Feasts

Now is the time to begin planning for the Spring Feasts. The end of the calendar year is when many will need to let employers know the days they need off for next year.

The secular world knows this name, which is on most calendars. Religious Jews including the majority in Messianic Judaism call it by this name. Is it correct?

As believers in Yeshua, we understand the Appointed Times, present a picture of the Messiah. So It is important to keep Yeshua as the focus of our celebrations.

Here are the Gregorian dates for the Biblical Feasts in 2022.
Feast dates are based on the Jewish (Hillel) calendar.
All observances except Passover begin the prior evening.

The Feast of First Fruits as a common designation among Messianic followers of Yeshua for a day described only in Leviticus 23:10-11. Also called the Day of the Wave Sheaf, it is not given a specific calendar date in Scripture.

Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread are inseparable. The term “Passover” is sometimes used to refer to the evening of Passover and the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread together.

Here is a lightweight, easy to assemble Sukkah you can build yourself. It ls also easy to disassemble and store, the use again next year!

Yom Teruah, or Rosh Hashanah, is celebrated on the first day of the seventh Biblical month, Tishrei. This year it falls on Thursday, October 3, 2024.

The Feast of Shavuot, or Feast of Weeks, is celebrated in late spring at the time of the early wheat harvest in Israel. The exact Hebrew date is not specified in Scripture. Shavuot is at the end of a period of counting fifty days, or seven weeks – thus the name Shavuot, a Hebrew word meaning “weeks,” or Pentecost, from a Greek word meaning “fiftieth.”