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Important dates on the Hebrew calendar.
Hebrew days start at 6 PM on the evening before the dates listed.
Because of this many Jewish calendars show their dates one day earlier.
2009 March 10 Tuesday, (Adar 14, 5769)
- Purim
- Esther saved the Jews (observed)
2009 April 8 Wednesday, (Abib/Nisan 14, 5769)
- Reciting of Birkas haChama (every 28 years)
2009 April 9 Thursday, (Abib/Nisan 15, 5769)
- Passover (Pesach) Chag he-Aviv - Festival of Spring
- 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
2009 April 10 Friday, (Abib/Nisan 16, 5769)
- Feast of Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMatzot)
- Sodom destroyed
- Moses saw the burning bush
- Manna ends
2009 April 12 Sunday, (Abib/Nisan 18, 5769)
- Firstfruits (Yom Bikkerim) 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 was resurrected
- Resurrection Day (Easter)
2009 April 13 Monday, (Abib/Nisan 19, 5769)
- Pharaoh set out in pursuit of the Jews
- Adolf Hitler made his first appearance
2009 April 16 Thursday, (Abib/Nisan 21, 5769)
- The last day of Unleavened Bread
- The day Jericho fell
2009 May 21 Thursday, (Iyyar 27, 5769)
- Ascension Day
- 40 days after Firstfruits/Resurrection
- The day Jesus ascended into the clouds
- Obviously not a day observed by the Jews
2009 May 29 Friday, (Sivan 6, 5769)
- Jewish Pentecost (Shavuot - Feast of Harvest)
- 50 days after Passover
2009 May 31 Sunday, (Sivan 8, 5769)
- Levitical Pentecost (Shavuot - Feast of Harvest)
- 50 days after Firstfruits
- End of Barley harvest - Beginning of Wheat harvest
- Moses received 10 Commandments (Exodus 19)
- King David died at 70
- Holy Spirit given (Acts 2)
2009 July 19 Sunday, (Tammuz 27, 5769)
- Alternate Pentecost (Shavuot - Feast of Harvest)
- 50 days after 7 Sabbaths after Firstfruits
2009 July 22 Wednesday, (Av 1, 5769)
- Rosh Chodesh
- Aaron died at 123
2009 July 30 Thursday, (Av 9, 5769)
- Fast Day (Tisha B'Av)
- Exodus generation condemned to die in desert
- Both 1st & 2nd temples 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
2009 September 19 Saturday, (Tishrei 1, 5770)
- Rosh Hashanah (Yom Teruah) Feast of Trumpets
- The feast that 'know one knows the day or the hour'
- Adam & Eve created
- 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
2009 September 20 Sunday, (Tishrei 2, 5770)
2009 September 28 Monday, (Tishrei 10, 5770)
- Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
- Day of Forgiveness
- Redemption
2009 October 3-9 Saturday, (Tishrei 15-21, 5770)
- Feast of Tabernacles (Succot)
- Rejoicing
- Jesus's birthday on the 1st day
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