Holy Days Calendar Through 2032

"Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn *days, and in the beginnings of your *months..." (Numbers 10:10)

*mô‛êd    mô‛êd    mô‛âdâh-From H3259; properly an appointment, that is, a fixed time or season; specifically a festival; conventionally a year;

*chôdesh-From H2318; the new moon; by implication a month: - month (-ly), new moon.

The projected dates below are based on approximate calculations of the first new moon visibility as seen from Palestine/Jerusalem.

All listed dates should be confirmed by report of actual new moon visibility.

Note: Biblical Days begin at Sunset. Therefore, a Holy Day begins at Sunset of the day listed. For example, a Holy Day that is on Wednesday is observed from Sunset Tuesday to Sunset Wednesday. 
The sighting of the new moon on or after the spring equinox determines the beginning of the 1st month.  The new moon is not visible for approximately two days/nights.

*The Passover service itself is held just after Sunset (evening before) Marking the start of Passover.

The projected dates below are based on approximate calculations of the first new moon visibility, at Jerusalem. All listed dates should be confirmed by report of actual new moon visibility.

A year in the Hebrew calendar can be 353, 354, 355, 383, 384, or 385 days long. No month can have more than thirty days.

NOTE that all Holy Days begin the evening before * The Passover service itself is held just after Sunset the evening before. * * The first and last day is a Sabbath *** Only the first day is a Sabbath

I encourage you to do your own Bible study and come to your own conclusion as to the start of the new year.

 

There are seven annual High Sabbaths each year.

• Passover: In the 14th day of the 1st month in the dark portion of the day. It commemorates the LORD'S Passover, for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians.
  
• Unleavened Bread: In the 15th day of the 1st month. It commemorates the Exodus from Egypt in haste, and one must eat the bread of affliction (unleavened) for seven days, from the 15th day of the month through the 21st day of the month. Only the 1^st day and the 7^th day are High Sabbaths.
  
• Feast of Harvest also known as Feast of Weeks, First Fruits, and Pentecost: Count seven Sabbaths plus one day [50 days] from the day after the Sabbath that occurs during Unleavened Bread. It always lands on a Sunday. It is a celebration of the harvest. It is a High Sabbath.
  
• Feast of Trumpets: On the 1^st day of the 7^th month. It is memorial to the day in which God descended upon the earth to be with, and to speak with his people. We are commanded to have a memorial by blowing trumpets. It is a Holy Day or High Sabbath.
  
• Atonement: On the 10^th day of the 7^th month. You are to afflict your souls, no food or water for 24 hours, to show that you want to be clean / repent from all your sins. It is a High Sabbath.
  
• Tabernacles: Falls on the 15^th day of the 7^th month and the 1^st day is a High Sabbath. Also known as the Feast of Booths, that generations may remember Israel had to dwell in booths when brought out of the land of Egypt.
  
• Eight Day also known as the Last Great Day: The eight day after the start of Tabernacles is a somber assembly, and represents consecration. Is a Holy Day or High Sabbath.
  

A Simple Formula for Figuring the start of the New Year

Keep in mind that the new moon is not visible for approximately two days/nights, and if not spotted by the 3rd day, it becomes the 1st day of the month. A year in the Hebrew calendar can be 353, 354, 355, 383, 384, or 385 days long, unlike our present day calendars. The ancient Jewish calendar depended not on mathematical calculations and arrangements, but was set from month to month according the physical appearance of the new moon, it was necessary from time to time to “intercalate” a thirteenth month be fore the Passover, to prevent its being moved back into the winter. There is no mention that the new moon (rosh chodesh) had to fall after the vernal equinox, only that Passover or the full moon must fall after the vernal equinox. The full moon usually occurs 14 to 15 days after the new moon. Therefore, the ancients did not base their calendar on the first new moon after the vernal equinox, but rather on the first new moon that fell closest to the vernal equinox, which means the new moon could fall two or more weeks before the vernal equinox, just as long as Passover (which was on the fourteenth day of the first month at the time of the full moon) would occur after the vernal equinox. If it didn’t, then the Jews added a thirteenth month.

• The calendar is based on the Biblical system of observing the new moon in Palestine. Whenever possible calculated dates should be confirmed by actual observations in Palestine. Calculating may have been acceptable prior to today's abilities of observing the new moon in Palestine and then broadcasting it to the whole world, but that is no longer a valid excuse.
• The first month is called Nissan , also known as Abib [because the barley was in the green ear phase, yet it has nothing to do with the actual determination of the first month]. The sighting of the new moon [First visible sliver by the naked eye], first new moon that falls closest to the vernal equinox, as long as Passover after the vernal equinox. 
• Passover [count 14 days from that visible moon], from this you can calculate unleavened [on the 15 day].
• Feast of Harvest also known as Feast of Weeks, First Fruits, and Pentecost. Count seven Sabbaths plus one day [50 days] from the day after the weekly Sabbath that occurs during Unleavened Bread. 
• Trumpets [1st day of the 7th month], Atonement [10th day of the 7th month], Tabernacles [15th day of the 7th month], and the Eight Day [eighth day after the start of Tabernacles] is determined by the visible new moon in the seventh month, or seventh new moon.
• No month can have more than 30 days in it.

Months in the Jewish Calendar

Month Names	Number of Days
Nisan	30
Iyar	29
Sivan	30
Tammuz	29
Av	30
Elul	29
Tishrei	30
Marcheshvan (Cheshvan)	29 or 30
Kislev	30 or 29
Tevet	29
Shevat	30
Adar	29

Equinoxes for Jerusalem 2023-2031

There are two equinoxes every year, in March and September, when the Sun shines directly on the equator, and the length of night and day are nearly equal.

The March equinox Marks the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above the Earth’s equator – from south to north and vice versa in September.

All times are local time for Jerusalem. Dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. Times adjusted for DST if applicable.

 

Year	March Equinox		March Equinox
2023	March 20	11:24 pm	2028	March 19 9:17 pm
2024	March 20	5:06 am	2029	March 20 10:02 am
2025	March 20	11:01 am	2030	March 20 3:51 pm
2026	March 20	4:45 pm	2031	March 20 9:41 pm
2027	March 20	10:24 pm	2032	March 19 08:21 pm