New Moons and Holy Days


Yahweh’s True Calendar is really so simple a child can understand it. We observe the New Moon of Abib (also called Nisan) by first observing the state of the barley in the fields around Jerusalem. This is done a few days before the 13th New Moon since the last month of Abib. If the barley is “abib” (meaning, nearing the time for harvest), then the coming New Moon begins the month of Abib. If the barley is not yet “abib,” then the New Moon begins the 13th month called Adar II. No need for esoteric and complicated mathematical formulae which only the “initiated” can understand fully. Yahweh plainly declares, "Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto thy Elohim: for in the month of Abib thy Elohim brought thee forth out of Egypt by night."  (Deut. 16:1)

Projected New Moon Dates 2011/2012:

Month   True New Moon Date  

Abib     April 4, 2011, Monday
Iyar       May 5, Thursday
Sivan    June 3, Friday
Tammuz     July 2, Sabbath
Av         August 1, Monday
Elul       August 31, Wednesday
Tishri    September 29, Thursday
Cheshvan    October 28, Friday
Kislev   November 26, Sabbath
Tevet    December 26, Monday
Shevat January 24, 2012, Tuesday
Adar     February 23, Thursday


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PROJECTED HOLY DAYS FOR 2011:

Spring Holy Days
Passover Seder          Evening of Monday, April 18
1st Day Unleavened Bread      Tuesday, April 19
Wave Sheaf Offering Wednesday, April 20 – Omer Count Begins
7th Day Unleavened Bread     Monday, April 20
Pentecost (Shavuot)          Wednesday, June 8 – Omer Count Ends (50th day)

Autumn Holy Days
Trumpets (Yom Teruah)           Friday, September 30
Atonement (Yom Kippur) Sunday, October 9
1st Day Tabernacles (Sukkot) Friday, October 14
7th Day Tabernacles (Sukkot)        Thursday, October 20
8th Day (Shemini Azeret) Friday, October 21

CURRENT MOON
Jerusalem time