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Understanding the Appointed Times

This section of the web site provides general information about the most significant mo'edim (or "appointed times") that are important to Jews all over the world. All of the Biblical mo'edim are prophetic and reveal great truth about the plans and counsel of the Adonai Adonai of Israel.

Note: For Jews living outside Israel, major Jewish holidays (except for Yom Kippur) are often observed for an additional day (called yom tov sheni).

The Holidays: Weekly, Monthly, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, Fast Days

The Jewish Day

Since the Jewish day (yom) begins at sundown, you must remember that a Jewish holiday actually begins on the night before the day listed in a Jewish calendar. For example, Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) occurs on Nisan 27, which actually begins after sundown, Nisan 26:

Thus a given Jewish holiday spans two days on our Gregorian calendar. Most Jewish calendars do not indicate the previous night as part of the holiday. Observance of a holiday begins at sundown on the day before it is listed in the calendar!

In the example above, Yom HaShoah is observed both on Thursday the 5th (after sundown) and Friday the 6th (during daylight hours).

Note that if a Jewish holiday were to occur on a Sabbath, it would be moved to the previous Thursday on the calendar. For example, if Nisan 27 happened to begin on Friday at sundown, it would be moved to Nisan 26. Accessing a current Jewish calendar is essential to observing the mo'edim!

Weekly Mo'edim

The Jewish week (shavu'a) begins on Sunday and ends on Saturday (Shabbat). The Jewish sages have argued that Shabbat is the most important of the mo'edim, since it is explicitly commanded to be observed in the Aseret HaDiberot (Ten Commandments).

The Sabbath foreshadows the olam habah (world to come) and our restored dignity as children of the New Covenant.
Weekly Torah Readings are considered appointments with the Bat Kol, the Voice of the Adonai.

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Monthly Mo'edim

The Hebrew calendar is a lunar one, and Rosh Chodesh ("Head of the Month") symbolizes the renewal of the new moon (month), when the moon appears as a sliver in the sky. Rosh Chodesh is marked by special liturgy.

Rosh Chodesh symbolizes renewal and restoration. Just as the moon wanes and disappears at the end of each month, but returns and waxes again to fullness, so we suffer until the return of our beloved Mashiach Yahushua, who will restore the glory of Adonai fully upon the earth.

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Spring Mo'edim

Spring is the start of the Biblical Year and is marked by two of the Shelosh Regalim (three annual pilgrimage festivals): Pesach (Passover) and Shavu'ot (Pentecost). Shavu'ot is held seven weeks (or fifty days) following the morning after Pesach.

The Spring feasts clearly reveal the first coming of Yahushua our Mashiach:

Rosh Chodashim - The Biblical New Year [Nisan 1]
Preparing for Passover - Spring Cleaning
Shabbat HaGadol - The Shabbat preceding Passover
Ta'anit Bechorim - Fast of the firstborn son [Nisan 14]
Bedikat Chametz - The Search for Chametz [Nisan 14]
Passover (Pesach) - Celebration of freedom (Major Holiday)
The Passover Seder [Nisan 15 (evening of the 14th)]
Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMatzot) - Messiah's Burial [Nisan 15-22]
Sefirat HaOmer - Counting the Omer [Nisan 16- Sivan 5]; the countdown to Shavu'ot.
Firstfruits (Reishit Katzir) - Messiah's Resurrection; [Nisan 17]
Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Memorial Day [Nisan 27]
Yom Hazikaron - Israel Memorial Day [Iyyar 4th]
Yom Ha'atzma'ut - Israel Independence Day [Iyyar 5th]
Lag B'Omer - 33rd day of the Omer [Iyyar 18]
Mem B'Omer - Holiday of the Ascension [Iyyar 25]
Yom Yerushalayim - Jerusalem Reunification Day [Iyyar 28th]
Pentecost (Shavu'ot) - The giving of the Torah at Sinai
the giving of the Ruach HaKoddesh to the Ecclesia [Sivan 6-7] (Major Holiday)

