On the 1st day of the Seventh month (Tishrei) the Torah commands us to observe a "Day of Shouting" on which work is forbidden. This day is also to be a ‘holy convocation’ for us. In other words, we need to meet together before YHWH on this day.

Lev 23:23-25
23 YHWH said to Moses,

24 "Say to the Israelites: 'On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.

25 Do no regular work, but present an offering made to YHWH by fire.'"

Num 29:1-2

1 On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets.

2 As an aroma pleasing to YHWH, prepare a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect.

As I have read and searched, I find very little concerning Yom Teruah in what resources I have available.

It seems to lead us to look back to from whence we came. For those who were captives in Egypt, it would be easy for us to see how they would remember and celebrate and magnify YHWH for their deliverance from captivity.

For us here reading these words, none of us have ever been slaves, as far as I know, none of us have ever had our nation taken into slavery by another nation.

But all of us can surely remember the time when either we were ‘slaves’ of foreign gods, in a sense or did not know of YHWH.

We either saw ourselves with no savior, felt no need of one or looked to one who could not save for our salvation.

I do not want to dwell on this but anytime we remember, we realize where we have been, either for good or bad.

I am not the only one who knew little to nothing about Yom Teruah. After the captivity in Babylon the people also had to learn all over what their Fathers had known. I can more than identify with their position.

On the first day of the seventh month..

Neh 8:1-3

1 all the people assembled as one man in the square before the Water Gate. They told Ezra the scribe to bring out the Book of the Law of Moses, which YHWH had commanded for Israel.

2 So on the first day of the seventh month Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, which was made up of men and women and all who were able to understand.

3 He read it aloud from daybreak till noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate in the presence of the men, women and others who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.’...

Neh 8:7-12

7 The Levites-- Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan and Pelaiah-- instructed the people in the Law while the people were standing there.

8 They read from the Book of the Law of Elohim, making it clear and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was being read.

9 Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to them all, "This day is sacred to YHWH your Elohim. Do not mourn or weep." For all the people had been weeping as they listened to the words of the Law.

10 Nehemiah said, "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Sovereign. Do not grieve, for the joy of YHWH is your strength."

11 The Levites calmed all the people, saying, "Be still, for this is a sacred day. Do not grieve."

12 Then all the people went away to eat and drink, to send portions of food and to celebrate with great joy, because they now understood the words that had been made known to them.

Wonderful. The reading of His word did exactly what it should do. We see where we are wrong and are grieved but then we realize there is a way and a time to make all right with YHWH.

Then we are joyful. We celebrate for YHWH is the way to finish our travel out of captivity.

I read about the days between Yom Teruah (the remembering and the joy in looking to YHWH) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). They call them the Days of Awe.

During these days we look backward to where we have come from and WHO has brought us along.

Then we look inward. Before we can repent, we must realize the need to repent. I would doubt there is a live human above babyhood who does not have things for which repentance is needed.

But we, for ourselves, must identify our behaviors for which repentance is necessary.

Then we look forward, for on Yom Kippur, we may have all forgiven and forgotten.

Days of Awe... looking backward, looking inward and looking forward

This is not a scholarly work and I guess perhaps that is because I am not a scholar. I am however a daughter of YHWH and I pray He has led in these words.

Ps 98:1-9

1 Sing to YHWH a new song, for He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have worked salvation for Him.

2 YHWH has made His salvation known and revealed His righteousness before the nations.

3 He has remembered His love and His faithfulness to the house of Israel; all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our Elohim.

4 Shout for joy to YHWH, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music;

5 make music to YHWH with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing,

6 with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn-- shout for joy before YHWH, the King.

7 Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it.

8 Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy;

9 let them sing before YHWH, for He comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity.

Blow the shofar. If you do not have one, blow a horn, if you do not have that shout for joy, play your harp, your harmonica, clap your hands but let all that is within you praise YHWH.

HALLELUYAH!! Let all His people say AMEYN!