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HEBREW CALENDAR & THE SPRING FEASTS

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

AUG

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

JAN

FEB

MAR

10

11

12

NISAN

IYAR

SIVAN

TAMMUZ

AV

ELUL

TISHREI

HESHVAN

KISLEV

TEVET

SHEVAT

ADAR

Season for the SPRING FEASTS

(1.Passover, 2.Unleavened Bread, 3.First Fruits, 4.Pentecost)

The Spring Feasts are celebrated beginning in the Hebrew month of Nisan (1st month) and ending in the month of Sivan (3th month).
These months correspond with Mar/Apr and May/Jun on the Gregorian calendar. Please note that a Jewish day starts at sundown.

MARCH

APRIL

10

MAY

JUNE

NISAN

IYAR

SIVAN

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

25

30 1

10

15

20

25

30 1

5 6 7

10

15

20

25

30

49 Days (Omer Count)

1. PASSOVER / PESACH
14th Nisan
Towards the end of this day at twilight, a year-old male lamb
without blemish is slaughtered and the blood smeared on all the
three sides of the doorframe, top, right and left; This is a clear
picture of the sacrifice that Jesus the Messiah later made when He
died on this day as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of
the world. The Passover Seder (service) occurs on this evening of
14th Nisan, which then becomes 15th Nisan during the Seder
ceremony at sundown. This agrees with the commandment given
in the Torah, In the first month, from the 14th day of the month at
evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the 21st day of the
month at evening. Exodus 12:6, Exodus 12:18, John 1:29

2. UNLEAVEND BREAD

3. FIRST FRUITS

15th - 21st Nisan (7 Days)

16th Nisan

The meat of the passover lamb slaughtered shortly before

sundown is roasted with fire and eaten with unleavened bread
(matzah) and bitter herbs (maror) on this evening. The meal is
eaten in haste to signify how the Jews were in a rush to ready
themselves so as to begin the journey immediately after God
smote the firstborns of the Egyptian household on that same
evening at midnight. The angel of death passed over the
Israelites household and spared their first borns because they
were protected by the blood of the lamb. Only unleavened
bread (matzah) is eaten for 7 days beginning on the 15th day
and ending on 21st day at the evening. The removal of leaven
(chametz) is a metaphor of sanctification as leaven is symbolic
of sin. The first day (15th Nisan) and seventh day (21st Nisan) of
this feast are Sabbaths and holy days of assembly in which
ordinary work is forbidden. Exodus 12:15, Exodus 12:16-18

This is the day following the first day of unleavened bread and
is also called beginning of the harvest where a sheaf (omer)
of ripened barley (the first grain crop to ripen) is waved by the
priest (North, South, East, then West) before the Lord, a
year-old male lamb without blemish is sacrificed along with a
minchah (unleavened bread mixed with oil) and wine to mark
the start of the counting of the omer thereby initiating the
49-day countdown to the harvest festival of Pentecost
(Shavuot). Only after the wave offering is performed, can the
crop begin to be used. These first fruits are symbolic of Jesus as
He fulfilled this feast when He was raised from the dead by God
and became the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Jesus resurrection was like a "wave offering" presented before
the Father as the "firstfruits" of the harvest to come!
Lev. 23:9-12, Lev. 23:13, Lev. 23:14, 1 Cor. 15:20-23

4. PENTECOST / SHAVUOT
6th Sivan
This is the day that God gave Moses the Torah at Mt. Sinai. It is
exactly 7 weeks (49 days) counting from the day after the Feast of
First Fruits. This period of 49 days (between 17th Nisan and 5th
Sivan) called counting of the omer culminates with the feast
being observed on the 50th day, hence the name Pentecost (also
referred to as the Feast of Weeks). It is a Sabbath and no ordinary
work is permitted. Just as a sample of the first crop of ripened
barley is waved before the Lord on the Feast of First Fruits, so on
Pentecost a sample of the first crop of ripened wheat is brought to
the priest, baked in 2 loaves of leavened bread and waved before
the altar. This is the only time leavened bread is used by the
priests in such a manner. It is on this day that the Holy Spirit
(Ruach HaKodesh) descended from heaven onto the disciples and
it is considered to be the day the Church was born. Lev. 2:11, Lev.
23: 15-20, Ex. 19:1