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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) does not follow the Torah instructions and is usually 1 or 2 days earlier than the correct days based on the months starting on the sighting of the first sliver of the moon in Jerusalem.

12th month, 14th day (Adar 14)

• Purim
• Esther saved the Jews (observed)

1st month, 14th day (Nisan 14)

• Passover (Pesach)
• 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)
• Sodom destroyed
• Moses saw the burning bush
• Manna ended

Day after Sabbath after the 15th

• Day of 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/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 (Shavuot) [Pentecost]
• 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)

5th month, 1st day (Av 1)

• Aaron died at 123

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)

• Yom Teruah - Feast of Trumpets
• The feast that 'know man 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

7th month, 10th day (Tishrei 10)

• Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
• Day of Forgiveness
• Redemption

7th month, 15th day (Tishrei 15-21)

• Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
• Rejoicing
• Yahshua's birthday on the 1st day
• He was circumcised on the 8th day

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