All About The Biblical Calendar Hebrew

By Harold Brooks


While the Gregorian calendars are the most widely used ones in society today, most of the Jews still stick with what is known as the Jewish calendar system. Now, the Biblical Calendar Hebrew is the older version of the more modern Jewish system and the one used in the Old Testament. Here are a few things to know about this date system.

Now, one of the most crucial things to know about these types of calendars is that they revolve around the feasts that Jews used to have to observe back in the Old Testament days. The thing about feasts is that they are mandated by God to be followed on the exact day which is why Jews are still very observant up until today. The only difference is back then, there was no system and they had to just use their powers of observation.

Now, there is still a Jewish calendar system separate from the Gregorian system that is still being used today but with calculations as a basis. Back in the day, there was system which is why the seasons and the sky became the basis. So if one is curious to how the system evolved, one has to first look at the origin.

Now, if one would go to the book of Genesis and look at the fourteenth verse of the first chapter, then one will find the first instructions of God to the Old Testament followers. First of all, the verse states that there will be light in Heaven that would divide the day and night. It also states that there will be seasons that will be shown from the sky.

One of the first indicators of time would be the presence of light in the sky and darkness. This can actually be found in the book of Genesis wherein God says that there will be light called the day and there will be darkness called the night. If one day and one night pass, then it will already be considered a full day.

Another important thing to note is that God create the world in seven days wherein seven days and nights passed before everything was perfected. That is why he regards the seventh day as the Sabbath or in Hebrew, Shabbua. This is a symbolism for perfection since he created everything perfectly after one whole week.

Of course, there would also be the issue of counting months wherein the followers had to know what month the Passover feast has to be observed. Back then, the Jews had to count months by looking at the cycle of the moon. The moon would go through an entire cycle before going back to its original state signifying that one month has already passed.

This full moon is actually known as the month of Abib wherein the Passover must be celebrated and when the green ear grains grow signifying a change in season. Now, the moon would move twelve times before it would go back to the original state it was in during the month of Abib. This would signify that one year has passed and several seasons would occur in that time.




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