Jewish Calendar

Based on Rose Guide to the Tabernacle. There are ways to create pie/doughnut calendar charts on excel, etc., but I do not have the time now.

However, I believe that such pie chart is the best representation of the Jewish Calendar.

Nisan (Mar-Apr)    Iyar (Apr-May)    Sivan (May-Jun)    Tammuz (Jun-Jul)
Av (Jul-Aug)    Elul (Aug-Sep)    Tishri (Sep-Oct)    Heshvan (Oct-Nov)
Kislev (Nov-Dec)    Tevet (Dec-Jan)    Shevat (Jan-Feb)    Adar (Feb-Mar)

  • Nisan marks the Ecclesiastical New Year.
  • Tishri marks the Civil New Year.

I shall just list the festivals here:

Passover/Pesach
- Nisan 14

Feast of Unleavened Bread/Chag ha‐Matzah
- Nisan 15

Firstfruits/The Beginning of the Harvest/Reshit Katzir
- Nisan 16
- Beginning of Omer (sheaf of the new barley), 49 days toward Pentecost.
- Resurection of Christ

Feast of Weeks/Pentecost/Feast of First Fruits/Shavu'ot
- Sivan 6
- Birth of the Church

Feast of Trumpets/Jewish New Year/Rosh Hashanah
- Tishri 1

Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur
- Tishri 10

Feast of Tabernacles/Booths/Sukkoth
- Tishri 15

Assembly of the Eighth Day (Shemini Atzeret)/
Rejoicing in the Torah (Simchat Torah)
- Tishri 22/23

Feast of Dedication/Hanukkah
- Kislev 25

Feast of Lots/Purim
- Adar 14

 

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