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Summer Mo'edim

In the summer there occurs a three week period of mourning that begins with the Fast of Tammuz and ends after Tish'ah B'Av (during July/August). However, after this sad time, the romantic day of Tu B'Av, the 15th of Av occurs. Originally a post-biblical day of joy, it served as a matchmaking day for unmarried women in the second Temple period (before the fall of Yerusalem in 70 C.E.):

Fast of the 17th of Tammuz - Start of the three weeks of sorrow [Tammuz 17]
Tish'ah B'Av (Summer) Last day of the three weeks of sorrow [Av 9]
Tu B'Av - Harvest and Romance [Av 15]

The Jewish civil year begins in the Fall (though the Biblical year begins in Spring). Preparations for the Fall Holidays begin with a thirty day period of repentance during the entire month of Elul. The following ten days begin with the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah, on Tishri 1) and end with the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur, on Tishri 10). These first ten days of the new year are called the Ten Days of Awe (aseret y'mei nora'im).

The Fall Feasts reveal the rapture of the kellat Mashiach (Bride of Yahushua), the second coming of Yahushua the Mashiach and the national conversion of Israel, Adonai's original-covenant people, and - especially in Sukkot - the final restoration of the earth in the olam habah (world to come):

Elul and Selichot - preparing for teshuvah
Yamim Nora'im (Days of Awe):
Rosh Hashanah and Trumpets (Yom Teru'ah) [Tishri 1] - The rapture of the kellat
Mashiach (i.e., the ecclesia or Bride of Yahushua).
Tzom Gedaliah (Fall) [Tishri 3]
Day of Atonment (Yom Kippur) - [Tishri 10] Israel's national salvation
Tabernacles (Sukkot) - [Tishri 15-21] A picture of the millennial kingdom
Hoshana Rabbah - [Tishri 21] The seventh day of Sukkot
Shemini Atzeret - [Tishri 22] The 8th day of assembly following Sukkot
Simchat Torah - [Tishri 23] Celebration of the giving of the Torah

The winter mo'edim are scripturally based times when the Adonai acted on behalf of His people so that they would triumph over their enemies.

Chanukah (Dedication) [Kislev 25 - Tevet 3]
Asarah B'Tevet [Tevet 10]
Tu B'Shevat [Shevat 15] - The New Year for trees
International Holocaust Remembrance Day (Jan. 27th)
The Fast of Esther [Adar 13]
Purim (Lots) [Adar 14]

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National Holidays of Israel

Since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, the Chief Rebbenate of Israel has established four new Jewish holidays (three of which occur in the month of Iyyar (Apr/May):

Yom HaShoah - Holocaust Memorial Day [Nisan 27]
Yom Hazikaron - Israel Memorial Day [Iyyar 4th]
Yom Ha'atzmaut - Israel Independence Day [Iyyar 5th]
Yom Yerushalayim - Jerusalem Reunification Day [Iyyar 28th]

Fast Days (Tzomim)

In addition to Yom Kippur, The Talmud (Tractate Rosh Hashana 18b) discusses four fast days (based on Zechariah 8:19) that commemorate the destruction of the First and Second Temples and the exile of the Jewish People from their homeland. In addition, two other fast days are mentioned in the Rebbenical literature, yielding a total of six tzomot (seven if Yom Kippur is included).

Fast Days of the Jewish Year

Yom Teruah
Yom Teruah scripture reading
Shabbatt Shuvah
Shabbat Shuvah scripture reading
Yom Kippur Moedim
Yom Kippur
Sukkot
Sukkot
Simchat Torah moedim
Simchat Torah scripture readiing
Hanukkah Moedim
Hanukkah Moedim
Shekalim
Shekalim scripture reading
Zakor
Zakor scripture reading
Purim parah
Purim parah scripture reading
Ha Hodesh
Ha Hodesh scripture reading
Ha Gadol Shabbat
Ha Gadol Shabbat scripture reading
Pesach moedim
Pesach moedim
Shavuot moedim
Shavuot moedim
Tish'ah B'av Moedim
Tish'ah B'av Moedim scripture reading
Other feasts
Other feasts scripture reading
Shabbat and Rosh Chodosh
Shabbat and Rosh Chodosh scripture reading
Shabbat preceeding Rosh Chodosh
Shabbat preceeding Rosh Chodosh scripture reading

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