OVERVIEW OF JEWISH FESTIVALS
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SPRING FESTIVALS |
FALL FESTIVALS |
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NAME |
Rosh |
Purim |
Pessach |
Unleavened |
First |
the Omer |
Shavuoth |
Rosh |
Yom Kippur (Atonement) |
Sukkoth (Booths) |
Simchat Torah (the Torah) |
Hanukkah |
NOTES |
Not a “high holy day” |
Not a “high holy day” |
Pilgrimage Festival |
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Done during the Omer |
Not a “high holy day” |
Pilgrimage Festival |
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Pilgrimage Festival |
Last day of Sukkoth |
Not a “high holy day” |
CELEBRATE |
Not used today. Since the advent of modern Astronomy. |
Joyous feast to remember Esther’s victory. |
Slaying of the Passover Lamb. Passover Dinner. |
Seven days following Passover. No leavened bread eaten. |
Bringing the first fruits (barley) to wave before the Lord. |
50 days of counting for Shavuoth. A time of denying ones self. |
Celebrating the harvest. This is at the end of all of the harvests being in. |
Blowing of Shofar. Throwing rocks - to represent our sins into the ocean. |
Fasting. Giving to the poor. High priest going into the Holy of Holies. |
Stay in temporary dwellings for 7 days. Booths are decorated with fruit, etc. |
Parade led by the Torah. |
Lighting of the Hanukkah menorah for eight nights. |
OLD TESTAMENT |
Used to establish the beginning of the religious calendar. - Creation |
Book of Esther. Salvation of the race of the Jews. |
When the Angel of Death passed over the people of Israel. 10th plague in Exodus. |
Travel in the wilderness. God providing manna (“what is it”) to eat for 40 years. |
Entering the promised land. Giving first to God. |
Traveling in the wilderness for 40 years. |
Giving of the law to Moses on Mt. Sinai. |
Entering the chosen land. |
Going through the red sea. |
40 years spent in the wilderness. God providing for them during that time. |
Giving of the law, setting aside the Jewish people as God’s chosen people. |
Book of Macabees. Salvation of the Jewish religion. |
NEW TESTAMENT |
Birth of Jesus. All celebration is around His work on the earth. |
Jesus is the kinsman-redeemer. |
Jesus is the true Passover Lamb. Everything in Passover points toward Him. |
Jesus was without leaven (sin). We are to live our lives without sin. |
Jesus is the first fruit, as the “firstborn of many” |
Jesus’ time in the wilderness after being baptized by John. |
The coming of the Holy Spirit. |
the Rapture. |
Washing away of our sins by the blood of Jesus. We are given a new garment - white/spotless. |
The seven years of the church being in heaven during the tribulation. The “hoopah” |
The marriage supper of the lamb. |
New heaven and new earth. |
AS JESUS |
FIRST COMING OF CHRIST |
SECOND COMING OF CHRIST |
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ESTABLISHED BY |
Rabbis |
Book of Esther |
God |
God |
God |
God |
God |
God |
God |
God |
God |
Book of Macabees |
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