SACRED MONTH CIVIL SCRIPTURE COMMENTS FEASTS
Abib/Nisan Mar/Apr
(30)		 Ethanim
/Tishri		 Ex 12:4; 13:4; 
Esth 3:7		 Sprouting,
budding mo		 *NISAN 10 LAMB CHOSEN (Exodus 12:3-4)

*NISAN 14 PASSOVER (Lev 23:5; Deut 16:1-2) Pesach
+Significance: Israel's deliverance out of Egyptian bondage
+Ta'anit Bechorim - A fast observed only by the first born. Commemorates being spared from the last plague of Egypt

*NISAN 15-21UNLEAVENED BREAD (Lev 23:9-14; Num28:26) Hag HaMatzah
+Giving first fruits to the Lord
+Significance: The going out of Egypt
+Both the 15th and 21st are Sabbaths

*NISAN 17 FIRST FRUITS Observed during the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Barley Harvest)
+Significance: Crossing the Red Sea
+Sheaves of Barley are waved before the Lord
+Coincides with the Latter Rain (Joel 2:23)

Zif//Jiar,
Iyyar		 Apr/May
(29)		 Bul
/Cheshvan		 1 Kgs 6:1 Blossom mo *IYYAR 15 "SECOND" OR "LITTLE" PASSOVER Pesach Sheni

*IYYAR 18 Lag-le-Omer, 33rd day "counting the omer" from Nisan 15
Sivan May/Jun
(30)		 Chislev Esth 8:9 Third mo *SIVAN PENTECOST 50 days after Nisan 21 (Lev 23:15-21; Ex 34:22) Shavuot Festival of Weeks Feast of First Fruits
+Significance: Giving the Torah at Mount Sinai
+Wave Offering (corn)
Tammuz Jun/Jul
(29)		 Tevet Jer 39:2 Not in Bible *TAMMUZ 17 Shiv'a asar b' Tammuz
+Fast day, not Feast day
+First breach in the walls of Jerusalem during the Babylonian siege (9th) by Titus (17th)
+Temple desecrated, destroyed
Av,Ab Jul/Aug
(30)		 Shebat Num 33:38; 
Zech 7:3		 Not in Bible AV 9 Tish'a b'Av 
+Three-fold Fast day, not Feast day 
+Destruction of the Temple City
Elul Aug/Sep
(29)		 Adar Neh 6:15 Gleaning mo ELUL 1-29 Teshuva
+Trumpets blow every weekday morning
+No trumpet the day before Tishri 1 
+Warnings, repentance (Psalm 27) (Zephaniah 2:1-3)
+"The King in the Fields"
+Moses 3rd journey up Sinai (40 nights) 
Ethanim
/Tishri		 Sep/Oct
(30)		 Abib
/Nisan		 1 Kgs 8:2 Perennial
/Seventh mo		 *TISHRI 1 Day of the Lord (Zeph 1:16)
+A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities

*TISHRI 1-2 FEAST OF TRUMPETS "Rosh Hashanah" Day of Blowing" "Yom Teruah" "Yom HaKeseh" (Joel 2:15-16; Matthew 24:27-31) "The Last Trump"=Teki'ah Gedolah, "The Great Blowing"
+These two days are counted as one day
+"The Hidden Day" "The Day of Hiding" (Psalm 27:5) "Yom HaKeseh
+Significance: Blowing the Shofar/Jewish New Year
+Call people to get ready to repent (Lev 23:23-25; Num 29:1)
+God opens the books on this day and will decide who gets written in the Book of Life on Tishri 1: "May you be inscribed in the Book of Life for good" (leshana tova tikatevu, but He reserves final judgment until the Day of Atonement.Day for repentance and asking to be put in Book of Life
+The gates of heaven are said to be opened on this day (Isaiah 26:1-2; Psalm 118: 19-24)

*TISHRI 3-9 plus 2 days of Feast of Trumpets Ten Days of Awe "Yamim Noraim"
+These 10 days end on the Day of Atonement
+These ten days plus the month of Elul equals the 40 days Moses was on the mountain and make up the rest of Teshuva

*TISHRI 10 DAY OF ATONEMENT (Lev 23:23-32) "Yom Kippur" "The Great Fast" "That Day"
+Significance: Priest entered the Holy of Holies Cleansing of the people's sins
+Judgment: "May you be sealed in the Book of Life for good" (g'mar chatima tova). God (Judge) closes the books on this day.
+The Lord will set His foot down on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4).
+JUBILEE YEAR (when appropriate) also falls on this day (Lev. 25:8-10), when the Great Trump is blown (Lev 25:9-10; Matt 24:30-31; Is. 27:12-13). The shofar is blown only once at the end of the 24-hour fast.
+This is also when Christ restores all things (Acts 3:19-21) (see Matt 25:31 Christ judges on His throne; see also Zechariah 14:16).
+Azazel the scapegoat
+"Face to Face"
+Name put on
+High Priest enters the veil
+High Priest washes Himself with water
+Bodies of animal outside the camp
+Holy Linen Garments, bloodstained and then white
+Many sacrfices offered
+"Life for a life"
+The Golden Censor
+"Neilah: The Closing of the Gates of Heaven"
+The Priesthood, the sanctuary, and Israel as a nation are cleansed (Lev 16:29-34)

*TISHRI 15 FEAST OF TABERNACLES "Succoth" "Feast of the Ingathering" "Feast of Booths" (Lev 23:34,42)
+Significance: Entering the Promised Land/Great Rejoicing
+Solomon dedicated his temple (1 Kgs. 3; 8:27).
+Final harvest, (Lev 23:23-32) 

*TISHRI 16 Last Great Day

*TISHRI 22 "Last Great Day" Shemini Atzeret
+Final day of Tabernacles, +8th day of assembly during Tabernacles
+Prayer for rain (Lev 23:36)
+Staging ground for new beginning
+"Simchat Tora" rejoicing 
+Last reading of Torah, then start anew
Bul
/Cheshvan		 Oct/Nov
(29 30)		 Ziv/Iyyar 1 Kgs 6:38 Rain
/Eighth mo		 *Solomon completed building the house of the Lord - no date
Kislev Nov/.Dec
(30 29)		 Sivan Neh 1:1; 
Zech 7:1		 The Hunter
/Ninth mo		 *KISLEV 25 Hannakka
+The date Antiochus desecrated the Temple
+The date the Maccabees freed Jerusalem from Greek rule
Tevet Dec/Jan
(29)		 Tammuz Esth 2:16 Winter/Tenth *TEVET 10 Asara b'Tevet
+"Fast day
+"Beginning of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem
Shebat Jan/Feb
(30)		 Ab Zech 1:7 Eleventh mo
Adar Feb/Mar
(30)		 Elul Esth 8;12 Fire/Twelfth mo *ADAR 13 Fast of Esther "Ta'anit Ester" "Feats of Haman"

*ADAR 14 or 15: Purim "Feast of Lots"

Contributed by Ed Tarkowski