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Simchat Torah Beit Midrash
God's Feast Days: 5783 | 2023
JANUARY 2023
January 23 Rosh Chodesh Shevat/ New Moon
FEBRUARY 2023
February 6 Tu Bishvat/Arbor Day (Israel)
February 21-22 Rosh Chodesh 30 Shevat- 1 Adar/ New Moon
MARCH 2023
March 4 Shabbat Zachor/Sabbath of Remembrance
March 6 Erev Purim/ Festival of Lots Eve
March 7 Purim/ Festival of Lots
March 8 Shushan Purim/ Feast of Esther (Celebrated in Jerusalem & walled cities)
March 11 Shabbat Parah /Sabbath of the Red Heifer
March 18 Shabbat HaChodesh /Sabbath of the First of Months
March 23 Rosh Chodesh 1 Nisan/ New Moon
APRIL 2023
April 1 Shabbat HaGadol/ The Great Sabbath
April 2 Yom Habikkurim / Day of Firstfruits
April 6-13 Pesach / Passover
April 9- May 27 Counting of the Omer
April 18 Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day
April 21-22 Rosh Chodesh 30 Nisan-1 Iyar/ New Moon
April 25 Yom HaZikaron / Israel's Memorial Day
April 26 Yom HaAtzmaut / Israel's Independence Day
MAY 2023
May 4-5 Pesach Sheni / Second Passover
May 19 Yom Yerushalayim / Jerusalem Day
May 21 Rosh Chodesh 1 Sivan / New Moon
May 25-29 Shavuot/ Feast of Weeks
JUNE 2023
June 19-20 Rosh Chodesh 30 Sivan- 1 Tamuz / New Moon
JULY 2023
July 6-27 Tzom Tamuz/Fast of Tamuz
Bein Hametzarim/Between the Straits
July 19 Rosh Chodesh Av / New Moon
July 22 Shabbat Chazon / Sabbath of Isaiah's Vision
July 27 Tisha B'Av / 9th of Av
AUGUST 2023
August 2 15th of Av/Day of Betrothals, Dancing & Marriages (Israel)
August 17-18 Rosh Chodesh 30 Av- 1 Elul / New Moon
SEPTEMBER 2023
September 9 Shabbat Selichot / Sabbath of Forgiveness
September 15-16 Erev Rosh Hoshanah 5784 / Hebrew New Year's Eve and New Year's Days 1 & 2
September 15-24 Yamim Noraim/ Tishrei 1-10/ 10 Days of Awe
September 16-17 Yom Teruah / Feast of Trumpets
September 18 Tzom Gedaliah / Fast of Gedaliah (fast observed)
September 23 Shabbat Shuvah/Sabbath of Returning
September 24-25 Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement (fast observed dawn to dusk)
September 30-October 6 Sukkot/ Feast of Tabernacles
OCTOBER 2023
October 6 Hosanna Rabah/Day of Great Deliverance
October 7 Shemini Atzeret/Eighth Day of Assembly
October 8 Simchat Torah/Joy of God's Teaching and Instruction
V'Zot HaBerachah/And This is the Blessing
October 15-16 Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan / New Moon
October 22 Yom HaAliyah/ Israel Immigration Day
NOVEMBER 2023
November 14 Rosh Chodesh Kislev / New Moon
DECEMBER 2023
December 7-15 Chanukah/Feast of Dedication (ends at sunset on the 30th)
December 13 Rosh Chodesh Tevet / New Moon