The 13 attributes of Mercy

1. The 13 attributes of Mercy (The Yom Kippur prayers)

2. Yom Kippur • G-D has His own set times and seasons. (People tend to ignore the 1st half of the Greatest Commandment … Mark 12:29) • Yom Kippur is a time of personal and national repentance as we enter the New Year on G-D’s calendar. (Lev. 23). It was observed by the Church even after the resurrection of Jesus (Acts 27:9). • The book of Hebrews tells us that Jesus is the final sacrifice, but NOT that Yom Kippur is done away with (just like the Sabbath and the Passover)!

3. “Find the Jews”

4. Psalm 95 • 7 for He is our G-d and we are the people of His pasture, the flock under His care. Today, if you hear His voice, •  8 do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert, •  9 where your fathers tested and tried Me,        though they had seen what I did. •  10 For forty years I was angry with that generation; I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways." •  11 So I declared on oath in My anger,        "They shall never enter My rest.“ (Sabbath)

5. Slichot • The “slichot” prayers (the prayers of repentance) are not only requests for forgiveness. The basis of the prayers are proclamations of G-D’s attributes. Called the “13 attributes of divine mercy”.

6. Exodus 34 • 4 So Moshe chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the L-RD had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands. 5 Then the L-RD came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, יהוה. 6 And he passed in front of Moshe, proclaiming, “יהוה, יהוה ,G-d the compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, 7 maintaining love to a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation."

7. 13 Middot • יהוה (am/is/are) • יהוה (He IS after we sin) • G-D (G-D allows sin to exist so that we can continue existing) • Compassionate (Mercy with reason) • Gracious (Mercy without reason) • Slow to anger (Anger with distance) • Abounding in love (G-D giving Himself) • And truth/faithfulness (The future pulled into the present)

8. John 1 • 14 The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.    15 John testifies concerning Him. He cries out, saying, This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.'    16 From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace. 17 Because the Torah was given through Moshe; and grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.    18 No-one has ever seen G-d, but G-d the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known. • (Col 1:15 - He is the image of the invisible G-d …)

9. 13 Middot • Maintaining love to a thousand generations (Generational blessings) • Forgiving wickedness • Forgiving rebellion • Forgiving sin • Does not leave the guilty unpunished (G-D is a loving father with a big stick)

10. 耶和華，耶和華，是有憐憫有恩典的　神，不輕易發怒，並且有豐盛的慈愛和誠實， 為千千萬萬人留下慈愛，赦免罪孽、過犯和罪惡。一定要清除罪，追討罪孽自父及子至孫，直到三四代。 • The L-RD, the L-RD, G-D the compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to a thousand generations, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation. • H-RE, H-RE, barmhartige en genadige G-D, lankmoedig en groot van goedertierenheid en trou; wat die goedertierenheid bewaar vir duisende geslagte, wat ongeregtigheid en oortreding en sonde vergewe, maar nooit ongestraf laat bly nie; wat die ongeregtigheid van die vaders besoek aan die kinders en aan die kindskinders, aan die derde en aan die vierde geslag.