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Current Jerusalem time: Creation Calendar
The Creation Calendar shows Hebrew
Using the Creation CalendarThe duration of the Creation Calendar is 7000 years beginning with the creation of the universe. This website can currently display Hebrew Months for any year within the range 2014 B.C.E. to 2014 C.E. Use the navigation box located at the top of this page to view Hebrew Months on the Creation Calendar. There are two ways to access months. Enter a Gregorian/Julian calendar date (Day, Month, Year) to go to the Hebrew Month in which that date is found, or directly select a Hebrew Month and a Gregorian/Julian year. The abbreviation C.E. means Common Era and B.C.E. means Before Common Era. Click on B.C.E to access years before 1 C.E. Spiritual Years begin in the spring around March or April on the Gregorian/Julian calendar, and Hebrew Months are numbered from the beginning of the Spiritual Year. The navigation box utililizes Gregorian/Julian years and Hebrew Months. The convention chosen to identify Spiritual Years on this website is to use the corresponding Gregorian/Julian year in which the Spiritual Year begins.
Gregorian or Julian Date
If you know a Gregorian/Julian Select by Hebrew Month
If you know which Hebrew Month C.E. and B.C.E. Buttons
Select C.E. for Gregorian/Julian years View Calendar Button
Once you have selected either a The Calendar PageAfter pressing the View Calendar button, a calendar page appears displaying the selected Hebrew Month. The sample calendar page below shows Hebrew Month 1 which occurred in the Spiritual Year that began in Gregorian year 1989 C.E. This example will be used to demonstrate helpful features of the Creation Calendar.
Month Header (See detail below) Week Day Header
Shows the Hebrew names New Moon Day
Months begin at sundown Seasons Change
A yellow rectangle at the Special Days
Colors other than tan Sabbath Days
All the Sabbaths of
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Special Readings
Names in red, blue, and Rosh Chodesh
Hebrew Months usually The Month Header
Hebrew Month Seal of Israel (Home Button) Civil Year Gregorian Years Spiritual Year 7000 Year Timeline The Ages Jubilee Cycle Timeline Back Button Print PDF Button Hebrew Month A Hebrew Year can have either 12 or 13 months. Hebrew Months are designated by numbers. The month number is located in the upper left corner of the Month Header. Seal of Israel This stylized seal of Israel in the Month Header also serves as a clickable button for going back to the TorahCalendar.com home page. Spiritual Year This bar graphic represents the Spiritual Year. Numbers on the bar graphic correspond to Hebrew Months within that year. On the Spiritual Year bar, a red square enclosing a month number indicates which Hebrew Month is being displayed. By clicking on these numbers, you can quickly navigate to other months within the year. The Spiritual Year begins in the spring on Day 1 of Month 1 which is in March or April on the Gregorian calendar. The annual festival cycle begins in Month 1 of the Spiritual Year. Israelite kings historically reckoned their reigns from Month 1.
Red square showing Hebrew Month 1 selected 12 Month Spiritual Regular Year bar 13 Month Spiritual Leap Year bar Civil Year This bar graphic represents the Civil Year. Numbers on this bar graphic correspond to month numbers of the overlapping Spiritual year. The Civil Year begins in the fall in Month 7 in September or October on the Gregorian calendar. The Civil Year is the offset and the complement to the Spiritual Year. The Jubilee Cycle is determined from the Civil Year which begins in Month 7 of the Spiritual Year. The fall festivals occur in Month 7 which is the first month of the Civil Year. Jewish kings historically reckoned their reigns from Month 7.
Color coding helps Regular Civil Years Sabbatical Years Jubilee Years
The Spiritual Year The corresponding Civil Year
Civil Years always begin in Gregorian Years This bar graphic represents two sequential Julian years before October 14, 1582 C.E. and two sequential Gregorian years after this date. It is labeled with letters that correspond to the Gregorian month names (J for January, F for February, etc.). All of the year bar graphics shown are precisely positioned in relation to each other and to their alignment with the seasons. The seasons are color coded, labeled and are shown in the background as part of the Month Header. 1989 C.E. Calendar Year 1990 C.E. Next Calendar Year
Jubilee Cycle The Jubilee Cycle consists of 50 Civil Years - seven Shemittah Cycles and a Jubilee Year. A Shemittah Cycle consists of seven Civil Years where the seventh year is a Sabbatical Year. The Jubilee Cycle Timeline on the Month Header is subdivided into three rows. The top row is divided into 50 small tiles, where each tile represents a Civil Year in the Jubilee Cycle. The second row shows the seven Shemittah Cycles plus the Jubilee Year shown as the last tile on the far right. The bottom row shows the entire duration of the Jubilee Cycle. A red border enclosing one of the Civil Year tiles, indicates which Civil Year is being displayed. The seven Sabbatical years are color coded light blue, and the Jubilee Year at the right end of the bar is color coded purple. By clicking any of the 50 Civil Year tiles on this bar, you can quickly navigate to other years within the Jubilee Cycle.
1 8 15 22 29 36 43 50
Numbered Civil Years
Line connecting the
Red border indicates which
Small tiles represent
7 year blocks known
Bar representing the
In this example, the red square is
The Jubilee Year, represented
7000 Year The complete Creation Calendar spans 7000 years. This 7000 Year Timeline is divided into 140 Jubilee Cycles. Each position on the scale represents one 50 year Jubilee Cycle. The years from creation are shown in 1000 year increments above the timeline. The Jubilee Cycles from creation are shown in 20 cycle increments below the timeline.
