This Biblical New Year, the Hebrew calendar moves into 5787, written in Hebrew as תשפ”ז.
Rosh Hashanah 5787 began at sundown on Friday, September 11, 2026, and ends at nightfall on Sunday, September 13, 2026. Every year I love walking through the letters that spell it, because in the ancient pictographic script, each Hebrew letter began as a picture, and those pictures still carry meaning today.
This year, as I looked at the four letters, Tav, Shin, Pey, Zayin, I began to see a picture forming. Not just four separate ideas, but a sequence. A story of what God is doing in this season.
I’ll be honest, I’m not writing this from a distance. As this new year has come in, I’ve also just learned that the house I’ve worked and lived in for years is closing, and our whole team is being made redundant, me included.
So these letters aren’t theory to me right now. I’m watching them happen in real time, and I want to walk you through them the way I’m living them.
Watch the full video to see this walked out in more depth.
The Four Letters of 5787
ת Tav – The Mark
The ancient picture for Tav is two crossed sticks. A mark, a sign, a seal. It is the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, closing out the full range of the alphabet the way “It is finished” closes out a work.
Tav speaks of something being sealed and confirmed. Before anything else happens in this year, God is placing a mark on this season. A sign that says, this is real, this is Mine, this is sealed.
ש Shin – The Fire That Presses
The ancient picture for Shin is teeth. The action of pressing, chewing, consuming. It carries meanings of sharp, press, consume, destroy, and in later Hebrew thought, Shin became associated with fire, the consuming fire of God’s presence.
This is the letter of decluttering. Of pressing out what no longer belongs. Shin is not gentle. It is the sharpening, the pressing, the burning away of what has grown old, cluttered, or heavy in the mind, the soul, the life. Before the new can be built, the old has to be pressed out.
If you feel like this season has involved more letting go than you expected, more cutting away than adding on, Shin says that is not an accident. It is the shape of this year.
I feel that one closely right now, a place I called home for years being pressed out of my hands isn’t something I chose, but I don’t believe it’s outside what this year was always going to ask of me.
פ Pey – The Mouth That Opens
The ancient picture for Pey is a mouth. Meanings of open, speak, blow, edge.
After the mark is sealed (Tav) and the old is pressed out (Shin), something opens. A mouth that had been shut begins to speak again.
This can be your voice, your testimony, your prayer life, a door that opens where one was closed. Pey is the letter of breakthrough into speech and utterance. What was held in is now released.
ז Zayin – The Sword That Nourishes
The ancient picture for Zayin is a mattock or plough, an agricultural tool. Its meanings are cut, harvest, food, nourish. In later Hebrew, its shape sharpened into the image of a sword, and the same root behind Zayin (zan) is also the root of mazon, the Hebrew word for food, sustenance, provision.
Zayin also speaks of a weapon, a sword. And here is what stood out to me. The word comes from a root that means nourishment. That tells us something. Sometimes, in order to be nourished, we have to go through warfare.
To occupy the land, we have to go and take the land. To see progress anywhere in our lives, we have to go and do it. Not forcefully, not by striving, but prayerfully, and believing it is already ours. Go and get it! It’s yours!
That is why the table is prepared before the enemy. Psalm 23:5 says, “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” The table doesn’t appear after the battle is over. You have to go and sit at that table, by faith, and watch it be prepared for you, even while your enemies are still standing there.
This is the letter I’m sitting with the most this week. My whole team just watched a door close that none of us chose. And yet, underneath the grief, I keep sensing that this cutting is not the end of my sentence, that there’s a table being prepared even while I can’t yet see where it’s set. I don’t have the next chapter figured out. But I believe Zayin is already at work in it.
I’ve written a full teaching on this letter, the plough, the sword, and the crown, if you want to go deeper: Hebrew Letter Zayin: The Plough, the Sword and the Crown
Bringing the Letters Together
The Hebrew letters Tav, Shin, Pey, Zayin tell a sequence:
- Tav – God seals this season. It is marked as His.
- Shin – The old is pressed out. Decluttering of the mind, the soul, the life.
- Pey – What has been sealed and pressed now opens into voice, breakthrough, testimony.
- Zayin – What was cut becomes harvest. You go, you take the land, and you sit at the table in victory, even in the presence of what opposed you.
This is why I am calling 5787 a Season of Victory. Not a victory that skips the fight, but one that comes through it. The mark is sealed. The clutter is pressed out. The voice opens. And then, the feast, even while the enemy is still watching.
If You Are in This Season
Maybe you already feel the Shin of this year, the pressing, the letting go, more decluttering in your mind and spirit than you expected. I want to encourage you, that is not the whole word. Zayin is coming. The cutting is not the end of the sentence. The table is being prepared.
