (Matthew 25:21).

If you share this desire, you must ask yourself: How do we make it into the Kingdom? What must we do today to be called good and faithful servants?

Yeshua-Focused Torah Living holds the key to our entry into the Kingdom of God and to hearing our Messiah declare us as good and faithful servants. This ministry is dedicated to living that exceedingly righteous life that leads us into the Kingdom.

We believe the Hebrew-Messianic-Netzari-Faith to be superior to any Abrahamic Faith in existence today, as it provides truth-seekers with the keys to the Kingdom5. If you’ve been searching for the true path to the Kingdom that Yeshua and His disciples preached and taught, turn your life over to Yehovah today. Believe that Yeshua died for your sins, confess your sins to Yehovah, and ask for His forgiveness. This is a personal journey between you and your Father, with Yeshua interceding on your behalf.

You will need to be water immersed (baptized) soon, but in the meantime, become a disciple of Yeshua Messiah to learn to walk in Yah’s holy and righteous ways. Connect with a local Messianic Congregation that Yehovah directs you to.

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the Netsari-Messianic Calendar Update

WE ARE PRESENTLY IN THE 6TH BIBLICAL MONTH OF YHVH’S SACRED CALENDAR 6026. THE MONTH BEGAN AT SUNDOWN ON FR-DAY, 8/14/2026.

THE RABBINIC CALENDAR CALLS THIS 6TH MONTH ELUL AND IT IS SEEN AS A MONTH OF TESHUVAH FOR OUR JEWISH COUSINS. THERE ARE NO MANDATED FEASTS OR SET APART DAYS IN THE 6TH MONTH. 

(FOR SPECIFICS, SEE OUR CALENDAR FOR THIS MONTH ON THE RESOURCES PAGE.)

THIS COMING SABBATH’S (8/22/2026) READING IS “KI TEITZEI/WHEN YOU GO OUT” AND IT IS CONTAINED IN DEUTERONOMY/DEVARIM 21.10-25.19; ISAIAH 54.1-0; AND GALATIANS 3.11-14. 

 

Note: (1) Rosh Chodesh denotes the New Moon or the start of a new Biblical Month on the Hebrew Calendar. (2) All provided dates are derived from the Observational Calendar. We rely upon the sighting of the renewed moon over the Land of Israel to determine the start of new months as well as when Feasts will occur. Thus, the “Projected” in parentheses next to each calendar event denotes the printed date pending the sighting of the renewed moon. (3) For specifics on each month, we encourage you to reference the calendar we post each month under the Essentials of the Faith menu. (4) The parenthetical (Projected) is to alert that the cited dates are wholly dependent on (A) the maturity of the barley crop and (B) the siting of the renewed moon from the land of Yisra’el at the end of the 12th Biblical Month. See our discussion on “Why I Keep the Torah  (Observational) Calendar and not the Other Popular Messianic Calendars.” 

Updated: 8/16/2026

 

FIVE DAYS

 

That is what our Jewish cousins are saying today: All that stands between today — Sunday, September 6, the twenty-fourth day of the traditional month of Elul, the last month of the Jewish-traditional year 5786/2026 — and the moment when the shofar blows and everything changes.

Our Orthodox Jewish cousins contend that the Last Shabbat of 5786/2026 has passed. They believe that they are in the final stretch of the traditional month of Elul, the month of teshuvah, the month of the King in the Field. The ancient tradition teaches that during Elul, Yehovah does not wait for His people in the palace, but rather, He comes out into the field, among His subjects; accessible; near; before the formality of the Feast season begins. The shofar has been sounding every weekday morning this entire month as a memorial or reminder of the Covenant.

So, they say there are just five mornings remaining.

But then on Friday evening, September 11, at sundown, something extraordinary will happen. 1 Tishrei 5787 begins. To these, the new year turns another page, and the Feast of Trumpets — Yom Teruah, the Day of the Shofar Blast, arrives exactly on schedule, as it has every year since Yehovah commanded it in the wilderness.

What the Torah Says — and What It Doesn’t Say

Here is what the Torah says about Yom Teruah.

Leviticus 23:24 — “In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.”

