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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)

• Rosh Hashanah - day 2

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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