Biblical and Jewish Holidays
At Adat Yeshua Messianic Jewish Congregation, we observe Biblical and Jewish Holidays. We welcome you to observe these Holy days with us.
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Holidays start on the night before the date. Ex. A holiday starts on the 5th, it actually begins at sundown on the 4th.
To view the beginning times and blessings of Shabbat and Festivals.
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Spring/Summer Holidays
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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Purim
Festival of Esther
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March 4
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March 21
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March 10
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Feb. 28
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March 20
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March 8
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Pesach*
Passover
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April 3-10
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April 20-27
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April 9-16
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March 30- April 6
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April 19-26
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April 7-14
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Yom Ha Shoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day
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April 15
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May 1
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April 21
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April 11
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May 1
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April 19
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Yom Ha Atzmaut
Israel Independence Day
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April 23
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May 8
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April 29
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April 19
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May 9
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April 26
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Shavuot*
Festival of Weeks
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May 23-24
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June 9-10
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May 29-30
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May 19-20
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June 8-9
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May 27-28
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Tisha B'Av
Fast for Destruction of the Temple
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July 24
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August 10
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July 30
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July 20
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August 9
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July 29
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Fall/Winter Holidays
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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Rosh Hashanah*
Jewish New Year
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Sept. 13-14
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Sept. 30- Oct. 1
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Sept. 19-20
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Sept. 9-10
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Sept. 29-30
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Sept. 7-18
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Yom Kippur*
Day of Atonement
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Sept. 22
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Oct. 9
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Sept. 28
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Sept. 18
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Oct. 8
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Sept. 26
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Sukkot*
Festival of Booths
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Sept. 27- Oct. 4
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Oct. 14-21
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Oct. 3-10
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Sept. 23-30
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Oct. 13-20
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Oct. 1-8
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Shemini Atzeret*
Final Day of Sukkot
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Oct. 4
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Oct. 21
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Oct. 10
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Sept. 30
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Oct. 20
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Oct. 8
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Simchat Torah*
Rejoicing in the Torah
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Oct. 5
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Oct. 22
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Oct. 11
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Oct. 1
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Oct. 21
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Oct. 9
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Chanukah
Festival of Lights
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Dec. 5-12
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Dec. 22-29
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Dec. 12-19
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Dec. 2-9
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Dec. 21-28
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Dec. 9-16
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Rosh Hashanah *
Jewish New Year, biblically termed Yom Teruah, a day of sounding the shofar, it begins 10 days of spiritual preparation
culminating in Yom Kippur.
Yom Kippur *
The Biblical Day of Atonement is observed with fasting, prayer, and abstention from all ordinary activities.
Sukkot *
The festival of Booths is a joyous harvest festival of thanksgiving, during which families live in booths, or at last have
their meals in them.
Shemini Atzeret *
The final day of Sukkot is defined biblically as a festival in its own right.
Simchat Torah *
The holiday of rejoicing in the Torah, when the annual cycle of readings is renewed for another year.
Chanukah
The festival of Lighs commemorates the rededicatino of the ancient temple in 165 BCE.
Purim
The joyous festival of commanded in the Book of Esther is marked by feasting, sharing with others, and a carnival-like
atmosphere.
Pesach *
Passover, the season of our freedom, celebrates the redemption from Egypt, and includes the prohibition against eating
anything with leaven. During Pesach we begin the counting of the omer, for 49 days until Shavout.
Yom HaShoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day honors the memory of the six million Jews who perished.
Yom HaAtzmaut
Israel Independence Day celebrates the renewal of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel in 1948.
Shavuot *
The biblical festival of Weeks comes seven weeks after the beginning of Passover and celebrates the giving of Torah on Mount
Sinai.
Tisha B'av
A day of fasting in memory of the destruction of the Temple first by the Babylonians, and then by the Romans.
* One refrains from ordinary activities on these days, including the first two days of Passover.
The Jewish day begins at sundown, as in the account of the Beginning: "There was evening and there was morning, one day."
The day concludes the following sundown, or nearly an hour after sundown in the case of Shabbat and the holy days.
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