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Feasts and Events

Upcoming Events

Below are the estimated dates of the upcoming Feasts. All dates signify the first evening at sundown unless specified otherwise. Actual dates will not be known for certain until the khodesh (renewed moon) is sighted prior to the Feast listed below.

  • Purim – TBD March 13 or 14
  • Pesakh Seder – TBD April 12 or 13

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.