The seven appointed times of Leviticus 23 — Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Shavuot, the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot — plus the weekly Shabbat and the new moon, with sunset-aware local times. Free.
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Leviticus 23 lists seven appointed times — in Hebrew, the mo'edim — that God set into the year as "holy convocations." They fall in two clusters: the spring feasts (Passover through Shavuot) and the autumn feasts (Trumpets through Tabernacles), with the weekly Shabbat named first as the foundation of them all. These are the festivals ancient Israel kept and that Yeshua observed.
The seventh-day rest, named first among the appointed times. From sunset Friday to sunset Saturday, it commemorates Creation and the Exodus — a weekly sign of the covenant.
The 14th of Nisan at twilight. The lamb's blood on the doorpost, the night the LORD passed over Israel in Egypt and brought them out of bondage.
Seven days beginning 15 Nisan. Israel ate bread with no time to rise — the bread of affliction and of haste, eaten as a people in the act of leaving.
The first sheaf of the spring barley harvest waved before God. The first Sunday on or after 15 Nisan — the day the Omer count to Shavuot begins.
Fifty days after Firstfruits, always on a Sunday. The wheat harvest and, by tradition, the giving of the Torah at Sinai — and the giving of the Spirit in Acts 2.
The 1st of the seventh month (Tishrei). A day of rest and the sounding of the shofar — the memorial blast, the Day of Judgment, later called Rosh Hashanah.
The 10th of Tishrei. The Sabbath of Sabbaths — a day of fasting, affliction of the soul, and the High Priest's atonement for all Israel in the Most Holy Place.
Seven days from 15 Tishrei. Dwelling in booths to recall the wilderness — the harvest festival of joy, and the feast Zechariah says all nations will keep.
The renewal of the moon that begins each Hebrew month. The word for "month" (chodesh) comes from "new" (chadash) — the monthly marker of God's appointed times.
This calendar is rooted in what the ancient Israelites and Yeshua actually observed — the seven appointed times (Mo'edim) of Leviticus 23, the weekly Shabbat, and the new moon (Rosh Chodesh). Days begin and end at sunset, not midnight, as in Scripture: "there was evening and there was morning" (Genesis 1:5). Enable location for accurate local sunset times.
Firstfruits and Shavuot follow the Sadducee/Karaite reading of Leviticus 23:11 — Firstfruits falls on the first Sunday on or after 15 Nisan (the "day after the Sabbath" = the weekly Sabbath), and Shavuot is 50 days later, always on a Sunday. This is the method that places the giving of the Spirit at Acts 2 on a Sunday, consistent with the apostolic witness.
Purim (Esther 9:21) and Hanukkah (John 10:22 — Yeshua at the Feast of Dedication) are included as pre-Nicene observances with direct scriptural grounding. Post-Temple rabbinic additions and modern Israeli civil holidays are not included.
New moon dates are calculated astronomically from the mean synodic month (29.53058867 days). Ancient Israel used both calculation and the sighted crescent — the new month was declared when witnesses in Jerusalem confirmed seeing the first crescent after conjunction. Explore the 613 commandments tied to these appointed times, or read the feasts in the Torah Reader.
