Advancing the Revelation of Truth
There follows an extract from the magazine LAMP AND LIGHT issued for the months January and February 2014. It is published by the Christian Charity:
The Society for Distributing Hebrew Scriptures.
The International Office is at: Joseph House, 1, Bury Mead Road, Hitchin, Hertfordshire SG5 1RT.
Each year a calendar is published giving the Hebrew dates of the Jewish Festivals. These dates are based upon the phases of the moon and therefore differ each year from those of the Gregorian Calendar. Some Festivals have been introduced after the conclusion of the Hebrew Scriptures.
MONTH FESTIVAL REFERENCE
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Shebat 15 Tu ’Shvat New Year forTrees
[January 16]
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Adar 14-15 Purim A part or portion
[March16] Esther ch.9
When Esther came before the king he commanded by letters that Haman’s wicked device, which he devised against the Jews should return upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged upon the gallows. Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur.
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Nisan 14-22 Passover Exodus 12
[April 15-22]
In the tenth day of Abib they shall take to them every man a lamb according to the house of their fathers and you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses…….and you shall eat it with your .loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s Passover.
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Nisan 27 Yom HaShoah Holocaust
[April 28] Remembrance Day
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Sivan 6-7 Shavuot Feast of Weeks
[June 4-5] Exodus 34:22
Thou shalt observe the Feast of Weeks, of the first fruits of Wheat Harvest, and the feast of ingathering the year’s end.
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Av 9 Tisha B’Av Destruction of
[August 5] The Temple
In the fifth month on the seventh day which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: and he burnt the house of the Lord,……..And all the army of the Chaldees which were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
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Tishri 1 Rosh HaShanah New Year 5774
[September 25-26] Numbers 28:1-6
And the Lord spake unto Moses saying, Command the children of Israel and say unto them My offering and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season. And you shall say unto them; This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer unto The Lord; two lambs of the first year without spot day by day for a continual burnt offering.
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Tishri 10 Yom Kippur Day of Atonement
[October 4 ] Leviticus 29
Numbers 29:7-11
On the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a Day of Atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto The Lord.
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Tishri 15 Succoth Feast of Tabernacles
[October 9-10] Numbers 29:12-16
And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work, and you shall keep a feast unto The Lord seven days:……...
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Tishri 23 Simchat Torah Rejoicing The Law
[October 17]
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Kislev 25 Hannukah Feast of Lights
[December 17]