Jewish Calendar with major holidays

The Jewish Calendar 2020 or Year 5780 - Summary of the Seven Feasts and others

Note that for a Jew the dates do not change - for example Chanukkah is the 25th of Kislev (9th month). What does change is the day in relation to the sun, because the Jewish calendar is not in sync with the sun, and hence the date in respect to the Gregorian calendar (which most in the world uses) does change. In this table the date is the date of commencement of the feast/holiday at sunset.

Year 5780 (2020)	Description	Verse	Synopsis
Sunset 9 March – nightfall 10 March	Purim	Esther 9	Celebration of the providence of God over his people on the eve of their planned destruction.
Sunset 8 April – nightfall 16 April	Passover (Pesach)	Leviticus 23:4-8 Deut 16:6 Exodus 6:6-7 Exodus 11-12	A people under bondage requiring rescuing: Egypt The Lamb The Blood The Passover feast
	Jesus Christ our Passover lamb	1 Cor 5:7 Heb 4:15 2 Cor 6:16	The antitype: Our Lamb Our priest, Our sacrifice
	Unleavened Bread	Deut 16:3 1 Cor 5:7-8	Unleavened bread for 7 days Feast for the redeemed Old leaven and new A type of the life of a believer – communion of saints
	First fruits (the wave sheaf)	Lev 23:9-14 Num 18:12 Exodus 23:19	The first fruits of the harvest is the Lords The land flowing with milk and honey Type: Christ resurrected
	Christ the First Fruits	1 Cor 15:20 1 Cor 15:23	What must we do to be saved ( Acts 16:30) Hope in Jesus Christ, risen from amongst the dead The sufficiency of Christ's sacrifice found in the sheaf of first fruits, waved
Sunset 28 May - nightfall 30 May	The feast of Weeks (Shavuot)	Leviticus 23:15-22 Ex 23:16 Num 28:26	The feast of weeks (festival of Revelation) Two wave loaves The leaven, but baked The timing of the feast, a voluntary offering
	Pentecost	Acts 2:1 Galatians 3:28 Acts 15:14 Rom 11:25	We are all one in Christ Jesus – there is neither Jew nor Greek… The Holy Spirit The mystery of God revealed in the Church The present interval - Summer
Sunset 18 September – nightfall 20 September	The feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)	Lev 23:24-25 Num 29:1 Isaiah 18:3 John 12:24 Acts 15:14 Rom 11:25	The present interval – the day of Grace. A time of little rain. Jews return to their land The time to come – ever present with the Lord
	A great sound of a Trumpet	Matt 24:31 1 Cor 15:51-52 1 Thess 4:16	The type - the day of rain, The type – trumpets The awakening of Israel The coming of the Lord
Sunset 27 September - nightfall 28 September	Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)	Leviticus 16; 23:26-32 Numbers 29:7	The types in the atonement. The holiest place The sacrifices
	Christ offered once	Hebrews 9:28 Hebrews 5, 7 & 10	Repentance of Jews The superiority of Christ over the law 'Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world"
Sunset 2 October - nightfall 9 October	Tabernacles (Sukkot)	Deut 16:13 Lev 23:27 Matt 6:10 Rev 14:14-20	Millennium - a time of joy and rejoicing The corn, The wine, The wrath of God
Sunset 9 October - nightfall 11 October	} Shemini Atzeret	} Other Jewish, non-sacred feasts e.g. Rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem
Sunset 9 October - nightfall 11 October	} Simchat Torah
Sunset 10 December - nightfall 18 December	Chanukah
2020 dates from < http://www.chabad.org/holidays/default_cdo/jewish/holidays.htm >

Feast Cycle and Calendar arrangement

March/April		May/June			Aug	Sept/Oct		Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb
Early rain		The long hot Summer				Late rain
Nisan	Iyar	Sivan	Tamuz	Ab	Elul	Tishrei	Chesvan	Kislev	Tevet	Shebat	Adar
Abib^†	Ziv	Sivan	Tammuz	Av	Elul	Ethanim	Bul	Kislev	Tebeth	Shevat	Adar
Passover (14) Unleavened Bread (15-21)* Firstfruits (16)		Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) (6)*				Trumpets (Jewish New Year) (1) Day of Atonement (10) Tabernacles (15-21)*
() Gives the day of month the Feast commences (at sunset) *All men had to attend in Jerusalem (Deut 16¹⁶, Ex 23¹⁴) ^†Some alternative names/spellings for the months of the Hebrew calendar

David L Simon 2015
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