and giving the meaning so that the people could understand what was being read. The celebration in the seventh month reminds us of the similar celebration at the time of Zerubbabel’s return one hundred years earlier. The first day of the seventh month was the civil New Year’s Day, the Feast of Trumpets. This celebration went back to the time of Moses: “The LORD said to Moses, ‘Say to the Israelites: “On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated