Upcoming Events
We have just finished the Fall Feasts. Our next events will be our Khanukkah and Purim celebrations that commemorate two historical occasions of God’s deliverance of His people, Israel. Below are the projected dates to be determined. Visitors are welcome at our events! Please use this contact form for more information if you wish to attend.
Khanukkah – Dec 14-22, 2025. Khanukkah is an eight-day festival in which we carry out several traditions in our homes, such as the lighting of the Khanukkah menorah, sharing certain foods, and games. We may have one or more parties in our homes during this time – TBD closer to December.
Purim – Mar 2-3, 2026. Purim is a fun event where we retell the story of Esther, often in a play format with costumes. There are other traditions we do, such as using groggers (or noisemakers) during the play, and of course, food and fellowship.
The Biblical Feasts of YHWH
How We Date the Mo’edim
Bat-Tzion celebrates the Mo’edim, or “Appointed Times,” as commanded in the Tanakh. Our dates often differ from mainstream Judaism and many other Messianic congregations. This is because we are not Rabbinic. We do not follow the teachings of the Rabbis simply because they are Jewish. In His time, Messiah showed that the Rabbis erred from the commandments.
Our “Judaism” is 1st-century Messianic, meaning the customs we follow were practiced by Messiah Yeshua and the Shlikhim [Apostles]. These were recorded in the 2nd century in what is known as “Mishnah” which confirmed and explained the ‘how’ of what is written in Torah. The Mishnah tells us they “observed”/”saw” the “khodesh”, the crescent new moon. This aligns with Torah.
The current Jewish schedule of holy days follows a calculated solar/lunar calendar which was not completely codified until nearly 1000AD. It uses Babylonian methods of setting feast days, having been first calculated by Hillel the 2nd in the sixth century AD. The Torah has no real concept of a fixed “month”, but counts each “khodesh”, or “renewed crescent moon”.
Mo’edim – His Appointed Times
Click the image or link above to open the PDF version of this Chart of God’s Appointed Times or Feasts.
“You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. For seven days you shall keep the feast to YHWH your God at the place that YHWH will choose, because YHWH your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.“
Deuteronomy 16:13-15