That is the entire instruction. No explanation of why. There is No announcement of what the shofar blast commemorates. No list of the events it announces. Just shofar blasts, calling forth a convocation of the Congregation of Yisra’el. Rest. It is the only feast in the entire biblical calendar with no stated reason.

That intentional silence is itself the message.

Yeshua said in Matthew 24:36: “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.” The Feast of Trumpets, seen as the hidden feast; the feast of the unknown day and hour, was always pointing to that statement. The shofar does not announce a scheduled event. But it announces the arrival of the King of kings and Lord of lords. Yet, no one knows exactly when the King will come, except for the Father.

That is the Feast that our Jewish cousins are five days from receiving.

For we who keep the Observational Calendar, Yom Teruah may land at either sundown on 9/12/ 2026 or 9/13/2026. And when Yom Teruah arrives, it is the start of the 7th Biblical Month, as opposed to the start of a new ecclesiastical year. It is NOT Rosh Hashanah, or the start of a new ecclesiastical year, as our Jewish cousins stubbornly contend that it is.

The Torah Reading and the Weeping Woman

The Torah reading for Yom Teruah is Genesis 21. It entails the birth of Yitschaq/Isaac. It is the miracle birth of the son of promise who came when no one believed he possibly could. And the Haftarah Reading is contained in 1 Samuel 1:1–2:10. It is famously known as Hannah’s prayer. It is the story of the desperate, silent, whispered cry of a woman who was barren, overlooked, misunderstood, and praying in the Temple so intently that the priest thought she was drunk.

But Yehovah heard her.

So, why would the Feast of Trumpets open with a weeping woman? Because Hannah is Israel in miniature. She is every covenant community that has been waiting too long and praying too quietly for Yehovah to notice them. Her prayer, which becomes the Magnificat’s grandmother; the song that Miriam would echo; the cry that heaven cannot ignore, is proof that the God of YIsra’el is the same God who hears the whispers of His people.

So, Yom Teruah is both the trumpet blast and the whispered prayer. It is the public declaration and the interior cry, as well as the King arriving and the barren becoming fruitful. Halleluyah!

Where We Stand on the Calendar Today, Beloved:

Here is where we stand on the calendar as of today:

  • Tonight — 24 Elul 5786 (aka 23rd Day of the 6th Biblical Month): Five days remain before Yom Teruah according to the Rabbinic Calendar. Selichot prayers began Saturday night, September 5.
  • Friday evening, September 11 at sundown: 1 Tishrei 5787 (aka 29th Day of the 6th Biblical Month) begins. Yom Teruah — the Feast of Trumpets — arrives. For we observationalists, either at sundown on 9/12/2026 or 9/13/2026.
  • Saturday, September 12: The Day of the Shofar Blast itself. Torah: Genesis 21:1–34 and Numbers 29:1–6. Haftarah: 1 Samuel 1:1–2:10. Brit Chadasha: Matthew 24:29–42 and Revelation 8:6–13.
  • September 12–21 — The Traditional Ten Days of Awe commences: This is the most solemn stretch of the biblical year for our Jewish cousins, running from Yom Teruah through Yom Kippur.
  • Sunday, September 21 — Yom Kippur: The Day of Atonement. The fast. The holiest day of the biblical calendar year. For we observationalists, Yom HaKippurim will fall out either at sundown on 9/21/2026 or 9/22/2026, depending on when the renewed moon is cited at the start of the 7th
  • Friday, September 26 — Sukkot begins: The Feast of Tabernacles — Yehovah dwelling with His people. The feast that will be celebrated by all nations in the age to come (Zechariah 14:16). For we observationalists Sukkot will commence at sundown either on 9/27/2026 or 9/28/2026.

Consequently, all of this is beginning this week.

This is the highest-urgency season of the biblical calendar year. In and of itself, it is NOT a Jewish cultural season. Rather, it is an intrinsic aspect of our Covenant walk that is encoded in Leviticus 23. Each aspect of this coming season points us to the return of Master Yeshua HaMashiyach, the resurrection of the dead, and the establishment of Yehovah’s Kingdom on earth.

— Rod | The Messianic Torah Observer | 24 Elul 5786 | September 6, 2026

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