Walter Elwell is a featured instructor and contributor at Worship Training.
Three national festivals were celebrated yearly in the temple: Passover, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Booths. Three times a year all adult men went to the temple to celebrate the national festivals (Exod. 23:17; Deut. 16:16): Passover (in April), the F
Family worship at the temple included the rite of circumcision and various sacrifices and offerings for tithe, personal vows, sin, and sickness. From time to time every family visited the temple in Jerusalem. Eight days after a baby boy was born he was circumc