Hebrew Years since creation Jubilee Cycles since creation The Ages The colored bars aligned underneath the 7000 Year Timeline represent the various ages in the 7000 Year Plan of Elohim. The Present Age is color coded turquoise. The Age of Desolation is color coded purple. The Age of Instruction is color coded orange. The world is currently in the Age of the Messiah which is color coded green. The Age of Life or the Millennial Kingdom is color coded blue. Back Button Click this button to go back to the previous web page from which you came.
Print PDF Click this button to download a PDF of the displayed calendar page. A popup menu will appear with an option to open using a PDF reader, or to save the PDF as a file on your computer. The PDF is automatically scaled for printing. Special DaysThe Creation Calendar identifies special days such as festival days, fast days, the modern state of Israel's civil holidays and other important days using specially colored backgrounds. Below is a color key which identifies the background colors used for designating these special days.
Ordinary Days Light tan is the default color used for common ordinary calendar days.
Sabbaths & High Sabbaths Dark blue represents weekly Sabbaths and the seven High Sabbaths or appointed times of יהוה . According to Leviticus 23, everyone is commanded to observe and to rest on these days.
Intermediate Festival Days Light blue represents festival days on which work is permitted.
Minor Festival Days Purple designates minor festival days. These are festivals which are recorded in Scripture or in other historical sources. Observance of these is optional and not commanded in Scripture.
Minor Fast Days Orange indicates minor fasts which are found in Scripture and other sources. They are shown for their historical relevance and are not commanded in Scripture.
Minor Festival Sabbath Days This combination of blue and purple is used whenever a minor festival day occurs on a weekly Sabbath.
Israel's Civil Holidays. Green designates the modern state of Israel's civil holidays as they appear on the Creation Calendar. Israel currently observes its civil holidays on the Rabbinic Calendar.
Jubilee New Year This blue-green color is used to indicate the beginning of a Jubilee Year. The Jubilee Year occurs every 50 years and begins on Day 10 of Month 7, also known as Yom Kippur.
Minor Fast Before Passover Light blue and orange is for the special case when the Fast of the Firstborn falls on the preparation day for the Passover Seder. The Passover occurs at sundown commencing Day 14 of Month 1.
New Moon Days (can be any color) A superimposed crescent moon over any background color denotes a Rosh Chodesh in Jerusalem at sundown that day. It marks the end of the current month and the start of the next one. Equinoxes and SolsticesAn equinox is defined as the time when the apparent geocentric longitude of the sun (that is, calculated by including the effects of aberration and nutation) is either 0 degrees (the spring equinox) or 180 degrees (the fall equinox). On the day of an equinox, daytime and nighttime are approximately the same anywhere on the earth. In the northern hemisphere, the spring equinox denotes the transition from winter to spring, whereas the fall equinox marks the transition from summer to fall. The winter solstice is the shortest day of the year, and the summer solstice is the longest for observers in the northern hemisphere. The spring equinox is used to determine when the Spiritual Year begins which is the process of intercalation. Intercalation is the method of determining when to insert an extra month (a leap Month 13) in order to keep the Spiritual Year synchronized with the seasons. In an intercalated Hebrew Year, Month 12 has also been called Adar א Aleph (Adar I) and the following intercalary Month 13 has been called Adar ב Bet (Adar II). The seasons are ruled by the sun, and the spring equinox is the demarcation point for the solar year in the Creation Calendar. The Creation Calendar always places Day 15 of Month 1 on or after the Hebrew Day of the spring equinox. The following colors and shapes are used on the Creation Calendar for displaying the equinoxes and solstices.
Equinox or Solstice A yellow rectangle at the bottom of a day indicates an equinox or solstice event occurs during that day. The precise time of the event is displayed inside this yellow rectangle area.
Equinox or Solstice After Sunset If an equinox or solstice event occurs after sunset in Jerusalem on the Gregorian/Julian date listed in almanacs, then a yellow triangle appears for that day. A yellow rectangle indicates the equinox or solstice event on the correct Hebrew Day. Calendar Day DetailEach day rectangle displayed in the Creation Calendar displays the Hebrew Day of the Hebrew Month, and the corresponding dates on the Gregorian/Julian calendar. Some days provide additional information. The following diagram explains possible types of information that can be shown on calendar days.
The Day Number
This is the day number Special Events
This is where the names Additional Notes
The upper righthand Special Readings
The three middle rows can Julian Day Numbers
Julian Day Numbers are used by Gregorian/Julian Date
Hebrew days occur between Viewing the Rosh ChodeshWhen viewing any month on the Creation Calendar, it is possible to view how the new moon appears in the evening sky in Jerusalem for either the beginning or end of the month shown. Click on the number 1 on the first day of the month to see a graphic of the new moon which begins this month. Click on the number 29 or 30 on the last day of the month to see a graphic of the new moon which ends this month.
Click on this Number to
Click on this Number to All data pertaining specifically to any new moon graphic, such as sunset time, moonset time, lag time and best crescent sighting time, are displayed below the graphic and can be viewed by scrolling down.
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