A WORD TO THOSE COMING FROM THE CAMP AND OTHER EXPERIENCE
If you have spent time in Hebrew Israelite camps, sacred name circles, or awakening communities and carry wounds from that experience — you are not alone, and you are welcome here.
We know the calendar wars. We know the name debates. We know what it feels like to be told you are not really covenant because of a pronunciation, a calendar position, or a camp affiliation. We know the exhaustion of communities that major in exposure and minor in restoration.
NYUFC is not another camp. We are a covenant family — imperfect, still growing, committed to the Word, and committed to each other. We observe the Appointed Times not as a performance of superiority but as a covenant response to a Yahuah who loves us and has invited us into His rhythm.
If you are done with the wars but not done with the Word — there is a place for you here.
We know the calendar wars. We know the name debates. We know what it feels like to be told you are not really covenant because of a pronunciation, a calendar position, or a camp affiliation. We know the exhaustion of communities that major in exposure and minor in restoration.
NYUFC is not another camp. We are a covenant family — imperfect, still growing, committed to the Word, and committed to each other. We observe the Appointed Times not as a performance of superiority but as a covenant response to a Yahuah who loves us and has invited us into His rhythm.
If you are done with the wars but not done with the Word — there is a place for you here.
OUR POSITION ON THE CALENDAR QUESTION
We acknowledge honestly that the question of precise calendar reckoning — how to determine the exact timing of the Appointed Times — is one the Hebrew awakening community is actively and sincerely wrestling with. Lunar calendars, solar calendars, the Zadokite calendar, the Jubilees framework, the rabbinic calendar — each position has sincere, scripture-searching people behind it, and each involves some degree of reconstruction from ancient texts.
No living tradition today has a perfectly unbroken chain of calendar transmission from the Second Temple period. That is not a defeat — it is an honest starting point for serious study.
At NYUFC, we do not make calendar methodology a test of covenant fellowship. We hold this question with intellectual humility, ongoing study, and unity centered in Yahusha Ha'Mashiach — who is the Lord of the Sabbath and the fulfillment of every Moedim. We will continue to study, to grow, and to hold this question as a community without allowing it to divide us from covenant brothers and sisters who are sincerely seeking the same Yahuah we are.
No living tradition today has a perfectly unbroken chain of calendar transmission from the Second Temple period. That is not a defeat — it is an honest starting point for serious study.
At NYUFC, we do not make calendar methodology a test of covenant fellowship. We hold this question with intellectual humility, ongoing study, and unity centered in Yahusha Ha'Mashiach — who is the Lord of the Sabbath and the fulfillment of every Moedim. We will continue to study, to grow, and to hold this question as a community without allowing it to divide us from covenant brothers and sisters who are sincerely seeking the same Yahuah we are.
SHABBAT/SABBATH
Leviticus 23 opens not with a feast but with a rhythm — the weekly Shabbat. Before Yahuah names a single annual appointed time, He establishes the seventh day as a covenant sign between Himself and His people, observed every week without exception. Shabbat is the foundation the entire covenant calendar rests on. At NYUFC we observe Shabbat weekly as that covenant foundation — the most frequent of Yahuah's appointed times and the heartbeat of our community worship. To learn more about our Shabbat gathering, visit our Shabbat page.
APPOINTED TIMES STATEMENT
NYUFC observes the Appointed Times because Yahuah commanded them, holds the calendar question with honest humility, and makes Yahusha Ha'Mashiach — not calendar methodology — the center of covenant fellowship.