You don’t have to fight in your own strength. But you do have to go. Go and take what is already yours. Go and sit at the table before it looks ready, and watch God prepare it in front of you.
I’m choosing to believe that for myself this week, and I hope you’ll choose to believe it for whatever you’re facing too.
A Prayer for This Season
Our Father,
Thank You for sealing this new season as Yours.
Give us courage as You press out what no longer belongs, the clutter, the old, the weight we have carried.
Open our mouths again to speak, to testify, to pray with fresh fire.
Give us boldness to go and take what You have already promised us.
And prepare our table, even now, even here. Let us sit down in victory in the very place we have been contending.
In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Wow, this is so powerful and relevant to my own life and heart right at this moment. Thank you, thank you! HalleluYAH!
ABBA’s got you. Marvelous breakthrough and provision to be seen shortly ahead!
Hi Nina,
🙏🏼✨ Thank you so much for reading and for these words, they truly blessed me! HalleluYAH indeed! 🔥 Trusting ABBA for that breakthrough and provision for this season! 💛 So grateful you’re walking this season with me. Haly 🕊️
Hello beloved Haly. For some reason, from time to time, I return to the words that the Lord gave you for me at some point. I still have that prophecy about 999 and I missed you. I didn’t know how to discern it last week—I was serving as an intercessor at an event for prophets and pastors, and it was a time of revival and glory. The usher who worked near me looked so much like you that I wondered what was happening with you, and it was impactful to see you just a week later. I have been meditating on your testimony, and I pray that our Father gives you your next assignment, one where you find peace, love, community, and people who will help you move forward. Divine connections in the name of Yahshua.I felt that I needed to hear your testimony. A year ago, I came to the ocean and was completely alone. I prayed over cities, schools, beaches, and very compromised areas near schools and parks. I didn’t meet anyone in particular. But I got to know myself; I broke free from fears, anxieties, attachments, and carnal sentimentalism. And as you say, I have matured, and by knowing myself, I learned to know my Adonai, God, and Redeemer. Now my lease has ended, I have no one, and I am still waiting to see where the Lord will send me. I have faith and two suitcases. But after reading your material, I have more hope. Thank you, thank you so much. I appreciate you with all my heart, beloved sister, as if I have known you for all eternity. A hug and welcome back. Your doors are opening soon.
Hello Martha,
I was so glad to hear from you. Thank you for this beautiful message. It touched my heart deeply, and I’m so grateful the word about 999 is still bearing fruit in your life.
What you shared about seeing that usher who looked so much like me, and then hearing from me just a week later – I don’t think that was a coincidence. This has actually been my experience too: whenever I see someone I know in someone else, I’ve learned that it’s a sign to pray for that person, and without fail, they come back into my life. So when you saw me in that usher, I believe the Lord was stirring you to intercede for me, and that is exactly what opened the door for this reconnection now.
I know the in-between season is not easy, with the lease ended and not yet knowing where He is sending you. But faith and two suitcases is more than enough for Him to work with. Your doors are opening too.
And as I sit with what you’ve shared, I want to speak this over you: what I see in your life right now is peace, and God is in control. You have been on the observer side of this season – watching, learning, taking it in – like Habakkuk on the watchtower: “I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what He will say to me” (Habakkuk 2:1). That has been you. You have watched, and you have learned. But the Lord is not asking you to stay on the ramparts much longer. I do not see anything holding you back from moving forward – you just need to take what is yours. The keys have been given to you, and the knowing is unfolding even now. “See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut” (Revelation 3:8).
I also want to take a moment to say thank you. You have supported Haly Ministries faithfully for so many years, through your gifts and your prayers, and that means more to me than words can say. You have been part of this ministry’s story the whole way through, and I don’t take that for granted and our Abba Father too.
Thank you for your prayers over me too. I receive them, and I am praying the same blessing over you: peace, community, provision, and clear direction for your next assignment.
With love,
Haly
Beloved Haly, thank you so much for your words, prayers, and blessings. I apologize for the late response, but I hadn’t been back to your channel, and your reply filled me with joy. I know you are an exceptional human being, but I also know it must be hard to reply to everyone who writes to you. Thank you, precious daughter of the Lord—my sister. That is how I view you, and that is how I came to cherish your life. I would love to share my testimony with you about how deeply you impacted my life during the hardest period of my years. It is long, and perhaps some parts are very personal—if you share an email address with me, I will send it to you. May God continue to bless your plans and open great doors for you. May God bless the work of your hands, as well as your comings and goings, together with your whole family. Sending you a big hug. Shalom.
Hello Martha,
Thank you for your reply.
I will send you an email.
Love
Haly