Today is the second full day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, or as the Bible says, the "Festival of the Trumphets." This Holy Day is denoted twice in the Torah:
Numbers 29:1-6
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. As an aroma pleasing to the Lord, offer a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect. With the bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; with the ram, two-tenths; and with each of the seven lambs, one-tenth. Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and drink offerings as specified. They are food offerings presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma.
Leviticus 23:24-25
Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the Lord.
The Jewish New Year and the Day of Atonement involve the crucial aspect of forgiveness
The Jewish New Year, based on the Lunar calendar, is of course a run-up to the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, 10 days later. The latter is these days is where where a Priest would assist in atonement for our collective sin. Just as importantly, this forgiveness for us was coupled with forgiveness by us, in that all debts were to be forgiven every seventh year.
Something to think about considering (and I say so as a Christian) that modern Christianity seems to completely gloss over the financial aspect of "forgiveness" and many "Christians" work for financial institutions that are loathe to forgive debt even when it is the right thing to do.
