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Important dates on the Hebrew calendar.
Hebrew days start at sunset on the evening before the days listed - therefore some calendars show the dates one day earlier.
The calculated Jewish calendar (started in 359AD) is often inaccurate in setting the first day of the month on the actual astronomical new moon. Also, it sometimes does not predict the correct first month in the spring by incorrectly inserting a 13th month (or not) that is supposed to be based upon the ripeness of the barley.
1st month, 1st day (Nisan 1) (in the spring after barley is ripe)
- First day of creation account
- Adam & Eve created on 6th day
1st month, 14th day (Nisan 14)
- Passover (Pesach) (1st appointed day/time)
- Cain and Abel offer their sacrifices to God
- Start of the Exodus
- Daniel in the lion's den
- The Last Supper (evening before)
- Jesus was crucified
1st month, 15th day (Nisan 15)
- Festival of Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMatzot) (2nd appointed day/time)
- Sodom destroyed
- Moses saw the burning bush
- Manna ended
The Day after the first Sabbath after the 15th
- Day of Firstfruits (Yom Bikkerim) (3rd appointed day/time)
- Beginning of Barley harvest
- Israel crossed the Red Sea (Exodus 14)
- Israel eats the first fruits of the Promised Land (Joshua 5)
- Haman was hanged (Esther 3)
- Mordecai appointed chief minister replacing Haman
- Jesus/Yahshua was resurrected
- The first day of the omer count
1st month, 19th day (Nisan 19)
- Pharaoh set out in pursuit of the Jews
- Adolf Hitler made his first appearance
1st month, 21st day (Nisan 21
- The last day of Unleavened Bread
- The day Jericho fell
40th day of the omer count
- Ascension Day
- 40 days after Firstfruits/Resurrection
- The day Jesus ascended into the clouds
- Obviously not a day observed by the Jews
50th day of omer count
- Feast of Weeks (Shabuot) (4th appointed day/time)
- (called Pentecost, meaning 50th, in the New Testament)
- 50 days after Firstfruits
- End of Barley harvest - Beginning of Wheat harvest
- Enoch was taken (tradition)
- Moses was placed in the Nile (tradition)
- Moses received 10 Commandments (Exodus 19)
- Boaz redeemed Ruth after she laid at his feet the previous night
- King David was born and died at 70 (tradition)
- Holy Spirit given (Acts 2)
5th month, 1st day (Av 1)
5th month, 9th day (Av 9)
- Fast Day (Tisha B'Av)
- The day the 10 spies brought the bad report
- Exodus generation condemned to die in desert
- Solomon's temple, 1st temple destroyed
- 2nd temple destroyed
- Fall of Betar - 580,000 Jews die
- Expulsion from England in 1290
- Expulsion from Spain 1492
- Hitler's proclamation to kill the Jews in 1940
- First gas chamber turned on at Terblinka, Poland in 1942
- Israel evacuated the Gaza Strip in 2005
7th month, 1st day (Tishrei 1)
- Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) (5th appointed day/time)
- The feast that 'no man knows the day or the hour'
- Abraham binds Isaac for sacrifice
- Yom HaDin, Day of Judgment, The Opening of the Books (and Gates)
- Yom HaKeseh (The Hidden Day)
- Ha Kiddushin/Nesuin (Wedding of the Messiah)
- Ha Melech (Coronation of the Messiah)
- Beginning of 10 days of repentence
7th month, 10th day (Tishrei 10)
- Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) (6th appointed day/time)
- Day of Forgiveness
- Redemption
7th month, 15th day (Tishrei 15-21)
- Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) (7th appointed day/time)
- Rejoicing
- Yahshua's birthday on the 1st day
- He was circumcised on the 8th day
12th month, 14th day (Adar 14)
- Purim
- Esther saved the Jews (observed)
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