The Origin Of The Biblical Calendar Hebrew

By Harold Brooks


The most commonly used calendars today are Gregorian calendars which are the ones usually found in watches or regular household calendars. However, these ones are only revised versions created by Pope Gregory XIII which was based off the old Biblical calendar Hebrew. Here are so, e of the things to know about this old version.

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, it is also important to note that the system of dates used in the Bible is still used today but with more calculations. This is known as the revised Jewish calendar which has important calculations and is not just based on pure observation. In order to know how it evolved into the modern form of today, one must look back at the origin of the Bible calendars.

To know how the followers observed dates, it is very important to go back to the very first book of the Bible which is Genesis. According to Genesis one verse fourteen, God said that there will be a light in Heaven that separates the light and darkness in the sky and there will be seasons. That was how God taught the people of Israel at that time how to observe dates wherein they must gather for the Passover.

If one would backtrack further to Genesis chapter one verses one up to five, it will state that when God created light and darkness, he called it day and night respectively. Also, it was indicated that after light and darkness passed together, one whole day was formed. That said, the day and night showed the Jews how time passes.

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.

For determining the months, God stated in Deutoronomy sixteen that there will be a new moon at the start of a month. This is known in Hebrew as the Chodesh and it signifies that moon will begin a cycle. As the cycle goes on, the moon will become half, then crescent shaped, then full again.

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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